When I was a kid, my mother refused to allow me or my sisters to chew gum. This was an incredible injustice in my eyes. Chewing gum was cool! But she stayed firm: she couldn’t stand seeing little girls chomping away on gum. To her, it looked cheap, stupid, and classless. As an adult, I have to admit, she was right about that. Chewing gum is probably not your best way to appear intelligent and grown-up.
However, while it may not look great, recent research suggests that chewing gum has some rather interesting effects. In fact, it may improve mood, reduce stress, and improve alertness and cognitive function.
In several studies, chewing gum has been associated with improved attention, greater alertness and a more positive mood. Reaction times were quicker when research subjects were chewing gum, and this effect became bigger as the task became more difficult.
Not all studies have shown completely consistent results, of course, as is always the way with research. Some studies showed that chewing gum improved memory; subsequent studies failed to show this result. But after reviewing the literature, I’m pretty convinced that, overall, there’s something about chewing gum that gives us a brain and mood boost.
So, as long as you can be somewhat subtle about it (no open-mouthed chomping please, ladies!) chewing gum can give you an edge and amp up your health & mood a little. Totally calorie-free, and without effort. Now how often can you say that?
I ponder this, should I eat; or shouldn't I eat? That is the question.
By: Tania Shcheglova
I love these, and I love how the background is added in. You can see the rest of the series here.
First US president to authorize an assassination on a American citizen with no trial.
First US president to demolish the Bill of Rights.
First US president to authorize war without declaration by the Congress.
With so much hard work, this guy still gets free doughnuts because we are fat and too stupid to know any better. He can sing Al Green amazingly though.
Brit
Girls
just wanna have fun
Whoa, Cyndi Lauper and Lil' Kim.
According to the staff at London’s Intercontinental Hotel, Lady Gaga left her room’s bath filled with blood. Her room’s housekeeper stated that Gaga was “bathing in blood as part of a Satanic ritual”. Is this true, false or maybe a publicity stunt? Not sure, but, in the light of previous articles, not impossible. Here’s an article from the Independent.
The eccentric singer reportedly shocked staff when she checked out of London’s lavish Intercontinental Hotel last summer and they discovered a pool of red liquid in the tub of her suite.
One housekeeper claimed the pop superstar was “bathing in blood as part of a Satanic ritual”.
She told website Truthquake: “Lady Gaga left large amounts of blood in the suite during a stay this summer. The incident was reported to the concierge, who was told to put it out of her mind.”
Other sources believe Gaga could have been using the red liquid as part of a “weird” stage costume or prop.
An insider said: “All of the hotel’s staff are convinced she was bathing in it or, at the very least, using it as part of one of her new costumes or weird stage routines.”
While it is unclear whether the liquid actually was blood or what the singer had been using it for, it is not the first time Gaga has been accused of unusual behaviour in hotels.
It has previously been claimed that she is terrified of evil spirits and reportedly has every hotel and tour venue scanned by a team of paranormal investigators before she will agree to stay there.
The ‘Edge of Glory’ hitmaker – who has previously said she believes she is inspired by the spirit of her dead aunt – allegedly splashed out £30,000 on state of the art Electro Magnetic Field meters to detect spectres.
A source said: “She believes in paranormal activity and won’t take any risks when she is on the road. It’s important to her to be safe from spirits.”
Is Lady Gaga bathing in bathtub full of blood?
Via: vigilantcitizen.com
Juicing for
Weightloss
Nothing better then making your own juice every morning. I am enjoying this new youtube juicing channel. Anyone that supports a healthy lifestyle has got my support. Viva Organic!
"It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences."
- Billie Jean King
We recently discovered Pavel's street work by various blogs. He works out of Russia and he uses the urban enviroment in very new and powerful ways we haven't really seen before. His more traditional street art is cool, but not as strong as the work like the one on this blog post. He should keep rockin' things like this! Check out a collection of his work here.
This is so cute. Gotta have this right now! To put some fun into the ever day boring USB's and USB hubs we see day in, day out in every home, office and work
place. Via: WePlayGod
PIG BUDDIES
USB HUBS
Kanye dreams
about Kanye
ha, I know someone is gettin' the 3rd degree from Mr. West about snapping his photo during a long flight.
I'ma let you finish, but Kanye dreams about kanye the best dreams of all time!
Marilyn photographed
Monroe
by Bert Stern in 1962
Creepy Nature! - Bleeding Tooth Fungus?
The bleeding tooth fungus looks kind of like a wad of chewing gum that leaks blood like a rejected prop from The Shining. They're also called the strawberries and cream, the red-juice tooth, and the devil's tooth. Whoever is in charge of naming scary bullshit seems really insistent that this thing looks like a tooth, while mostly skirting over the fact that it freaking sweats blood. Oh, and they are listed as "inedible," which implies that someone attempted to eat one at some point. On the other hand, the bloodlike substance has anticoagulant and antibacterialproperties. It's nature's next penicillin! All you have to do is lick it. Go ahead.
Read more about weird and creepy plants over at Cracked.com
Ohhh it's Thriller.for a second I thought this was a picture from the Teen Wolf sequal with Jason Bateman. LOL. Sorry Michael.
i recently discovered this beautiful staircase located in the paris museum “musee gustave moreau”, dedicated to the famous painter docteur moreau. the extravagantly designed building is filled to the brim with hundreds upon hundreds of his paintings and even with those on display, there are still a couple thousand of them resting in storage
OH PARIS!
Musée Gustave Moreau
14 rue de La Rochefoucauld
F-75009, Paris, France
This amazing and mysterious staircase is located at:
Good Lord, I was once lost but then I was found. Uh, I mean I lost one of my socks and then I found both. I only love tube socks when an attractive woman that would never talk to me wears them for a photoshoot.
"A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots."
- Jose Marti
SCARLETT
JO DAMN, SON!
