Margarine makes you aggressive and sugar makes you stupid. Those are certainly two reasons to stay away from fast food!
A new study of rats shows that a diet high in fructose slows the brain, hampering memory and learning. Fructose is the type of sugar in fruit drinks–and also in sodas, which are sweetened with high-fructose syrup made from corn.
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Can a bird have a heart attack? (They have high blood pressure, just like we do). Cardiovascular disease may be an unfortunate consequence of mammalian evolution. In other words, heart attacks may have evolved as a human survival mechanism, so what kills us today may be what kept our species alive in the past.
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In 1998, the Master of the Key told Whitley Strieber, "gas is an important component to consider in the construction of intelligent machines," and now it is becoming clear that quantum computers may use gasses as the basis for extremely dense memory.
Researchers have been able to store a single image in Rubidium gas for some years,but now have advanced to storing two images. The technique opens the door to the use of quantum, or ultra-small and thus extremely dense, memory.
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Yet another example, this one from Plymouth, New Zealand.
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