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A strict religious upbringing may cause obsessive-compulsive disorder. This was discovered by Claudio Sica at the University of Parma in Italy who surveyed devout Catholics and found they were more likely to have symptoms of this disease than less religious people.

Patients with OCD become caught up in repetitive mental cycles. They have to have to wash the dishes thoroughly before putting them in the diswasher. They may be convinced that everything around them is filthy, and spend eight hours a day cleaning. They may obsessively wash their hands, like Lady MacBeth.
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And they aren’t even human! – A beach resort in the U.K. has warned swimmers to stay away from Georges, a bottlenose dolphin who arrived there two months ago, after following a ship across the English Channel, because he keeps trying to lure swimmers out to sea and mate with them.

“This dolphin does get very sexually aggressive. He has already attempted to mate with some divers,” says marine mammal expert Ric O’Barry. “When dolphins get sexually excited, they try to isolate a swimmer, normally female. They do this by circling around the individual and gradually move them away from the beach, boat or crowd of people.”
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Automobiles and power plants spew out tons of greenhouse gases daily that contribute to global warming, but a little known secret is that sheep and cattle do too. They produce huge amounts of methane, which is a major contributor to the greenhouse effect. We may have to find alternate power sources and give up our SUVs, but do we have to become vegetarians too? Not if scientists in Australia are successful in figuring out why sheep and cattle give off methane gas, but kangaroos, who eat the same kind of grass, do not.
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At the University of California, said Lisa Sloan, an associate professor of Earth sciences, has figured out how global warming will effect the climate of California within the next 50 to 100 years.

One effect that doesn?t surprise anyone is that there will be less water around. “Everybody has guessed at the effects on water resources, but now we have numbers and locations. It’s a lot different from the standard arm-waving,” she says. “Our hope is that this kind of study will give state and regional officials a more reliable basis for planning how to cope with climate change.”
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