Psychologist Richard Wiseman says, “Ten years ago, I set out to examine luck. I wanted to know why some people are always in the right place at the right time, while others consistently experience ill fortune.” He says he’s found the answer.
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The mystery of what’s buried deep in the “money pit” on Oak Island in Nova Scotia may finally have been solved. No one has been able to dig down to the treasure in the deep, booby-trapped hole, despite the fact that millionaires and famous people like FDR have tried. Speculation about what’s down there has included the original manuscripts of Shakespeare and the lost treasure of the Knights Templar.
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Every diet tells us to stay away from fast food, despite the fact that it contains some of the same ingredients that are supposed to be “good” for us. What is it about fast food that makes us fat? And why do some people become alcoholics, while others don?t?
The Medical Research Council says most fast food is high in fat and low in fiber, so it’s very dense in calories. In other words, you only need to eat a little in order to get a lot of calories, and since so much of it is “super sized,” we eat much more of it than we need.
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NASA scientists can observe greenhouse gases from space, and they say soot, mostly from diesel engines, is causing as much as 25% of all global warming, by reducing the ability of snow and ice to reflect sunlight. “We suggest that soot contributes to near worldwide melting of ice that is usually attributed solely to global warming,” say NASA’s James Hansen and Larissa Nazarenko.
They say soot has twice the effect on global warming as carbon dioxide. This is actually not bad news, because while it will take money, replacing diesel engines is a possibility, while doing without fossil fuels is not?at least not for the near future. Besides diesel engines, other sources of soot come from the burning of wood, animal dung, and vegetable oil.
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