In a groundbreaking new study, a team of (very serious) academics have determined that a total of 704 head injuries occur in the 34 Asterix and Obelix comic books. That’s almost 21 per book! The researchers ranked the severity of the injuries on the standard Glasgow coma scale, and found that a shocking 390 of them fit [...]

An Australian study recently released a shocking finding: every hour of television a person watches shortens their life by an average of 22 minutes. Looking at the behavior of 11,000 participants, the Queensland scientists found that people who watched around 6 hours of TV each day lived an average of almost 5 years less than [...]

Julian Treasure is a sound and listening expert who thinks that the world is “losing its listening”- with the unfortunate consequence of losing out on human interaction and communication. While Treasure acknowledges that as someone who “lives to listen” he is probably in the minority, he believes that “every person needs to listen consciously to [...]