Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Hong Kong mogul Li Ka-shing are among the millionaire investors in Impossible Foods , a company founded by Stanford University biochemist Patrick O. Brown whose purpose is the creation of source foods. vegetable that have the same flavor as meat or equivalent dairy products, and thus be more environmentally friendly. … Read more
The orgasmic meditation practice is carried out with a partner. One person lies down, unclothed from the waist down, while their partner sits next to them. The one who sits uses his index finger slowly to caress the other’s clitoris and genitals . Normally, this safe sex involves the use of gloves. The session lasts … Read more
In Juuka, Finland, a group of engineering students from the Eindhoven University of Technology have been inspired by one of the models designed by the great Leonardo da Vinci in 1501 to build what is already considered the largest ice bridge in the world . Da Vinci’s original design consisted of building, with a single … Read more
Near the island of Zakinthos , a group of swimmers came across what appeared to be a submerged lost city in 2014. There were paved floors and columns. However, apart from these architectural remains, there was no sign of human presence in the city, such as coins, vessels and the like. A special section of … Read more
There are many people who, at the prospect of getting into a car (especially if they have to carry out a route full of curves), must take a biodramina to avoid dizziness and, eventually, vomiting. But why do we get dizzy when we go by car or in a vehicle that is in motion, such … Read more
Wonderful, happy, birthday, nervous, daughter, baby, and thankful. Enemy, freedom, win, lose and battle. The first batch of words are more used by women on social networks, the second batch, by men. This is the conclusion reached by a study by psychologists from the universities of Stony Brook and Pennsylvania and the University of Melbourne, … Read more
The economic productivity and technological capacity of humanity has not only been constantly growing for millennia, but is growing at a faster rate. To the point that the growth of technology is already exponential . Is it the same with economic growth? When we were still living in prehistoric times, for example, growth was so … Read more
In 2013 alone, around 56 million tons of polyethylene terephthalate were produced in the world, also known as PET, the accumulation of which is a growing problem in ecosystems throughout the marine world . The bottles are even the least of it. According to a Greenpeace report, gigantic marine creatures weighing more than 3.5 million … Read more
On Monday, October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union put Sputnik into orbit: the first artificial satellite in history . It was a metallic sphere 50 centimeters in diameter and four antennas that emitted a "beep" (a 20 MHz signal) every few seconds. That "beep" was detectable from Earth. The news made the front page of … Read more
The popular phrase that we see everything gray when we are sad would make much more sense in light of a new finding by researchers at the University of Rochester, in the United States, whose results have been published in the journal Psychological Science . The study used 127 volunteers, who were divided into three … Read more
All kinds of correlations can be found around intelligent people, some more spurious than others. As the most intelligent people work mostly for another (less intelligent), the so-called law of Joy. Another compelling correlation is that tall people are more intelligent than short people . But can a factor like height really influence our brain … Read more
Inside a building we seem safe from the air polluted by car exhaust pipes, but this seemingly cleaner air actually claims more lives than the air outside: it is estimated that around 4 die each year. 3 million people because of it , when poor air quality in cities kills 3.7 million. The reason for … Read more
Even if we are occasional drinkers or drink little alcohol, by any measure, drinking alcohol increases the risk of breast cancer in women , as is clear from a new study published recently in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research by researcher Kevin D Shield of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (France). The study … Read more
We have all gotten angry at one time or another. We have screamed, we have thrown all kinds of curses, the vein in our foreheads has become very fat. But why? What are the evolutionary roots of this behavior? What good has it been that our ancestors got angry the way we do? Apparently, the … Read more
In the grand scheme of the Solar System, by far the greatest source of energy is the Sun. And, generally, we assume that the hottest planet in the Solar System is Mercury, because it is the one that is closest to the Sun. However, this is not so, and that award must be taken by … Read more
Some of our dreams have such a lubricious component that it almost seems that, instead of dreaming, we had accessed one of those repositories of X videos divided and classified perfectly by different kinds of filias: amateur, teen, BBW, creampie, hairy, etc. . Actually, a researcher at Shue Yan University, Hong Kong, named Calvin Kai-Ching … Read more
A recent study suggests that later mothers may have smarter children because they receive more care from them. The study, conducted in Sweden by experts from the Max Planck Institute for Democratic Research in Germany and the London School of Economics and Political Science, was carried out among 1.5 million Swedes born between 1960 and … Read more
What’s the smell of clouds? , which said in an advertisement for compresses on TV. But the important thing, if we want to colonize Mars, is to find out what Mars smells like and prepare ourselves psychologically for that smell , for example doing spectroscopy of the atmosphere of Mars to capture the "aroma" and … Read more
It is not difficult to find a science fiction novel where a human brain has been simulated, for example by scanning it to simulate it in a virtual environment, like the Matrix , and thus transform our neurons into bits (and achieve a kind of immortality). Permutation City , by Greg Egan , is one … Read more
Thanks to a new study that was recently presented at SLEEP 2016 , caffeine is a good ally to stay more awake, alert and mentally agile if you have slept only a few hours. However, this effect seems to disappear after two continuous days under this sleep deficit . To demonstrate this, the researchers recruited … Read more
Teaching should not just be limited to imparting knowledge. It is also important how they are taught and, also, the kind of teacher who teaches them. In this sense, a teacher who inspires self-confidence in the student can radically change their academic curriculum. This is what is called the Pygmalion effect , and it was … Read more
Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX , does not stop giving us joy, and now it has just put two new communications satellites into orbit from Cape Canaveral (Florida), as you can see in the video that you can see below. The two satellites, the Eutelsat 117 West B , which will cover Latin America, and the … Read more
The journey of Apollo XI , the first space mission that managed to place a human being on the Moon, has managed to come true in a brutal reproduction of Lego pieces by popular acclaim, after obtaining the necessary 10,000 votes . The Apollo 11 Saturn-V, then, will soon be able to decorate our offices … Read more
Our sense of touch is not equally distributed throughout all parts of our body , some parts being much more sensitive than others. For example, the soles of the feet are not particularly sensitive, but the hands and lips occupy very large areas of the somatosensory cortex. To measure the sensitivity of our sense of … Read more