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Virgil Griffith (pictured below), a CalTech grad student, conducted a rather interesting study that links SAT scores with music tastes.
The results are very, very interesting with the brightest students favouring Beethoven, whilst Lil ‘Wayne seemed to be enjoyed by the *less* bright students.
A couple notable things to point out regarding the study though, as noticed [...]
Humans eat food, whilst cars “eat” fuel.
This interesting series of facts puts it into perspective how effiecent humans are compared to vehicles. If you paid attention during biology / science you’d know that energy is measured in calories (or joules) and no matter which way you look at it (whether it’s petrol, wood, a burger [...]
Picture credit: BARCROFT [via Telegraph.co.uk]
In what scientists are calling a “silent invastion”, a seemingly immortal jellyfish is taking over the world’s oceans.
The Turritopsis Nutricula is able to transform itself BACK into a juvenile form after becoming sexually mature and mating. Basically, each time after mating the jellyfish “turns” back into a teenager (juvenile) form. [...]
That’s a lot of days! 136 and a half days to be exact! That’s a third of a year!
It was already popular belief that women take an extremely long time to get ready, and this notion was popularized by Hollywood thousands of times over, but the latest survey of over 1000 women put this in [...]
Credit cards are every shoppers dream. All you do is smoothly slide your golden-colored (or whichever color you have) credit card through the machine, and instantly you have anything you wish in your posession. You name it, food, toys, electronics, sports equipment.
Almost everything can be bought with a credit card these days, that you probably [...]
picture credit: gunnisal
A human body isn’t just particularly complex, it’s also rather insane! Hiccups, sneezes, headaches, burps, farts. There’s a long list of weird things our body can do (even though many are shared by animals).
Well, to spice up the current appetite for crazy, UPick Reviews has compiled a list of 10 of the most [...]
We all hate airport security. It’s an unneeded cause of stress, fatigue and high blood pressure, not to mention the many innocent people who are interogatted for a careless bit of fluid. Unfortunately, when something bad happens, everything directly or indirectly related gets beefed up. In this case it was security after 9/11.
So we all [...]
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