Mice That Eat Yogurt Have Larger … Whoa, WHAT?! An MIT team set out to study the effects of a high-fat, low-fiber diet in mice that also ate yogurt. You know, basically “Can probiotic supplements help overcome a crappy diet?” What they found surprised them. Mice that ate yogurt were shiny, and had thick, dense, healthy hair, like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. The males also, well … I don’t know exactly how to say this … they walked with a certain “swagger”. That’s because the testicles of the yogurt-eating males were 15% larger than the junk food mice. Not only were they bigger, but they produced more pups when they mated with females. Females weren’t left out, though. Yogurt-eaters gave birth to healthier, bigger litters. Surely you’re thinking “So, Biology Man, if I eat yogurt by the wheelbarrow-full, will I turn into Don Juan of the breakfast buffet?” Well, we don’t know how dietary observations like this translate to humans quite yet. But probiotic foods like yogurt likely create a healthier microbiome in the mouse gut, leading to less inflammation and a stronger immune system. All of that leads to a healthier, more virile mouse. Hey, it’s good for ya. Couldn’t hurt. (via Scientific American)
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Mice That Eat Yogurt Have Larger … Whoa, WHAT?!

An MIT team set out to study the effects of a high-fat, low-fiber diet in mice that also ate yogurt. You know, basically “Can probiotic supplements help overcome a crappy diet?”

What they found surprised them. Mice that ate yogurt were shiny, and had thick, dense, healthy hair, like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. The males also, well … I don’t know exactly how to say this … they walked with a certain “swagger”.

That’s because the testicles of the yogurt-eating males were 15% larger than the junk food mice. Not only were they bigger, but they produced more pups when they mated with females. Females weren’t left out, though. Yogurt-eaters gave birth to healthier, bigger litters.

Surely you’re thinking “So, Biology Man, if I eat yogurt by the wheelbarrow-full, will I turn into Don Juan of the breakfast buffet?” Well, we don’t know how dietary observations like this translate to humans quite yet. But probiotic foods like yogurt likely create a healthier microbiome in the mouse gut, leading to less inflammation and a stronger immune system. All of that leads to a healthier, more virile mouse.

Hey, it’s good for ya. Couldn’t hurt.

(via Scientific American)

Source: scientificamerican.com

The most badass physicist you’ve probably never heard of Meet bad-ass mofo François Arago, in a profile by Greg Gbur. Fool got swagga. “When he was seven years old, he tried to stab a Spanish solider with a lance. When he was eighteen, he talked a friend out of assassinating Napoleon. He once angered an archbishop so much that the holy man punched him in the face. He has negotiated with bandits, been chased by a mob, broken out of prison. He is: François Arago, the most interesting physicist in the world” (via io9)
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The most badass physicist you’ve probably never heard of

Meet bad-ass mofo François Arago, in a profile by Greg Gbur. Fool got swagga.

“When he was seven years old, he tried to stab a Spanish solider with a lance.

When he was eighteen, he talked a friend out of assassinating Napoleon.

He once angered an archbishop so much that the holy man punched him in the face.

He has negotiated with bandits, been chased by a mob, broken out of prison.

He is: François Arago, the most interesting physicist in the world”

(via io9)

Source: io9.com