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...

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...

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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'...