Is it your dream to reach YouTube stardom? If it is, German researchers have some advice for you: give it up. Why do the Germans want to crush your dreams? They discovered the harsh reality that many of your top YouTube stars fail to mention. With numerous YouTube stars living …
Marijuana Found to Have Curing Effect for Dementia
The medical uses for marijuana seem to be endless, yet the “drug” is still off limits to a majority of people who could reap the benefits of a little tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Now a joint study between German and Israeli scientists has made its way to the public, and not only was …
Sources: JNS
Photo: Rafael Castillo [Flickr]
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Marijuana May Become Legal for 25,000 Germans in New Research Study
Back in November of 2016, a German group by the name of the Research Initiative on Cannabis Consumption began the process of opening a study on the effects that regular marijuana use has on the adult body, but doing so has come with some challenges seeing that the drug is not quite legal in …
Sources: Research Initiative on Cannabis Consumption
Photo: Rafael Castillo [Flickr]
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Do Germans Make Less Fussy Babies?
Bringing a new baby into the world can be a joyous occasion, but that immediate high begins to wane a little once parents bring their bundle of joy home and realize that the idea of sleep is a thing of the past. Babies and crying are an inseparable duo, but …
Sources: University of Warwick
Photo: Donnie Ray Jones [Flickr]
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Plenty of Fish Rates German Language the Sexiest of them All
What is the sexiest language? French? Italian? Spanish? According to a new in-house survey by online dating site Plenty of Fish (PoF), none of those top the list. German on the other hand, the language often characterized as harsh and angry, made the cut and it found itself coming out on top. …
Sources: Plenty of Fish
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Have a Cold? Blame a Camel
Coming down with the common cold is a recurring reality, and now a group of scientists from the Institute of Virology at the University Hospital of Bonn believe they have finally found where the infectious day wrecker began. While examining roughly 1,000 camels for an investigation into the deadly MERS …
Sources: DZIF
Photo: YoTuT [Flickr]
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German Researchers Make Your Shrunken See-Through Rodent Dream A Reality
Your dream of one day having your very own miniaturized see-through rodent is close to becoming a reality thanks to a group of researchers in Munich. Wait… maybe that sounds more like a nightmare. Don’t worry though, in reality these vermin are dead before their skin and bones become transparent. …
Sources: Nature Methods, Wall Street Journal
Photos: Ali Ertürk/Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
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Do Birds Sleep Sleep While Flying? We Now Know
There has always been a little mystery behind birds that are known to be airborne for weeks, or months, as they set out for an overseas journey. Without a spot to land and rest, it has been assumed that certain species must be able to sleep and fly at the …
Sources: Nature Communications, Gizmodo
Photo: Anne Haase [Flickr]
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German Speaking German-Americans Needed for University Research Project
A linguistics graduate student at California State University, Fullerton is currently designing a study for his M.A. thesis that examines the speech of English-German bilinguals living in California (particularly Southern California). Tim Jewell is “looking for California Germans who speak both English and German fluently and find themselves switching back and forth between the …
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Traces of Plastic Found in 24 Brands of German Beer
A recent study that looked for contaminants in 24 brands of German beer was recently released, and the results for all tested samples found some questionable traces of plastic and other materials that some beer-drinkers may find alarming. The top 10 German beer brands were included in the study, and …
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