Humans vs Goldfish

The average human's attention span is... oh look, a bird!

According to scientists, the age of smartphones has left humans with such a short attention span even a goldfish can hold a thought for longer.

Researchers surveyed 2,000 participants in Canada and studied the brain activity of 112 others using electroencephalograms.

The results showed the average human attention span has fallen from 12 seconds in 2000, or around the time the mobile revolution began, to eight seconds.

Goldfish, meanwhile, are believed to have an attention span of nine seconds.

But it's not all just bad news!

The study, by technology giant Microsoft, did however find that the ability of humans to multitask has improved.

[source: The Telegraph]

Are you addicted to your mobile phone?


If you answered yes to 5 or fewer, you do not have a problem 
6-10: try to cut back on your usage 
10-15: you have a bit of a problem 
16-20: your addiction to your phone is out of control

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Who Would've Known!

Can you guess what this is?

The handprint in the petri dish above is causing quite a stir on the Internet and it belongs to microbiology lab technician Tasha Sturm’s 8-year-old son.

photo credit photo credit Tasha Sturm

Posted on Microbe World, the print shows the different growths cultivated from his hand after playing outdoors. Allowed to incubate for several days, there are yeasts, fungi and bacteria.

Sturm will conduct further tests to determine what exactly the various growths are. She believes the large white circle in the bottom-right corner (close-up shown above) to be Bacillus, which is often found in dirt. She also notes that the white spots may be Staphylococcus and the yellow and orange spots could be yeast.

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