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Italian Scientists: Women Who Drink 1-2 Glasses A Day Have Better Sex

Researchers from the University of Florence Italy surveyed 800 women between the ages of 18 and 50 on their sexual satisfaction, using the Female Sexual Function Index, according to the Daily Mail. The index is used by doctors to assess women’s sexual health, based on factors including arousal, orgasm, satisfaction and pain. Women who drank... [Read more of this review]

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How to Recharge Your Creativity

For all of us mind-workers out there, creativity is the difference between a new client and a bankruptcy. But as crucial as creativity is to your livelihood, very few of us know anything about it. We’ve named several things that stop creativity like, “writer’s block.” But, as creative as we are, we haven’t really figured... [Read more of this review]

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How to Recharge Your Energy after Lunch

Exhausted adrenal glands make it impossible for you to get excited about anything. Anything. You’re not going to like this. You’re not going to like this, not because we’re going to talk about biochem, because we won’t even bring up adenosine triphosphate or adenosine biphosphate (oops). You’re not going to like this... [Read more of this review]

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You May Have Canned Food and Bottled Water But Are You Ready for the Pathogens That Come After a Disaster?

If you haven’t traveled to a third world country in a long time, pathogens like viruses, bacteria, and fungus may not be high on your radar. Tragically, more people suffer and die from sudden exposure to these pathogens in the aftermath of disaster than during most disasters. This is because disaster zones essentially take on 3rd world country... [Read more of this review]

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Your Price For Bread, Rice, More to Double. And That’s the Good News – Scientific American

Yesterday, a panel of experts including Agricultural Economist and fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, Gerald Nelson said, “World population is expected to swell by 50 percent by 2050. This alone is a challenge for the world’s supply of vital grains. But then you have to tack on the impacts of climate change.” Scientific... [Read more of this review]

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Why Your Back Goes Out aka You Throw Your Back Out

You don’t. If you get that cramping feeling or feel bent over to one side after sitting in your chair or lifting something, you don’t throw your back out. It’s not like you sit there or do something and a vertebrae just slips out. Disks can slip out but this is rare too. Most of the time, what’s really happening is that you’re... [Read more of this review]

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BP Oil Spill Creates 800% More Methane Than Ever Seen. Creates Deadzones.

Ok. This one is going to be hard to explain. We all know that every action has a reaction. We all know that the reaction also creates an action. So we have a chain reaction of dominoes falling. Well, turns out that the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico contains 800% more methane than we’ve ever seen in any spill – ever. Scientists at... [Read more of this review]

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