News to use

In this latest edition of "News to use", Aggie finds new evidence on attitude, morals, values and happiness, and introduces a website that is guaranteed to have something to entertain almost everyone.

And if that is not enough, this month's news contain a fabulous alternative to pill popping that is guaranteed to lift your mood.




According to an article in PsyBlog, there is a very good reason for the notion that you cannot trust a man unless you look in to his eye's, and it has nothing to do with honesty , and everything to do with our attitude and how we perceive the moment of truth.

The website of Peter Russel is jam packed with a number of articles and information that is guaranteed to pique your curiosity. I stumbled on to it while looking for a world clock, to which was added a whole array of interesting world statistics. At a glance you can track the global number of births, abortions, deaths, and leading cause of death, along with such interesting facts such as total CO2 emissions and the earths core temperature.

According to all sources, cardiovascular diseases remain the biggest cause of death globally, which fit in well with our 21st century lifestyle that leaves us with hardly any time for fun and games, and push our level of stress to breakpoint. It is with that in mind that happiness is becoming more and more important in all aspects of our life. We have always suspected that being happy is good for your health, but with the latest research providing conclusive proof of the benefits it holds,  and the recent scientific evidence that happiness is nothing more than a choice, there is nothing left but to smile!

The latest onslaught to our perceived bastion of morals and values come in the form of magnetic fields, adding to the mounting scientific evidence that we believe what we want to, when we need to, and when it suits us. Unless we get zapped by a magnetic field of course!

Music has long be known to have the power to entrance and enthrall, but did you know that our brain has literally been wired for sound? Binaural tones may not be as well known, but even though we know they are able to tune our mind to any desired state, they have never achieved the same popularity as their pharmaceutical equivalents. Even so, they are cheaper (even free if you search for them), more reliable, carry no risk of addiction and have no side effects. Show me the pill that can beat that for a chill?