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With all the bad news we hear every day, it’s no wonder we get grumpy! Thank goodness being grumpy is good, and it’s even good for your health! A psychologist has discovered that being grumpy makes people think more clearly.

Grumpy people are much better at making decisions than happy people, who are far more gullible. BBC News quotes psychologist Joe Forgas as saying, “Whereas positive mood seems to promote creativity, flexibility, co-operation and reliance on mental shortcuts, negative moods trigger more attentive, careful thinking, paying greater attention to the external world. A mildly negative mood may actually promote a more concrete, accommodative and ultimately more successful communication style.”
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Life has not been too cheerful lately. The recent financial crisis prompted a renewed interest among economists to construct an “early warning system” but a new study concludes that out of 65 potential causes of a global economic meltdown, few factors would have predicted the severity of the crisis or the fact that it would have spread worldwide. Maybe the problem is that we need to apply a mathematical formula to our predictions!
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We can see light coming from distant worlds. How many universes are there? The Master of the Key said there are many and science has recently corroborated this. (Let’s hope that most of them are doing better than we are)!

Instead of the Big Bang producing a single universe, some scientists think it created MANY of them, each one with different laws of physics. The question then becomes, “How many of these exist?” Two scientists have set out to answer this question.

The number that Andrei Linde and Vitaly Vanchurin have come up with is “humungous” (meaning it’s too big for even mathematicians with supercomputers to count). Are some of the beings from these worlds somehow managing to visit ours? If so, we would sure like to know about it.
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Why we should care – Alas, more bad news: Coral reefs are turning white and dying. This not only bad for the fish that depend on them, it’s bad for humans: The resulting lost in tourism could cost millions of dollars. A single large coral reef can be worth between $130,000 to $1.2 million a year to the country it’s part of.
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