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Spanking Kids Leads to Aggression

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood

Disciplining young children is one key role of the parents. Some people would have disagreed with that and some doesn’t have any problems with it. In any ways, punishing them through spanking or any forms of corporal punishment is a thicker and more serious issue. There are different organizations in America that supports violence against children. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) does not encourage parents to spank their children as a reason for disciplining them. This may result to a long-term effectiveness as behavior-changing tactics. Thus, the AAP campaigns strategies such as time-outs when children misbehave, which helps them reflect on what mistakes they have committed. It helps them develop their behavior in a good way by weighing the consequences that they will receive. However, as many parents would think best, few responses bring about the immediate interruption of a full-blown tantrum like a swift slap on the back. Some Universities provide strongest evidence against spanking: of all 2,000 youngsters in the study, those who were slapped more frequently at age 3 are more likely to be aggressive by age 5. This research works on the downfall of corporal punishment. Spanking children can be a good way of disciplining them but it is better if we educate them in a nice way. Spanking Kids Leads to Aggression is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading →

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Quidditch – A Wizarding Sports and A Sandwich?

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood

Quidditch has been a trend to today in Google search. People are searching for ‘ quidditch ‘ and what it is. To give you an idea, Quidditch is a wizarding sports in the Harry Potter series. It’s like soccer or football for the wizards and witches, only they are flying. Players ride their broomsticks and they fly around an elevated pitch. There are three balls in this game – the Quaffle, the Bludger and th Golden Snitch. The Quaffle is the one that can score points for the teams, they have to shoot it to the guarded hoops in the pitch; the Bludger is an iron ball that is use in hitting any players to knock them down; and the Golden Snitch is a small golden ball with wings that flies around the pitch almost unnoticeable, whoever captures the Golden Snitch wins the game. I know, that is pretty exciting game I wish we have that in real life. Anyway, just minutes ago, I’ve read in some internet news that Quidditch is now a sandwich in Canada. The reports said it’s a moose meat sandwich with pickles and mayonnaise and that the sandwich bar called Kinnicka-Noodle Muggle-Mat has not taken off yet. We don’t know yet the authenticity of this report/news about the quidditch sandwich. Quidditch – A Wizarding Sports and A Sandwich? is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading →

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Breast-Feeding Would Save Lives, Money As Per Study

Posted on April 4, 2010 by Benny Hollywood

CHICAGO (AP) — Lives of nearly 900 babies would be saved each year, along with billions of dollars, if 90% of U.S. women breast-fed their babies for the first six months of life, a cost analysis says. The findings suggest that there are hundreds of deaths and many more costly illnesses each year from health problems that breast-feeding may help prevent. These include stomach viruses, ear infections, asthma, juvenile diabetes, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and even childhood leukemia. > > Read More Breast-Feeding Would Save Lives, Money As Per Study is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading →

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A Chocolate a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Benny Hollywood

When we were little, it has always been a source of our tantrums every time our parents exclude the chocolate bars we slipped into the grocery cart. We must admit, its everybody’s favorite. It gives a certain happiness every time we can mumble a bunch of it. However, we tend to control the amount of chocolate consumption from a basic reason of consuming large amount of it is tantamount to consuming in such much calories that it contains. The greater the amount of calories, the greater the risk of developing diseases. This paranoia lead to some people not to consume chocolates at all. There has been a study recently which proved that people who ate the most chocolate had a 27 percent and 48 percent reduced risk of heart attack and stroke. Sounds ironic isn’t it? In German Institute of Human Nutrition, in Nuthetal, Germany, there has been a study lead by Brian Buijsse which tells that eating as little as a quarter of an ounce of chocolate each day, may lower your risk of experiencing a heart attack or stroke. However Buijsse emphasized on the kind of chocolate that you would eat. “Dark chocolate exhibits the greatest effects, milk chocolate fewer, and white chocolate no effects.” Based on the study, compared with people who rarely ate chocolate (about one bar per month), the people who ate the most chocolate (slightly more than one bar per week) had a 27 percent and 48 percent reduced risk of heart attack and stroke, respectively, the researchers found. This is such a good news for chocolate addicts. But we should take into consideration that everything that is taken too much is not good. Everything should be in moderation. A Chocolate a Day Keeps the Doctor Away is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading →

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As Per Study, Chocolate Could Reduce Heart Risk

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer Chocolates LONDON (AP) – As per study, the Easter Bunny might lower your chances of having a heart problem which small doses of chocolate every day could decrease your risk of having a heart attack or stroke by nearly 40 percent. Nearly 20,000 people over eight years, sending them several questionnaires about their diet and exercise habits according to German researchers. According to researcher, People who had an average of six grams of chocolate per day – or about one square of a chocolate bar – had a 39 percent lower risk of either a heart attack or stroke. The study is scheduled to be published Wednesday in the European Heart Journal. > > Read More As Per Study, Chocolate Could Reduce Heart Risk is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading →

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Could Gamers Save Our World?

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

I'm not talking about the virtual worlds found in World of Warcraft or Second Life. I'm talking about Earth, our motherland, la tierra. And I'm wondering if those people who spend 16 billion hours a year tapping keyboards or jiggling joysticks can save the world. It's not my idea. In this TED Talk video (at the link), Jane McGonigal, director of games research and development at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, Calif., suggests that if we could harness the power of video games, where players collaborate and are given the incentive to become heroes, we could solve real-world problems. Right now, people spend 3 billion hours of game playing per week. One of the reasons people spend so much time playing games, people become the best versions of ourselves, they stick with a problem after failure, confront obstacles and achieve greatness in situations that in a real world setting they would give up on. Why is that? McGonigal says the reason is that games offer the ideal problem-solving environment. That's because: When you show up to play a game, there are lots of people willing to trust you, almost immediately, with a very important mission perfectly matched to your current level in the game. There are tons of collaborators everywhere you go. There's an epic, inspiring story behind why the mission needs to be achieved. On top of that, millions of kids will play 10,000 hours of games by the time they reach 21 years old, nearly the same among of time they would have spend in school between 5th grade and high school. That's a lot of time spent getting really good at game-playing. She calls gamers “Super Empowered Hopeful Individuals,” and thinks if society can harness the virtuoso skills gamers hone in game-playing, we could solve some big, big problems. In order to that day, by the way, people would have to play 21 billion hours of game playing per week. Watch the video for more deets and the examples of games she has developed that could save real-world problems. And on a related note, this week the European Space Agency announced the results a study that found that online games are a key future technology because “immersive environments based on these technologies could enhance collaborative working of project scientists and engineers” and that “exciting online games could prove an excellent tool for promoting space and supporting the teaching of science, technology, engineering and maths.” As part of the study, a video of a potential future game environment was produced, showing future human exploration of Jupiter’s ice moon Europa. As McGonigal says, “Let the online games begin!” http://news.discovery.com/tech/could-gamers-can-save-our-world.html added by: pjacobs51

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Scientists find shrimp-like creature for first time under Antarctic ice

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Life thrives where one least expects it. In a surprising discovery about where life can exist, scientists for the first time found a curious shrimp like creature and a piece of a jellyfish beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet. Six hundred feet below the ice where no light shines, scientists had figured nothing much more than a few microbes could exist. One day a scientist dropped a probe and camera beneath this thick glacier and found something more than mere microbes. Shrimp are swimming crustaceans found widely around the world in both fresh and salt water. Shrimp are an important food source for larger animals from fish to whales. Shrimp are small creatures but definitely larger than microscopic microbes. Technically, the “shrimp” is not a shrimp but a Lyssianasid amphipod, which is distantly related to shrimp. A finding of such a creature implies other larger organisms that feed off shrimp. There is also another problem though. Under the glacier it is very cold and dark. Both conditions are quite forbidding for any life. So how can it be? “We were operating on the presumption that nothing's there,” said NASA ice scientist Robert Bindschadler, who will be presenting the initial findings and a video at an American Geophysical Union this month. “It was a shrimp you'd enjoy having on your plate.” “We were just gaga over it,” he said of the 3 inch long, orange critter starring in their two minute video. The video is likely to inspire experts to rethink what they know about life in harsh environments. And it has scientists musing that if shrimp like creatures can be found below 600 feet of Antarctic ice in subfreezing dark water, what about other hostile places? What about Europa, a frozen moon of Jupiter? Many have speculated that under its thick surface ice layer lies a vast and frigid ocean. If the Antarctic shrimp can survive under a glacier perhaps its distant cousins can too. Most planetary scientists believe that a layer of liquid water exists beneath Europa's surface, kept warm by tidally-generated heat. Surface temperature average about −260

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The Definition of ‘Sex’ [Meaning Of Life]

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

According to a new study by The Kinsey Institute for Higher Sexication, people don’t agree on what the term “had sex” means. Well, class, grab a seat, because we listened to Salt N’ Pepa and we’re gonna talk about sex! According to the study, 95 percent of people agree that when a penis goes into a vagina then “sex”—that thing that we have spent so much much, waged so many wars, and sweated so many hours in the gym to attain—has occurred. However, 11 percent of people say that if there was no ejaculation, then there was no “sex.” Also 30 percent of people think oral sex is not “sex” and 20 percent believe that anal sex is not “sex” even though they both have “sex” in the title. That’s like saying there’s no “doom” in The Temple of Doom . It also means that about the quarter of the population think that all gay men and lesbians are virgins. The study concludes that there is a disagreement about what constitutes “having sex.” We hate confusion, so we are going to break it down for you: “Having sex” means any consensual behavior between two or more individuals involving genital contact and bodily penetration. That means oral sex, anal sex, and vaginal sex are all “sex.” Sorry, guys on the DL, even if you have anal sex (top or bottom) with guys means you still “have sex” with men. It is also “sex” if no orgasm or ejaculation occurs. If you put a penis (or vagina) in your mouth in a coat room for 30 seconds, you had “sex” with that person. It was probably short and unfulfilled for both parties, yes, but it was still sex. “Sex” also includes any activity that happens in the presence of prophylactics. Just because you wore a condom, does not mean you didn’t bang that fat chick who lived in the room next to yours sophomore year. This leaves some leeway for hand jobs, heavy petting, and general rubbing. However, if any of these behaviors occurred and the subject of sex is brought up, they must be acknowledged. It’s like being charged with a felony but not convicted. So if you jerked a guy off in a New Jersey truck stop and someone asks, “Did you have sex today?” You can say, “No,” but you must add, “But I did jerk someone off.” Also, if you reached into a girl’s pants and played around a bit while making out before being interrupted by your screaming wife who yells, “Are you having sex with her?” you can say, “No!” but you must add, “I was just playing around in her pants a bit.” That, everyone, is the definition of sex. It’s kind of like pornography, it’s hard to define, but we know it when we see it. The rest of it is just semantics so we can make ourselves not feel like dirty sluts or get away with cheating on a significant other. Really only lawyers and eight-year-olds play semantics and only religious prudes are ashamed of sex. And no one likes any of those.

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More Americans get news from Internet than newspapers or radio

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| 1 Comment

More Americans get their news from the Internet than from newspapers or radio, and three-fourths say they hear of news via e-mail or updates on social media sites, according to a new report. Sixty-one percent of Americans said they get at least some of their news online, according to a survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. That's compared with 54 percent who said they listen to a radio news program and 50 percent who said they read a national or local print newspaper. Almost all respondents, 92 percent, said they get their news from more than one platform. “In the digital era, news has become omnipresent. Americans access it in multiple formats on multiple platforms on myriad devices,” reads the report, based on a survey conducted in December and January. “The days of loyalty to a particular news organization on a particular piece of technology in a particular form are gone.” Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have made news a more participatory experience than ever before, the survey suggests. People share links to news stories by e-mail, post articles on their Facebook and other networking feeds and tweet them on Twitter — often following up by discussing the articles on message boards and other sites. Seventy-five percent of respondents said they get news forwarded through e-mail or posts on social networking sites, while 37 percent of online users said they've reported news, commented on a story or shared it on sites like Facebook and Twitter, the survey said. “To a great extent, people's experience of news, especially on the Internet, is becoming a shared social experience … ,” reads the report. “[T]he advent of social media like social networking sites and blogs has helped the news become a social experience in fresh ways for consumers.” Most people said they use between two and five online news sources, and 65 percent said they don't have a single favorite Web site for news. When looking for news online, people said they're most often seeking information about a common topic: the weather. Eighty-one percent said they search for weather information online, followed by national news at 73 percent. Just over half — 52 percent — said they look for sports news, while 47 percent said they look for entertainment or celebrity news. Online news users are generally younger than the average population, according to Pew. About two-thirds of the study's online news users were younger than 50, and nearly 30 percent were younger than 30. Racially, that group is more white and Hispanic than the national average, while half of non-Hispanic black respondents said they get all of their news from offline sources. Only television news still outpaces the Internet, with 78 percent of respondents saying they watch local news and 73 percent saying they view a national network or cable news channel like CNN, Fox News or MSNBC. The report was based on a daily tracking survey of 2,259 adults age 18 or older. The margin of error for all respondents is plus or minus 2.3 percentage points — 2.7 percentage points for Internet users. A combination of land line and cellular numbers was used in the survey. added by: singrrr

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5 things that will make you happier

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

“”The billion-dollar question is, is it possible to become happier?” said psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky of the University of California, Riverside. “Despite the finding that happiness is partially genetically determined, and despite the finding that life situations have a smaller influence on our happiness than we think they do, we argue that still a large portion of happiness is in our power to change.” Lyubomirsky spoke here Saturday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She and colleagues last year reviewed 51 studies that tested attempts to increase happiness through different types of positive thinking, and found that these practices can significantly enhance well-being. The results were published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. Here are five things that research has shown can improve happiness: 1. Be grateful – Some study participants were asked to write letters of gratitude to people who had helped them in some way. The study found that these people reported a lasting increase in happiness – over weeks and even months – after implementing the habit. What's even more surprising: Sending the letter is not necessary. Even when people wrote letters but never delivered them to the addressee, they still reported feeling better afterwards. 2. Be optimistic – Another practice that seems to help is optimistic thinking. Study participants were asked to visualize an ideal future – for example, living with a loving and supportive partner, or finding a job that was fulfilling – and describe the image in a journal entry. After doing this for a few weeks, these people too reported increased feelings of well-being. 3. Count your blessings – People who practice writing down three good things that have happened to them every week show significant boosts in happiness, studies have found. It seems the act of focusing on the positive helps people remember reasons to be glad. 4. Use your strengths – Another study asked people to identify their greatest strengths, and then to try to use these strengths in new ways. For example, someone who says they have a good sense of humor could try telling jokes to lighten up business meetings or cheer up sad friends. This habit, too, seems to heighten happiness. 5. Commit acts of kindness – It turns out helping others also helps ourselves. People who donate time or money to charity, or who altruistically assist people in need, report improvements in their own happiness.” http://www.livescience.com/health/how-to-be-happy-100222.html What makes you happy? Is there something specific you practice to keep yourself in good spirits? added by: DeliaTheArtist

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