The iPhone, is there anything it can’t ruin? Modern gadgets such as the Blackberry and iPhone are ruining women’s sex lives because their husbands are too distracted in the bedroom. More than a quarter of women (28 per cent) claim that email and internet are disrupting their love lives, with hand-held devices particularly to blame.
Pretty much everywhere, it’s gonna be hot.
Most people find it hard to hold their breath for more than a minute, so imagine the extreme self-control Stephane Mifsud mustered on 8 June last year when he held his breath for 11 minutes and 35 seconds, setting a new world record for stationary breath-holding, or “static apnoea”.
Competitors float face down in a chilled pool, not to stop them cheating but to induce the mammalian diving reflex: when your face is submerged in cold water, outer blood vessels constrict, directing blood away from the extremities and towards the heart and brain. Your heart rate slows, reducing the rate at which oxygen is pumped around the body. With training, experienced breath-holders can drop their heart rate by twice that of non-divers upon immersion in cold water.
So have we reached the breath-holding limit yet? Not at all, says physiologist Johan Andersson at Lund University in Sweden, who studies the effects of breath-holding in divers. “Elite breath-hold divers expect the limit to be extended to about 15 minutes before record-setting will level off.”
Just how many nuclear bombs does the United States of America have? For thirty years, the exact number of bombs the Pentagon stockpiles has been a secret (though people have pretty much guessed correctly).
Now, for the first time ever, that number has been officially released by the Obama administration: it’s 5,113 warheads.
Have you ever gotten an e-mail that made you want to instantly go off on someone? For those of you that said “yes,” here is a handy article with helpful tips to keep you from losing your cool. I find that this bit of advice works best:
Back away from the computer: Resisting the urge to just “let someone have it” is a sign of self-control and adds points to your reputation. You also raise what I call your “CQ score” of communication intelligence by responding versus reacting.
An interesting question, that’s for sure – but not one to which many people give serious thought. However, here are twenty people who did! So, what would you get up to if you could clone yourself? You could…
