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Seniors who use a computer appear to be less depressed and have less chance of developing Alzheimer’s.

This research was by done by Village Care of New York, a long-term care provider in Manhattan?s Greenwich Village. In 1998, researcher Kathleen Triche decided to look into the impact of the growing use of computers by seniors on the hypothesis that those using computers would report fewer depressive symptoms than non-users. She says, “Given the social and informational nature of older adults’ computer practices?email, chat rooms and health information gathering, for example, it seemed likely that this would be beneficial to an individual’s overall mental health.”
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Lower-class “bad guys” smoke more often in movies than wealthy movie heroes. But maybe this is just an imitation of life: New evidence shows that the same genes may foster two harmful proclivities–nicotine addiction and aggressively hostile behavior.

Smoking is not more common in movies than in the general US population. Dr. Karan Omidvari says, “Most investigators have concluded that smoking is portrayed as glamorous and positive, but our study shows that the exact opposite is true. Additionally, different studies in the past have subjectively concluded that movies are attempting to influence different groups of minorities to smoke. We have contradicted these findings as well.”
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Greg Szymanski reports on the website arcticbeacon.com that radiation expert Leuren Moret says that the Pentagon was hit by a missile, not a jet plane, on September 11, 2001. This fits in with the scenario proposed by Dave Von Kleist in his DVD 911 in Plane Site. While Szymanski gives no proof of his phone conversation with Moret (nor could he), so the story cannot be checked out, it is a provocative statement that deserves further attention. Moret is supposedly an expert on depleted uranium, which is used in ammunition used by the US military. She says that high radiation readings taken in the area surrounding the Pentagon after the strike indicate that a missile with a depleted uranium warhead may have been used.read more

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Australian researchers are drawing blood from crocodiles because it contains an antibiotic so powerful, it may kill even the AIDS virus. A crocodile’s immune system is incredibly efficient because these huge reptiles regularly engage in battles over territory that leave them wounded and even missing limbs. Despite this, crocs live a very long time.

Researcher Mark Merchant discovered the amazing properties of the crocodile immune system in 1998. Their blood contains antibodies that can even kill bacteria that has evolved to become resistant to penicillin, which is the last resort for sick patients. This is especially important at a time when superbugs are so prevalent in hospitals.
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