Post by Ardbeg... innit on Jan 12, 2011 8:11:14 GMT -6
Sometimes the irony of two disparate events or headlines occurring relatively close together is just too much to let pass by. As Rod Serling would say... "For your consideration..."
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Shrinking brains are making humans dumber
The human brain has been gradually getting smaller in size over the last 20,000 years, says a new report. It includes both the genders worldwide.
This decrease follows two million years of growth of the human cranium.
"Over the past 20,000 years, the average volume of the human male brain has decreased from 1,500 cubic centimetres to 1,350 cubic centimetres, losing a chunk the size of a tennis ball," according to a Daily Mail report quoting Kathleen McAuliffe in Discover magazine.
"The female brain has shrunk by about the same proportion."
The human brain has been gradually getting smaller in size over the last 20,000 years, says a new report. It includes both the genders worldwide.
This decrease follows two million years of growth of the human cranium.
"Over the past 20,000 years, the average volume of the human male brain has decreased from 1,500 cubic centimetres to 1,350 cubic centimetres, losing a chunk the size of a tennis ball," according to a Daily Mail report quoting Kathleen McAuliffe in Discover magazine.
"The female brain has shrunk by about the same proportion."
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Jersey Shore" star Snooki turns novelist
Reality television personality Snooki doesn't read books much, nor magazines or newspapers for that matter -- unless she is in them.
But the popular 23 year-old castmate from hit MTV reality show "Jersey Shore" has written a book, and it's not just the now ubiquitous memoir from B-list celebrities that are often successful these days. Snooki is taking a risk, releasing this week a novel, "A Shore Thing," inspired by her exploits along New Jersey's famed boardwalk in the U.S. summer.
Reality television personality Snooki doesn't read books much, nor magazines or newspapers for that matter -- unless she is in them.
But the popular 23 year-old castmate from hit MTV reality show "Jersey Shore" has written a book, and it's not just the now ubiquitous memoir from B-list celebrities that are often successful these days. Snooki is taking a risk, releasing this week a novel, "A Shore Thing," inspired by her exploits along New Jersey's famed boardwalk in the U.S. summer.