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Scientists have learned how to turn lazy monkeys into hardworkers?could they someday do the same to us? It’s notlikely to happen in the U.K., because they have Prozac inthe drinking water.

Employees in the U.S. already work harder and longer hoursthan workers in any other first world country. But in casethat’s not enough for employers, Richard Black writes inbbcnews.com that researchers have now learned how tomanipulate monkeys into working almost nonstop.

Usually monkeys work hard only when they know a reward iscoming. In the laboratory, they learn to press levers forrewards of food and water, but they only concentrate on thejob when they know they?re about to get their reward.Scientists wanted to know how to get them to work theirhardest all the time.read more

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In what has always been assumed to be a meteor crash in1908, 60 million trees in an 800-square-mile area of theisolated Tunguska forest in Siberia were flattened. Themysterious devastation wasn’t discovered until many yearslater, and no traces of the meteorite were ever found. NowRussian scientists say this may have been caused by a UFO.

WorldnetDaily.com reports that Russian scientists have foundpart of a UFO in the area, in the form of a large block ofmysterious metal. They plan to test its composition. They’vealso found a large rock, which may have been part of themeteorite that exploded in the sky before it hit the ground.
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Reading poetry is good for your health, just like prayingthe rosary or chanting. Cardiologist Francois Haas says, “Ifthere’s a message, it’s that our internal rhythms can bemodified by external stimuli.”

Randy Dotinga writes in abcnews.com that researchers studied20 healthy men and women, average age 43, who read Homer’s”The Odyssey,” while machines monitored their hearts andlungs. As they read the verses, their breathing rates sloweddown, and their heart and breathing rates became moresynchronized.

Other research has shown that the rosary and the “Om” yogamantra both reduce respiration to six breaths a minute,helping the heart work more effectively. This could be onereason why saying the rosary make people feel better.
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Young people seem to be more susceptible to the vCJD, thehuman version of Mad Cow Disease. Scientists don’t know ifthis is because they eat more hamburgers.

142 people have died from Mad Cow Disease in the U.K. in thelast 9 years, and most of them have been young. Computermodels show that 48% of people with the disease should beover the age of 40, but only 10% actually are?everyone elsewho gets it is young.

Researcher Pierre-Yves Boelle thinks eating more hamburgerscan?t explain this. He says, “We found that exposure alonecould not explain the young age of vCJD cases as seen in theU.K. One possible explanation for the difference insusceptibility could be that the permeability of theintestinal barrier changes with age.”
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