
Why Does Marijuana Give You The Munchies?
Chips, chicken wings, perhaps some White Castle? We already know that activating the cannabinoid receptor 1 (CB1R) contributes to that uncontrollable urge to snack. And now, according to a newstudypublished inNaturethis week, the munchies are partly driven by neurons that, oddly enough, normally work to suppress your appetite.“It's like pressing a car's brakes and accelerating instead,”Yale's Tamas Horvathsays in anews release. “We were surprised to find that the neurons we thought were respo...

8 Things You Didn’t Know About Nikola Tesla
Inhonor of inventorNikola Tesla‘s 157th birthday, we've turned to two Tesla experts and historians to help us compile a list of interesting facts you probably never knew about the guy. The information below comes from interviews withW. Bernard Carlson, author of“Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age,”andMarc Seifer, author of“Wizard: Life and Times of Nicola Tesla.”1. HE WAS BORN DURING A LIGHTNING STORMNikola Tesla was born around midnight, between July 9 and July 10, 1856 during a fierce li...

The Hunderprest Of Melrose Abbey
The “Hunderprest” was a nickname given to an 11th-century priest of Melrose Abbey in the Scottish Borders. He was given the nickname because ofhis favorite pastime: hunting on horseback with a pack of hunting dogs. (“Hunderprest” means “dog priest.”)The story of the vampire of Melrose Abbey is based sometime around the year 1138. In life, the Hunderprest was a bit of a bad man, so when he died, he returned as a revenant. He was forced to drink the blood of innocents and change into a bat. It'...