{"id":12772,"date":"2017-04-13T08:58:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T12:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=12772"},"modified":"2017-04-13T08:58:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T12:58:52","slug":"lifes-little-mysteries-a-cloudeight-site-pick-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/lifes-little-mysteries-a-cloudeight-site-pick-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Life’s Little Mysteries – a Cloudeight Site Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Life’s Little Mysteries – a Cloudeight Site Pick<\/strong><\/h1>\n

\u00a0Let me begin by saying\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cIn a battle between nature and culture, culture has won by a hair \u2014 or lack thereof.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s the finding of a group of scientists in the Czech Republic. In a new study, they had male participants shave one armpit and let the other grow wild; they then collected odor samples from each of the men\u2019s pits and passed them under the noses of a group of females, who then rated how attractive they found each odor. As it turned out, the women preferred the smell of the shaved pits, but just barely\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This totally amazes me. All my life I\u2019ve been growing wild. Now, when it\u2019s too late I realize what my problem with women has been all along. Oh, well, I still have my beer\u2026<\/p>\n

Consider this:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cOkay, technically speaking, dying isn\u2019t an everyday activity. It is, however, done by a whole bunch of people every day. Why?<\/p>\n

We die because our cells die. Though they replace themselves over and over again for 70-odd years, they can\u2019t do so forever. Inside each cell, telomeres at the end of our chromosomes contain genetic information that gets clipped away with each cell division. Telomeres start out long enough to handle a great many scissor snips. But eventually, they run out of length, the information they held is lost and the cells can\u2019t divide anymore.<\/p>\n

Luckily, scientists are working on how to extend the lives of human beings, and think they could someday double the average lifespan\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You know what? I can tell you the exact date scientists will discover how to double the human lifespan. It will be the day after I die. I\u2019ll bet you a million dollars!<\/span><\/p>\n

And for all you Brazilians\u2026. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cPerhaps you\u2019ve noticed that, in bowls of mixed nuts, the Brazil nuts always seem to be sitting on top. This is known as the \u2018Brazil nut effect\u2026’\u201d<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Maybe that\u2019s why EB keeps rising to the top?<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway\u2026I spent way too much time on our site pick this week. There are so many interesting (but true) things on this site, I could hardly close my browser \u2026and that\u2019s a fact, I tells ya!<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what the site\u2019s developers have to say about Life\u2019s Little Mysteries:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cLife\u2019s Little Mysteries answers fascinating questions about the world around you and the stuff in it, from things in the news and on your mind to crazy questions you didn\u2019t even know you had. Our team of experienced reporters and editors do serious research while having loads of fun, to explain the world\u2019s objects and phenomena, natural and man-made.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If you\u2019re ready to be awed and fascinated \u2014 and sometimes shocked \u2013 take a look at today\u2019s Cloudeight Site Pick called Life\u2019s Little Mysteries. You won\u2019t regret it, we promise. <\/span><\/p>\n

Go to http:\/\/www.lifeslittlemysteries.com\/<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 and remove the hair from your brain!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Life’s Little Mysteries – a Cloudeight Site Pick \u00a0Let me begin by saying\u2026 \u201cIn a battle between nature and culture, culture has won by a hair \u2014 or lack thereof. That\u2019s the finding of a group of scientists in the Czech Republic. In a new study, they had male participants shave one armpit and let the other grow\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12773,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12772\/revisions\/12773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}