We all know that smoking cigarettes is bad. But what about smoking a pipe or cigars? Since you dont inhale, is it better for your health? Or at least less bad? Good question.So first, its true that cigarettes are in a league of their own when it come...
I love to eat sweets--candy, cookies, caramel apples--- everything. But I don't like getting cavities. Is there a way to eat lots of sugar without ruining your teeth? D: Interesting question. First, let's assume that you're not going to cut out sweet...
Yael: Hey Don, see that guy over there? I'm always forgetting his name! Don: Oh, you mean Matt? Y: Yeah, that's it! You know, it's really easy for me to remember some names, but others take a lot of work. D: Don't feel bad. It might be because Matt's...
Hi there, I'm Ricky from the BBC World News for Children. Coming up: Smoke bombs and flying eggs in Ukraine parliament. The world famous Hollywood sign is saved. And the cat that was very nearly recycled! First - parliaments are usually quite formal...
Hi there, I'm Hayley from the BBC World News for Children. Scandal in Indian cricket. World leading scientist says aliens probably exist. And canine courage in the States! The head of the world's richest cricket league - the Indian Premier League - h...
Would you eat a ready meal from the fridge rather than cook from scratch? Have you been doing internet shopping rather than going to the stores? What cant you be bothered to do? A study into how lazy British people are has found more than half of adu...
It also revealed that 28 percent had choked on crumbs, while one in ten had broken a tooth or filling biting a biscuit. More unusually, three percent had poked themselves in the eye with a biscuit and seven percent bitten by a pet or other wild anima...
When we are warned about the dangers of food, it usually relates to food allergies or food poisoning. The image of killer biscuits has never quite come into peoples minds. Millions of people reach for a biccy whenever they pour a cup of tea and it se...
Fans have waited 11 years and put up with three postponements of the concert, but the American singer Whitney Houston finally returned to the UK stage last night. But Whitney's comeback gig on British soil prompted a mixed response from the fans who...
Cancers of the oesophagus kill more than 500,000 people across the world each year. It's the sixth most common cause of cancer death in the UK. The tumours are especially deadly, with five-year survival rates of just 12 to 31 percent. However Dr Shar...
If you like curry then you must be delighted to learn that scientists in Ireland have found a certain type of curry spice can kill off cancer cells. The chemical curcumin can be found in the bright yellow curry spice turmeric. Its long thought to hav...
Communicating by voice alone has its drawbacks, though.For example, I cant use hand gestures to clarify what I mean. And, as it turns out, that makes a big difference. Researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand wanted to know how much a re...
When traveling by plane what makes our ears pop, and what is it exactly that pops? Most of us are familiar with this phenomenon of travel: it usually happens on takeoffs and landings. Our ears pop because of the change in air pressure as the plane as...
Alcohol can cause you to awake frequently in the night, reduce the amount of deep sleep you get, and cause you to wake up earlier than usual in the morning. The overall effect is that you end up feeling tired the next day. And thus you might be tempt...
Studies suggest that when we eat a variety of foods, we are less likely to get bored. But therefore we are more likely to eat more. That might contribute to the current obesity problem in Americapeople like the taste of different foods and keep eatin...
