A five year study by the Scottish Society for Psychical Research (SSPR) shows that mediums really can get in touch with the deceased. The SSPR’s Tricia Robertson says, “The results were very surprising. I have no idea how mediums can gain this information but the results prove that able mediums can accurately read their subjects.”
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Absenteeism is one of the major costs of doing business. Now researchers at NEC-Mitsubishi say a major reason for this is “Irritable Desk Syndrome” (IDS): long working hours, cluttered desks and poor posture are making people sick. Other researchers have discovered that if you have too much stress after you get your flu shot, it may not work!
NEC says workers should take regular breaks and bring items to work that make their desks and cubicles more personal. When they interview 2,000 workers, 67% said they stayed at the desks longer now than they did two years ago, and 40% said they were too busy to clean up the clutter on their desks.
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Peru’s Nasca lines, which were carved over 1,000 years ago and are visited by 80,000 tourists a year, are being turned into a trash dump.
Until she died six years ago, German mathematician Maria Reich spend 50 years guarding the site. She believed it was a giant astronomical calendar, drawn in the desert. Researchers can’t understand how ancient people from a mysterious culture were able to draw huge figures, such as a monkey and a hummingbird, which can only be recognized from the air, despite the fact that they had no way of viewing them from above.
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Using computer modeling, NASA has determined that the devastating Dust Bowl in the American Southwest during the 1930s, which helped to set off the Great Depression, was caused by some of the same forces that are driving global warming today.
NASA’s computer model shows that a combination of colder-than-normal water in the tropical Pacific and warmer tropical Atlantic temperatures combined to create the drought conditions. This means that, despite improved farming techniques, it could happen again. NASA’s Siegfried Schubert says, “We know the computer matches well with what’s gone on the past few decades, but we want to test it against other well-documented events from the past, like the Dust Bowl drought, to confirm it against real-world events.”
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