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Comment Exercise could be a factor. (Score 1) 40

Another possible factor I haven't seen mentioned yet is moderate-heavy exercise (or more accurately the Testosterone and/or other androgens released by it).

My hair went grey several years back but after I started regular running / jogging 3 years ago most of it is now growing back its original shade again.

(Collar & cuffs for the record).

Comment Re:How they did lose it? (Score 1) 198

Well, in the last 46 years the area where I grew up in - North Wales - has only ever had a few very occasional & minor earth tremors plus a bit of wind and rain.
You couldn't really get flooded because, well nobody built houses at the bottom of the mountains.
It did snow quite heavily a few times but no actual natural disasters (that I recall, anyway).

Comment Re:Running it right now (Score 1) 21

Yeah I've been running Mint (XFCE) a couple years now and like it a lot.
I have found Mint a rather mixed bag driver & hardware-support wise though and some hardware definitely works better than others
First time out I had an ATI gfx card, gave me no end of grief.
Upgraded and switched to an NVIDIA card, everything worked out of the box as advertised pretty much.
(Just dont talk to me about Ubuntu MATE which really grated my gears. Not to mention killing several HD and bricking a Lenovo laptop :/ ).

Comment Re:Humans have cryptochromes in their eyes (Score 1) 58

Search long enough and you'll find some women will shove pretty much anything up their vagina...

Seriously though, that study is from 2004 and though it finds no link between magnetic fields and sleep, it conflicts with previous ones which did (although it also differed in that the subjects were sleeping at home rather than in a laboratory which has been shown to have an effect, itself probably larger than any caused by a magnetic field).
A more recent study from 2015 did however find "there was a strong relationship between difficulties in falling asleep with geographical directions of sleep (p https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280093617...
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Submission + - New planet 'goes round star the wrong way'

Smivs writes: "BBC News is reporting that Astronomers have discovered the first planet that orbits in the opposite direction to the spin of its star. Planets form out of the same swirling gas cloud that creates a star, so they are expected to orbit in the same direction that the star rotates. The new planet is thought to have been flung into its "retrograde" orbit by a close encounter with either another planet or with a passing star. The work has been submitted to the Astrophysical Journal for publication. Co-author Coel Hellier, from Keele University in Staffordshire, UK, said planets with retrograde orbits were thought to be rare. "With everything [in the star system] swirling around the same way and the star spinning the same way, you have to do quite a lot to it to make it go in the opposite direction." Professor Hellier said a near-collision was probably responsible for this planet's unusual orbit. "If you have a near-collision, then you'll have a large gravitational slingshot from that interaction," he explained. "This is the likeliest explanation. But it might be possible you can do it by gradually perturbing the orbit through the influence of a second planet. So far, we haven't found any evidence of a second planet there.""

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