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//////////Too Much Thinking Can Make You Fat
Researchers found the stress of thinking caused overeating with heavy thinkers seeking out more calories.
The research team, supervised by Dr Angelo Tremblay, measured the spontaneous food intake of 14 students after each of three tasks.
The first was relaxing in a sitting position, the second reading and summarizing a text, and finally completing a series of memory, attention, and vigilance tests on the computer.
After 45 minutes at each activity, participants were invited to eat as much as they wanted from a buffet.
The researchers had already discovered that each session of intellectual work requires only three calories more than the rest period.
However, despite the low energy cost of mental work, the students spontaneously consumed 203 more calories after summarizing a text and 253 more calories after the computer tests.



////////////////Japanese Computer Records Your Dreams
A Japanese research team has revealed it had created a technology that could eventually display on a computer screen what people have on their minds, such as dreams.
Researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories succeeded in processing and displaying images directly from the human brain, they said in a study unveiled ahead of publication in the US magazine Neuron.
While the team for now has managed to reproduce only simple images from the brain, they said the technology could eventually be used to figure out dreams and other secrets inside people's minds.
"It was the first time in the world that it was possible to visualise what people see directly from the brain activity," the private institute said in a statement.
"By applying this technology, it may become possible to record and replay subjective images that people perceive like dreams."


//////////////Is the Future Too Good to Be True?
By John Tierney / Source: New York Times

Before we get to Ray Kurzweil's plan for upgrading the "suboptimal software" in your brain, let me pass on some of the cheery news he brought to the World Science Festival last week in New York.
Do you have trouble sticking to a diet? Have patience. Within 10 years, Dr. Kurzweil explained, there will be a drug that lets you eat whatever you want without gaining weight.
Worried about greenhouse gas emissions? Have faith. Solar power may look terribly uneconomical at the moment, but with the exponential progress being made in nanoengineering, Dr. Kurzweil calculates that it'll be cost-competitive with fossil fuels in just five years, and that within 20 years all our energy will come from clean sources.
Are you depressed by the prospect of dying? Well, if you can hang on another 15 years, your life expectancy will keep rising every year faster than you're aging. And then, before the century is even half over, you can be around for the Singularity, that revolutionary transition when humans and/or machines start evolving into immortal beings with ever-improving software.
At least that's Dr. Kurzweil's calculation. It may sound too good to be true, but even his critics acknowledge he's not your ordinary sci-fi fantasist. He is a futurist with a track record and enough credibility for the National Academy of Engineering to publish his sunny forecast for solar energy.


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///////////Pernicious (adjective)
Pronunciation: [pêr-'ni-shês]
Definition: Very harmful, destructive or threatening harm or destruction.
Usage: The word should not be used in the sense of "wicked, evil".
Suggested Usage: This is a good word to express extreme threat of harm or destruction. You would more likely meet a harmful remark but a pernicious virus. Of course, any remark that is likely to do severe damage to someone else or an enterprise would be pernicious.



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//////////////////The World’s Oldest Person Dies at the age of 115
by Arthur De Vany
The LA Times has an interesting story on Edna Parker who died last November at the age of 115. She was still climbing ladders in her home, where she lived by herself, at the age of 100. Did I mention she loved bacon, eggs, and fried chicken?



////////////////////Dudgeon (noun)
Pronunciation: ['dê-jên]
Definition: No, today's word has nothing to do with subterranean jails but rather the mood of someone leaving one: angry, indignant humor, resentfulness. At one time it also referred to the wood of the boxwood tree, a material favored for the handles of knives and daggers because of curly grain, unlikely to splinter, hence dudgeon-daggers.
Usage: Because this word has fallen into some disuse, it has not developed a family; however, it may be used as a verb itself: "You haven't been dudgeoning around your boss again, have you?"
Suggested Usage: Today's word is most often associated with unhappy departures and are usually measured . In 'Little Women," Louisa May Alcott wrote, "Slamming the door in Meg's face, Aunt March drove off in a high dudgeon." However, dudgeons arise in other situations, too, "I hope it will not put you in a dudgeon if I tell you that your purse doesn't match our dress."



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