Articles about: boffins

Bra is bad for you

Boffins discover that wearing a bra is bad for you and could cause boobs to wither and degrade. AIEEEEE

Eat five fruit and veg a day.  Oh don’t bother, that was made up.  Drink 8 glasses of water a day.  Oh no need.  That was made up too. And now another cherished maxim that we all lived by might …

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Read More |April 18 2013 | 46 Comments
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Diet drinks make you fat: FACT (may not be a fact)

  You know all those zero calorie fizzy drinks you’ve been guzzling for years?  All the gallons of Diet Coke and 7UP free that have been slurped down in a guilt free fashion because they contain no calories?  Well a …

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Read More |July 4 2011 | 49 Comments
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Research finds DOGS smarter than cats. So it’s not cool for cats then? PAH

She eats my food, uses me as an electric blanket and bosses me around. But I’M the clever one? Even I don’t believe that Research by boffins in Oxford University has found that dogs appear to be more intelligent than …

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Read More |November 25 2010 | 56 Comments
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Made to measure: perfect proportions make looking gorgeous easier?

Now we all know that Liz Hurley is pretty handy with a strategically placed safety pin and no one works a pair of white jeans quite like she does. But now it seems as though her sheer perfection might be …

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Read More |December 23 2009 | 9 Comments
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Research finds that rich men give women more orgasms: but what do you think?

Listen I’m not making this up. Although it may seem as though this research was commissioned by misogynist gangsta rappers, it wasn’t – read more here. Explaining these findings as “evolutionary adaptations” (we’ve heard that one before) scientists explain that …

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Read More |August 7 2009 | 7 Comments

Good looking equals more money. Boffins find that genentic lottery is real lottery

Latest research proves that he must have stolen this money This is my penultimate report on the findings that boffins have made recently. My ultimate one is coming on Friday. And when I say coming I mean … oh never …

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Read More |August 4 2009 | 2 Comments
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Beautiful women have beautiful daughters: women becoming more gorgeous, men remaining plain

Boffins have made another startling discovery. Beautiful women are more likely to have daughters than sons. Those daughters are genetically predisposed to be beautiful too. And beautiful women are more likely to have more childer than the general population – …

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Read More |July 28 2009 | 19 Comments