March 19, 2022
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When something feels off, but isn’t exactly life-threatening and not entirely weird, what is it? Creepy. Researchers at Knox College — in the first empirical study of creepiness — have now discovered the parameters for what makes someone likely to be perceived as creepy. The study surveyed 1,341 people, who were an average age of 29, Slate reported. The survey had participants rate how creepy 44 different behaviors and habits were.
As it turns out — and as everyone has probably encountered at some point in time — creepiness is felt when someone interacts with something that’s “outside the norm, like a person with idiosyncratic behavioral patterns, unusual physical characteristics, or a tendency to over-or underemote,” according to Slate. The person doesn’t know if they should interpret the interaction as a threat, and thus is creeped out. “Atypical expressions” could be one reason, according to a neurologist who wrote a column for Psychology Today, why many people describe Republican presidential candidate Texas Sen. Ted Cruz as creepy.
Behaviors considered creepy according to the survey were akin to the creepy uncle trope, like constantly licking their lips or bringing up the same topic (usually sex) over and over in conversation.
The creepiest features were having greasy hair, unclean clothes, and a “peculiar smile,” according to Slate.
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March 19, 2022
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March 18, 2022
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Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has rocked the petroleum market, and Americans already see this reflected in rising gas prices at the pump. AAA reports that the national gas price average of $4.27 a gallon for regular fuel is 75 cents higher than a month ago and $1.39 higher than a year ago; it’s also only 6 cents lower the highest price in American history.
Motorists will need to be mindful that commuting and road trips will cost more in the foreseeable future. Car shoppers should keep this in mind, prioritizing fuel economy in making their choice.
Now is as good a time as ever to fine-tune your driving strategies and techniques to maximize your fuel economy and ease the squeeze on your wallet.
Consumer Reports experts pulled together this series of test-proven tips to help drivers save money.
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March 18, 2022
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Millennials love ordering food — at least according to this 2014 study. In the study, which stacked results from millennials alongside their baby boomer predecessors, millennials ranked “ease” and “convenience” as the main reasons behind their incessant Seamless orders.
However, if you’re looking for ease and convenience, you really can’t go wrong with a crockpot slow cooker. Prep all your ingredients, dump them into your crockpot, set the timer, and return a few hours later to a dinner ready for consumption. Here are five effortless recipes you can make in your crockpot. (Pro-tip: You can even eat right out of if you’re feeling particularly lazy about dishes – no judgment.)
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March 18, 2022
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March 17, 2022
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For homeowners and renters lucky enough to have backyards, these outdoor spaces have become more important than ever in recent months. So it should come as no surprise that many residents are sprucing up their patios, decks, and backyards to make them comfortable oases for relaxing and spending quality time with loved ones.
But with so many choices in terms of furniture, accessories, and other outdoor elements, it can be overwhelming to decide what exactly to splurge on—especially if you’re working with a blank slate or a tight budget.
We turned to three home experts for their advice on what purchases are always worth the extra money for making your backyard the best it can be.
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March 17, 2022
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Drink more water” seems to be the all-encompassing solution to life. People swear it can ease sickness, eradicates exhaustion, clears pimples, helps you lose weight, etc. Hydration sustains life — scientists search far and wide for planets that have H2O. But there is such a thing as drinking too much water, and it can kill you.
First, it’s important to know that every substance has a lethal limit. Water’s lethal limit is way higher than, say, alcohol or hard drugs — but it does exist. It’s 90 milliliters per kilogram, according to a study on rats, Gizmodo reported. In other words, assuming the same effect on humans, it’s highly inadvisable for a 150-pound person to drink six liters (approximately 1.6 gallons) of water at once. In fact, based on the study, if 100 people did that, 50 of them would die.
The condition is called hyponatremia — it means water intoxication. Under normal circumstances, if you drink more than enough water to hydrate your body, you’ll just pee the rest out. But if you drink a lethal amount of water, osmosis will transfer the extra H2O to your cells, causing them to swell — and if the water reaches your brain cells, your brain drowns.
“You should drink only when you need to, when you are actually thirsty,” said Dr. James Winger, a family medicine professor at Loyola University Medical Center, according to the New York Times. “Thirst is a very reliable indicator,” he added.
So who’s died from hyponatremia? Mostly athletes and people on drugs. The condition became more relevant when marathon runners started dying from it a couple decades ago, according to the Times. They were mostly slower runners who didn’t sweat much and therefore overcompensated by drinking too much water in their attempts to stay well hydrated.
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March 17, 2022
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March 16, 2022
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A pig heart has been beating away in the body of a confused baboon for 945 days — and it could be the key to saving human lives with animal parts.
Xenotransplantation, the process of transferring an organ from one species to another, is nothing new. But a study published Tuesday in Nature Communications showed that thanks to a regime of immunosuppressive therapy drugs, five genetically modified pig hearts put into different baboons stayed alive — beating and growing, but not replacing the functioning baboon’s heart.
One of them lasted 945 days — almost twice as long as the previous record. Before this report, the longest a heart survived was just 500 days.
“This has the potential to really move the field forward,” Dr. Richard Pierson, a professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and one of the study’s co-authors, said in a statement. “This new approach clearly made a difference. We obviously have a lot more work to do, but I’m confident that eventually, this will be useful to human patients.”
It’s exciting but potentially dangerous: Experts say xenotransplantation could be used to support human life. In current experiments, a pig heart just hangs out in a baboon’s belly. But making that pig heart shoulder all the baboon’s cardiovascular functioning is a hell of a lot more demanding. Plus, the baboons are on drugs that make them horrible at fighting disease. So while their immune systems don’t fight the invading organ, they also stink at fighting sickness, meaning the baboons could be at risk of illness.
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March 16, 2022
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It was a life of difficulty. Born into slavery, at one point his master broke his leg, leaving him disabled. Eventually freed, he spent the next 25 years pursuing his calling – only for his career to be outlawed by the dictator in charge. He fled abroad, an exile and in poverty.
These sketchy biographical details are almost all that we know of the life of the philosopher Epictetus, born around AD55. While some of them are contested – we can’t be sure if he was born a slave, or simply became a slave young – it’s clear that he didn’t have it easy. Nor was his world one that was placid and predictable, either: if he came to Rome from his birthplace in modern-day Turkey sometime around AD65, as some believe, then he would have had a turbulent childhood. He may have witnessed both the fire that torched two-thirds of the city and lived through a single year so politically turbulent it saw four different emperors, two murdered and one who killed himself.
And yet Epictetus had everything he needed. After all, he said – according, at least, to a student who painstakingly wrote down his teachings – that “it is not events that disturb people, it is their judgments concerning them”.
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For many people, the world is in a state of upheaval that can feel difficult to cope with, but can the teachings of the Stoics help in these troubling times?
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