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After what we humans have done to it? – Will the earth ever recover from climate changeand pollution? Will WE survive? It turns out that the earth may recover but many of the animals on it won’t. It’s happened before: 55 million years ago earth had a sudden spike in global warming caused by too many greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In those days, the CO2 did what it would do today: 85% of the gas dissolved in the ocean, while the remaining 15% went into the atmosphere. All this CO2 persisted for tens of thousands of years, increasing the temperatures of both sea and the land.
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Football player early deaths show it’s not possible – As the baseball season winds up for the year, we turn our attention to the NFL. Today’s athletes are bigger than ever, and size and strength can mean the difference between championships, scholarships and million-dollar paydays. But new research comparing the signs of metabolic syndrome in professional baseball and football players reveals that the larger professional athletes, especially football linemen, may encounter future health problems despite their rigorous exercise routines. Professional football players are twice as likely to die before age 50 as professional baseball players.
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Some questions are so hard to answer that we have to really think about them (Anne Strieber reads her paper about this for subscribers this week). For instance, if time travel exists, why can’t we go back in time and kill our grandparents (which means we would never have been born)? The principle of least action means that could never happen, because nature always takes the simplest and shortest route to the solution of any problem, meaning that no effort toassassinate an ancestor can succeed if it would mean thatyou could not exist. Scientists think that this principle is what will protect us from dangerous repercussions from the CERN collider as well.
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If their students are behaving badly, teachers should spray some air freshener into the classroom and that may solve the problem. If you work in an office, maybe you should secretly spray some in the boss’s office while he’s out to lunch. Why? Studies show that People are unconsciously fairer and more generous when they are in clean-smelling environments. The research found a dramatic improvement in ethical behavior with just a few spritzes of citrus-scented air freshener. It’s funny how the brain works, sometimes: almost anything is worth trying.
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