Elementary My Dear Watson! 20 New Facts That You May Have Missed...

We have very busy lives; however, complicating that is our propensity to focus only on the immediate.  Our inordinate interest in personal technology has kept us from raising our heads and noticing what is going on.  We spend much of our discretionary time reading texts, playing games, or reading emails, etc. So as a public service, Wasabi Roll would like to present some of the more tantalizing discoveries that you may have missed. 

Submitted for your approval, The 20 Discoveries in the past few years that may have escaped you...

• The morning-after pill Norlevo, an emergency contraceptive manufactured in Europe, is completely ineffective in women who weigh more than 176 pounds.

• Being bilingual can help delay dementia by an average of 4.5 years.

• A chemical found in chilies boosts levels of “brown fats” linked to preventing weight gain.

• Ukrainian astronomers predict a 1,300-foot-wide asteroid named 2013 TV135 will hit earth on April 13, 2036. NASA experts who track space junk say odds are against a strike.

• All mammals urinate for roughly the same amount of time, 21 seconds, regardless of their size. The mathematical model of animals is now known as “The Law of rination.”

• Sleeping changes the cellular structure of the brain and cleans the brain of a toxic buildup that might lead to dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

• Kissing is the ultimate social taste test men and women use when looking for a relationship that lasts. More frequent kissing in a relationship was linked to the quality of a relationship but not to a greater frequency of sex.

• A slow caress or stroke, the touch often instinctual for mothers to give their children, may increase the brain’s ability to construct a sense of body ownership and, in turn, play a part in creating a healthy sense of self.

• Commonly used words on Facebook accounts can indicate gender, age and distinct personality traits. Women are more likely to use words like “excited,” while men are more inclined to swear.

• Propylene, a chemical essential for the creation of plastic on Earth, has been found on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.

• A team of physicists experimenting with photons discovered a completely new form of matter that sticks light particles together in a solid mass, working in the same way as the light sabers used in “Star Wars.”

• For women, smelling a newborn baby feels as good as drugs to addicts or cheeseburgers to those just breaking a fast.

• Blood taken from a woolly mammoth trunk frozen in Siberia for 10,000 years with its red meat, skin and hair in good condition could be used to recreate the species.

• The Earth will continue to be habitable for another 1.75 billion to 3.25 billion years, until it travels out of the solar system’s habitable zone and too close to the sun.

• West Antarctica’s massive Ross Ice Shelf ice-sheet is hiding an estuary where fresh water from rivers mixes with salt water from the ocean.

• Heart disease patients with a positive attitude are more likely to exercise and live longer. The most positive patients exercised more and had a 42 percent less chance of dying during the follow-up period.

• As little as one glass of wine is enough to interrupt communication between the amygdala and prefrontal cortex, the two parts of the brain that control behavior. The breakdown could explain the disinhibition, aggression and social withdrawal symptoms associated with being intoxicated.

• Neurons in the brains of mice can be switched off to make them more resilient to bullying by other mice.

• The world’s oldest globe of the New World, dating back to the early 1500s, was found. The previously unknown artifact was carved onto two grapefruit-size hemispheres of ostrich eggs, possibly by a worker influenced in Florence by Leonardo Da Vinci.

• Dolphins have a signature whistle they use to identify each another that effectively functions as name. No two whistles are alike. It is not yet known how the dolphins get their names.

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So “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;”

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