Category: Science

Are you smart? Maybe it all depends on where you live…

Post author By web gangsta
Post date June 10, 2012

Do you consider yourself a smart person?

If you’re reading this (or anything on the Internet), one would assume that the answer is “yes”. Only smart people bother to use the Internet — and only the smartest of the smart will read Web Watch.

So “hi!” to all of our smart readers out there.

But seriously, studiest have shown that sometimes what your intelligence level is can be dictated by the environment you surround yourself with. In other words – generally speaking – if you hang out with smart people (or dumb people), then you will eventually become smarter (or dumber) through association.

At the very least, just to keep up with those you hang out with.

But a new study proves this even better…

Tags game, IQ, science, survey, Travel

10 Things Science

It’s true, because women said so: length doesn’t matter. Girth does.

Post author By web gangsta
Post date June 8, 2012

Men — How do you feel about your junk? Are you satisfied with what you have?

More importantly – is your partner satisfied with what you have?

Well, new research shows that maybe they aren’t as pleased with what you’re packing as you may think. None of this should really be a surprise to anyone, but when we finally have facts to back up what folks always joked about — now we have something to talk about. Let’s read on…

Tags gender, Party Talk, Relationships, science, survey

Science sports

Why women should stop riding bicycles

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 19, 2012

As if women needed to have another reason to worry about exercise and their bodies’ health, along comes another study that makes another medical connection that shows that the wrong type of exercise is actually bad for you.

Tags bicycles, exercise, gender, health, medical, sports

Science

Which would you choose in a mate: Personality or Sex?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 6, 2012

Does anyone remember that FOX TV reality show MR PERSONALITY?

On this dating show, the male contestants all wore masks to hide their facial features from their potential love interest. The concept was that for any pure relationship to work, one’s personality should take priority over one’s looks.

Obviously, with the subsequent success of shows without masks like THE BACHELOR, the American TV audience is more interested in the visuals and sex appeal of their reality TV contestants rather than the more sincere personality-driven programming.

Tags dating, Party Talk, reality tv, Relationships

food How To Science

Dogs understand people more than you think

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 27, 2012

How well do you know your dog?

More importantly, how well does your dog know you?

Have you ever noticed that your dog does really well with sensory clues around them to react to? Web Watch remembers a former pet we had that would sleep in the corner all night long… but the one time that we knowingly get up to go to the refrigerator for a snack, they would wake right up and follow us to the kitchen.

Every. Single. Time.

It’s like they knew something, sensed something about what we were doing – and acted upon it.

Turns out, our observation isn’t that far from the truth discovered by scientists.

Tags dog, food, How To, parenting, pets, science, survey

food Science

There are 4 different cinnamons, 3 of them are fake, and tasters can’t tell the difference

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 25, 2012

A few years ago, Web Watch wrote about how ARTIFICIAL VANILLA CONTAINS COAL TAR.

It ends up that there are many different artificial food products that contain ingredients that we may or may not know about.

Take, for example, the simple cinnamon stick.

Did you know that there really are three different products that are commonly sold as “cinnamon sticks”?

Did you know that only one of them is actually really considered “cinnamon”?

Tags food, recipe, Save Money, science

food Gadgets How To News Science shopping

Only 15% of Americans avoid food poisoning by doing just one thing

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 17, 2012

Having food poisoning is not pretty, either for you or those around you.

Web Watch knows – the one time it hit us, we were trying to enjoy a group outing while on a trip away from home. You’d be surprised how quickly getting that ill, that quickly will identify who your real traveling companions are (hint: that number is close to zero during that time period — when it comes to food poisoning, you’re going to be mainly on your own).

So what can you do to avoid getting food poisoning?

Unfortunately, the majority of food poisoning occurs while you’re away from home, eating at restaurants with poor health scores or who happened to receive tainted food themselves.

In other words, when you’re eating out, there’s not much you can do if someone serves you bad food that really, really disagrees with you.

Tags 10 Things, e.coli, food, germs, health, How To, medical, News, shopping

10 Things Science

It’s true: women hate beards

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 28, 2012

Women: do you like your men clean-shaven, or with some sort of facial hair?

Oh, don’t kid yourself.

We know that you’re going to say that you like the casual, rough look of a slightly unshaven Johnny Depp or Brad Pitt or George Clooney.

But really, that’s just a cop-out. Let’s compare apples to oranges here, and keep your choices to (a) clean shaven, and (b) a full-on, minimum 6-week’s worth of growth, manly man beard.

Which of those scenarios do you prefer?

Tags 10 Things, grooming, Relationships, survey