Apparently, children who drink milk like milk.
And furthermore, the infants have a tendency to chill the flip out when they notice the odour of their own mother’s milk compared to non-familial breast milk or formula.
The lovely people of a study published in Medline found that newborn pain was reduced after exposure to their own mother’s milk in comparison to others. And how, we all ask, did they find this out? By prodding them in the heels with sticks. (Oh, alright then, it’s the heel-stick procedure that takes a tiny amount of blood from newborns and is standard, but still.)
Please Hammer don’t hurt em
The kids may have got there in the first place by interbreeding between Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals; this is a fact that’s fairly accepted in the scientific community these days. However, according to Michael ‘MC’ Hammer of the University of Arizona, the forerunners of modern humans were at it with pretty much every human-shaped hominid they could get their, erm, hands on. It’s all based on DNA comparisons taken throughout the world – everyone on earth, aside from Africans, has between 1 and 4 per cent Neanderthal DNA. Weekender ventures that we have met quite a few people over the years who seem to have quite a lot more than that flowing through their veins. Apropos of nothing, the Rugby World Cup is going well isn’t it?
Poor old mice
Mice seem to always get it in the neck from humans. If we’re not growing ears on them we’re catching them in traps. Weekender can’t help wishing that science would decide if they like them or not. Still, according to Stanford University, who clearly had just watched Interview With a Vampire, injecting the blood of young mice into older Mickeys and Minnies had the affect of producing more neurons and stimulating synapse activity. Conversely, injecting young mice with old mice plasma makes them more prone to illness, aches and complaining about buses being late and roads being moved.
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