Blog Posts by Jordan Chittley

Within seconds of a team winning the Super Bowl, Grey Cup or World Series, players on the winning team are always sporting brand new hats and shirts indicating they are the champions.

This isn't because there are people who are like the Flash at making clothing, but because they make gear for both teams beforehand. The gear for the losing team is kept far out of reach of fans. According to a New York Times article from 2007, it's hidden behind a locked door and donated to World Vision, which ships it to a developing country, usually in Africa.

Meaning somewhere in the world people are wearing shirts indicating the Buffalo Bills are Super Bowl champions in 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1993. That would be quite the dynasty for a team I have been a huge fan of since I was young. But they lost all four games and have been doing a lot of losing ever since.

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While that gear is quickly locked away, online retailing giant Amazon.com

You slap your hand around on the couch, push your fingers between the cushions and reach into those gaps under the coffee table all while trying to rack your brain over the whereabouts of your television remote control.

Nothing seems to work at first and then, after a few seconds, you finally find it and change the channel so you don't have to watch that same annoying McDonald’s ad for the 19th time in the hour.

While it may only seem like a couple seconds here and there, that time really adds up.

A new study shows people spend on average two weeks of their lifetime looking for the lost remote, according to an article in the Telegraph. U.K. discount website netvouchercodes.co.uk questioned 1,000 people and found the average person spent 5.35 minutes per week looking for the clicker. That's more than 4.5 hours a year. The average life expectancy in Canada is 81 years, meaning Canadians would spend more than 372 hours — or 15.5 days — looking for the remote.

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It's the first week of the new year and unlike a year ago at this time, the vast majority of Canadians have already had to reach for their winter boots and shovels. So here are some of our favourite videos about snow from this week, plus some other funny clips.

1. How Canadians remove snow

This winter is shaping up to be a lot different from the last. Already most of the country is covered in snow. Montreal broke a record for most snow to fall in one day with 47 centimetres. Pushing it to the side just won't work so they blow it into dump trucks to get it off the streets. Maybe people around the world hadn't seen such an operation before because this video quickly went viral. Montrealers have also learned some creative ways to dig out their vehicles and houses.

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2. Snow swimming

You can call this guy the winter Michael Phelps. A guy in Croatia shows us what may be the next winter Olympic sport -

So you've made your resolution for 2013 to get in shape, lose weight, save more money or whatever, but chances are by the end of January you will have already quit, multiple studies show.

If you made a New Year's resolution at midnight you are not alone. Studies show about half of the people in North America make resolutions. However, if you are one of the millions who are looking back on your failed 2012 resolution you are also not alone. About half of the people who made a resolution gave up at some point through the year with nearly a third of all resolution-makers calling it quits within the first 30 days.

The study was conducted by global research firm Kelton on behalf of self-discipline expert Rory Vaden. And those results have him offering some tips for breaking through that critical 30-day barrier.

According to the Knoxville Daily Sun, the main thing Vaden suggests is picking one resolution, because we aren't very good at multitasking. He also suggests having to pay someone if

Yahoo! Canada News talks to 20-year veteran Adam Rees about what his days were like after superstorm Sandy

Two months after superstorm Sandy hit the U.S. East Coast, we still see images of houses half knocked down, trees uprooted, cars on their sides and furniture piled high on the curbs.

But the good news for most people who still have a home standing is they have power. Once the storm blew through and the weather started to calm down, the first item many mayors and governors started reporting is the number of people without power. Getting it restored to homes is a priority and something that couldn't have been done as quickly without utility workers from all over the continent including about 65 from Toronto Hydro.

"I never even hesitate, especially when they say stuff like we are going to go help out another utility...let's go, let's help out," said Adam Rees, a 20-year veteran of Toronto Hydro, to Yahoo! Canada News.

65 Toronto Hydro crew members are in New York & New Jersey to help restore power in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. (Toronto Hydro Facebook photo)

He and others from Toronto left a week after Sandy hit. They

If you had presents waiting for you under the Christmas tree this morning, chances are they were able to get there because Rudolph's red nose guided Santa's sleigh.

But Rudolph wasn't just some sort of freak reindeer or a drunk. A study published in the British Medical Journal discovered reindeer's noses have 25 per cent more blood density than humans. The researchers from the Netherlands and Norway examined the noses of five healthy human volunteers and two reindeer from a Norwegian town close to the North Pole. They found the reindeer had a much richer concentration of red blood vessels and a higher density of mucous glands.

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The animals can regulate their body temperature by pumping more blood to their snouts, which helps in the extreme cold of the northern parts of the planet. The researchers also used thermal imaging to learn when reindeer exercise, their noses can reach 24 degrees Celsius.

"These results highlight

From the Canadian way to take out the garbage in the winter to poking fun at the Mayan apocalypse because we know now nothing happened, we've seen some great videos this week. Here are some of our favourites:

1. Taking the trash out Canadian-style

We Canadians are known for being tough and braving cold weather so what this man did shouldn't come as a surprise. He was just about to hop in the shower when his wife reminded him he hadn't taken out the garbage, writes YouTube user janeladele in the video's description. So on Dec. 20 he rushed out in the show pushing the garbage can. With wind chill the temperature was about -36 degrees Celsius. Does anyone else find it strange that he put on a toque, but not pants? I guess about 45 per cent of heat is lost through one's head so maybe it makes sense. Either way, his wife and kids found it very funny. And he probably scored big points with his wife for taking out the trash.

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People who are addicted to watching pornography online are at an increased risk of suffering short-term memory loss.

This is according to new research out of Germany where scientists conducted studies on 28 heterosexual men.

We're not sure what compelled the researchers to conduct this study, but they say it could have real-world implications.

The men had to look at a number of images, some pornographic and some nonsexual, reports the Daily Mail. While looking at each image, they had to tap a 'yes' or 'no' button to indicate if they had seen the same image four slides earlier. The volunteers got a lot more wrong after looking at a pornographic image — they pressed the correct button 80 per cent of the time if they viewed a clean slideshow and only 67 per cent of the time when viewing a pornographic gallery.

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The researchers are hoping the findings will help psychologists and psychiatrists understand why