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Due to doping? We soon won’t be able to find out – Athletic superstars, in all sports, are getting bigger and bigger. And if they take drugs to increase their muscle size and strength, it will may become impossible to catch them at it in the future. A physician who recommended 25 years ago that Olympic athletes be tested for blood doping now says it will be almost impossible to catch cheaters at this summer’s Olympics.

Dr. Tapio Videman says, “My understanding is that there is no way to detect in the human body the newer gene-technology products. Why is this not brought up? Most of the athletes know it. Either we change the methods of testing for this substance or give up testing completely. I never thought I would change my views so much.”
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An easy way to tell – Social scientists have a hard time trying to measure happiness. Surveys have revealed some useful information, but these are plagued by the fact that people misreport and misremember their feelings. But what if you had a remote-sensing mechanism that could record how millions of people around the world were feeling on any particular day, without their knowing?
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Because there is a NEW WAY to count calories – Maybe one of the reasons some of us are so fat is because we measure calories the wrong way. Calorie counts are created by incinerating food, but we don’t burn food up, we digest it.

Nutritionists say that women should eat around 2,000 calories per day and men should eat 2,500, but how are those calories being measured? And it turns out that a calorie in one food isn’t the same as a calorie in another, because they are metabolized by the body in different ways. Some are used to produce energy, while others are just used to create fat.
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we don’t need to ever run out of gas – The oil and gas that fuels our homes and cars started out as living organisms that died (or did it?), were compressed, and heated under heavy layers of sediments in the earth’s crust. Scientists have debated for years whether some of these hydrocarbons could also have been created deeper in the Earth and formed without organic matter. Now they think this could be the case.
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