Yes, according to researchers at the consumer product manufacturer Unilever and the University of Manchester. They say the annoyingly loud background noise from the airplane’s engines disturb our senses and make us enjoy our food that much less.

You can’t rule out the low cost of the food and environmental factors such as air pressure and the dryness of the air, researcher Andy Woods told ABC News. But even so, noise levels still have an impact on our enjoyment or dislike of food.

Wishery, comprising vocal syllables, musical chords and sound effects recorded from the 1937 Disney classic Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs.

You can laugh now, but a few years ago you were getting a sweet deal by buying a 10MB hard drive for $3398.

Whoever invented the ‘laptop’ probably didn’t worry too much about male reproductive health. Turns out, unsurprisingly, that sitting with a computer on your lap will crank up the temperature of your nether regions, which could affect sperm quality.

And there is little you can do about it, according to the authors of a study out today in the journal Fertility and Sterility, short of putting your laptop on a desk. The researchers hooked thermometers to the scrotums of 29 young men who were balancing a laptop on their knees. They found that even with a lap pad under the computer, the men’s scrotums overheated quickly.

I guess you could call this One for the Books, or not. Facebook is being preemptively sued by Lamebook over trademark infringement. Lamebook is a parody website of Facebook.

Lamebook is a satirical site which allows Facebook users to submit funny status updates or events they’ve seen or been involved in. It’s from the same family of sites as Regretsy (which mocks Etsy listings) and People Of Walmart (which features photos of strange people who shop at Walmart)

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