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Viewing This Color Makes You ‘Smarter’
I wonder if I look at combined colors if it could make me a genius, HMMM [clasps chin..looks up to the left] via PsyBlog: Seeing red makes people 31% better at detail-oriented tasks like recalling memories or proofreading, research finds. The colour blue, though, makes people more creative – doubling the number of creative ideas they produce. Professor Juliet Zhu, … Continue reading
The Average Human IQ Has Been Decreasing Since 1970
Some of what is said in this article is really questionable, for example linking intelligence to eating fish, absolutely misleading. via PsyBlog: Average human IQ has been dropping over the last few decades, new research concludes. Potential culprits are worsening nutrition (particularly eating less fish), poorer education and the rise of new technologies. The trend is surprising as in the … Continue reading
Scientist Find That Exoplanet Kepler-186f is Even More Like Earth Than We Thought
Life on Kepler-186f? via RT: Scientists have discovered Kepler-186f is even more like Earth than previously understood, and could be habitable. The planet appears to have seasons and a climate, thanks to its stable axial tilt. Kepler-186f is an exoplanet, meaning it’s located outside our solar system, 500 light years away. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology used simulations … Continue reading
Paranormal Researcher Claims to Have Recorded Time Warp Event Outside of Las Vegas
Apparently what happens in Vegas, may not actually stay in Vegas. A paranormal researcher named Joshua Warren claims he is the first person to ever discover a time warp, which he found near the city. Warren said he has been measuring the rate of time all over in areas between Las Vegas and the top secret Air Force site known … Continue reading
People Who Anthropomorphize are More Intelligent Than Those Who Don’t
Your habit of talking to your pets, plants or any inanimate object, for that matter, is a sign of intelligence, not stupidity. Pet owners around the globe, if not all then most of them, have daily conversations with their pets, how they’d talk to normal human beings. They wish their pets good morning, ask them if they’re hungry and if … Continue reading
Astronomers Puzzled by Incredibly Bright and Fast Mystery Burst Dubbed ‘The Cow’
Something is exploding incredibly quickly in the sky, and astronomers are scrambling to figure out what it is. On 17 June, the twin ATLAS telescopes in Hawaii spotted a bright flash in space that hadn’t been there when they’d checked about two days before. Most supernovae take a few weeks or even longer to reach their full brightness, but this … Continue reading
This Strange Quantum Theory Predicts That The Future Might Be Influencing The Past
One of the weirder aspects of quantum mechanics could be explained by an equally weird idea – that causation can run backwards in time as well as forwards. What Einstein called “spooky” action at a distance could theoretically be evidence of retrocausality, which is the particle equivalent of you getting a stomach ache today thanks to tomorrow’s bad lunch. A … Continue reading
10 Mythological Ways to Achieve Immortality
Immortality has always been a dream for humans; the desire to avoid death is universal, whether because of fear, a thirst for knowledge, or simply a love of living. However, many others tend to see it as a curse, with journalist Herb Caen saying: “The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.” Immortality has … Continue reading
The Love And Sacrifice of a Father
Editor’s Note: I felt this article quite fitting in celebration of Father’s Day. Please do read both story one and story two to fully appreciate the beauty of this article. Story one: World War II produced many heroes. One such man was Butch O’Hare. He was a fighter pilot assigned to an aircraft carrier in the South Pacific. One day … Continue reading
Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano Causes Magnetic Field Distortion – Compasses Go Crazy
I wonder if this has any connection to the numerous UFO sightings that are reported near volcanoes.. via express UK: Mount Kilauea, Hawaii’s erupting volcano, has a magnetic field which flows in the OPPOSITE direction to the rest of the planet, scientists have discovered. The bizarre finding, which sends compasses into an uncontrollable spin, had scientists baffled – while locals … Continue reading
