As an expert explains, "The phone will beep, they'll answer the text. They'll either respond in words or gibberish. [It] can even be inappropriate."
What the professor describes sounds a lot like texting while awake (example: "Ex-girlfriends contacting ex-boyfriends, saying 'I miss you. I want to see you'"), with one difference. "When they wake up, there's no memory." The professor insists this is a real problem.
"This interrupts what could be a good night's sleep, because they're an hour-and-a-half or two hours into their sleep cycle, and they're answering texts or the machines are beeping at them." How to combat this new woe? He quips, "Clearly, the highly complex, radical remedy is to turn off the phone." Or at least keep it on the other side of the room.
On her second year past the century mark, Clara Cowell has given in to her family and agreed to quit smoking. The British mother of four, grandmother to nine, great grandmother to 12, and great great grandmother to four conceded that after puffing on some 60,000 cigarettes, falling ash has become a risk to her health. But could it backfire?
"The secret to mum's long life is a cigarette and a cup of tea with whisky," says her 69-year-old daughter. "That and hard work and poverty. She's an inspiration."
I'm not sure this will help any of you on Valentine's Day, but it's worth a try:
An international survey of more than 5,000 men and women (1300 Americans) reveals if you speak a different language:
79% find you more attractive
77% rate you as more intelligent
The survey reveals:
French is the #1 Sexiest Language, (chosen by 41%)
#2 Italian (chosen by 16%)
#3 Spanish (chosen by 15%)
English ranked #4th sexiest language (chosen by 10%).
The Korean language came in dead last – the least sexy language. Poor North Korea, looks like they're feeling the blowback of testing underground nukes. Not very romantic for Valentine's Day
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