Intriguing

This report on life expectancy is interesting in that it challenges the idea of life expectancy and who lives longer, women or men.

Another study says the use of antibiotics in babies before six months of age is linked to a greatly increased risk of getting asthma later in live. It also touches on how infants raised with two cats and/or dogs lowers your risk of allergies.

Fact of the Day

The smallest of American owls, the elf owl, often nests in the Gila woodpecker's cactus hole after the woodpecker leaves. The owl measures barely 6 inches tall. It specializes in catching scorpions, seizing each by the tail and nipping off its stinger. It then swallows the scorpion's body, pincers and all.