A Taiwanese man, who cannot swim, miraculously survived after drifting in the rough seas for 60 hours.
Tseng Lien-fa was catching baby eels on a beach in Hualien County early Friday when he was swept away by an unexpectedly large wave, the Japan Times reported.
The 42-year-old told the United Daily News that he managed to hold on as the first wave hit him on the chest, but was overwhelmed by the second and bigger wave.
Researchers have identified a mental mechanism people subconsciously use to gauge threats posed by others.
UCLA anthropologist Daniel Fessler study found a mechanism that translates the magnitude of the threat into the same dimensions used by animals to size up their adversaries – size and strength – even when these dimensions have no actual connection to the threat.
Fessler’s work illuminates how people make decisions in situations where violent conflict is a possibility, which could have ramifications for law enforcement, the prison system and the military.
A new study has found that sexting among young teens may translate to risky sexual behaviors in real life.
The study found that more than one-fifth of seventh graders who were considered “at-risk” because of behavioral and emotional difficulties admitted to sexting.
This group of 12 to 14-year-olds were found to be more likely to kiss, have oral sex and sexual intercourse compared to their peers who did not send the explicit text messages, CBS News reported
The study authors said that these data suggest that phone behaviors, even flirtatious messages, may be an indicator of risk.
Researchers have published new studies that show that long-term weight loss maintenance is possible if people stick to key health behaviors.
J. Graham Thomas, Ph.D., is the lead author on a 10-year observational study of self-reported weight loss and behavior change in nearly 3,000 participants.
The participants had lost at least 30 pounds and had kept if off for at least one year when they were enrolled in the National Weight Control Registry ( NWCR ).
Drinking alcohol seems to have a dose-dependent inverse association with the risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), a new study has suggested.
Researchers investigated the association using two population studies in Sweden with participants between the ages of 16 and 70 years: 745 cases of MS plus 1,761 controls in the Epidemiological Investigation of Multiple Sclerosis (EIMS) study and 5,874 cases of MS with 5,246 controls in the Genes and Environment in Multiple Sclerosis (GEMS) study.
Legal experts have named the first Monday of the year as the most popular day for divorce.
Website DivorceDepot’s survey of 1,000 people found that finances were the biggest marital strains, which affected about 33 per cent three people, followed by excess alcohol, in-laws, and fights over cooking and gift buying, the Daily Express reported.
But for 12 per cent, just spending extra time with their partner caused the cracks to show.
A man from Northern Ireland chose abstinence for a year to raise more that 50,000 dollars for charity.
Pete Lynagh, who swore off sex on New Year’s Day 2013, raised money for ‘Free to Shine’ organisation through his Facebook page ‘Pete’s Chastity for Charity’.
The Australian-founded organizes rescues Cambodian children from sex slavery and provides them with education scholarships, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
Researchers using absolute criteria to compare the sports performance of elite men and women soccer players found that the differences were significant.
Over a hundred soccer players of both genders were monitored by the Faculty of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences, conducted in collaboration with other universities in Europe, during UEFA Champions League matches to conduct this research.
A man has revealed that he has two penises because of a rare condition called Diphallia.
The man recently hopped onto Reddit for an ‘Ask Me Anything’ session.
The man, known only as ‘DoubleDickDude,’ has two fully functional penises, and uses both of them to have sex and urinate, News.com.au reported.
Incidentally, he is a bisexual and is currently in a committed relationship with both a man and a woman.
When he was asked by a Reddit used if there were any medical complications, he replied that his prostate gets inflamed if he doesn’t ejaculate enough.
Researchers including an Indian-origin researcher have found that dysfunction in a single gene in mice causes fasting hyperglycemia, which is one of the major symptoms of type 2 diabetes.
Lead author Bellur S. Prabhakar, professor and head of microbiology and immunology at UIC, said that if a gene called MADD is not functioning properly, insulin is not released into the bloodstream to regulate blood sugar levels.
Small genetic variations found among thousands of human subjects revealed that a mutation in MADD was strongly associated with type 2 diabetes in Europeans and Han Chinese.
Scientists have discovered that exercising could make low-calorie food appear more appetizing.
Scans taken after volunteers jogged for an hour showed that the brain’s “reward centres” lit up when they were shown images of low-fat diet foods.
But the same brain regions showed reduced activity when volunteers looked at pictures of calorie-dense fatty food, News.com.au reported.
The findings, by a team of researchers at the University of Birmingham, suggest that exercise has the power to help change eating habits as well as shed fat.
For various reasons, not everyone is fond of shopping. So, it’s time to take tips to make shopping enjoyable – don’t go empty stomach, avoid departmental stores and take a friend along!
Huffingtonpost.com shares shopping tips for those who cringe at the thought of stepping out for shopping:
* Be strategic. Don’t plan on checking out 10 stores in one day. This will tire and annoy you. Instead, pick two or three of your favourite spots.
* Avoid departmental stores: The size of departmental store and its lack of windows can make anyone go crazy.
Men, like women, have now begun taking care of their skin, as the cold winter is turning out to be harsh for their bodies.
Natalie Semchyshyn, M.D., assistant professor of dermatology at Saint Louis University, said that contrary to the popular belief men’s skin is more sensitive, as their skin loses moisture faster, is more prone to dryness and doesn’t exfoliate as much.
For oily skin, Semchyshyn recommends using a cleanser with glycolic or salicylic acid, as these help exfoliate and balance the skin.
Trebling tobacco tax globally would cut smoking by a third and prevent 200 million premature deaths this century from lung cancer and other diseases, researchers said on Wednesday.
In a review in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists from the charity Cancer Research UK (CRUK) said hiking taxes by a large amount per cigarette would encourage people to quit smoking altogether rather than switch to cheaper brands, and help stop young people from taking up the habit.
A new study has warned that drivers are constantly engaging in distracting activities like eating, texting and grabbing the mobile, about 10 percent of the time while on the road.
Risks of distracted driving were greatest for newly licensed teen drivers, who were substantially more likely than adults to be involved in a crash or near miss while texting or engaging in tasks secondary to driving, according to the researchers from the National Institutes of Health and Virginia Tech.
Thinking about time as a cycle of recurring experiences – like it was shown in the flick ‘ Groundhog Day’ – could help people increase their personal savings, a new research has revealed.
Psychological scientist Leona Tam of the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia, and Utpal Dholakia of Rice University hypothesized that a cyclical mindset should make people less likely to defer saving money by boosting their ability to make concrete plans and decreasing overly optimistic thinking about the future.
‘Duck Dynasty’ star Phil Robertson, who caused much uproar after expressing anti-gay beliefs and making statements about pre-Civil War African-Americans, has sparked another controversy after asking men to marry girls “when they are 15 or 16”.
Reddit male users have revealed the “girly” that they would like to try without being judged on the same.
According to Huffington Post, lokiikol said that women can wear “masculine” clothing but the same can not be said for men in “feminine” clothing.
Another thing that men would like to try is ordering “girly drinks,” Reddit user Dwarf -shortage said that for just once, he’d like to order yummy pink drinks having real fruit chunks that guys secretly like but aren’t able to order as they’ll be made fun of.
According to Emmy_Bee, men would also like to carry a purse.
A new survey has discovered that for majority of youngsters in China success in career is defined mostly by compensation.
In the poll, conducted by global human resources firm Hays on 1,000 people aged 18 to 30, 64 percent said that creating personal wealth was their top priority, China Daily reported.
A Hays expert said that the results of the survey are not surprising, given that the country remains a relatively poor developing country where many people have been attracted to the cities from rural areas in the hope of making a better life for themselves.
Researchers have tried to explain how nicotine exploits the body’s cellular machinery to promote addiction.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, nicotine activates receptors known as nAChRs and, remarkably, unlike most other drugs of abuse, it acts as a “pharmacological chaperone” to stabilize assembly of its receptors within the Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) and increase their abundance at the cell surface (up-regulation).
Youngsters drinking alcohol over the weekend may end up impacting their DNA, indicates a study.
A pioneering study in Mexico analysed the effect of weekend alcohol consumption in students aged between 18-23 on the lipids comprising cell membrane and its genetic material – DNA.
The students were divided into two groups: the control group made up of the students who did not drink alcohol and the study group of those who drank at weekends. The findings were astonishing.
And you thought vaccination against cervical cancer is what only women need to deliberate upon? Wrong.
Debunking earlier researches, a new study has found that women are more than twice as likely as men to pass on the human papilloma virus (HPV) – the primary cause for the development of cervical cancer.
Researchers found that 18 percent of women infected with HPV transmitted the virus to their male partners within a year, compared with the 7 percent of infected men who passed on the virus to their female partners.
Researchers have claimed to have found considerable evidence about people’s food choices being influenced by social norms.
Researchers in the United Kingdom conducted a systematic review of several experimental studies, each of which examined whether or not providing information about other peoples’ eating habits influences food intake or choices.
The review looked at a total of fifteen studies from eleven publications. Eight of the studies examined how information about food intake norms influenced food consumed by participants.
A new drug to treat alcoholism has enhanced the chances of hard-drinking Japanese addicts quitting alcohol, it has been revealed.
While conventional drugs discourage drinking by causing unpleasant symptoms, such as palpitations, nausea and headaches, after alcohol consumption, new drug- Regtect- improves the chemical balance in the brain to suppress a patient’s craving, the Japan Times reported.
Susumu Higuchi, director of the National Hospital Kurihama Alcoholism Center, hopes that the new drug will help Japanese drinkers quit alcohol.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates, one of the richest men in the world, as also one of the most powerful in the field of technology, has no ego, says Gurdeep Singh Pall, global head of Skype, the popular and free international voice and messaging service.
Chandigarh-born software engineer Pall, who was named as Skype’s global head October this year, said: “The richest man in the world, who is among the most powerful people in technology, has no ego.”