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Archeologists have never figured out where the Egyptians came from. Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson says, “They don’t seem to have an ancestry, they don’t seem to have any period of development, they just seem almost to appear overnight. This has left people pondering, and of course it has been fertile ground for the unorthodox who suggest it was all planted by aliens, or visitors from Atlantis.” But he has the answer: they were there all the time.
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Byron Spice writes in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about U.K. researcher Richard Wiseman, who’s spent 10 years studying lucky and unlucky people. His conclusion: people can learn how to become luckier.

Wiseman says, “People would tell me, ‘I’m not psychic, I’m just lucky,” so he began advertising in newspapers and magazines for people who considered themselves to be either lucky or unlucky.

He discovered that about 12% of us considered ourselves lucky, 9% unlucky, and the rest of us don’t think we’re either one. Lucky and unlucky people see the world in different ways. A lucky person would be delighted to escape an automobile accident without serious injury, while an unlucky person would say it was bad luck to have had an accident in the first place.
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Ladies: If you want to celebrate Mother’s Day next year, find a symmetrical man. If your boyfriend has different sized feet or one ear larger than the other, his sperm isn’t as strong as that of a symmetrical guy.

Scientists who measured almost everything on the male body that is paired found a link between sperm quality and bilateral symmetry. The greater the difference between one side of the body and the other, the poorer a man’s sperm quality will be. This happens to male fetuses while they’re still in the womb, because the skeletal parts of the body develop at about the same time as the sexual parts. If something goes wrong with the mother, it will affect both areas of her fetus’ development?meaning body symmetry is one way to spot good sexual functioning.
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Periodic fasting is good for the health and can help you lose weight, even if you gorge afterwards. It’s known that mice live longer on a severely restricted calorie diet and it protects them from diseases and stress as well. But do we have to live a life of starvation? Scientists now think we can get the same benefits from alternately fasting and feasting.
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