Flirting makes men dumb

Who’s ever heard of harmless flirting? Apparently it’s not as harmless as it looks.

A new research is suggesting that talking to attractive women is actually bad for a man’s brain.

This study revealed that men who spend even just a few minutes conversing with attractive women do more bad in tests measuring their brain function than talking with someone that they don’t fancy, the Daily Mail reports.

The researchers believe that it’s because men use up a lot of their “cognitive resources” trying to impress pretty ladies that they don’t have a lot of room doing anything else.

The research also revealed that it also influenced the level of productivity in the workplace, and the test scores in co-educational schools.

However, this doesn’t work the other way round, because women are found to be affected conversing with attractive men. The psychologists at Radboud University in Netherland believes that it is because men are programmed to think about mating opportunities.

The researchers took 40 male heterosexual students for study, giving then cognitive tests to test their levels. Then they spent several minutes talking to either a male or a female member of the team before doing the test again.

It was found that men were slower and less accurate after the chat, and the more they fancied them, the worse their mark.

But when it was done to their female counterparts, the affect was not shown in their results.

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Busting Ladies get Ladybags

It can be very inconvenient for a lady if you have to pee, but the good news is that you can now relief yourself, anytime, anywhere.

A German company has developed a pocket urinal device that can be fitted into a woman’s handbag so they can use it whenever they need it. The “Ladybag” will reduce long queues and having to “do it” in filthy public toilets, wasted time, and having to pee in a yoghurt pot in the car on a highway, the company claims.

This mobile toilet is filled with a plastic bag filled with absorbent polymers that will turn urine into a type of gel. This toilet, which is ingeniously disguised as a leaf, is the size of a chocolate bar when folded, and it has a wide pink seat that can be used squatting, sitting, or standing and has graphic instructions printed on the bottom of the seat.

The gel is designed to absorb half a litre of liquid, but the bag itself can hold 1.25L for emergencies.

Inventor Eva Tinter said: “It can be used in cars, or at open-air festivals when you don’t want to queue. You can just nip around the back of the toilet and use this.”

However, the Ladybag is recommended for a one-time use, and it comes in a bag of three for $22USD.

“The gel prevents unpleasant smells and the bag can be disposed of in rubbish bins,”

Strangely, the company has already sold over 20,000 through pharmacies and the internet since it was developed last October.

“We’ve had orders from all over the world. Every glove compartment should have one,” Tinter said.

The “Roadbag” for men was launched in 2007.

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Sex slave of 18 years taught her uneducated daughters

Jaycee Lee, a kidnapped sex slave of 18 yrs in 1991 has taught he uneducated daughters how to read and write, and are well versed on the internet, her aunt had revealed.

Tina Dugard also reported that their family still has emotional bursts of tears from the happiness of the realisation that Jaycee has finally been found after all those years.

Dugard (42) spent five days with Jaycee and her mother Terry Probyn after the unexpected news of her niece's return.

"We are all so overjoyed. My sister has spontaneous moments of joy. We'll be talking, and she'll just suddenly burst into happy tears, with a big smile on her face."

The aunt was also reduced to tears herself when she watched Jaycee's mother comb Jaycee's hair - something that hasn't been done for her since her lonely disappearance.

"I remember thinking: Wow, she's French-braiding Jaycee's hair for the first time in eighteen years."

Jaycee Dugard's two daughters were found to be quite educated and bright, even though they had never had been enrolled in a school before. It was said that Jaycee taught the girls how to read and write, as well as some of the star constellations.

However, while the daughters knew "what's going on", they are not allowed to watch the media coverage on their story.

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Children pressured to anorexia

Even at 10, children feel the pressure to have a perfect body which can lead to anorexia , a new study has founded.

Researchers has found that girls at primary schools were more likely to feel happy with their bodies if they are skinny, while on the other hand, things get more complicated with the boys feeling unhappy if they thought they were too skinny or too fat.

Harvard University warned that children who already feel under pressure in primary school will be more likely to use risky and dangerous dieting techniques, like induced vomiting, fasting or even using diet pills or laxatives later in their lives.

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"Moon Rock" found fake!

The Dutch national museum said that one of its treasures, a rock that is apparently brought back from the moon by US astronauts is actually, in fact, just petrified wood worth about $90 USD.

The Rijiksmuseum's spokeswoman Xandra van Gelder who also took part in proving that the "moon rock" was a fake said that the museum would keep it anyway, just for curiosity and for a laugh.

"It's a good story, with some questions that are still unanswered," she said. "We can laugh about it."

The museum acquired the rock after the death of Willem Dreesman in 1988, a former prime minister.

Dreesman received it as a present on the 9th of October, 1969 from the US ambassador J. William Middendorf at a visit by the three Apollo Astronauts.

When it was on an exhibition in 2006, a space expert commented that it was rather unlikely for NASA to give away any souvenirs from the moon after a mere three months from the space mission.

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