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A new study suggests that there is a correlation between frequent posting of "selfies" on social media and narcissism, of which also correlates to other potential personality problems.

Jesse Fox, assistant professor of communications at Ohio State University, co-authored a study of called “The Dark Triad”, which showed that narcissistic and psychopathic personality traits could predict how often an individual will post self-taken portraits to social media sites like Facebook and Instagram, and also how often the posters will edit the pictures to tweak how they look.
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At a speaking engagement at Woodbridge Community Centre in Suffolk, England, Colonel Charles Halt, former deputy commander at Bentwaters AFB, confirmed that he had seen the objects that were reported by numerous other base personnel during the Rendlesham Forest incident in December 1980.

Halt, who retired from the USAF in 1991, has also gathered written statements from the base’s radar operators, of whom also confirm that they had tracked fast-moving objects on their equipment that night, but had declined to report it at the time, due to discouragement from their superiors regarding the reporting of UFOs.
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There’s a ad on TV that claims that the oldest trees produce the sweetest fruit. I grew up on an orchard, and I know that this is wrong. The oldest trees produce the sourest fruit. At 89, Harper Lee has proved the truth of this in her new book, Go Set a Watchman. In it, one of America’s greatest fictional heroes, Atticus Finch, is portrayed as a segregationist. Worse, the story is set years after the events in To Kill a Mockingbird, suggesting that he has acquired has prejudice as he has grown older and, sadly, less wise.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee says that it’s a sin to kill one. Well, that’s just what she’s done by mistakenly publishing this text, which should certainly have remained in the safety deposit box where it was found.
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A research team has taken the application of brain-machine interfaces one step further–and successfully managed to network the brains of groups of animals, into what they call a "brainet". So, what does this mean to you? Just this: if, in the future, you could join a hive mind, you’d be a lot smarter…but also–well–a lot less alone.
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