Sleep less = weigh more

We all want to sleep at night, but then there come a little thing in the way, internet. So we refuse to sleep and from this article you will learn how "sleep in under appreciated. "Scientist have long known that getting little sleep at night can increase a person risk of being overweight. But a new studies sugest that losing a few hours of sleep over just one week- as students cramming for exams often do- can lead to almost immediate weight gain. Research at the University of Colorado monitored 16 men and women who slept nine hours a night for one week and five hours a night the other week. When they had 5 hours of sleep the subjects burned an extra 111 calories a day. But they also ate more carb- and fat heavy snacks that left them two pounds heavier. They shed the weight after getting some zzzzzzz.
Remember that teens need about nine hours of sleep per night and adults need 8, according to the National Sleep Foundation.

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Did Picasso buy His paint at Home Depot?

    20-century painter Pablo Picasso is considered one of the most REVOLUTIONARY artist of all time! Now new technology is revealing just how much of a leader he was. X-rays have confirmed that many of Picasso's works were created using basic house paint. Which was something art historians suspected but couldn't prove until now. Because house paint was so inexpensive and dried faster than traditional oil paint, it helped HIM CREATE MORE THAN 10,000 WORKS IN HIS LIFETIME. It also had a unique glossy sheen, which gave Picasso's work look new. Knowing which his painting were created with house paint helps conservationist because the material must be perserved differently than oil paint. It also gives historians greater insight into Picasso's work. "Now they can look at which artist were influenced by Picasso in use of this materail," says one expert.

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Picasso used ordinary house paint to create "The Red Armchair"(1931)

The Pinocchio Effect

                         Pinocchio was a fictional character whose nose grew when he lied. BUT a new study suggest that your nose really does change when you fib. Graduate students at the University of Granada in Spain discoverd that subjects who were telling lies expierenced a jump in temperature near the nose  and in a muscle in the inner corner of the eye. They also noticed a drop in facial temperature in people performing mental tasks. This was the FIRST to combine thermography which is a technique for measuring and recording body heat that was developed in the U.S during World War 11- with the feild of psycology. In the future the researchers say that the study may help serve as the basis for a cheap and noninvasive test to ferret out fabricators and cheaters.

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Pinocchio nose grows

Jonesing for Braces?

We all know that getting braces is one of the scariest dream when your a teen. But braces has became a fashion symbol in Southeast Asian countries like Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia. And the teens are actually showing their fake braces off. They come in variety of colors and themes like Mickey Mouse and Hello kitty. The beauty salons there sell them for $100 while comparing they cost about $1200 in Asia. This makes braces a luxury item for only the rich. Though face braces may contain lead and it can be swallowed. When i read this article, I thought the world was upisde down. I know people get very excited when they get their braces off, but people in asia enjoying metal in their mouth. Even if fake braces became a trend here in America, I dont ever think I would be sporting some Hello Kitty pink braces. Next thing you'll know having now eyebrows will be a trend. Braces will forever and always will never be a fashion statement. 

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Belly Button Bacteria

Have you ever wondered what inside your belly button? 

          The main idea of this article, is that scientists have found 2,368 bacterial species in our belly button. Gross! The belly button has captured the imagination for centuries.The belly button is a fun habitat filled with living organisms that we don't know much about. It's less exposed and gets washed less often than other areas of skin, so the bacterial community in the umbilicus is less disturbed.The Researchers at North Carolina State University began the Belly Button Biodiversity Project  around last year to learn more about the kinds of bacteria that grow in your belly button. They swabbed 500 belly buttons and analyzed 60 samples with a surprising discovery. They found 2,368 bacterial species and 1,458 which may be new to science. Some of the bacterial discoveries were very strange. One man harbored a species common in soil in Japan-where he has never been. Another person had a bacteria that typically thrives at the Polar ice caps. Scientists want to hopefully be able to collect thousands of samples. With the DNA collected it might provide insight into the role of the belly button bacteria play in our health. The authors purpose  of this article was to help us undertand that our belly buttons can play a huge role in our health and that we might have bacteria in our belly buttons that could be new to science itself.

 

( The picture above shows belly button bacteria growing in petri dishes) 

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Here are some links

http://gawker.com/5970934/your-belly-button-is-filthy

http://www.wildlifeofyourbody.org/

 Did you know that the clothes you wear can affect how you approach and interact with the world?       

             Scientist at Northwestern University in Illinois recently conducted a study on undergraduate test subjects. The students were randomly assinged to wear a doctors coat, a painters coat ( similar to the doctors coat), or look at a doctors coat. Then they were given an attention test. Studies show that subjects who were told they were wearing a doctor's coat scored much higher than the subjects who simply looked at the coat or were told they were wearing a painters coat. This suggests that what we wear affects how we think of ourselves. It is still unclear whether certain clothes can affect a person performance, but just to be safe, you might want to think twice before wearing those gold metalic jeans to your next big exam. 

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