Due to the many scientific investigations, studies, analyses and experiments carried out through history, nowadays we have the possibility to live in a modern and technologically advanced society. The interesting results weren’t only illuminating, but as well just completely crazy. Yes, you heard it right. Let’s leave the formal language apart and be honest: most of the scientists can be very freaky! You don’t believe me? Well, just continue reading, please!

Let’s start with a bit of a macabre experiment (well, basically all of them are quite delicate and not so political correct). In 1924 the doctoral candidate Carney Landis originally wanted to investigate facial expressions of humans, but he used really dramatic methods. After using different methods that got stronger and stronger, starting with chilling jazz music, firecrackers exploding at a distance of 2 metres away to the touching of strange scary things in the darkness, the test persons had to then deal the following situation. A real live mouse was placed in front of them along with a sharp knife. They were then ordered to cut the mouse’s head off! Now, you probably have the same expressions on your face as the test persons had: FRIGHT, HORROR, NAUSEA, SERIOUSNESS, and DESPERATION. Indeed, 15 of the 20 test persons beheaded the poor mice and with this experiment the scientist laid the foundations for the interesting science of obedience. What’s up, still have goose-pimples?

But there are experiments even more macabre. Robert E. Cornish, scientist of the Berkeley University wanted to imitate God in the year 1932 and tried to raise up people from the dead. With this aim, he put the corpse on a kind of seesaw and see-sawed it up and down to stimulate the blood circulation. Well, of course, it isn’t necessary to have passed your doctorate for knowing that this experiment wasn’t successful. But at least there was a horror movie of it made, “Life Returns”, - you can’t get trashier than that!

Talking about resurrections, we can go ahead with another strange experiment: three people called Jesus met in a psychiatric clinic. In 1959 the psychologist Milton Rokeach organized a meeting with three persons that thought they were the Christ for analysing what would happen in such a situation. Well, the results were very simple: one Jesus didn’t believe anything of the other Jesus, and the third Jesus just thought why the hell did he have to talk with those two strange psychopaths. It even came to a fight and the experiment had to be interrupted for safety reasons.

The list of freaky scientific experiments seems to be infinite: investigations about how it feels to hang yourself to the brain control of bulls and the experiments of the sleep-wake rhythm in a little cave isolated from the outside world. Well if the test persons are willing to participate in such experiments, it’s their choice.

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It has always been thought that blondes are dumb… Who has not ever heard of this topic? The image of a blonde, shallow, very cute, but silly girl is widely known. But nothing could be further from the truth! Today, the myth has fallen. Blondes have rebelled against the stigma that has always neglected and ridiculed them. Some scientists of the National Academy of Sciences of The United States and of the University of California assure that the blonde women are more determined and more aggressive than the red-heads or the brunettes, which gives them a clear advantage when it comes to obtaining their goals or going in search of work. Who are the fools now? Not the blondes!

The study also concluded that women with blond hair get more attention and that they are treated better by the people. To figure this out, the researchers examined 156 students with blond hair, and corroborated that all of them, both natural and the dyed blondes, have a more warlike attitude than women with other hair colours.

Aaron Sell, the study director, also said that California is the “natural habitat of privileged blondes” as there the golden girls “have more rights than other women.” Incredible! On the other hand, they have indicated that the better you treat a woman, the more confident she feels, and she’ll gain initiative and self-sufficiency. As a result, blondes are more inclined to be aggressive in achieving social objectives.

Ingrid Collins, a researcher of the Psychology Medical Centre in London, has contested the study assuring that the conclusions are very interesting, but unreliable since the study was conducted within a very limited group of people and should not be generalized.

Have you ever felt discriminated for being blonde? It’s over! Attention, women of the planet because the blondes are out to get us! If you do not want to lose out, run to your nearest hair salon and dye your hair blonde. And to show your feminine wiles, travel to Budapest. Find some affordable and comfortable accommodation by renting Apartments in Budapest. You will not regret it.

2009 was a great year. Finally you got to stop smoking, you made out with the hottest boy/girl in the neighbourhood and,  best of all, you lost those extra kilos until the dammed Christmas came. It is true that you had set the firm intention of not tasting a single piece of nougat but, who can resist it? It is so delicious! And overall … it is just a little bit … and another … and another. Well, it seems that someone has jumped the diet!

The Christmas excesses tend to invoice you. The Christmas menus are too abundant and if we add the appetizers, the desserts and the alcohol, they get to the point of  being excessive. The calories roam around your body happy to settle wherever they like: in the mens belly and buttocks, thighs, waist and hips of women. Our body is completely unable to assimilate so much protein, fat and toxin in such a short period of time. And if eating in excess is a usual practice at Christmas, heavy drinking also tends to accompany it.

Sure on New Year’s Eve you drank too much champagne, until you lost track of time… Well, you should know that the alcohol has a tremendous amount of calories! Watch what you drink or you will lose more than your figure.

And you’re still surprised when you can’t zip your trousers up? The strange thing is that the bathroom scales do not run away when they see you entering  the bathroom with the intention of weighing yourself after the Christmas holidays! So, what should I do now? Do you want your hot body back? Follow these little tips and your figure will come back in a few months:

• Avoid eating meat (especially the red meats): whenever you can, replace it with fish, which is much more digestible. If you do not like fish, white meats like chicken or turkey should be your main allies. And remember, always grilled, not fried! You should also avoid cured meats like salami or chorizo and other meats like pork or lamb, which are much more indigestible and have more toxins.
• I love you, green: eat more lettuce and vegetables …
• Drink herbal teas: the infusions are the invention of the century: they are purifying, diuretic and help in the digestion. Oh, and saccharin rather than sugar! Avoid coffee (it increases dehydration).
• Drink a lot of water: your skin and your body needs at least ½ litters of water a day …
• Try to have dinner as soon as possible: do not eat a copious dinner and do not go to bed immediately after dinner. Make time for a two-hour digestion, approximately.
• Move your body: the most important thing, do exercise! To do some exercise will help you to eliminate the kilos that you picked up at Christmas and will bring enormous health benefits.

And now, to celebrate that you have recovered your physical tone, get yourself a trip to Budapest and pamper your body at one of its famous spas. Rent Apartments in Budapest to find the best accommodation.

“U.S.” are two letters that Zeno Cosini wrote constantly – the main character of “La coscienza di Zeno“, an Italian novel by the Italian writer Svevo. What does U.S. mean exactly? Translated from Italian, “Último Cigarrillo” or the last cigarette, Zeno Cosini lied to himself with the belief that the cigarette he was about to smoke would really be the last one. Do you want to be like Zeno or do you definitely want to stop this habit?

Today, the pharmaceutical science can help us to give up smoking. Obviously it depends on how much you used to smoke. If you smoke more than a pack per day it will be a little more difficult. And if you have smokers around you it will also be more complicated. But maybe you can convince your partner or one of your friends to give up smoking together because you can derive more strength in numbers.

It would be helpful if you analyze which are the reasons for smoking and then analyzing the benefits you could have if you stop. Everyone knows that smoking is a very unhealthy addiction and it increases the chances of getting cancer, cardiovascular problems and premature aging of the skin. The Bodies exhibition, which attracted so much controversy and made us see in detail the human body, also showed us how the lungs of a smoker are.

It seems that all these negative thoughts and clear evidence about how bad the smoke is, are useless if the pleasure of smoking cigarettes is such that without them you think your life would not be the same. Therefore, why not try to think about how not smoking could further improve your life and what other new pleasures you could try. It may seem absurd, but the first advantage is being able to breathe easier and reduce the complications of a simple cough and if you practice a sport, you’ll improve your performance and get fit at the same time. What about your breath? You can forget the embarrassment of bad breath and save on chewing gum. Do you like a white or a yellowish smile? You’ll also save a lot of money by not smoking!

There are several techniques to help you stop smoking: nicotine patches, nicotine chewing gums, even hypnosis! But it should all be a gradual process. The best thing is to consult an expert that can help you to stop your addiction. You should also dedicate some time to do some activities that can distract you and that are not linked to the ritual of smoking. Go for a walk every day! In the mid-morning break look through a magazine instead of smoking. And it is better to go to the cinema than to go partying.

It goes without saying that a change in your everyday life would also be a very good idea. Why don’t you go for a trip? Budapest is the perfect city. It is famous for its spas and thermal baths. For a relaxing vacation, rent Apartments in Budapest and leave your cigarettes at home.

Vampires are in vogue, thanks to the popular ‘Twilight’ series, the TV show ‘True Blood’ and movies like ‘Jennifer’s Body’ with Megan Fox. Thousands of teenage girls dream about being bitten by Eduard Cullen, but the modern image of the vampire has nothing to do with old legends. A vampire was an un-dead, a bloodthirsty dangerous creature that had nothing to do with romantic love stories!

Stories about creatures who feed on human blood are as old as mankind itself. Especially in the Slavic culture, we find a lot of myths relating to vampires. Long before Bram Stoker wrote his famous work ‘Dracula’, the people of Eastern Europe already feared the ‘Upyr’ or ‘Moroi’. There are reports of people being bitten by giant bats, and the dead rising from their graves. Not so surprising, they didn’t have too much medical knowledge about the human body and if you didn’t breathe you were considered dead. Also, these ‘dead’ were buried as soon as possible out of fear of diseases. And more than once these victims turned out to be still alive and kicking!

There existed real vampire hunters, who opened up the graves if people suspected vampirism. Often they found corpses with fresh blood on them, whose hair and nails didn’t stop growing. This was seen as a clear sign of vampirism, thus a stake was hammered through the heart and sometimes the body was burned. The explanation is simple: people who were buried alive and woke up in a coffin, tried by all means to dig themselves out. Sometimes it could take quite some time before they actually died, and only a few were lucky enough to ‘rise’ from their grave (only to be murdered by a vampire hunter).

In Serbia for example, there was a true mass hysteria after the death of a certain Arnold Paole. He claimed to have been bitten on a trip through Kosovo, but he said he cured himself by eating the earth from the vampire’s grave. But after his death (he fell off a hay wagon and broke his neck), some villagers died in suspicious circumstances. They opened up his graved and pierced his heart, which began to bleed. Later they burned the corpse.

Then there is also the story of the Hungarian countess Elisabeth Báthory, remembered as the ‘Blood Countess’, who was the biggest serial killer in history. She lived in the 16th century and supposedly killed more then 500 young girls. She derived pleasure from torturing them, but her main goal was to bathe in their blood. The countess believed this would preserve her youth and beauty.

Do you believe in vampires? Without doubt, the truth is to be found in the Slavic culture. Travel to Hungary, maybe there you will find the answers you are looking for. Rent the most mysterious apartments in Budapest, and please don’t forget to bring your stake and crucifix, just in case!

Do you remember the first day of your life ? What a silly question… But it can be very useful to know what kind of energy surrounded you when you were inside your mother’s belly. Those 9 months are the basis of a fantastic new therapy, called ‘Metamorphe Massage’. Are you sure you know your body inside out ? From the nails of your toes to your longest hair ? Don’t be too sure about that, because during a session of prenatal massage, you learn a lot about yourself and your energy flow is restored. It consists of a soft and intuitive touch of your head, hands and feet. It reveals who we are, not only our memories but also our possibilities.

People are not exactly fond of feet, and even less the feet of someone else. But did you know that, just like hand reading you can also read feet ? An extremely curved foot indicates a restless soul, an adventurer. And if the sole of your foot is very flat, you’re a down-to-earth person. These are not just simplistic conclusions, we must also take into account the position of the toes, the nails, calluses and corns, the skin and blood circulation etc.

‘It is really spectacular, after the massage my energy levels were higher than ever before and I obtain peace and harmany with my body. I advise everyone to try it, the price is almost ridiculously low. Many thanks to the professional who helped us’ commented a fan on a Spanish forum. Are you curious yet? Try it yourself ! With this therapy you can find out how those 9 months in the uterus have influenced you, and made you into the person you are today. This can even happen while you sleep, without making physical contact with the body.

The metamorphic technique has its origin in the United States in the 60s, and came to Europe in the 70s and is still evolving today. Formerly it was called the “Prenatal Structure“, but since it has undergone significant changes over the years, the inventor himself, Robert St. John, insisted on the use of the new term ‘Metamorphic Massage’. Depending on your condition and your needs, you will find peace, serenity, innocence and love, and because the energy paths are cleared you are more resistant to diseases and you generally feel better.

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Do the social constraints bother you? Are you one of those who like to freely enjoy your own body? Would you like to spend your free time in the most natural way? If you thought that nudism could be practiced only at nude beaches, you were wrong, because naturism has extended in recent years and it is now accepted in many other areas.

Naturism has been practiced for many years and was often linked to religious ceremonies, but the modern culture of nudism was born in Germany. The Nacktkultur or FKK (Freikörperkultur-”free body culture”) had its beginnings in the early twentieth century (although it was banned in 1933 by the Nazis) and expanded rapidly in Anglo Saxon countries, Britain, United States and Canada, and later in other countries.

We must say that this lifestyle is not completely accepted in some of the more conservative sectors of society, but wherever you go, you can find nudist clubs and associations where people practice social and sports activities and all without clothes!

Nudity is not to be linked only to the beaches and the summer, but it is right in the proximity of the sea or the lakes where most of the nudist camp sites are, like the Balatonberény Camp Site on the famous Balaton Lake. Here you can enjoy the incredible natural landscape and have a relaxing bath and, why not, you can even play badminton! In just one hour by car you’ll arrive to the Hungarian capital with its beautiful monuments and you’ll enjoy the literary atmosphere of its historic cafés.

And what happens in winter time? Do not think that nudism is not practiced in the winter months. Have you heard about naturist skiing? Yes, completely naked skiing is possible, obviously when temperatures allow, and it can be very fun. Do you know that there are clubs whose members meet at Naturist dinners? For once you will not waste your time in choosing the most appropriate dress to impress your guests!

Most towns have a nudist pool or spa centre. In Budapest, also known as a city of spas, you can relax and enjoy a massage at one of the countless spas of the Hungarian capital. Enjoy a unique city get the best accommodation renting Apartments in Budapest!

People are weird creatures. Since the very first Homo-sapiens, we see a clear difference between men and women. Even today, the differences between the sexes lead to discussions, misunderstandings and fights in all households, offices and families. But don’t be discouraged, such discussions with your partner are absolutely normal, and besides, it’s scientifically proven: man and women are a strange pair.

But what is it that makes us so different? Some say men come from Mars and women from Venus. According to some it’s because our genetic differences, others blame it on our brain structure. Whatever it is, for now let’s blame biology and social integration for the war between the sexes. We are all sick of these everlasting stereotypes, you know the ones: men shouldn’t cry, woman can’t park; we’ve heard them all before.

The main difference is, of course, communication. Indeed, there has been quite a lot of scientific research done in order to understand how men and women communicate. During a discussion, it might come in handy to know that the other doesn’t always say what they mean. For example, when a woman says “No” she means “Yes”. So the sentence “No, I’m not mad at you” should be translated as “Of course I’m angry at you, moron!” And the one million dollar question “Do you think I’m fat?” doesn’t even require an answer. She’s just fishing for compliments and wants to hear that she’s beautiful. On the other hand, if a man says “I’m hungry”, it means he’s hungry. The same happens with “I’m tired”. But woman, be careful when you take him out shopping: if he says “Yes, it looks really good on you” he means: “take it or hang it back, I don’t care but let’s just get the hell out of here!!” And the there’s the typical male trick to say “Let’s just talk a little”, while he actually means “ I’m trying to impress you with the fact that I’m a deep and sensitive man so you’ll have sex with me.”

After all, it’s a well known fact that men are not big talkers. The sociologist Dianne Hales investigated the linguistic behaviour of both genders, and discovered that women use around 23.000 words per day, while men barely reach half. An explanation for this could be that the language centre is located in different parts of the brain. Women do not only have a much larger language centre, they also have the advantage of both hemispheres of the brain.

So don’t get discouraged by the normal fights and communication problems in your relationship.Just once in a while, try to put yourself in the place of the other, and you’ll see that most situations have a simple solution. But there are also things that both genders have in common: everyone would like to spend a lovely holiday in a charming European city. True, isn’t it? Discover the Hungarian capital and all its wonders. Rent apartments in Budapest, the best choice for cheap and comfortable accomodation.

The notification of the prestigious Nobel prizewinners have already been made known. The various committees and institutions that award the prize in the different categories this year have surprised us with their decisions. Right now, the women beat the record because they have won five Nobels Awards this year. It seems that this area, hitherto male-dominated, is in a phase change.

For an entire week everyone has been waiting impatiently for the results of the Swedish Academy of Sciences which granted by these prestigious awards. The committee discussed the possible winners of more than 250 candidates whose list is kept in the strictest secrecy. With this mysterious process clearly increased the impatience and curiosity of the public worldwide. After all, the nominations started on 5th October.

In the Medicine category the Americans Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak has been them awarded. This way, there are two the awards that are aimed to women. The Nobel Literature Prize goes to the German poet and novelist Herta Müller, who was been chosen for its “concentration of poetry and the directness of his prose”. Also in the chemistry section the prizewinner is a woman, the Israeli Ada E. Yonath, who is considered as a pioneer on the ribosomes invesetigations. The U.S. Elinor Ostrom has also recieved an Awar, beating with her all the female records. She is the first woman rewarded with the Nobel Prize in Economics. Despite the feminine power, we can not forget the male winners, such as Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith, who have been awarded for the Physics Nobel for their advances in fiber optics and digital cameras. But the greatest surprises in the history of the Nobel Prize is, without doubt, the Peace Nobel Award of the year. The committee has decided to reward a political personality, the current U.S. presdient, Barack Obama, “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation among peoples”. The Prizes will be awarded on December 10th, on the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death.

The Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel created these prestigious awards in 1901. The awards are rewarded with ten million Swedish kronor, equivalent to about €980,000 and they can not be shared by more than three people in the same category.

Hungarians have also been awarded over the history of the Nobel Prize, such as Lenard Fülöp in Physics (1905) and János Harsányi in Economics (1994). Do you want to know this a beautiful capital? Travel to Budapest and rent great, comfortable and cheap Apartments in Budapest and enjoy it!

The Savoyan terrace in the castle of Buda is probably the most beautiful spot in the whole of Budapest. And now you have another reason for climbing the winding streets to the top of the hill: from 8th until 11th of October the castle hosts the Palinka festival.

Palinka is a traditional Hungarian drink, a sort of fruit brandy; and it is only considered authentic if the alcohol percentage is at least 37.5 %. The most popular are ‘Korte Palinka’ made from pears and ‘Szilva Palinka’ made from plums. However, there is a popular Hungarian saying: if you can make marmalade out of it, you can use it to produce Palinka. A lot of older people, usually in small villages, still brew Palinka in their home, although it is forbidden and involves serious health risks.

During the festival, you can taste several hundred varieties of Palinka, coming from fifteen different distilleries. The festival is actually a Jewish tradition, and there will be a lot of experts present for those who want to find out more about the distillation process and traditions.

There are two stages on the site, Nagyszínpad and Kisszínpad. Concerts should start around 4pm, and the last ones start at 10PM. There will be traditional Jewish folk groups like the Vodku Band, as well as popular Hungarian artists like Zuboly, Empty Pubs, Heaven Street 7 (Who released a new album this year) and Takáts Eszter.

Since it is better not to drink on an empty stomach, be sure to visit the stalls of the sausage makers who will sell their homemade products, like Gyulai and Csabai (usually very spicy, with a lot of paparika). The festival is not for free, but  one drink is included in the 7 euro entrance fee as well as a coupon to spend in one of the food stalls.

Ready to drink like real Hungarian men do? If you want to try all flavours and types, we recommend to come back next year instead of ending up in the gutter somewhere. After all, why not rent a nice apartment in Budapest? Cheers! Or like they say in Budapest… Egészségedre!