Scientist Explains How Loneliness Actually Hurts Us on a Cellular Level
“Humans are social animals” is a phrase often repeated by psychologists to sum up why we’ve been such a successful species. Our ability to live, work, and cooperate in groups is the key to our survival. But it comes with a tradeoff. Companionship is an asset for human survival, but its mirror twin, isolation, can be toxic. Loneliness is associated … Continue reading
The Body Knows When Death Nears — It All Begins in the Nose
It has been noted that individuals who are close to death often engage in a sudden flurry of activity in the final days of their lives. People are known to seek to make amends in troubled relationships, confess to prior transgressions and put their financial affairs in order on the very eve of their death. While some people have suggested … Continue reading
Dam Cracks! Mass Chaos in California, 200,000 Evacuated (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
Almost 200,000 Californians have been evacuated from their homes as a result of the spilling from the Oroville Dam. California authorities continue to try to repair America’s tallest dam. Lake Oroville, one of the largest man-made lakes in the United States, suffered severe flooding on Saturday that forced hydraulic engineers to activate an emergency spillway on the 770-foot-dam. The spillways, … Continue reading
Elephant Gets Irritated at Girl Petting It, Trashes Her
During her holidays in Thailand, American student Whitney Lavaux got the shock of her life when she reached out to pet a bathing elephant. The animal bashed the girl with his trunk, throwing her several feet away. Luckily, the girl landed in the muddy waters unharmed and even got to become Internet-famous after the video had gone viral. IF YOU … Continue reading
Record-Low Temperatures Over a Large Portion of Oman, Arabian Peninsula
While parts of the world like Australia are seeing record heat other parts of the world that normally have more moderate to warm climates are experiencing record breaking cold. Strange indeed! For the first time since records began, temperatures in Oman’s Musandam Governorate dipped as low as 5 °C (41 °F) on February 4, 2017. The same weather setup produced … Continue reading
‘Secret Base’ Being Built for ‘Man-Eating Aliens’ Revealed by US Official Records
The United States Department of Agriculture has released a number of files about alleged alien and UFO activity on land managed by the US Forest Service, including details of the outlandish allegation. The US Forest Service data was obtained by John Greenewald, founder of The Black Vault website, who obtains and publishes former confidential official data on aliens and UFOs. … Continue reading
Mind Controlling MICROBES Could Be Promoting Altruistic Behavior Even More than Genetics
Why do people commonly go out of their way to do something nice for another person, even when it comes at a cost to themselves—and how could such altruistic behavior have evolved? The answer may not just be in our genes, but also in our microbes. In a new paper, researchers Ohad Lewin-Epstein, Ranit Aharonov, and Lilach Hadany at Tel-Aviv … Continue reading
Astronomers Discover That Something is Pushing Our Galaxy From Behind
What causes some galaxies to speed along faster than others? The answer, it turns out, is nothing. Cathal O’Connell reports. Astronomers have finally discovered why the Milky Way is barrelling through space faster than the universe’s rate of expansion. It is being pushed from behind by an enormous void dubbed the “dipole repeller”. The work, published today in Nature Astronomy, … Continue reading
650 Whales Strand on New Zealand Coastline
Volunteers have been struggling to refloat hundreds of whales after two consecutive mass strandings. The problem started on Friday morning when more than 400 pilot whales were found to have beached themselves along a three-mile stretch of coastline at the tip of South Island. Hundreds of people from all over the country descended on the beaches to try and refloat … Continue reading
The Ancient 6,000 Year Old Swastika’s TRUE Meaning
In one weekend, the swastika appeared in public places in three U.S. cities — Houston, Chicago and New York. The sight was so offensive, average New Yorkers pulled out hand sanitizer and tissues to wipe the graffiti from the walls of the subway where it had been scrawled. “Within about two minutes, all the Nazi symbolism was gone,” one subway … Continue reading
