Popular Elsewhere
15:29 UK time, Thursday, 27 October 2011
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
Diet stories often end up on news sites’ most read lists. But gives some unconventional advice with it. To replace the pleasure rush experienced after eating chocolate, it advises inhaling thefragrance of nuts.
sounds like a real-life version of the film Inception. And Discover magazine is quick to make that reference in its popular article. But it is exactly what the US army is researching to help calm soldier’s recurring nightmares. After a disturbing dream soldiers would put on 3D vision goggles and watch some comforting sights they had created with a therapist to calm them down.
Marlow Stern tells an epic tale of the life of in a well read Daily Beast article. The problems start in 2004, he says. Throw in an eating disorder, drug problems, harassing paparazzi, a driving under influence conviction and you eventually get to 2011. “The actress who used to command up to $7.5 million per role is currently playing janitor in a morgue 16 hours a day as part of her court-mandated probation,” he sums up.
It’s safe to say the question in Intelligent Life’s most read article is just a theoretical one. That is, unless they have a time machine they failed to mention. Historian Patrick Dillon gets stuck in, regardless. A little on the squeamish side, he rules out the middle ages because of knights on horseback. Instead . Thrilling.
