Opera Music Improves Heart Transplant Survival

Sara Maines of The MaineStudio Not kidding... This research  was actually published in the Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery in 2012. I should add that the research was done in mice rather than humans and won the 2013 Ig Prize in Medicine. To quote from the abstract : "recipients of a B6 cardiac graft that were exposed to opera music and Mozart had significantly prolonged allograft [transplant] survival... whereas those exposed to a single sound frequency (100, 500, 1000, 5000, 10,…

9/14/2013 0

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Why Did Hair Turn Green for Residents of a Certain Town?

In 2011, in a certain township called Anderslov in Sweden, formerly blonde residents' hair mysteriously started turning green. Was it a biological problem? Was it a disease? Was it contagious? Nope... Actually, suspicion initially was towards the drinking water and in particular, the copper levels since copper is known to dye things green via a complex oxidation process. When copper oxidizes, it forms minerals that are green (and/or blue) including: brochantite (hydrated copper…

9/21/2012 0

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Not All Spinning Motions Cause Dizziness

In one of the stranger research projects I've encountered in awhile, French scientists reported on why in the sport of discus throwing, athletes tend to feel more dizzy than those who hammer throw. Whether discus or hammer throwing, both require spinning on part of the athlete before letting the discus/hammer go for long distances. 59% report dizziness with discus throwing, but none with hammer throwing. Why? This occurred even among athletes who did both sports eliminating indivi…

9/30/2011 0

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