7. Female copperhead snakes have the ability to reproduce without sex.

Goldblum not impressed

1. Men think about sex about 19 times each day.

That's true, although it lasts for approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes each time.

Michelle Bachman has lots of chootspaw.

14. Kepler-16b, a planet more than 200 light years from our universe, is said to be made up of rock and gas and is believed to be as big as Saturn.

Wow. 200 light years from our universe.

Great science writing.

"50 random findings treated as new knowledge."

Wakosane: 14. Kepler-16b, a planet more than 200 light years from our universe, is said to be made up of rock and gas and is believed to be as big as Saturn.

Wow. 200 light years from our universe.

Great science writing.


wait, what?

14. Kepler-16b, a planet more than 200 light years from our universe, is said to be made up of rock and gas and is believed to be as big as Saturn.

Makes me feel like....

25. Smokers who have their first cigarette 30 to 60 minutes after waking up slightly increase their chances of getting cancer than people who wait longer.

30 to 60 minutes? Try 5 minutes.

As long as we are poking holes in this journalists science writing skills.

26. People who eat any kind of snack before lunch increase their chances of gaining weight, even if they eat a healthy breakfast.

No, the study did not say that. It said that specifically women ages 50-75 who were obese or overweight lost 4% LESS weight (not gained) if they routinely had a mid morning snack.

http://www.fhcrc.org/about/ne/news/2011/11/28/snacking_and_weight_los s .html
Better article

Yay, science!
Continuing to enlightenate the darkness.

Numbers 20 and 22 sure explain a lot about me and my early childhood, respectively.

there's a few things we already knew that the author doesn't but its Florida so

I learned stuff about the moon today. (new window)

/M-O-O-N that spells moon
//Fark makes me smrtr

Where OBL is hiding?

29. Using larger utensils leads to eating less in a restaurant setting because it gives the eater a sense of being full more quickly.

This doesn't make sense. The "I feel full" comes from the belly, and is on a delay. The faster you eat in the beginning, the more you'll be able to eat before the "I feel full" kicks in. It makes no sense for a larger spoon to cause slower food intake than a smaller spoon.

None of this included anything about boobies, so fark them.

/everything good involves bewbs.

We didn't know there is a footprint on the moon, or that there are alligators in ponds in Florida until last year?

Turns out the terrain is way different from the bright half, with rare metals such as radioactive potassium, uranium and something called thorium.

All together now..
"...And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium!"

geoduck42: Turns out the terrain is way different from the bright half, with rare metals such as radioactive potassium, uranium and something called thorium.

All together now..
"...And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium!"

Good thing I've been taking notes.

51. Steve Jobs will not be attending the Christmas party

#16) the moon is now a planet

11. The presence of harassing male Trinidadian guppies can disrupt female social networks, causing female-against-female aggression.

This is a picture of a Trinidadian guppy.

"Men think about sex about 19 times each day. The amount for women is about 10 times."

This should read
Men think about having sex about 19 times each day. The amount for women thinking about ways to not have sex is about 10 times.

Wait, I thought human brains are very powerful?

Mine can only have 19 total thoughts a day?

#12, 9pm is when you should go to bed? When the hell are you supposed to wake up, 4am?

Tim: Bob, you coming out to the movies with us?
Bob: Can't, gotta go to bed before it starts.
Tim: WTF?
Bob: I'll get fat if I don't.
Tim: You'll stay a virgin if you do.
Bob: Uhh, what movie we seein?
Tim: Smart move Bob, smart move.

Bucky Katt: jaylectricity: I knew all of those things but God told me not to tell anybody.

God must hate you.

God hates us. He just lets us live so we can suffer, even if some of us do enjoy life. He's a villain that doesn't really do much. Some people think he died long ago in a penthouse with a modified wooden toilet paper roller in his hand, but he was so insignificant, we didn't notice. His last contact with the "outside" was a 72-second, unintelligible phone call placed on his private line to the Vatican in mid-September, 1962.

Lith: #12, 9pm is when you should go to bed? When the hell are you supposed to wake up, 4am?

Tim: Bob, you coming out to the movies with us?
Bob: Can't, gotta go to bed before it starts.
Tim: WTF?
Bob: I'll get fat if I don't.
Tim: You'll stay a virgin if you do.
Bob: Uhh, what movie we seein? Tim, I don't feel that way anymore. I didn't want to say it, but you persisted.
Tim: Smart move Bob, smart move. Oh really, Bob? Why pretend, we both know perfectly well what this is about. You want Betty to have an abortion.

/derail

13. Penguins use a highly-developed sense of smell to identify kin and avoid interbreeding with relatives.

Maybe they should start handing out penguins at the trailer parks

44. Shifting sand dunes and ripples were discovered all over Mars, a finding that suggests strong winds keep the sandy surface of the red planet much more active than previously known.


did they find any evidence of giant worms, i think we all know how that will end.

Steve Zodiac: Are these the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard?

Well, there may be many others but they haven't been discovered...

=Smidge=
/That song is hilariously out of date...

17. Homo sapiens ancestors may have bred with now-extinct species Neanderthals or Denisovans before migrating from Africa to Eurasia 65,000 years ago. The mating may have given modern humans genetic mutations that protected their immune systems as they began expanding around the globe.

what these Neanderthals or Denisovans may have looked like:

RightWingWacko: 17. Homo sapiens ancestors may have bred with now-extinct species Neanderthals or Denisovans before migrating from Africa to Eurasia 65,000 years ago. The mating may have given modern humans genetic mutations that protected their immune systems as they began expanding around the globe.

what these Neanderthals or Denisovans may have looked like:

[www.syfy.com image 640x359]

I came here for this. Know the great thing? Moore came up with the idea before science discovered it. It's probably been done before, but it's still cool.

41. Just one lazy employee can quickly affect the performance or an entire workplace.


Like such as editors, zum beispiel.

RightWingWacko: 17. Homo sapiens ancestors may have bred with now-extinct species Neanderthals or Denisovans before migrating from Africa to Eurasia 65,000 years ago. The mating may have given modern humans genetic mutations that protected their immune systems as they began expanding around the globe.

what these Neanderthals or Denisovans may have looked like:

[www.syfy.com image 640x359]

Isn't the common image of neanderthals that they have unibrows?

Bah even if they did, I'd still love to disappoint either/both.

43. Fossils of the oldest-ever extinct species of tiger were found northwestern China. The Panthera zdanskyi lived more than 2 million years ago, was the size of a modern jaguar, lived on eating deer and pigs and reached up to 13 feet in length.

Modern jaguars are bigger than I suspected.

Wakosane: 14. Kepler-16b, a planet more than 200 light years from our universe, is said to be made up of rock and gas and is believed to be as big as Saturn.

Wow. 200 light years from our universe.

Great science writing.

I quit reading the list after reading this.

Subby, your submission was bad and you should feel bad.

#6 is not a new discovery by any means. Sodium alginate has been used to treat acid reflux for decades. It is one of the active ingredients in Gaviscon.

It's what we don't know that we don't know....

51. We fund far more crap with our tax money than we should.
52. Journalism is dead.