Do Fish Feel Pain ?

Scientists experimented with fish and proved that fish do feel pain.The research was conducted by a team from the Roslin Institute and the University of Edinburgh.

Fish do feel pain, scientists say.

Toiler Water vs Fast Food Ice

Yes...its crazy but its true.

A 12-year-old girl called Jasmine Roberts took ice samples from 5 fast food restaurants in South Florida and then collected toiled water from the same restaurants.

The samples where tested at the University of South Florida.
In many cases the toiled water was cleaner than the fast food ice water.

You can read more here:
Fast-Food Ice Dirtier Than Toilet Water.

Snakes Predict Earthquakes

Scientists in China use snakes to predict earthquakes.

Snakes are said to be the most sensitive creatures when it comes to predict earthquakes. They are able to predict a comming earthquake even five days before
it happens. When the snake senses the earthquake it behaves erratically,
smashing into the walls, trying to escape.

Head-banging Chinese snakes can predict earthquakes days in advance, say scientists.

Plastic Bags

Plastic bags take 500 to 1000 years to decompose.
The question is do we really need them, cant we really live without using them ?

Are Plastic Grocery Bags Sacking the Environment?

Plastic Bags on Wiki

I found a nice tutorial on how to make your own fabric shopping bags.

I hope you like it.

Free Range Eggs - Healthier

This is actually tested and now we know that Free Range Eggs are Healthier and contain more vitamin A, omega-3 fatty-acids, more vitamin E, more beta carotine, less cholesterole and saturated fat.

You can find some really nice information on this site Real Free-Range Eggs.

Tired Eyes - Eye Exercises

Many times people have eye problems.
Tired eyes is most times the case and eye exercises is most times the solution!

Here are some exercises from wiki how that will help you if you had such problems in the past.
I hope you enjoy it.

How to Exercise Your Eyes

from wikiHow - The How to Manual That You Can Edit

We all know how important it is to keep our bodies fit by doing things like going to the gym, jogging, and swimming. But here me now blood, did you know that you can exercise your eyes as well? Eye exercising will keep your eyes healthy and help minimize eyestrain.

Steps

1. Sit comfortably on a chair. Rub your hands together until they feel warm. Close your eyes and cover them lightly with your cupped palms. Avoid applying pressure on your eyeballs. Place your palms so that the nose remains uncovered, and the eyes remain behind the slight hollow of the palms. Make sure that no light rays enter the eyes, and leave no gaps between fingers or between the edge of the palms and the nose. You may still see other lingering traces of colors. Imagine deep blackness and focus on the blackness. Take deep breaths slowly and evenly, while thinking of some happy incident; or visualize a distant scene. After your eyes see nothing but blackness, remove your palms from your eyes. Repeat the palming for 3 minutes or more.
   
2. Close your eyes tightly for 3-5 seconds, then open them for 3-5 seconds. Repeat this 7 or 8 times.
   
3. Close your eyes and massage them with circular movements of your fingers for 1-2 minutes. Make sure you press very lightly; otherwise, you could hurt your eyes.
   
4. Press three fingers of each hand against your upper eyelids, and hold them there for 1-2 seconds, then release. Repeat 5 times.
   
5. Sit and relax. Roll your eyes clockwise, then counter-clockwise. Repeat 5 times, and blink in between each time.
   
6. Sit about 6 inches (200 mm) from the window. Make a mark on the glass at your eye level (a small sticker, black or red, would be perfect). Look through this mark and focus on something far away for 10-15 seconds; then focus on the mark again.
   
7. Hold a pencil in front of you at arm's length. Move your arm slowly to your nose, and follow the pencil with your eyes until you can't keep it in focus. Repeat 10 times.
   
8. Look in front of you at the opposite wall and pretend that you are writing with your eyes, without turning your head. It may seem difficult at first, but with a bit of practice it is really fun. The bigger the letters, the better the effect.
   
9. Imagine that you are standing in front of a really big clock. Look at the middle of the clock. Then look at any hour mark, without turning your head. Look back at the center. Then look at another hour mark. Do this at least 12 times. You can also do this exercise with your eyes closed.
   
10. Focus on a distant object (over 150 feet or 50 m away) for several seconds and slowly refocus your eyes on a nearby object (less than 30 feet or 10 m away) that's in the same direction. Focus for several seconds and go back to the distant object. Do this 5 times.
    
11. Focus on an object in the distance (as far as possible) with a low contrasting background. Do this for a few minutes every half hour or so. This does not improve your vision, nor does any other technique. It can, however, maintain your best eyesight level during the day and prevent significant further vision deterioration.
    

Tips

• It's more important to do the exercises regularly than to do them for a long time. Even 30-60 seconds of eye movement every hour is very helpful. For example, when your computer takes its sweet time to do something, most people just swear at the poor thing and waste the time, but you can make a few circles with your eyes. Even the first day you do this, you should notice that, when you finish working, your eyes aren't as tired as usual.
  
• Taking short breaks from near work (e.g. staring at a computer monitor) to stare out to the distance also relieves some strain.
  

Warnings

• Consult your optometrist (eye doctor) before doing any of these exercises. The last thing you want to do is add further strain to your eyes, or damage them permanently.
  
• When doing these exercises, make sure that you're not facing anybody, or that they know you're doing eye exercises. Otherwise they might think you've gone nuts.
  
• Extensive peer reviewed research has shown that visual clarity is not improved by exercise. Some people have weakness in the ability to turn their eye in or out. You may have esotropia (eye naturally turned in) or exotropia (eye naturally turned out). Exercise may help these conditions.
  
• Doing these exercises when you wear contacts may cause them suction to your eyeball. They might also move around and possibly become folded and/or dislodged, which can be extremely uncomfortable as well.
  
• Do not apply pressure on your eyes.
  

Things You'll Need

• Pencil
  

Related wikiHows

• How to Take Care of Your Eyes
  
• How to See in the Dark
  
• How to Get a Job When You Are Blind or Visually Impaired
  
• How to Get Rid of Black Circles Under Your Eyes
  
• How to View Stereograms
  
• How to Exercise While Sitting at Your Computer
  
• How to Avoid Getting Dry Eyes from the Computer
  
• How to Cure Puffy Eyes
  

External Links

• Eyesight improvement the natural, affordable and easy way
  
• Eye Exercises for Eye Relaxation and Natural Vision Correction
  
• http://www.totemdog.com/eyesite
  
• http://www.rebuildyourvision.com
  
• use google dark to reduce eye strain
  
• http://www.HealMyEyes.com
  

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Classical Music - The Mozart Effect

Mozart - Classical music is said to make people smarter.

The following people experimented and made some studies about how classical music and specially Mozart could help someone develop his brain.

Alfred A. Tomatis was the first to use this term.
He played Mozart's music trying to retrain the ear, believing that listening to the music at differing frequencies helped the ear, promoted healing and developed the brain.

Rauscher and Shaw
Rauscher and Shaw made a study in 1993 with which they concluded that the participants of the study where 8-9 IQ points higher after listening to a sonata of Mozart. The effects where temporary and lasted for only 15 minutes.

The findings of this study became popular and the press started writing articles.
More researchers started experimenting and some agreed while others argued that music could make you smarter.

The funny part of the story is that in 1998, Zell Miller, the governor of Georgia announced that his proposed state budget would include $105.000 to provide every year, in every newborn, a cd of classical music!

Dolphins

Appart from humans, dolphins are the only other mammals that have sex for pleasure purposes.

Check this Out

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According to a researcher at Cambridge University , it doesn't matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be at the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without problem. This is because the human mind does not read every letter by itself but the word as a whole.

Rats Laugh When You Tickle Them

No,its not a joke !




So basically what the scientists did was to use a device that transformed the higher frequencies of the rats in ones we can actually hear.
Then they tickled the rats and they heard noise which they assume to be laughter!

Efficient Lighting

Replacing your incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent will save both money and energy.

Compact fluorescent bulbs generate 70% less heat, last 8 times longer and use four times less energy.

But dont forget to recycle them because they contain mercury which is a toxic heavy metal.

Using fluorascent bulbs helps both your pocket and the enviroment.

Sleeping Affects Memory

Hamburg University made the following experiment.

They assigned 100 students to learn the Chinese language for one week.
They divided them in to two groups, the first group would sleep for 8 hours at least after the classes while the other group for just 4.

One week later the first group aquired basic knowledge of the Chinese language while the other one failed.

Another experiment this time from Harvard University which involved 48 participants showed that sleep is an important element in the brain's ability to remember new facts and information.
All of the participants were given 20 paired words which they had to memorize.
Twelve hours later the participants were tested.
The first group that slept scored 13% more than the group that went without sleep.

Such findings are very intresting as we realise the importance of sleep for the brain and memory.

Apples vs Caffeine

Waking up in the morning is easier with an apple because of the natural pure sugar it contains.

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