Going shopping at your local grocery store can simply be a dull routine but it can also be interesting and downright hilarious. Huff Post has gathered several tweets from consumers as they share their experience shopping at Kroger on Twitter.
*moves the most expensive cuts of beef to the top shelf*
*shouts, “The steaks have never been higher!”*
*gets escorted out of Kroger*
— James Breakwell, Exploding Unicorn (@XplodingUnicorn) December 17, 2013
If there is a Kroger's on Elm Street anywhere, I hope they never hire a guy named Freddy. That would be a nightmare for sure.
It seems a bit far-fetched for someone to claim that a supplement could improve your cognitive function, memory, and other aspects of your mental performance. We probably tend to take these claims with a grain of salt. But some research suggest that certain components of these supplements may enhance cognitive functioning. However, it's still best to take precaution.
The research on brain-boosting supplements is ambiguous itself. While some of the ingredients in brain-boosting supplements have shown to be beneficial, the studies have been inconsistent, explained Dr. Michael Genovese, a clinical psychiatrist and chief medical officer of Acadia Healthcare.
Dr. David J. Puder, medical director of the behavioral health outpatient program at the Loma Linda University, puts it a little more bluntly: “The people making these supplements are not doing randomized controlled trials to determine if they really work,” he said. “They mostly use data about what might work, throw it together and add a bunch of excellent marketing.”
A few ingredients that usually come up in these supplements are caffeine, Omega-3 fatty acids, Bacopa monnieri, and Ginkgo biloba to name a few. You may check out here what some studies say about the possible outcomes of these ingredients.
Artists have their own quirks and preferences when it comes to how they want their work spaces to be. Some are fine with smaller and simpler spaces, while others need a little more leg room. Some like having a tidy desk, others want to place all their favorite things where they can see them. To each their own.
Some Japanese artists have been posting photos of how their workstations look like for years. From walls decked with figurines and posters to desks with multiple panels of computer screens, the Japanese has them all. Take a look at some of the work spaces that Japanese artists are showing off, and rightfully so.
Just as much as our knowledge in medicine evolves in order to find new ways to treat various diseases and target specific disease-causing organisms, so do bacteria and viruses.
The rate at which these pathogens evolve and produce strains which are resistant to treatments is staggering. So scientists are always on the look out for new drugs that could reduce their potency, if not completely eliminate them.
Doctors have not had a new treatment for gram-negative bacteria in the last 50 years, and no potential drugs have entered clinical trials since 2010.
The new drug compound has a range of exciting opportunities. As Professor Jim Thomas explains: "As the compound is luminescent it glows when exposed to light. This means the uptake and effect on bacteria can be followed by the advanced microscope techniques available at RAL.
Previous studies regarding the conservation status of many species have only taken into account species in isolation. However, if we were to include how these species interact in an ecological network, then some of their statuses might be taken up a notch and could be at risk of extinction.
With forecasts on the effects of climate change shifting constantly, there is a greater chance that several species would experience this 'domino effect' of extinction within the next 50 years. It makes sense seeing how all species are, in one way or another, interdependent with one another for resources.
First author Jordi Bascompte, a professor in the evolutionary biology and environmental studies department at the University of Zurich, gives a specific example to illustrate the results of the study: “In one of the networks situated in southern Spain, the sage-leaved rock rose has a 52 percent predicted probability of extinction caused by climate change in 2080.
Should this happen, one of its pollinators, the small carpenter bee, would face a risk of co-extinction as a consequence of losing one of the resources it depends upon. Because the small carpenter bee also pollinates the myrtle, the latter is also under threat of extinction.”
It shows all the work that was done from the table reads to the actual filming and post-production shots of making the show. Far more than the story and its characters, viewers have become invested in everything that Game of Thrones has done. And this documentary is the culmination of that whole journey for all of us.
Though there are people of various ages who might consider themselves addicted to video games, there hasn't been any substantive research that would warrant the World Health Organization to classify excessive gaming behavior as its own disorder.
It's possible that video games may be a trigger or something that people would enjoy to excess but according to video game industry representatives, putting it under the same category as other mental health issues may be trivializing the gravity of those disorders.
“The WHO is an esteemed organization and its guidance needs to be based on regular, inclusive, and transparent reviews backed by independent experts,” the statement said. “‘Gaming disorder’ is not based on sufficiently robust evidence to justify its inclusion in one of the WHO’s most important norm-setting tools.”
When the WHO finalized ICD-11’s text last year, the Entertainment Software Association pushed back against the inclusion of “gaming disorder,” saying that doing so “recklessly trivializes real mental health issues like depression and social anxiety disorder.”
Gone are the days when women are relegated to housework without having the capability to earn income for the labor that they do. Since society expects mothers to do the chores and take care of their families, there is no space left for them to breathe.
The oft male-dominated workplaces restrict their mobility while society castigates moms who would want to provide for their families as well by working. In other words, women especially mothers have been driven out both from the public and the private spheres of society.
With the rise of blogs about parenting, mommy bloggers have used these platforms to express themselves, as an outlet to share their opinions, thoughts, and ideas while at the same time, gaining an avenue to make a living without having to leave the comforts of their home.
That was traditional blogging. However, the changing times and landscape has brought more opportunities for moms to expand their reach. They are now called mom-influencers. They have become akin to media moguls, spreading their influence over the vast space of the internet.
Gone are the days of Mom 1.0, the mom blogger who launched frustrated missives about parenthood into the ether of the internet, hoping to monetize her words and find a measure of financial success while wrangling an overwhelming empire of the self. Today’s mom influencers operate like media moguls: monetizing, marketing, and creating value from sophisticated brands they create and run from their living rooms and home offices.
Read a few anecdotes and commentaries on today's mom influencers and how they take advantage of the changes happening in the blogosphere.
Antibiotics have saved thousands of lives ever since Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. However, due to human negligence and big pharmaceutical companies' mismanagement of their resources and waste, these drugs that save lives are coming back to bite us.
A new study, presented on May 27 at the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry conference in Finland, revealed that hundreds of other rivers are also contaminated with antibiotics, often at unsafe levels.
In total, researchers found antibiotics at more than 450 testing sites across 72 countries—65% of the 711 sites tested. Some 111 of the sites with antibiotics had unsafe levels, and the most concerning locations were in Asia and Africa.
Over the years, nutritionists have been suggesting several methods for people to lose weight effectively. But as we know, it depends on various factors including genetics, our physical and physiological composition, and different bodily responses.
Recently, researchers say that there are certain foods that prove to be effective in helping us lose weight or burn fat. But, one caveat to this is that simply eating these types of food won't be the only thing you need to do to get a slimmer figure. In any case, these foods can help induce weight loss.
The answer, it turns out, may be a diet constructed from healthy foods that are especially satiating; that is, foods that create feelings of fullness and satisfaction. Nutrition researchers have discovered many such foods, which improve appetite control and decrease food intake, conditions necessary for sustained weight loss.
A satiating diet includes foods that are high in protein (such as fish),; high in fiber (whole grains, for example) and high in fruits and vegetables. It contains healthy fats, such as the polyunsaturated fats found in avocados, and includes dairy products such as yogurt. Perhaps surprisingly, it might also include capsaicin, the substance that makes jalapenos and other peppers so hot.
Language constantly changes. The English language in particular has undergone several transitions throughout history. From its origins as a Germanic language through the Medieval period and the Renaissance, and well into Modern and Contemporary times. But it's interesting to note that there is a word in English that has not changed its meaning or pronunciation after 8,000 years.
“The pronunciation in the Proto-Indo-European was probably ‘lox,’ and that’s exactly how it is pronounced in modern English,” he says. “Then, it meant salmon, and now it specifically means ‘smoked salmon.’ It’s really cool that that word hasn’t changed its pronunciation at all in 8,000 years and still refers to a particular fish.”
How scholars have traced the word’s pronunciation over thousands of years is also really cool. The story goes back to Thomas Young, also known as “The Last Person Who Knew Everything.” Like some people before him, Young noticed eerie similarities between Indic and European languages.
After doing an extensive research on these uncanny resemblances between languages, Young had finally named them "Indo-European" languages. One can perhaps trace the origins of the word lox through this family tree of languages. From there, it is possible to identify who spoke these languages and to learn more about their culture.
Prejudice is more intensified in the digital sphere as people have the guise of anonymity and distance to protect them from taking responsibility for their actions. They can blurt out racial slurs, sexist remarks, or other discriminatory insults without fear of being held accountable.
Female gamers are probably the most victimized in these contexts. There's too much vitriol online in a male-dominated space so it's not rare to see and hear people spouting hate speech. That's the reason why the community called Black Girl Gamers has been created to make a safe space for female gamers.
...Black Girl Gamers (BGG), an international online community dedicated to creating a safe space for women gamers. The community originally started as a private Facebook group launched in 2015 by Jay-Ann Lopez, an avid Halo and Call of Duty fan who has dealt with her fair share of racists and sexists online.
If you have ever tried a dating app, then you would know that they run on an algorithm. They show you potential people you would find attractive based on your preferences. However, what they don't tell us is that their algorithms actually discriminate based on the choices we have made.
Algorithms were made to make processes more efficient. But in doing so, apps need to analyze your past decisions to make judgments about your preferences. This narrows down the pool of people with whom you might match and find a connection. This simple online game shows us that and teaches us how to get around that algorithm.
It's not a novel concept. Backyard farms and urban agriculture has been around since the dawn of civilization but whether it's beneficial to society and the environment is still up in the air. Research suggests that city farms have not improved hunger incidence or the environment. So should we simply do away with it?
Today, urban farming is widely practiced in the developing world, mostly by low income, food insecure urban residents. In some places, up to 70% of urban residents supplement their food supply with some form of agricultural.
Given the poor transportation in many developing countries, an agricultural side hustle allows access to fresh, nutritious foods that low-income urban residents could otherwise never afford. Surplus can be sold, providing critical income.
Beyond subsistence farming, there isn't much prospects for scaling up city farms. However, they can be maximized by using green roofs. Setting up farms on roofs may be the best way to utilize these small urban farms.
They are not necessarily eating our skin rather they feed on the greasy oil, sebum, that our skin secretes. These little critters are called face mites and they burrow underneath our pores waiting for the right time to gorge on a buffet of sebum.
Sebum is produced by glands tucked inside your pores, near the bottom of your hair follicles; Demodex mites seek out this greasy meal ticket by burrowing face-first into those pores, where they sleep by day.
At night, when you're asleep, they crawl onto the surface of your skin to mate. That's right — there's a nightly mite party on your face, and you're not invited.
Scientists say we have nothing to worry about though as these mites have not elicited any harmful response or allergic reaction from humans. It's probably just good to know that they exist and our face is full of them.
