Ten Things We Didn't Know Last Week - #3

Been a couple of days since the last post, the reason for the slackery being ... ukuleles. Always ukuleles! But the new tune is well and truly rehearsed now, in the key of A, so it's time to get back to normal and to catch up on all those vitally important research findings that I've been missing and have missed in the time since elapsed. Such things as:

• The average parent who spends the equivalent of eight days a year (33 mins a night) persuading their children to go to bed. 
• Or the fact that sharks are nine times more likely to kill a man than a woman  - the great white shark being the biggest offender.
• Or that people living in the country swear more on Twitter than urban dwellers.
• Or the notion that drinking honeysuckle tea can help ward off the flu according to Chinese researchers.
• Or that bacteria found in honeybees could be used as an alternative to antibiotics and in the fight against antibiotic-resistant strains of MRSA.
• Or that people who worry about losing their job have a 60% increased risk of developing asthma than those who don't.
• Or, eerily, the 'fact' that the memories of clinically dead people show that 'awareness' continues for up to three minutes after the brain has shut down, well according to scientists at Southampton University at least.
• Or that dry-roasted peanuts cause more allergic reactions than salted ones.
• Or the fact that young people would rather go without a hot meal or clean clothes than be cut off from the internet, according to new research by SSE
• Or the worrying news that charging your phone in your bedroom could make you put on weight. Spanish scientists say that the artificial light from phone screens, street lights, laptops or television stops the body generating melatonin, a hormone which combats obesity. 

So now so, re-illuminate those pipes and get ye a-ruminatin'!

More soon ...

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