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May 17, 2012

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Pants on fire

March 8, 2012 By Pat Kelly Leave a Comment
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By Pat Kelly. Trying to decide when a patient is lying has been a perennial problem for doctors but a study suggests that if one is observant, it takes only 20 seconds to spot a fibber.

Filed Under: Blogs, Viscera blog Tagged With: body language, body observations, honesty, lying

Waste not, want not

March 8, 2012 By Pat Kelly Leave a Comment
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By Pat Kelly. A Dutch company is making a name for itself by recycling medical implants left over after cremation and selling them as scrap.

Filed Under: Blogs, Viscera blog Tagged With: cremation, medical implants, Recycling, scrap metal

Burgers to die for

February 22, 2012 By Pat Kelly Leave a Comment
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By Pat Kelly. A man suffered a heart attack while dining at the infamous Las Vegas eatery The Heart Attack Grill, which maintains an ‘Eat for Free’ policy if a diner weighs more than 350lbs.

Filed Under: Blogs, Viscera blog Tagged With: heart attack, Obesity, The Heart Attack Grill

A lamb curry

February 22, 2012 By Pat Kelly Leave a Comment
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By Pat Kelly. In a bizarre twist, it has emerged that feeding the constituent elements of curry to sheep may in fact help to reduce methane emissions and have a positive impact on the environment.

Filed Under: Blogs, Viscera blog Tagged With: curry, Environment, methane emissions, Sheep

What’s so funny…

February 8, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment
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By Pat Kelly. Psychologists have reignited the debate over what actually makes something amusing and have come up with a formula to explain it.

Filed Under: Blogs, Viscera blog Tagged With: formula, Funny, Humour, study

Eat, drink and be merry?

February 8, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment
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By Pat Kelly. Researchers have claimed that the old ‘fat people are more jolly’ hypothesis may be at least partly true — at least when it comes to women.

Filed Under: Blogs, Viscera blog Tagged With: depression, jolly, Obesity, oestrogen, Overweight, serotonin

A bunch of muppets

January 25, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment
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By Pat Kelly. A TV station in Cleveland, US, is using puppets to get around the ban on cameras in the courtroom.

Filed Under: Blogs, Viscera blog Tagged With: courtroom, Jimmy Dimora, puppets

Trying to keep a lid on toilet phobia

January 25, 2012 By Pat Kelly Leave a Comment
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By Pat Kelly. The National Phobics Society (NPS) in the UK has launched a self-help book and DVD to tackle the growing problem of toilet phobia.

Filed Under: Blogs, Viscera blog Tagged With: National Phobics Society, NPS, toilet phobia

Gaming without guilt

January 11, 2012 By Pat Kelly Leave a Comment
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By Pat Kelly. Video-gaming has taken on a more useful dimension after a group of players solved the structure of a protein that baffled scientists for more than 10 years.

Filed Under: Blogs, Viscera blog Tagged With: Foldit, genetics, medical research, Phylo, Video-gaming

The only way is up

January 11, 2012 By Pat Kelly Leave a Comment
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By Pat Kelly. Budding astronauts and their endocrinologists can now be reassured that trips in zero-gravity conditions have no effect on their testosterone levels.

Filed Under: Blogs, Viscera blog Tagged With: bed stays, space travel, testosterone levels, zero-gravity conditions
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