Despite being protected against advertisements of tobacco, alcohol, and gambling, children who use social media are still exposed to a health risk in the form of junk food advertisements from junk food companies. The bad news is, there are hardly any restrictions to these kinds of advertisements. This recent study reveals that this is happening on a global scale, which means that kids all around the world are “heavily exposed to unhealthy food marketing, including on TV, online and through outdoor advertising.”

In our study, we focused on the 16 largest social media platforms globally. These included platforms popular with children, such as Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat and Facebook.

We examined each platform's advertising policies related to food and drinks.

We found none of the social media platforms have comprehensive restrictions on the advertising of unhealthy foods to children.

More details about this study over at MedicalXpress.

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It is never a bad idea to arm yourself with survival tips, as you never know when disaster will strike. The only problem, however, is trying to remember these things when disaster does strike, as you might panic and forget all of these things.

Cracked lists 25 cool survival tips that you might need in the future. See them over at the site.

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A perfect rocket launch is a thing of beauty, but failures are much more entertaining! Since you learn from your mistakes, we are pretty sure YouTuber BPS.space has learned a lot from these many failures. -via Digg

I may have found the most useless yet the most adorable thing on the Internet: chicken arms (which are really doll arms tied on a steel wire).

A man known only as “Uncle Brian” sent this product via priority mail (because why not) over to his nephew who he calls “Sparkle.”

“[Uncle Brian] found something that I thought you could use from time to time,” he says in the letter.

Sparkle then took photos of the chicken wearing the arms.

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Scientists have managed to decode the tooting and quacking sounds that newborn queens make in the hive. Apparently, the queens quack when they are ready to emerge from their eggs. Only one of them, however, can hatch from their eggs, for a death battle ensues if two queens hatch at the same time. And so, the queen bee who just managed to hatch begins tooting to signal the worker bees to keep the other eggs captive.

Dr Martin Bencsik, from Nottingham Trent University, who led this study, described the tooting and quacking of these "wonderful animals" as "extraordinary".

The worker bees will only let another queen hatch when the tooting ceases.

"Quacking queens are purposefully kept captive by the worker bees - they will not release the quacking queens because they can hear the tooting.

"When the tooting stops, that means the queen would have swarmed [split the colony and set out to find a new nest] and this triggers the colony to release a new queen."

Dr Bencsik said bee society was "absolutely splendid" to observe.

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It's easy to unfriend someone, even face to face. What's hard is befriending someone. It takes a lot more than a click. Doug Savage of Savage Chickens shows what works and doesn't work among the two platforms.

“Tell me about a time you failed,” or some variation of this question is considered by many applicants to be the most dreaded interview question. But this question is not asked to make the applicant embarrass himself. Rather, the interviewer asks this question with some hidden questions in mind. And that’s the key towards giving a proper answer to this question: knowing what the interviewer is really asking.

There are good reasons why your answer to this question can be incredibly telling. So, let’s start there. When the interviewer asks this question, what are they really hoping to learn?

Generally speaking, this:

• Do you have humility?
• Are you comfortable with the idea of failure?
• Are you reflective of your own failures?
• Do you take accountability?
• Do you receive and take action on feedback?
• Have you learned something from the experience?

Understanding that these are the unasked questions, your job now is to choose the right example and use it to tell the story in a way that delivers on all of the above.

Rachel Cooke gives us tips on how to compose a great answer to this question. See them over at QDT.

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The instructions sometimes warn us against doing something, but do not explain why. We all want to know why. What would happen if we did what we are specifically told not to do? Nick Wibert succumbed to the temptation so that you don't have to. -via Metafilter

In the year 1515, no one in Europe had seen a rhinoceros since the Roman Empire withdrew a thousand years earlier. Well, maybe except for a few sailors and other world travelers. But that year King Manuel I of Portugal was given a gift of a rhino from a menagerie in India. While the privately-owned beast was seen by relatively few people in Portugal, it was the talk of Europe even before it arrived, and everyone wanted to know what a rhinoceros looked like.

Albrecht Dürer, a German painter and printmaker living in Nuremberg, was captivated by the strangeness of the animal. So he began to a prepare a pen sketch relying on the written description and the sketch made by an unknown artist. Dürer never saw the animal himself, but the woodcut he prepared became so famous that for two centuries it was the only rhinoceros Europeans ever saw.

But Dürer’s representation of the rhinoceros was not anatomically correct. He put armor like plates on the animal’s body, complete with rivets along the seams. He placed a small twisted horn on its back and gave the animal scaly legs. Despite its anatomical inaccuracies, Dürer's fanciful creation became so popular that three hundred years later, European illustrators continued to publish Dürer's woodcut, even after they had seen the real animal.

You have to admit it's a fascinating piece of art. Was Dürer trying to be artistic or as representational as he could? Read about the afterlife of Dürer's rhino and the real rhinoceros named Genda that inspired it at Amusing Planet.

Singer Rick Astley posted a picture from his first tour in 1989 to reddit. Yes, Astley is a redditor, as has been since 2016. This simple picture went straight to the front page, and the comments rolled in. One from theMalleableDuck will touch your heart.
   


The thing is, that "backstage event" link that you assume is a cherished photo actually goes here. It appears that theMalleableDuck will go down in reddit history for rickrolling Rick Astley. Historical or hysterical? Why not both?

DNA analysis of prehistoric bones tells us an awful lot about what went on before written records. The genetic profiles of people living in Ireland around 5,000 years ago reveal first-degree incest among the area's ruling elite.

An adult male, buried at Newgrange passage tomb, had DNA consistent with first-degree incest, meaning his parents were siblings or possibly parent and child. The authors of the new study, led by Daniel Bradley from Trinity College Dublin, say this individual was likely a member of the ruling social elite, who used incest as a political tool.

“I’d never seen anything like it. We all inherit two copies of the genome, one from our mother and one from our father,” said Lara Cassidy, also from Trinity and the first author of the paper, in a press release. “Well, this individual’s copies were extremely similar, a tell-tale sign of close inbreeding. In fact, our analyses allowed us to confirm that his parents were first-degree relatives.”

Of course, royal families have practiced incest in many places, to avoid sharing wealth or power with other families. The research at Newgrange also reveals an instance of Down's syndrome, clues about the beginnings of agriculture in Ireland, and a possible oral history connection that harks back to those times. Read about the study at Gizmodo.

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It seems that we aren’t running out of new edible inventions, as scientists have built an entire edible robot. Researchers from Johannes Kepler University in Australia built a robotic elephant trunk from an edible and biodegradable gel. The edible robot is a step forward for building child-friendly toys, as Futurism details: 

The robot is largely made of gelatin. In addition, it contains citric acid to stop bacteria from eating it, and glycerol to keep the whole thing soft and hydrated. The material itself didn’t dry out for over a year, and the elephant trunk was able to bend and straighten over 330,000 times before cracking, according to research published Monday in the journal Nature Materials.

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Bears are known to go down into populated areas from the San Gabriel Mountains. This time, a bear went to a residential area to beat the heat. A homeowner in Claremont, California spotted a bear casually taking a dip in their backyard pool. The bear was also seen climbing a wall and rooting through some trash in the neighborhood.

This robber was arrested when he came back to the house that he robbed for his keys. The suspect had broken into the garage and was able to steal two bicycles, a laptop, and a bar fridge. His “operation” was close to being successful, except he left his apartment keys at the scene of the crime, as Oddee details: 

The suspect decided he would smash the glass door of his apartment building so that he could get in, but he still couldn’t get into his place without the keys. The robber returned to the garage he stole the items from to look for his keys and that’s when the homeowner apprehended him. 

The police reported that the suspect was intoxicated and in breach of two conditions of an undertaking. The 20-year-old Brandon man was arrested for break, enter and theft, two counts of failure to comply with an undertaking, two counts of mischief to property under $5000, and assaulting a police officer.

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Who doesn’t need an adorable clip of cats playing with their owners? Watch as Haeun plays along and takes care of her cats, even to the point of letting one of her cats sit atop of her homework! 

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