double beds, racist saxons & one hungry python
In the news today, researchers have found that sharing a bed with someone can make you more stupid if you are a man.
Gerhard Kloesch and colleagues from the University of Vienna, Austria, showed that sharing your bed disturbs your sleep quality, affecting the ability to perform simple mental tasks. The effect was more pronounced for men than women. The full story can be found here.
They also found that sleeping together affected dream recall - women sleeping alone remembered dreams better, while men remembered more dreams after sex. No surprises there.
In other news, in case you didn't see the new remake of "Arthur" or read Mein Kampf - the early saxons were apparently racist bastards. Genetic analysis of English men showed that more than half of them carry a Y chromosone that can be traced back the early Germanic stomping grounds. Its been a bit of a paradox as historians argue the invading party could not have exceeded 200,000. Such a small population, in a sea of 2 million Celtic Britons, shouldn't have made such a dent. Now recent models have shown that in an aparthied society, where one genetic group is economically and politically segregated from another, the dominant race will not only have more children, but more of their children are likely to survive into adulthood. The full story is at New Scientist.
No mention is made of what happened to the pre-Celtic natives of Britain. Apparently the Celts were more efficient than saxons. The scots, being stubborn buggers, have hung onto their genes as well as they hang onto their money. (Its ok, I'm scottish...).
Lastly, a 12 foot Burmese python was successfully operated on today after it somehow swallowed a queen size electric blanket, including the cord and control box. Apparently it was after a rabbit, and the blanket, in its cage to keep it warm, somehow got in the way....
More on Live Science.
Gerhard Kloesch and colleagues from the University of Vienna, Austria, showed that sharing your bed disturbs your sleep quality, affecting the ability to perform simple mental tasks. The effect was more pronounced for men than women. The full story can be found here.
They also found that sleeping together affected dream recall - women sleeping alone remembered dreams better, while men remembered more dreams after sex. No surprises there.
In other news, in case you didn't see the new remake of "Arthur" or read Mein Kampf - the early saxons were apparently racist bastards. Genetic analysis of English men showed that more than half of them carry a Y chromosone that can be traced back the early Germanic stomping grounds. Its been a bit of a paradox as historians argue the invading party could not have exceeded 200,000. Such a small population, in a sea of 2 million Celtic Britons, shouldn't have made such a dent. Now recent models have shown that in an aparthied society, where one genetic group is economically and politically segregated from another, the dominant race will not only have more children, but more of their children are likely to survive into adulthood. The full story is at New Scientist.
No mention is made of what happened to the pre-Celtic natives of Britain. Apparently the Celts were more efficient than saxons. The scots, being stubborn buggers, have hung onto their genes as well as they hang onto their money. (Its ok, I'm scottish...).
Lastly, a 12 foot Burmese python was successfully operated on today after it somehow swallowed a queen size electric blanket, including the cord and control box. Apparently it was after a rabbit, and the blanket, in its cage to keep it warm, somehow got in the way....
More on Live Science.
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