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Life: Why Can’t You Tickle Yourself?

Much to the dismay of wacky masochist everywhere, the human brain is wired against self-tickling. Because the brain controls movement, it knows what your hand is going to do before you do it. Thus it anticipates the exact force, location, and speed of the tickle and uses that information to desensitize you to your own [...]

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Life Video: Street Dentist in India

If it is painful or at least annoying go to the dentist with the typical anesthesia, your half paralyzed mouth, tongue, lips, nose and eye, imagine yourself going to a dentist doing his surgery on the street!

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Animal Cruelty: Kentucky Fried Cruelty

Peta is known to many as the vigilante group of animal rights activists. Even though they are right about the causes they defend, some aren’t always too thrilled with the way they go about it. Well instead of using blood on furs this time around, they have created a video game inspired by Super Mario [...]

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Life Video: Tobacco - What’s Inside a Cigarette

A clip from the TV series Modern Marvels which airs on the History Channel. In this segment, they set out to find what’s really inside a cigarette, and it’s definitely more than meets the eye.

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Life: Why do women endure the discomfort of high heels?

High heels are uncomfortable and make walking more difficult. Prolonged use can injure the feet, knees and back. So why do women keep wearing them?
The short answer seems to be that women in heels are more likely to attract favourable notice.
In Sense And Sensibility, Jane Austen describes the character Elinor Dashwood as having a “delicate [...]

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