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08 May 29: Bruxism

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:22:00 +0000

Bruxism - the grinding of teeth at night - affects anywhere from 15 to 96 percent of the adult population at some point in their lives.

08 May 28: Zappos

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:17:00 +0000

Zappos offers new call-centre employees US$1,000 on top of what they have earned after a few weeks of intensive training, if they want to quit. The theory is that the people who take the money ‘obviously don't have the sense of sense of commitment’ Zappos requires. About 10% of its trainees take the offer.

08 May 27: Opium

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:55:00 +0000

Afghans' widespread use of opium ‘is killing communities.’

08 May 13: Eudaimonistic

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Wed, 14 May 2008 03:10:00 +0000

On Happiness, two theories predominate:

‘The first says happiness comes when pleasure is at a maximum – the ‘hedonistic theory.’ The second holds that we are happy when we find meaning, even if it is through effort and frustration – the ‘eudaimonistic theory,’ from the Greek daimon, our true self.’

08 May 12: Taboo

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Wed, 14 May 2008 02:57:00 +0000

‘During the war, Chinese feminists continued their struggle on two fronts. In 1938, Mao Liying founded the Chinese Career Women's Club in Shanghai, which addressed both their society's gender assumptions and the Japanese occupation.

In Shanghai, where public baths were closed to women, members of the club held ‘bathing parties,’ during which they rented a hotel room, and in which they sang, danced and ate, as they took turns taking baths. Club members also bicycled around Shanghai in groups, breaking another cultural taboo.’

Source: ‘Shanghai in 1942’

08 May 11: Benz

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Sun, 11 May 2008 19:35:00 +0000

The film version of Sex And The City has just about as many Mercedes-Benz cars as it has pairs of Manolo Blahniks.

08 May 10: IAT

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Sun, 11 May 2008 19:35:00 +0000

The Implicit Association Test is based on the observation that we make connections much more quickly between pairs of ideas that are already related in our minds than we do between pairs of ideas that are unfamiliar to us. Try a computerized IAT at https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/.

08 May 9: Lavender

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Sun, 11 May 2008 19:34:00 +0000

Whiffing lavender oil during your next dental visit may blur the memory of your pain.

08 May 8: Pashmina

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:56:00 +0000

The test for a quality pashmina has been warmth, feel and the passing of the shawl through a wedding ring.

08 May 7: New?

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:55:00 +0000

The New Kids On The Block are hard at work on their first new album since 1994.

08 May 6: Facial

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:06:00 +0000

The Geisha is the latest facial to hit New York City. It is a $180 mask made with bird excrement. Article here.

08 May 3: Calories

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:06:00 +0000

For every year after 30, women require seven fewer calories per day.

08 May 2: Intervention

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Fri, 02 May 2008 23:39:00 +0000

The Snobby Coffee Intervention at Un-Snobby Coffee is a Washington McDonald's marketing campaign designed to ‘help a friend kick their snobbish habit.’

08 May 1: Heartache

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:27:00 +0000

Days of ‘heartache leave’ that employees of one Japanese cosmetics company are allowed to take each year: 3

08 April 30: Chickens

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:43:00 +0000

Chickens dream.

08 April 29: ‘1’

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:43:00 +0000

Amount a businessman in the UAE paid this year for the nation's license-plate number ‘1’: $14,000,000

08 April 28: Miles

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:43:00 +0000

Beijing's new airport terminal is two miles long.

08 April 27: Southdale

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:43:00 +0000

The Southdale shopping centre in Minnesota is the world's first true shopping mall, making it a landmark as important to architectural history as the Louvre or New York's Woolworth Tower.

08 April 26: Livestock

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:42:00 +0000

Livestock generate 18 percent of greenhouse gases.

08 April 25: Inter@ctive

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:36:00 +0000

In 1998, Research in Motion (RIM) released the Inter@ctive Two-Way Pager. A year later, RIM introduced the BlackBerry to the world.

08 April 24: Kitchen

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:35:00 +0000

According to a 27-country survey for IKEA by IsoPublic, a polling firm, less than 20% of Chinese families eat in the kitchen compared with 64% of Canadian and over 50% of American ones.

08 April 23: Poiret

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:34:00 +0000

Paul Poiret, King of Fashion, liberated women from the ‘stifling, tight-waisted, hoop-skirted monstrosities’ of the 19th century. ‘Poiret effected a concomitant revolution in dressmaking, one that shifted the emphasis away from the skills of tailoring to ... the skills of draping.’

08 April 22: Power

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:34:00 +0000

In 2006, American data centres consumed more power than American televisions.

08 April 21: LSD

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:34:00 +0000

LSD was first synthesized by Swiss scientists in 1938.

08 April 19: Scenting

noreply@blogger.com (Hello from Julia) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:32:00 +0000

A dog's extraordinary scenting ability can distinguish people with both early and late stage lung and breast cancer.