Walking in the countryside is great for your brain

Want a new easy way to enhance your brain? Then walk in the countryside. Walking is well known easy and healthy way to lose weight, but a new study suggests that walking in the countryside not in a busy streets helps your brain performance and improve it by a fifth.

Thy study was carried out at the University of Michigan , where scientists sent a group of people to walk in the countryside, and other group were sent to a busy traffic and shopping places.

Then the volunteer’s mental skills were assessed in a series of tests, and compared to their performance before the walk. The results showed that people who took and walked in the natural route improved their short-term memory by 20 percent. On the other hand, people who walked in the city streets had not improvements at all.  The daily telegraph reported yesterday.

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Canal to link the Dead Sea to the Red Sea to save the Dead Sea from disappearing

The Jordanian government along with a British firm are planning on constructing a canal to link the Dead Sea to the Red sea to save the Dead sea from drying out.

The canal is about 110-mile long, and would channel roughly five million tonnes of seawater each day into the Dead Sea.

According to Jordanian’s officials and Environmental scientists, the surface area has shrunk by a third to just 240 square miles in the last forty years and vast areas of foreshore have been exposed, pockmarked with dangerous sink holes. The overuse of water by farmers and climate change mean the level of the Dead Sea plunges by about three feet every year. Even though, the Dead Sea has received about a billion tons of water from the Jordan River annually but that amount has dwindled by 90 per cent because of overuse by farmers upriver from the Dead Sea.

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Does Thinking about Sex Makes Some People Sneeze?

People sneeze from different reasons, if they are full or walk into sunlight, but a new study of the sneezing phenomena suggests that people also sneeze when they think of sex.

“It certainly seems odd, but I think this reflex demonstrates evolutionary relics in the wiring of a part of the nervous system called the autonomic nervous system,” said Dr. Mahmood Bhutta, an ear, nose and throat specialist at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

Most of the people are embaressed to say that they sneezed because they thought of sex, so the researchers went to online chatting and asked them “annanoymously” wethere they sneez when they think of sex or not. The researcher team said most of the people said yes we do when sexually excited.

The study has also concluded that sneezing is genetically linked because there are entire families who sneeze when their stomachs are full, or when they walk into the sunlight.

Via – Guardian

The World’s First Solar Cargo Ship Leaves Japan

The world’s first solar cargo ship carrying over 6,400 Toyota’s automobiles left Japan on Friday, aiming to reduce fuel cost and carbon emissions.

Auriga Leader, a freighter developed by shipping line Nippon Yusen K.K. and oil distributor Nippon Oil Corp., took off from a shipyard in the western city of Kobe, officials of the two firms said.

The cargo ship is about 60,213-tonne, 200-metre (660-foot) long and its the first large vessel in the world with a solar-based propulsion system. Its equipped with 328 solar panels at a cost of 1.68 million dollars.

The solar power system can generate 40 kilowatts, which would initially cover only 0.2 percent of the ship’s energy consumption for propulsion.

Nippon Yusen, Japan’s largest shipping company, has set a goal of halving its fuel consumption and carbon-dioxide emissions by 2010.

Via Yahoo

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