But the study, which followed 7th grade teens in Australia and Washington State for one year, found that those allowed to drink under adult supervision were more likely to have had a bad experience related to alcohol. Things like becoming violently d...
Teenagers experiment with alcohol. In many countries and societies, thats just a fact. And so many parents of teenagers may think that its a good idea to teach their kids to drink responsibly by having a few drinks with them. But according to at leas...
Following more than five-thousand people for ten years, the study observed how loneliness can spread through a group. Lonely people, it seems, transmit their sad, lonely feelings to people around them. What happens, according to the study, is that in...
Some diseases are contagious，like colds, flu, and chicken pox. But what about loneliness? Loneliness may not be a disease, at least not in the same way that chicken pox is. But loneliness can be contagious. How so? The same way that many emotions c...
If the uncooked meat is refrozen these new bacteria are put into suspended animation along with their living ancestors. This means that when the meat is rethawed there are not only the parents and their offspring, but the grandkids, great-grandkids,...
On the way home from the grocery, you get delayed so much that the frozen meat youve bought thaws out. The question for this Moment of Science is should you refreeze it? Weve been told by reliable authorities that its not good to refreeze uncooked me...
Y: What would you say your attitude towards celebrities, Don? D: Do you mean whether I like them? Y: I mean are you obsessed? Do you spend hours on the Internet trying to find out what their favorite nail polish color is and whether they believe in h...
Dear Annie: My girlfriend and I have been together for three years. When we first started dating, Mary unexpectedly became pregnant and we now have a beautiful child who is our life's joy. I would like to ask Mary to become my wife. Here's the proble...
Y: Today, on a Moment of Science, it's time for another round of Baby Skills, that fun and wacky guessing game that shows your baby is up to more than crying and napping. And today's question is: What can six-month-olds do better than nine-month-olds...
Christmas dinner party getting out of hand Dear Annie: Each year, the company my wife works for hosts a Christmas dinner party at a local restaurant. What used to be an enjoyable meal with a handful of employees has become a large, drunken event last...
D: 3.1415926535 . . . Y: Don. Don? D: What? Y: What are you doing? D: I was trying to break the record for memorizing pi. Now I'll have to start over. Y: Memorize pi? Oh yeah, I remember that from 7th grade geometry. But how can you memorize pi? We u...
Mike: What're you doing up so early, Amanda? Have you decided to take up jogging in the park like me? Amanda: No, Mike. You know I really can't stand jogging. I've joined a yoga class at our local fitness center. I hear it's a great way to stay fit....
Dear Annie: When my son was 14, he was friends with Tim, a boy who drank and did drugs at a young age and who once stole his father's car and took my son joyriding around the neighborhood. I didn't want our son hanging out with Tim after that, but my...
Before a group of young cowbirds had time to socialize much, West had them stay the winter with a group of canaries. In the spring they were turned loose in an aviary with a mixed group of birds. What happened was weird: the cowbirds sang like canari...
Brown-headed cowbirds are robin-sized black birds whose range covers most of North America. From a peoples point of view cowbirds are what we might call deadbeat parents. Cowbirds lay their eggs in the nests of other bird species, and the cowbird nes...
