Tag: science

Be more productive instantly: stop filing your email into folders

Post author By web gangsta
Post date October 12, 2011

Overload! How Too Much Information is Hazardous to your Organization

On any given day, Web Watch receives between 500-1000 work-related emails. And we’re not even counting those emails that are routed directly into spam or junk folders.

While that may sound like a lot of email, the vast majority of those messages are informational – things that Web Watch needs to know about, but not anything that we need to actually do anything about.

So we file those away into various folders for future reference if needed, leaving our Inbox mostly clear for those important messages that we actually need to read and take some action on.

But a recent study by IBM has found that maybe Google (and therefore, Google’s approach of how GMail is structured) may be the right way to do things all along.

Tags email, How To, Internet, science

Book Movies TV

Spoiler Alert! Spoilers are GOOD for you! (Psst: Vader is Luke’s Father)

Post author By web gangsta
Post date October 11, 2011

Spoiler Alert: Bruce Willis Is Dead and
399 More Endings from Movies, TV, Books, and Life

Rosebud is a sled.

It was Earth all along.

Soylent Green is people.

Snape kills Dumbledore.

No longer is it safe to save a favorite movie, book, or TV show for later enjoyment if you want to avoid having the ending spoiled. Web Watch has mentioned before that we were successfully able to avoid hearing about the ending of THE SIXTH SENSE until we finally saw the film ourselves on DVD. Yes, we knew there was some general plot twist, but we always were able to avoid any in-depth conversation about it until many months after the film had been released.

And that was before Twitter and the #spoiler or #spoileralert hashtags came into play. We’ve gotten into online battles with friends who are active on various social media sites who have become angry about conversations on shows that they haven’t seen yet, but were pissed that they just happened to come across someone else’s comment.

Dude, if you don’t want to know what happened, then stay the hell off of Twitter. How the hell are WE supposed to know what you have or haven’t seen yet?

Tags Book, Movies, science, survey, TV

Science

Smokers do not make better lovers

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 15, 2011

Thank you for Smoking

Smokers do not make better lovers, despite all the assumptions that smoking makes one appear to be sexier.

(do you hear that kids? Let’s say that again — “smokers do not make better lovers”)

We know what you’re thinking. Web Watch, how could you possible know this? Well, we’d like to say that it’s due to our vast knowledge and personal experience… but we’d rather just point you to this REPORT ON SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION and SMOKING.

Tags health, medical, Relationships, science, smoking

10 Things Science

Social networking sites can be just as addicting to teenagers as drugs and alcohol

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 14, 2011

Choices and Consequences: What to Do When a Teenager Uses Alcohol/Drugs

Social networking website can be addicting. Who knew?

The people at the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, that’s who.

They’re the ones who recently came up with a study on teenage drug abuse and addiction entitled NATIONAL SURVEY OF AMERICAN ATTITUDES ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE XVI: TEENS AND PARENTS.

Tags alcohol, drugs, facebook, medical, parenting, science, teenagers, twitter

Funny News Science

If you live in an urban area, the air you breath contains lots and lots of dog poop

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 6, 2011

The Dog Poop Initiative

Stop for a moment and take a deep breath.

Ah. Fresh air smells good, right?

Well, a recent study has come out that shows that the air you breath – especially if you’re living in an urban area – contains more than its fair share of CANINE FECAL MATERIAL in that air. The study, entitled SOURCES OF BACTERIA IN OUTDOOR AIR ACROSS CITIES IN THE MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES was commissioned to identify what types of bacteria would be found in urban areas. Would there be differences based on urban population, the season, or other elements?

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Tags bathroom, dog, health, News, pets, science

How To Science

What made you choose that career path? It may be your hormones talking

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 4, 2011

The Psychology of Sex, Gender, and Jobs

Hormones can make you do/say all sorts of stuff.

But did you know that your hormones can dictate what your eventual career path would be?

Tags business, jobs, medical, Relationships, science

food

The 10 most common ingredients in Fast Food

Post author By web gangsta
Post date July 25, 2011

Fast Food Panic for Nintendo. Buy now!

When you order a fast-food combo meal, like Web Watch did today, you’re not just getting a burger and fries – that is, a meal made solely of meat, bun, ketchup, pickles, cheese, potatoes, some salt and oil.

No, you’re getting quite a few more ingredients thrown into the mix. That bun? Probably has some sugar in it. Those fries? Maybe some extra starch was sprayed on them before cooking.

Tags fast food, food, restaurants, science, survey

Science

Fast-Food Ballpits are Filled with Poo. (Be sure to clean your balls!)

Post author By web gangsta
Post date July 19, 2011

Fun Ballz
Buy some clean ballpit balls

In case you didn’t know, children’s playgrounds are dirty, filthy places.

It doesn’t really matter what type of playground you’re talking about. Playgrounds at schoolyards and parks are often found scattered with broken bottles and used condoms. Playgrounds at McDonald’s and Chuck E Cheese are covered in germs.

Some parents consider the ingestion of some germs as a healthy habit for their kids, in order to help build up immunities.

Tags bathroom, business, parenting, science