See this little guy? He’s called Amblyomma americanium, the Lone Star tick. And one bite from him can turn you into a vegetarian.
Skimpy shorts, bare chests, and barely-there swimsuits – it’s no wonder there’s a popular conception that summer = sex. But does this assumption stand up to scientific scrutiny?
Keeping our body at a consistent temperature is an important but sometimes smelly process. A glass of sweat, if you could get one, would have virtually zero odor. But spend anytime in a gym, or in a crowd on a hot day, and you know that sweat stinks. Why?
Oh exercise…is there anything you can’t do? Giving your cardiovascular system a workout as been implicated in enhancing your creative streak, lifting you out of the doldrums, and, of course, dropping your risk for physical problems. The good news doesn’t stop there. In addition to making us feel great and look better on the macro level, exercise also stimulates our cells to “take out the trash” through a process called autophagy.
Sex, for most of the animal kingdom, is pretty mundane. Why do humans make such a big deal out of it?
What’s behind a yawn? And why are they contagious? We’ll let the awesome crew at Vsauce enlighten you - and we dare you not to yawn in the five minutes it takes to watch the video.
