If you were deeply sick of "Free Bird" in the seventies, the Bee Gees' blow-dried hair, platform shoes, and disco beat may have felt like a lifesaver. Now, researchers say the song "Stayin' Alive" can literally save lives. Turns out the catchy 103-beats-per-minute tune is a close match to the 100-chest-compressions-per-minute method used to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). University of Illinois researchers trained doctors and medical students to do CPR in time to the song. Later, they were able to do the proper number of chest compressions by keeping the song in their head, Reuters reports.
Pastors say mental illness is spiritual
ailment
Christian pastors may tell churchgoers who seek help for a mental
illnesses—such as
bipolar disorder or schizophrenia—that they have a
spiritual problem instead. Baylor University researchers surveyed
293 people who sought their pastor's guidance after they or a
family member were diagnosed with mental illness. In all, 32% were
told it was a spiritual problem, and women were more likely than
men to be told the problem was in the soul rather than the psyche,
MSNBC reports.
Altruism makes you hot
Call it the Angelina Jolie effect. A new study suggests that going
out of your way to help others makes you more sexually attractive
to a mate. While women were more likely than men to consider nice
folks—hospital volunteers and blood donors—as worthy
partners, men were not completely immune to the inherent hotness of
altruistic people, according to the report
in ScienceDaily. No word yet on whether altruism is even
sexier when combined with pillowy lips.
MP3 players may harm your hearing
Up to 10 million Europeans are at risk for hearing damage from MP3
players and European
Union regulators are mulling a plan to lower the legal
volume-limit of MP3 players to 100 decibels.
(Apple’s iPod, by way of reference, can produce
sounds of 115 decibels or more.)
Scientists have found that listening to music that exceeds 89
decibels via headphones for more an hour daily over five years
could lead to hearing
loss. iPod players were not long ago pulled off shelves in
France to get a software upgrade that would keep the decibel
level of the popular MP3 players below 100.
Your cell phone may be bad for your skin
Although scientists haven't been able to show that
cell phones cause cancer, they could be bad for your
skin. People—mostly women—are experiencing face and ear
rashes due to exposure to the nickel components of cell phones.
The condition has been dubbed "mobile phone dermatitis." Women are
at greater risk because they are more likely to be sensitized to
the metal from earlier exposure to nickel-containing jewelry. The
answer to a nickel problem—at least with bling—is to
switch to pricier stuff, which generally contains more gold and
silver, and less nickel. Does this mean gold-plated phones are on
the horizon?
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