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Why Do Spicy Foods Make Your Nose Run?
Hot sauces, curries, wasabi peas and other spicy treats turn you into a snot faucet. Why is that? Capsaicin is the chemical found concentrated in the placental tissue of chile peppers and allyl...
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The Teenage Plastic Surgery Boom
Here’s a disturbing trend: Between 1996 and 2010 the number of teenagers aged 13-19 having elective cosmetic surgery has increased by 548% – from around 14,000 procedures to 76,841 last year,...
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Who Owns the Rights to Our Germs?
Each of us have more microbes on and in our bodies than we have cells of our own. Some are beneficial; others we’d like to do without. Then there are millions that are neither, but may be profitable...
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Why Does Your Nose Get Stuffy One Nostril at a Time?
Nose-blowing image via Shutterstock Because your nostrils split their workload. Throughout the day, they each take breaks in a process of alternating congestion and decongestion called the nasal...
View ArticleBaby Elephant Sneezes
With that nose, you’d expect that when a baby elephant sneezes, it’s an epic event … epicly cute, that is. Hit play and say gesundheit: Link [YouTube]
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This Pup Just Got Scarlett Lettered
Sometimes a bop on the nose just isn’t enough, sometimes you must just punish them emotionally through embarassment. Link
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Why Can You Taste Your Eye Drops?
A friend of mine recently got pinkeye. Whenever she put in her eye drops, she noticed a distinct and very unpleasant taste on the back of her tongue. What’s up with that? Grab a mirror and pull down a...
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End the Tyranny of Ironing!
In this Slate article, Seth Stevenson proclaimed that he’s not a slob. He washes his hair, clips his nails and brushes his teeth. He even flosses often. But he wears wrinkled clothes. That’s because he...
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Attenborough’s Ark
If you can save ten animals from extinction, which animals would you pick? Sir David Attenborough shows us his pick in his new TV series Attenborough’s Ark [warning: auto-starting video]. The BBC has...
View ArticleWhy was Rudolph the reindeer’s nose red ?
Rudolph’s red nose is a popular topic for songs at Christmas time, but what’s the real story behind it ? According to the song, Rudolph’s red nose was…
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