A lack of nutrition when dieters are trying to lose weight forces their brain cells to eat themselves, making the feeling of hunger even stronger, scientists claim. Brain cells begin to eat themselves like other parts of the body do as a last-ditch source of energy to ward off starvation, a study found.
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We humans are always dreaming up new ways of almost killing ourselves without actually killing ourselves. That shot of adrenaline, when you seem to be staring in death’s face, reminds us we’re alive.
The new Edge Walk at the CN Tower in Toronto is like looking in death’s face through a magnifying glass…
Continue reading… “The newest way to crap your pants in terror”
Solar energy produced from all angles.
One of the difficulties with using solar energy is its inability to produce electricity around the clock. Torresol Energy in southern Spain has solved this problem by storing thermal energy in two tanks of molten salt. This enables the plant to generate electricity long after sundown in order to satisfy the energy needs of the local populace. The molten salt — known as MSES — stores enough thermal energy during the day to create steam power during the night…
Continue reading… “First 24/7 solar plant”
How has that therapy worked out for you?
Therapy doesn’t always work. Sometimes, it makes things worse. And a study indicates that the only person guaranteed to feel better about life after someone sits down on a psychologist’s couch is the psychologist. In a special report being published next month to coincide with the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the journal American Psychologist has suggested that in their eagerness to help survivors to cope with the terrorist attacks, some mental health professionals may have exacerbated the trauma. Experts greatly over-estimated the number of survivors who might want treatment, and used discredited methods to help those who came to see them…
Continue reading… “Study says therapy can make you feel worse”
To the naked eye — even the practiced eye of most bartenders and police officers — the counterfeits look perfect.
A phony South Carolina driver’s license was found in the hip pocket of 20-year-old Craig Eney after the fleeing motorcycle he was driving hit a curb, scraping past a utility pole hurling him to his death.
Continue reading… “Counterfeit driver’s licenses look so real they’re dangerous”
Anonymous is scared no longer.
Despite the recent spate of arrests on their side, Anon released 400MB of NATO data courtesy of big-time cybersecurity firm ManTech last night. This is their way of making good on a promise and reiterating that they “aren’t scared anymore”.
You’ll recall that NATO officially condemned Anonymous early last month. Well, as part of their long attack on ManTech, you’ll find a bevy of stolen NATO reports from the past several years, financial charts, and pictures of personnel both on duty and at rest. Pretty big, and this is only a portion of the gig of data they say they’re sitting on…
Continue reading… “Anonymous fires back at NATO with FBI hack, releases 400MB of their data”
Top scientist has warned that repeated exposure to social networking websites could harm users.
According to a top scientist Facebook and Twitter have created a generation obsessed with themselves, who have short attention spans and a childlike desire for constant feedback on their lives.
Continue reading… “Facebook and Twitter creating a generation of self-obsessed people”
Watching my kids learning how to read made me truly appreciate how difficult it can be to distinguish letters of the Roman alphabet. If you think about it, a lot of the letters are truly alike – b and p are the same thing with different rotation, v and w look almost the same and so on. Dyslexics have even greater trouble because their brains constantly “mix up” these letters…
Continue reading… “A font for dyslexia”
Apple sold a record 20.3 million iPhones in the second quarter.
Apple and Samsung Electronics ended struggling Nokia’s 15-year reign at the top of the smartphone sales rankings in the second quarter, researchers said on Friday.
Continue reading… “Apple is No. 1 in smartphone sales rankings”
We all learned about the Fibonacci numbers in school. If you need a refresher course, the integers in the Fibonacci sequence start with 0 and 1. Each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two, so the third number in the sequence is 1, the fourth number, is 2, the fifth number is 3, and so on. The Fibonacci spiral is something we see every day in nature but never really pay much attention to. However, an amazing YouTube video called “Nature By Numbers” puts the mathematical sequence into perspective for us…
Continue reading… “Nature by the numbers: Fibonacci Sequence animated in mesmerizing video”
Chewing food 40 times caused study participants to eat nearly 12 percent fewer calories.
People who chew their food more take in fewer calories, which may help them control their weight, according to a new study.
Continue reading… “Chewing more helps you eat less: study”
“7 billion and counting”
The global population is expected to surpass 7 billion later this year, up from 6 billion in 1999. An estimated 2.3 billion more people will be added—nearly as many as inhabited the planet as recently as 1950 between now and 2050. The population will reach 10.1 billion in 2100 according to new estimates from the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations.
Continue reading… “Global population to hit 7 billion in 2011”
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