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Something suspicious is going on: Although they are supposed to be brainy, our bankers have not been making a lot of bad decisions lately. Is this because they’ve been on a diet?

It’s always hard to wait for an investment to pay off, but it’s often worth the wait, especially if the reward will be larger. But sometimes the temptation for the smaller, immediate reward becomes too great and we simply cannot resist it. Selecting the immediate reward is known as “future discounting” and often suggests a lack of self-control. Studies have indicated that there may be a link between blood glucose levels and this type of thinking. Making difficult choices uses up cognitive resources (or brain power) and these resources can be restored by increasing blood glucose.
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As suicide bombers – As well as the potential of cyberattacks that would knock out Western computer networks, terrorists are using their own internet children’s websites to recruit suicide bombers, especially among girls, who are faring the worst in these Jihadist battles.
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What happened When We Put LSD in It? – There are new forms of terrorism being planned all the time, but countries (including the US!) were perpetrating vile experiments on their ALLIES as long as 50 years ago.

In the March 11th edition of the Telegraph, Henry Samuel writes about the “cursed bread” mystery of Pont-Saint-Esprit in France, which caused residents to have hallucinations. This mystery has finally been SOLVED: In 1951, the US government spiked the bread in this tiny village in southern France with LSD, killing 5 people.
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Something suspicious is going on: Federal regulators are studying whether sudden acceleration in Toyotas has to do with cosmic rays. They affect the computers in airplanes and spacecraft, so why not Toyotas too?

The design of Toyota’s microprocessors, memory chips and software could make them more vulnerable to these space particles than the computers inside cars from other automakers.

On the Free Press website, Justin Hyde quotes Sung Chung, who runs a California testing company, as saying, “I think it could be a real issue with Toyota,” but Hyde quotes a Toyota spokesman as saying that their engines are “robust against this type of interference.”
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