Researchers have found that people are more likely to make rational decisions and take favorable risks when they think through a problem in a foreign language (of course, you need to be bilingual in order to do this, so study a foreign language in school).
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Of all the millions of animals on Earth, only humans get Alzheimer’s disease, which is caused by the formation of metallic "plaques" in the brain, particularly iron ones.
This may be because this dreaded disease somehow facilitated human evolution. But scientists have discovered a new way to stave it off: EXERCISE.
In PhysOrg.com, Alvin Powell quotes neurologist Bruce Yankner as saying, "Something has occurred in evolution that makes our brain susceptible to age-related change." Was that "something" the same thing that makes humans so SMART?
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Don’t believe "creationists" when they tell you that early man cavorted with dinosaurs–the big lizards died off millions of years before we came along. But a new study that determined the age of skeletal remains provides evidence that when humans reached the Western Hemisphere during the last ice age, they lived alongside gigantic mammals that are now extinct, including mammoths, mastodons and giant ground sloths.
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Was the perfectly functioning "Earth-Moon machine" a design, or an accident? Here’s something you didn’t learn in school: Whichever one it was, a new chemical analysis of the lunar material titanium collected by Apollo astronauts in the 1970s conflicts with the widely held theory that a giant collision between Earth and a Mars-sized object gave birth to the moon 4.5 billion years ago.
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