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Loch Ness mystery noise unsolved

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:04:17 GMT

clipped by: valann 47

Clip Source: www.unexplained-mysteries.com

Residents on the shores of Loch Ness are having their sleep disturbed by a mystery humming noise similar to that which sparked a spate of calls to a council in Suffolk. Mikko Takala, who lives in a cottage overlooking the loch near Drumnadrochit where he runs a webcam site tracking the elusive Loch Ness Monster, has been having sleepless nights for weeks.His mother, who lives with him, and a near neighbour have also been woken in the wee sma' hours by the same strange humming noise, which one blue blooded Suffolk resident, Lord Philips of Sudbury, said could be mistaken for a spacecraft landing.

"It's a complete mystery because you only seem to hear it from indoors and its exactly the same as what is being experienced in Suffolk.

If someone had said to me a spacecraft had landed on the meadows I would have said, 'well I heard it'.

Tags: mystery, noise, loch ness, suffolk

David Duchovny enters rehab for sex addiction

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:54:21 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan
clipper's remarks: I guess Mulder's porn addiction was based on real life.

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

“Californication” and “X-Files” star David Duchovny has checked into rehab for sex addiction, his lawyer Stanton “Larry” Stein confirmed to Access Hollywood.

“I have voluntarily entered a facility for the treatment of sex addiction,” the actor said in a statement released to Access. “I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family.”

Tags: tv, television, actor, sex

When Your Dad’s a Graphic Designer

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:48:03 GMT

clipped by: vk2yoc
clipper's remarks: Cute Photos.

Clip Source: www.frakincool.com

We all know that Moms love to dress up their kids. However, when Dad’s a graphic designer, anything is possible. It all started out with the morbid baby picture above… Hulk Hogan is my favorite

Charges dropped against woman who registered her dog to vote

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:22:23 GMT

clipped by: tommy2balmy
clipper's remarks: Balogh said she was saddened by her difficulties with the court and her failure to get any elected officials to respond to her letters and phone calls complaining that current state laws make it too easy for an undocumented worker or a nonexistent person to be added to the voting rolls.

Clip Source: seattletimes.nwsource.com

Criminal charges were dismissed Monday against Jane Balogh, the Federal Way woman who registered her dog to vote — but not without a hiccup along the way.

Balogh, 67, a grandmother and Army veteran, paid $240 in court costs and completed 10 hours of community service at the Tacoma Rescue Mission.

She registered her Australian shepherd-terrier mix as a voter in protest of what she contends are lax standards for voters to prove their identity and citizenship. She used a utility bill in the dog's name — Duncan M. MacDonald — as identification.

Balogh made no attempt to hide the deception after the fact, telling a number of elected officials what she had done and putting a pawprint instead of a signature on an absentee-ballot envelope. She didn't try to vote using the dog's registration.

"You tell me why, when you have such a broken system, not a county, state nor local politician — no one — bothered to contact me and say, 'Hey, Mrs. Balogh, you're right, things are a little shaky.' "

Tags: odd

Little things you can do to boost your mental agility

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:16:23 GMT

clipped by: Lexica

Clip Source: www.sfgate.com

Dr. Karen Francis, a behavioral neuroscientist at USF and author of "Physical Dimensions of Aging," urges people to do at least one new thing every day to challenge the mind and body. She believes that mental and physical agility can be enhanced by even the smallest of changes in one's routine.

Here are some of her suggestions:

-- Take your first step up a flight of stairs with the "other" leg, the less dominant one.

-- Control your computer mouse with your "other" hand.

-- Brush your teeth with your "other" hand.

-- Stand up while you read or work.

-- Hike on a new trail instead of walking your usual route.

-- Do a crossword puzzle with a friend and read the questions out loud. Don't always do a crossword puzzle from the same source.

-- Read an article in the paper out loud while walking around the house.

-- Walk 20 minutes from your house or office, taking as many turns as possible.

-- Learn a new language.

Tags: aging, brain-science, research

Some Parts Of Our Body We Don't Need

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:25:27 GMT

clipped by: tanjazaric
clipper's remarks: full article on the page

Clip Source: www.amazingposts.com

APPENDIX: This narrow, muscular tube attached to the large intestine served as a special area to digest cellulose when the human diet consisted more of plant matter than animal protein. It also produces some white blood cells. Annually, more than 300,000 Americans have an appendectomy.

BODY HAIR: Brows help keep sweat from the eyes, and male facial hair may play a role in sexual selection, but apparently most of the hair left on the human body serves no function.

THIRTEENTH RIB: Our closest cousins, chimpanzees and gorillas, have an extra set of ribs. Most of us have 12, but 8 percent of adults have the extras.

MALE UTERUS: A remnant of an undeveloped female reproductive organ hangs off the male prostate gland.

FIFTH TOE: Lesser apes use all their toes for grasping or clinging to branches. Humans need mainly the big toe for balance while walking upright, the other four are for holding when you slam them on a coffee table at night!

Tags: body

Top 10 Most Depressing Rock Songs

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:45:04 GMT

clipped by: tanjazaric

Clip Source: listverse.com

10. New Order Leave Me Alone

9. Suicide Frankie Teardrop

8. Johnny Cash Hurt

7. The Beatles Eleanor Rigby

6. Metallica Fade to Black

5. Dire Straits Brothers in Arms

4. Jeff Buckley Hallelujah

3. Elliott Smith King’s Crossing

2. Radiohead How To Disappear Completely

1. The Smiths How Soon is Now?

Tags: rock, songs

‘I’m sick of trees’

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:49:04 GMT

clipped by: tidbit2
clipper's remarks: this is what I'd call backwards thinking
theres drunks and dumpers and lord knows what near our pitch
It's them fhuckhin trees causin' problems

Clip Source: www.galwayadvertiser.ie

‘I’m sick of trees’ says Crowe
Cllr Michael Crowe has called on the Galway City Council to clear the trees that surround the Galway Hibernians pitch in Bohermore, claiming the overgrown area is a haven for bush drinkers, illegal dumpers, and “lord only knows what”.

Invisible People - All the lonely people

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:03:24 GMT

clipped by: tidbit2
clipper's remarks: I saw a tiny bit of this then my mind wandered to how its possible to overcome isolation
through the internet
for example there are loads of apps for the iphone/ipod touch that have location aware social networking which in a city area the possibility of making connections would be massive I presume.
If we could make this type of technology available more widely say in libraries or even community iniatives would could bring more people together and help people from becoming isolated
oh and the title's from the beatles song
which illustrates the situation (Eleanor Rigby)

Clip Source: www.channel4.com

Every year in the UK, there are some funerals which are attended by no-one. Emily Ford hears how Lucy Cohen went searching for stories of the unmourned dead to find out how, in a world of social networking, people are still dying alone.

Lucy, 27, cuts a small, unassuming figure. She speaks slowly, dreamily, looking around at no one in particular as she peels the sticker off her beer bottle. "I was thinking about whether it would be possible to find someone that no one knows, in this world of social networking and Facebook."

She had read an article on unattended funerals and the questions played on her mind for months after. "These people - is it a choice that they make, to know no one and be cut off from the world? Or is it that once you start to slip between the cracks it's difficult to come back up again?"

idea was accepted, she thinks, because it is "not your typical TV documentary

I like exploring the minutiae of things, things that aren't necessarily newsworthy," she says.

invisible

Gut Feelings and Mental Health

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:53:03 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: Bad guts give bad feelings, bad feelings give bad gits.

Clip Source: www.mercksource.com

The evidence that emotional and psychosocial factors play a role in functional gastrointestinal disorders is growing. In an important paper, Dr. Douglas Drossman, of the division of digestive diseases at the University of North Carolina, concluded that psychotherapeutic treatments may be beneficial, especially on a long-term basis.

Psychosocial factors, Drossman said, influence the actual physiology of the gut

powerful emotions evoke both increased and decreased stomach secretions.

Scientists say that this complex, sophisticated “gut-brain” system is nearly the equal of the body's central nervous system.

Emotions often find their outlet in the gut. Nerves, stresses, emotional upsets, mental problems, and other psychological factors can wreak havoc with the GI tract

Tags: enteric nervous system, gut-brain axis, gastrointestinal illnes

I swear is he even speaking english?

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:38:33 GMT

clipped by: darnyte

Clip Source: chimpomatic.net

The true threat is whether or not one of these people decide, peak of anger, try to hold us hostage, ourselves; the Israelis, for example, to whom we'll defend, offer our defenses, the South Koreans.

--George W. Bush

Washington, DC
03/13/2001

Rabbits in heaven

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:22:22 GMT

clipped by: Davpe
clipper's remarks: In my next life, I want to be a rabbit

Clip Source: super.cz

Tags: funny, animals

How do you look? well it depends...

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:52:04 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: Interesting study into how perception is influenced and shaped. What seems so natural and true, is relative and biased.

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Face Recognition: Nurture Not Nature

Fixation biases for Western Caucasian (WC - red) and East Asian (EA - blue) observers are highlighted by subtracting WC and the EA Z-scored fixation distribution maps during WC and EA face learning, recognition and categorization by race. (Credit: Caroline Blais et al, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003022.g002)

researchers at the University of Glasgow have discovered that cultural differences cause us to look at faces differently.

We found that Westerners tend to look at specific features on an individual's face such as the eyes and mouth whereas East Asian observers tend to focus on the nose or the centre of the face which allows a more general view of all the features.

Western societies are generally more individualistic, whereas East Asian societies are collectivistic

Westerners appear to think and perceive focally and Easterners globally.

external environment, including the society in which we develop, is very influential in basic human mechanisms

Tags: neuroscience, culture

The Age of Anxiety

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:57:20 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: Good economic units must be anxious all the time

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Anxiety is a bigger problem than this navel-gazing might suggest. Across a spectrum that includes panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress, phobias and the catch-all, generalised anxiety disorder - anxiety disorder has become the most prevalent mental health problem in the world, according to a World Mental Health Survey of 18 countries.

And it's about to get worse. We are entering a new age of anxiety.

Could it be caused by consumerism, which we grow into more slowly?

It could, says Tom Hodgkinson, editor of The Idler and author of the inspirational How to Be Free. He believes that our economic system functions precisely by keeping us anxious. We're encouraged to believe, at all times, that we're just one purchase away from happiness: 'Anxious people make good consumers and good workers. Anxiety will drive us back into our comfort blankets of credit-card shopping and bad food

deliberately produces anxiety while simultaneously promising to take it away.

Tags: anxiety, economics

A Spiritual Psychiatry: Challenge or Heresy?

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:34:39 GMT

clipped by: abailart

Clip Source: 64.233.183.104

Let us hope for the advent of a psychiatry which places the psychic

crisis in a wider context, that of man in search of himself, a potentiality

inherent in all of life’s expressions. Psychiatry will then be able to fully inhabit

its function, that of an awakener of consciousness and an artisan of peace.

It is in becoming fully sensitive that the psychiatrist will be able, most

appropriately, to use the recommended treatments, all the while knowing that

the real cure is not to be found in a pill, but in the one who takes it.

psychiatrist and

patient are not so very different from the

student of wisdom who seeks fulfilment in an integrated life and in the

awareness of joy without cause.

losely bound friends, who

spend some time together and contribute to each other’s happiness: that of

being heard for the patient in need of love, and that of being respected for the

psychiatrist in need of recognition. When sensitivity and power unite, love

becomes a force of conviction and transformation.

Tags: psychiatry