

Quote of the Week
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."
Mark TwainTODAY'S BRIGHTER SIDE NEWS

New study challenges a long-held assumption about human childbirth
New research finds some small primates face birth canal constraints as severe as, or greater than, those seen in humans.

Scientists finally confirm the cause of Earth’s greatest mass extinction
Experiments reveal why warming, oxygen-poor seas favored clams and snails during Earth’s largest mass extinction.

Earth may be hotter today than at any time in the last 540 million years
New research shows Earth’s past temperatures were cooler than believed, raising concerns about future climate change.

Smelling chocolate before lifting weights could make your workout easier
Sniffing dark chocolate between sets quietly added 18 repetitions to fasted weightlifting workouts, with no increase in perceived effort.






