Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Are you lucky?

One professor named Richard Wiseman preformed an experiment that he hoped would lead to the understanding of why people are lucky and why some aren't as lucky. His experiment involved placing an ad for people who felt either very lucky or unlucky and monitoring them. The result? Although the people do not really realise it, the behavior and thoughts of these people determine their own luck. The so called "lucky" people would be able to spot out and encounter promising opportunities, while the "unlucky" ones would not be able to spot them. In the end, most parts of luck may deal with just having the ability to sense and see good opportunities at which good things are likely to happen to you.

I also posted this at 11:11 pm

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Why Yawn?

Yawning is an odd activity that happens every once in a while to everybody. However, the true reason behind yawning was always arguable, and new studies reveal a new explanation to why people yawn. Some say people yawn because they are tired, and others say people yawn out of boredom. However, it seems that you also will yawn to cool off your brain. Yawning helps cool down your brain when it is "overheating". One researcher compared the brain to a computer, saying that the computer may need to cool down, and yawning happens to be how our brains control their temperature.