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Felonious B.O.

from MSNBC --
It's not just British amusement parks that are overly concerned with smelly riders. Honolulu, Hawaii city council is considering an ordinance against smelly bus riders. The law would make it illegal to have 'odors that unreasonably disturb others or interfere with their use of the public transit system'. This would include personal odors, smelly clothing or belongings, and/ or any animals with the rider. While not really a felony, the offense would be punishable by up to a $500 fine and as much as 6 months in jail. I guess the offender would get a shower and clean clothes there. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32649198/ns/us_news-weird_news

The Internet in a Contact Lens

From Utne Reader--
Imagine a contact lens that could connect you to the internet, providing information about what you see in a format invisible to other people. Or a contact lens, powered by radio frequencies or solar power, that could monitor cholesterol or glucose levels for diabetics. Babak A. Parviz, writing for IEEE Spectrum, is already working on the technology, and has successfully tested early versions on live rabbits. Parviz envisions the contact lens turning into a platform like an iPhone, where developers create new applications and inventions to improve the human eye.

Do High-fat Diets Make Us
Stupid And Lazy?

From Science Daily --
Rats fed a high-fat diet show a stark reduction in their physical endurance and a decline in their cognitive ability after just nine days, a study by Oxford University researchers has shown. The research, funded by the British Heart Foundation and published in the FASEB Journal, may have implications not only for those eating lots of high-fat foods, but also athletes looking for the optimal diet for training and patients with metabolic disorders.

"We found that rats, when switched to a high-fat diet from their standard low-fat feed, showed a surprisingly quick reduction in their physical performance," says Dr Andrew Murray, who led the work at Oxford University. "After just nine days, they were only able to run 50 per cent as far on a treadmill as those that remained on the low-fat feed."

High-fat diets prevalent in Western countries, are known to be harmful in the long term, and can lead to problems such as obesity, diabetes and heart failure. They are also known to be associated with a decline in cognitive ability over long time spans. But little attention has been paid to the effect of high-fat diets in the short term. The rats on the high-fat diet were also making mistakes sooner in the maze task, suggesting that their cognitive abilities were also being affected by their diet.

Spirituality Spot Found in Brain

from LiveScience.com --
What makes us feel spiritual? It could be the quieting of a small area in our brains, a new study suggests.

The area in question — the right parietal lobe — is responsible for defining "Me," said researcher Brick Johnstone of Missouri University. It generates self-criticism, he said, and guides us through physical and social terrains by constantly updating our self-knowledge: my hand, my cocktail, my witty conversation skills, my new love interest People with less active Me-Definers are more likely to lead spiritual lives, reports the study in the current issue of the journal Zygon.

The finding suggests that one core tenant of spiritual experience is selflessness, said Johnstone, adding that he hopes the study "will help people think about spirituality in more specific ways."

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