Have you ever stopped to think why some things make us feel disgusted? Rachael Herz, an American psychologist, wrote a book to better understand how disgust works. According to the website New Scientist, the author of the work That’s Disgusting (“This is disgusting”, in Portuguese) states that disgust is related to brain conditioning. To exemplify, … Read more

It seems that Facebook is changing its attitude towards the advertising market. According to the news agencyReuters, Mark Zuckerberg realized that before placing the shares for initial public offering (IPO), he needed to create a broader relationship with the agencies. In fact, his reluctance to fill the social network with ads seen by many as … Read more

To guarantee laughter in many of the 17 billion posts that Tumblr has, the site has a team of writers, comedians and comedians to make sure fun posts are always tagged with the expression “LOL” (Laugh Out Loud, or, Dando laugh loudly, in Portuguese). Jake Fogelnest, comedy writer, DJ, producer and actor, is part of … Read more

Young Chen Rong-yu, 23, died last Wednesday (01/02) after spending 23 straight hours playing on a computer. Sky News, the taiwans were in a cyber café in the city of New Taipei and participated in a marathon of “League of Legends”, a popular game inspired by a map of “Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne”. Investigations … Read more

Whoever was or will still be a father or mother, certainly faces doubts or difficulties when choosing a name for the future baby. In order to end this dilemma, a couple from the city of Illinois (United States) opened a Facebook poll for their friends, family and even strangers to help them choose, among the … Read more

This year’s Campus Party has more options for places to eat than the 2011 edition. However, even with several stalls and even a restaurant per kilo available, campuseiros find it difficult to eat well. The problem, mainly, money. According to Dnis Sena, from Curitiba (PR), only this Tuesday (07/02) he spent almost R $ 80 … Read more

A crime committed in the state of Tennessee (United States) proves how dangerous social networks can be in the hands of the wrong people. Marvin Potter, 60, murdered a couple because they both deleted their daughter, Janelle Potter, from Facebook. Janelle chased the couple after the end of the virtual friendship and her father decided … Read more

a secret dossier made by the FBI with 191 pages leaked on the internet. The document was aimed at investigating none other than Steve Jobs. According to the British newspaper The Telegraph, in 1991, during the term of George HW Bush, the co-founder of Apple was in a “sensitive” position in front of the White … Read more

Can you imagine 19 million people following you on Twitter? This is a reality experienced by pop singer Lady Gaga, since this amount of fans on the microblog promotes her as the one with the most followers worldwide. But Gaga wants more: the singer announced her own social network, which is already in the process … Read more

Imagine seeing the world like the lenses of an old film, all in black and white. As fictitious as this seems, people around the planet suffer from achromatopsia, a syndrome that affects precisely the ability to see and differentiate colors, visualizing only shades of gray. This is considered the worst stage of color blindness. Although … Read more