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People are unconsciously fairer and more generous when they are in clean-smelling environments, according to a soon-to-be published study led by a Brigham Young University professor.

The research found a dramatic improvement in ethical behavior with just a few spritzes of citrus-scented Windex.

- Excerpted from: Science Daily

If Obama wants to make one dramatic difference to the health of America, you just have to put a huge tax on sugar, because it's so cheap, and there's four times too much sugar going in everything across the board... In five years, America would get lighter, healthier, more intelligent, and happier.

- Jamie Oliver

Of course, if you restrict that to just soft drinks, which some have proposed taxing, opposition becomes a little easier.

Would such a policy lead to the horrifying idea of a bacon tax?

Women who are on the birth-control pill may be more likely to pick provider types over aggressive, masculine specimens – a course that could potentially affect the health of their children, according to a controversial new paper from the University of Sheffield.

By doing away with ovulation, a woman's most fertile phase, the Pill may also make women less attractive to men, says the review paper, published in the current issue of the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution.

Source: The Globe and Mail

Mind you I'm not a fan of all authors that they plan to burn, but still... (and reinforcing my stereotypes of people like these, they didn't even manage to spell all the authors names correctly).