When you have a stuffy nose, a slice of freshly baked apple pie tastes like mush. But not being able to smell your food could have a surprising effect on your metabolism, potentially helping you remain thin even when you eat fatty foods, a new study in mice suggests. “This is a very exciting […]
Posts Tagged ‘smell’
Footage Shows Moment Cop Paralyzes MMA Fighter
Amanda Froelich | True Activist In recent weeks, there has been more news concerning police brutality and fatalities than all of 2016. First, a man named Alton Sterling was killed by police in seemingly unjust circumstances; then, a man named Philando Castile was unlawfully shot four times in his […]
South Ossetia to hold referendum to become part of Russia
South Ossetia plans to hold a referendum on whether to become part of the Russian Federation before August, the republic’s president, Leonid Tibilov, told TASS in an interview. “We are already discussing the dates,” Tibilov said. “A specific date can’t be named yet, but it will take place in the near future, we plan […]
Obama says inequality, racism persist in US
US President Barack Obama has said America has better “race relations” now than when he graduated from university in 1983, but noted the country is still suffering from “inequality and racism.” “Race relations are better since I graduated. That’s the truth,” Obama told the graduating class of Howard University, one of the highest ranking Historically […]
A real-life little mermaid who earns a living playing Ariel
Melanie Long grew up idolizing Ariel from The Little Mermaid and hoped to be her one day. Now, she kind of is. Long moved from the UK to Phuket, Thailand to work as scuba diving instructor. “I got into scuba diving thinking it would be as close as I could get to become The Little […]
Compton Sheriffs Forcibly Remove Reporter From Lobby Trying To File A Complaint
Anaheim James is a reporter for inLeague Press and covers a lot of So-Cal activism, like many CopBlockers or video vigilantes, he seeks to keep people safe and expose the truth with this camera. Today there was a scheduling conflict in a court case for Boaz Balenti, another So-Cal activist and the appearance was rescheduled. […]
Black holes could grow as large as 50 billion suns before their food crumbles into stars, research shows
Black holes at the heart of galaxies could swell to 50 billion times the mass of the sun before losing the discs of gas they rely on to sustain themselves, according to research at the University of Leicester. In a study titled ‘How Big Can a Black Hole Grow?’, Professor Andrew King from the […]
Strange animal behavior: Deer breaks through window of college dorm
We all know some sort of craziness happens in college dorms, but who would expect a deer to crash through a residence hall window? Augustana College staff didn’t see it coming, but this is exactly what surveillance camera captured on October 19. The deer had hard time balancing on polished floors of the lobby, […]
Red Herrings and Other Things That Smell Fishy
Picking the truth out of a sea of lies by Michael Chester The term “red herring” originated in training exercises for fox hounds. They would set up a scent trail of a fox for the hounds to follow and then drag bags of red herring, a relatively strong smelling fish, across the trail to […]
‘I Can Smell QE3, QE4 and Many More,’ Says Marc Faber
Business Intelligence Middle East August 9, 2011 Marc Faber the Swiss fund manager and Gloom Boom Doom editor spoke today about the Standard Poor’s credit rating downgrade of US sovereign debt, and how the downgrade was long overdue as the ‘junk bond’ was no longer worth of an AAA rating. He views the downgrade […]