Asylum http://www.asylum.com Asylum http://www.asylum.com/media/feedlogo.gif Asylum http://www.asylum.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/Smoking Will Cause Genetic Damage Within Minuteshttp://www.asylum.com/2011/01/20/smoking-will-cause-genetic-damage-within-minutes/http://www.asylum.com/2011/01/20/smoking-will-cause-genetic-damage-within-minutes/http://www.asylum.com/2011/01/20/smoking-will-cause-genetic-damage-within-minutes/#commentsFiled under: ,


Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. When you inhale cigarette smoke into your body, it almost immediately causes genetic damage that could lead to cancer. In the first study of how smoking effects DNA, scientists tracked ... Read more

 

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]]>DNAGeneticsSmokingJeremy Taylor2011-01-20T17:00:00+00:00First Two Years of College Are Basically Uselesshttp://www.asylum.com/2011/01/19/first-two-years-of-college-are-basically-useless/http://www.asylum.com/2011/01/19/first-two-years-of-college-are-basically-useless/http://www.asylum.com/2011/01/19/first-two-years-of-college-are-basically-useless/#commentsFiled under: , ,


Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. College students learn very little their freshman and sophomore years. The book "Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses" came to that conclusion after surveying over ... Read more

 

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]]>CollegeLearningJeremy Taylor2011-01-19T17:00:00+00:00Better Looking People Are Smarterhttp://www.asylum.com/2011/01/18/better-looking-people-are-smarter/http://www.asylum.com/2011/01/18/better-looking-people-are-smarter/http://www.asylum.com/2011/01/18/better-looking-people-are-smarter/#commentsFiled under: , ,


Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Attractive people have significantly higher I.Q.s than their frumpier counterparts. Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics, had 52,000 people ... Read more

 

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]]>London School of EconomicsLondonSchoolOfEconomicsSatoshi KanazawaSatoshiKanazawaJeremy Taylor2011-01-18T17:00:00+00:00Over 40 Percent of Americans Have Step- Relativeshttp://www.asylum.com/2011/01/14/about-forty-percent-of-americans-have-step-relatives/http://www.asylum.com/2011/01/14/about-forty-percent-of-americans-have-step-relatives/http://www.asylum.com/2011/01/14/about-forty-percent-of-americans-have-step-relatives/#commentsFiled under:


Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. 42 percent of Americans have at least one step- relative. According to the Pew Research Center, who surveyed about 2,691 adults by phone late last year, 30 percent have a step- or ... Read more

 

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]]>pew research centerPewResearchCenterstep siblingsstepparentsStepSiblingsJeremy Taylor2011-01-14T17:00:00+00:00(Literally) Being on High Ground Makes You More Generoushttp://www.asylum.com/2011/01/13/literally-being-on-high-ground-makes-you-more-generous/http://www.asylum.com/2011/01/13/literally-being-on-high-ground-makes-you-more-generous/http://www.asylum.com/2011/01/13/literally-being-on-high-ground-makes-you-more-generous/#commentsFiled under: ,


Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Being positioned in a physically higher place seems to make people more generous and helpful to others. Researchers from the University of North Carolina conducted a series of experiments ... Read more

 

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]]>generosityHigh GroundHighGrounduniversity of north carolinaUniversityOfNorthCarolinaJeremy Taylor2011-01-13T17:00:00+00:00College Students Crave Self-Esteem Above Money and Sexhttp://www.asylum.com/2011/01/12/college-students-crave-self-esteem-above-money-and-sex/http://www.asylum.com/2011/01/12/college-students-crave-self-esteem-above-money-and-sex/http://www.asylum.com/2011/01/12/college-students-crave-self-esteem-above-money-and-sex/#commentsFiled under: , , ,


Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Self-esteem is increasingly important to young people. Researchers from Ohio State University asked college students to rate how pleasurable experiences such as sex, getting paid, ... Read more

 

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]]>Brad BushmanBradBushmanOhio State UniversityOhioStateUniversitySelf EsteemSelfEsteemJeremy Taylor2011-01-12T17:00:00+00:00Women in Their 40s Most Likely to Have Sex on First Datehttp://www.asylum.com/2011/01/11/women-in-their-40s-most-likely-to-have-sex-on-first-date/http://www.asylum.com/2011/01/11/women-in-their-40s-most-likely-to-have-sex-on-first-date/http://www.asylum.com/2011/01/11/women-in-their-40s-most-likely-to-have-sex-on-first-date/#commentsFiled under: , , ,


Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Women in their 40s are more likely to go all the way on a first date than their younger counterparts. A survey of 1,400 women between the ages of 20 and 49 by Men's Health found that 29 ... Read more

 

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]]>CougarsMens HealthMensHealthJeremy Taylor2011-01-11T17:00:00+00:00First Kiss More Memorable Than Losing Virginityhttp://www.asylum.com/2011/01/10/first-kiss-more-memorable-than-losing-virginity/http://www.asylum.com/2011/01/10/first-kiss-more-memorable-than-losing-virginity/http://www.asylum.com/2011/01/10/first-kiss-more-memorable-than-losing-virginity/#commentsFiled under: , ,


Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Most people remember about 90 percent of the details surrounding their first kiss, which is more than they remember about losing their virginity. This according to an upcoming book by ... Read more

 

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]]>First KissFirstKissSheril KishenbaumSherilKishenbaumVirginityJeremy Taylor2011-01-10T17:00:00+00:00Women Are Increasingly 'Marrying Up'http://www.asylum.com/2011/01/07/women-are-increasingly-marrying-up/http://www.asylum.com/2011/01/07/women-are-increasingly-marrying-up/http://www.asylum.com/2011/01/07/women-are-increasingly-marrying-up/#commentsFiled under: , ,


Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. More women are marrying men who are better-educated than they are and have more earning potential than they do. A study by the Centre for Policy Studies, a think tank in England, found ... Read more

 

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]]>Catherine HakimCatherineHakimCentre for Policy StudiesCentreForPolicyStudiesMarriageMoneyJeremy Taylor2011-01-07T17:00:00+00:00Monogomy Linked to Drunkennesshttp://www.asylum.com/2011/01/06/monogomy-linked-to-drunkenness/http://www.asylum.com/2011/01/06/monogomy-linked-to-drunkenness/http://www.asylum.com/2011/01/06/monogomy-linked-to-drunkenness/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,


Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Monogamous societies drink a lot more than polygamous societies do. University of Leuven economists Mara Squicciarini and Jo Swinnen have just published a working paper which makes the ... Read more

 

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]]>alcoholdrunkenessmonogamypolygamyJeremy Taylor2011-01-06T17:00:00+00:00Driving a Convertible Can Damage Your Hearinghttp://www.asylum.com/2011/01/05/driving-a-convertible-can-damage-your-hearing/http://www.asylum.com/2011/01/05/driving-a-convertible-can-damage-your-hearing/http://www.asylum.com/2011/01/05/driving-a-convertible-can-damage-your-hearing/#commentsFiled under: , ,


Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Driving a convertible with its top down at high speeds could lead to permanent hearing damage. Researchers from the St. Louis University School of Medicine tested the decibel levels in ... Read more

 

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]]>convertibleshearing lossHearingLossJeremy Taylor2011-01-05T17:00:00+00:00Technology Deprivation Resembles Drug Withdrawalhttp://www.asylum.com/2011/01/04/technology-deprivation-resembles-drug-withdrawal/http://www.asylum.com/2011/01/04/technology-deprivation-resembles-drug-withdrawal/http://www.asylum.com/2011/01/04/technology-deprivation-resembles-drug-withdrawal/#commentsFiled under: , ,


Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Being forced to stay away from computers, cell phones, iPods, television, radio and newspapers causes young people to suffer similar symptoms to drug addicts and smokers who go cold turkey. ... Read more

 

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]]>addictiontechnology deprivationtechnology withdrawalTechnologyDeprivationTechnologyWithdrawalUniversity of MarylandUniversityOfMarylandJeremy Taylor2011-01-04T17:00:00+00:00Only About One in 10 New Year's Resolutions Succeedhttp://www.asylum.com/2011/01/03/only-about-one-in-ten-new-years-resolutions-succeed/http://www.asylum.com/2011/01/03/only-about-one-in-ten-new-years-resolutions-succeed/http://www.asylum.com/2011/01/03/only-about-one-in-ten-new-years-resolutions-succeed/#commentsFiled under:


Our happy hour facts to amaze your drinking buddies with. Just 12 percent of New Year's resolutions last the year. Richard Wiseman, Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in England, tracked 3,000 ... Read more

 

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]]>new years evenew years resolutionsNewYearsEveNewYearsResolutionsrichard wisemanRichardWisemanJeremy Taylor2011-01-03T17:00:00+00:00Milwaukee Is the Drunkest City in the Nationhttp://www.asylum.com/2010/12/30/daily-beast-milwaukee-is-the-drunkest-city-in-the-nation/http://www.asylum.com/2010/12/30/daily-beast-milwaukee-is-the-drunkest-city-in-the-nation/http://www.asylum.com/2010/12/30/daily-beast-milwaukee-is-the-drunkest-city-in-the-nation/#commentsFiled under: , ,


Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Residents of Milwaukee get the most smashed. The Daily Beast developed a drunkenness matrix to rate cities on how intoxicated their citizens are. The metric is based on average number of ... Read more

 

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]]>alcoholalcoholismDaily BeastDailyBeastdrinkingDrunkest citiesDrunkestCitiesMilwaukeeJeremy Taylor2010-12-30T17:00:00+00:00More Than 25 Percent of Kids Regularly Take Prescription Drugshttp://www.asylum.com/2010/12/29/25-percent-of-kids-take-prescription-drugs/http://www.asylum.com/2010/12/29/25-percent-of-kids-take-prescription-drugs/http://www.asylum.com/2010/12/29/25-percent-of-kids-take-prescription-drugs/#commentsFiled under: , ,


Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. More than one of four American children and teenagers take a prescription drug on a regular basis. This stat comes from Medco Health Solutions Inc., the nation's largest health-care ... Read more

 

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]]>ADHDantidepressantsasthmaims healthImsHealthKidsMedco Health SolutionsMedcoHealthSolutionsprescription drugsPrescriptionDrugsJeremy Taylor2010-12-29T17:00:00+00:00Delaying Sex Improves Long-Term Relationshipshttp://www.asylum.com/2010/12/28/byu-school-family-life-delaying-sex-improves-long-term-relationships/http://www.asylum.com/2010/12/28/byu-school-family-life-delaying-sex-improves-long-term-relationships/http://www.asylum.com/2010/12/28/byu-school-family-life-delaying-sex-improves-long-term-relationships/#commentsFiled under: , ,


Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Not having sex for at least the first month of a relationship seems to make it stronger in the long run. Researchers from Brigham Young University's School of Family Life interviewed ... Read more

 

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]]>Brigham Young UniversityBrighamYoungUniversityBYUlong-term relationshipsLong-termRelationshipsmarriagesexJeremy Taylor2010-12-28T17:00:00+00:00Complimenting a Woman's Lips Is the Top Universal Pick-Up Linehttp://www.asylum.com/2010/12/27/badoo-compliment-womens-lips/http://www.asylum.com/2010/12/27/badoo-compliment-womens-lips/http://www.asylum.com/2010/12/27/badoo-compliment-womens-lips/#commentsFiled under: , ,


Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Women around the world respond best to compliments on their lips. The dating website Badoo analyzed close to 200,000 online interactions between men and women -- which took place in 10 ... Read more

 

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]]>Badoo.comclothingcomplimentsearslipsPick up linesPickUpLinesJeremy Taylor2010-12-27T17:00:00+00:00Violent-Drunk Gene Discoveredhttp://www.asylum.com/2010/12/23/bad-drunk-gene-discovered/http://www.asylum.com/2010/12/23/bad-drunk-gene-discovered/http://www.asylum.com/2010/12/23/bad-drunk-gene-discovered/#commentsFiled under: , ,


Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Scientists may have isolated the gene that is responsible for making usually peaceful people violent and aggressive when drunk. David Goldman, of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse ... Read more

 

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]]>Bad drunksBadDrunksDavid GoldmanDavidGoldmanDNAgeneHTR2BNational Institute of Alcohol AbuseNationalInstituteOfAlcoholAbuseserotoninJeremy Taylor2010-12-23T17:00:00+00:00Wild Chimps Play With Stick Dollshttp://www.asylum.com/2010/12/22/chimpanzees-play-with-sticks/http://www.asylum.com/2010/12/22/chimpanzees-play-with-sticks/http://www.asylum.com/2010/12/22/chimpanzees-play-with-sticks/#commentsFiled under: , ,


Our happy hour fact to amaze you drinking buddies with. Juvenile chimps play with sticks like human children play with dolls. Sonya Kahlenberg of Bates College and Richard Wrangham of Harvard University observed the behavior of wild chimps for ... Read more

 

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]]>ChimpanzeechimpsDollsplayRichard WranghamRichardWranghamSonya KahlenbergSonyaKahlenbergJeremy Taylor2010-12-22T17:00:00+00:00Video Games Make Kids Smarterhttp://www.asylum.com/2010/12/21/video-games-make-kids-smarter/http://www.asylum.com/2010/12/21/video-games-make-kids-smarter/http://www.asylum.com/2010/12/21/video-games-make-kids-smarter/#commentsFiled under: , ,


Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Playing video games sharpens vision, as well as the mind. Daphne Bavelier, a professor of brain and cognitive science at the University of Rochester, conducted 20 studies on the effects ... Read more

 

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]]>attentionDaphne BavelierDaphneBaveliermultitaskingUniversity of RochesterUniversityOfRochesterVideo GamesVideoGamesvisionJeremy Taylor2010-12-21T17:00:00+00:00