Sunday 23 November 2014

Weird findings – Hard to believe

Relaxing Can Make You Fatter:
A finding by the Tel Aviv University shows that precursor fat cells turn into actual fat cells faster when subjected to extended periods of “mechanical stretching loads,” which they defined, essential, as sitting around.  Source

Fantasies reduce motivation:
It has been observed during the scientific studies that Fantasies fail to flag up the problems we’re likely to face on the way to our goals. Hence often trapping people in current reality.

Two (or three or four…) heads are not always better than one –Too many cooks get lazy and spoil the broth. 
People in groups tend to be lazy, likely to forget their ideas while others talk, and worry about what others will think. (despite the rule that ‘there are no bad ideas’)

Having a hook worm in your stomach was found to be an effective treatment for coeliac disease. 
The parasite reduced the sensitivity of the immune system, which would otherwise malfunction and attack the stomach lining.

Serial coffee drinkers are more likely to feel “The presence of dead people”, British researchers found.

Saturn is Less Dense than Water:
If you were to put Saturn in a large bathtub it would actually float.

The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old:
The energy in the sunlight we see today started out in the core of the Sun 30,000 years ago – it spent most of this time passing through the dense atoms that make the sun and just 8 minutes to reach us once it had left the Sun! Source
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