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People who grew up watching black and white TV often don’t dream in color. But do blind people see ANYTHING in their dreams? One day we may be able to find out, because we’ll be able to SEE other people’s dreams!

In the December 16th edition of the New York Times, Anahad O’Connor reports that, depending on when blind people lose their sight, their dreams tend to be more about sounds than about images. But those who became blind after age 5 often DO see images in their dreams. These mainly tend to be about bad travel experiences, which probably reflect the problems they have navigating through life.
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Researchers claim to have found a basic form of jealousy in dogs (but do you know how to interpret your dog’s tail wags so you can figure out if YOUR dog has this problem?) Before this, they thought that only primates (that’s us!) were able to feel that emotion.

The researchers came to this conclusion because they discovered that a dog will stop doing a simple trick (in this case, extending his paw to “shake hands”) when he’s not rewarded if he sees another dog being rewarded for doing the same task.

BBC News quotes neurobiologist Frederike Range as saying, “[If] the only difference is one gets food and the other doesn’t, they are responding to being unequally rewarded.”

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IF you wear contact lenses! – When you feel a cold or the flu coming on, take out your contact lenses or reduce your lens-wear time, or your EYES may catch a cold too!

If you have extended-wear lenses, opt for daily contact lenses when you start feeling cold and flu-like symptoms, and still remove them earlier in the evening to minimize redness and irritation. Optometrist William Benjamin says, “Colds and flu create symptoms of dry eyes or irritation with or without lens wear, and contacts may aggravate the symptoms, especially soft lenses which will lose more of their water than normal and may not rehydrate fast enough.”
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Are the beauty claims made by cosmetic companies too good to be true? In a word, yes?sometimes in surprising ways. Some of us turn to them when we want to cover up the green in our skin, but creams claiming to have antioxidant properties can cheat ageing are probably worthless.

In this recession (which we predicted), we want to know what’s worth paying for. Promises that a product can “reverse the aging process” or “deliver the results of a facelift” leads consumers to spend billions of dollars each year to try an array of anti-aging skin care products in hopes is that one of them will actually live up to its claims.
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