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A Lifetime of Negative Thoughts Could Increase Your Odds for Contracting Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer’s Disease is one of the most devastating illness that families go through – you’re often forced to mourn the loss of your loved one while they’re still alive, and to steel yourself to go into a room with a parent, aunt, grandparent, who no longer knows you from Adam or Eve. The good news...

Scientists Think Human Eggs Attract the Sperm They Want to Make a Baby With

I don’t know about you, but this seems like common sense to me – if you buy into the idea of evolution and selecting offspring based on what traits best help them survive to procreate themselves, then of course the eggs of biological females have the ability to choose “better” sperm, right? Well, now there’s...

Doctors During the Black Plague Didn’t Wear Those Creepy, Beaked Masks at All

It may sometimes seem like scientists and health officials can still be caught behind the 8-ball when it comes to new and emerging diseases, but let me tell you, that’s nothing compared to what doctors were dealing with before the invention of the microscope. There were people in the scientific community who believed that “bad...

11 Teachers Who Are Totally Hip to the Memes

Good teachers know to really relate to kids, they need to speak their language, which means sending them memes. Some of them are funny and others are strange. But it’s sweet to see all of them trying. Because if teachers can do anything right, it’s trying to make sure kids like them… haha, I kid....

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How Social Distancing Looks Around the World

Love your neighbor but do it from a distance, please. That’s the message we’ve been getting from the experts who are racing to get the novel coronavirus under control. Scientists recommend a distance of at least 6-feet from any new person you encounter or at least some kind of partition. Here’s what that looks like...

How Reopening Looks for Businesses Around the World

For stores and businesses around the world, reopening is not a simple as turning a lock. Unusual protocols for doing business are necessary now to keep employees and customers safe. Some of these stores are using combinations of technology and barriers to keep viruses away. From around the globe, here are 10 businesses and how...

How Reopening Looks at 11 Restaurants Around the World

Slowly restaurants around the globe are reopening after weeks of shutdown mandates. There are many arguments for and against dining in public places, but most restaurants are serving customers while working with widely accepted guidelines to keep everyone safe. From biometrics to barriers, the hope is to keep eateries open, workers employed and service as...

People Are Cleaning Their Dishwasher Filters for the First Time and the Results Are Not Pretty

Dishwashers have made our lives so much easier. No more hand-washing (or drying!) dishes every night after dinner. Instead, just pop them into this handy machine and let it rip! Voila, clean dishes with almost no effort. Even though your dishwasher’s only job is to clean things, it turns out it’s not all that good...