With St. Patrick’s Day coming up, we want to remind you thatdrinking a nice warm cup of green tea has long been touted for its health benefits?in fact, some doctors even consider it a form of medicine. Eating green is good for you: it’s long been known that folic acid, found in dark green vegetables, is especially important for pregnant women. And other research has found out that green tea can also be used as a powerful disinfectant!
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Scientists are now saying that what your mother told you was true: we need to learn to trust our intuition, and that this works especially well when it comes to taking tests.
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In a German research facility, researcher John-Dylan Haynes is reading the minds of volunteers with an MRI machine. He is scanning their brains while they make simple decisions, such as whether or not to add or subtract two numbers. The goal is to be able to figure out what decision they are going to make BEFORE they make it.
Scientists are already able to predict people’s physical actions, but measuring minute muscle twitches. Now they?re trying to go a step further and get into the decision process that starts those muscles moving in the first place.
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Our National Parks may be changing radically?very soon. One of the world’s largest supervolcanoes is beneath Yellowstone National Park. It’s “sleeping” right now, but if it “wakes up,” it could destroy parts of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, and there is a lot of activity going on, deep beneath the surface. For some reason, the nearby Teton Mountain Range has gotten shorter. But the government is playing this down in order to avoid panic. In LiveScience.com, which is a NASA website, Sara Goudarzi quotes researcher Robert Smith as saying, “I don’t believe this is evidence for an impending volcanic eruption, but it would be prudent to keep monitoring the volcano.”
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