New Years Resolution Statistics

 

Dreams help us solve puzzles-

Scientists have long wondered why we dream, with answers ranging from Sigmund Freud’s idea that dreams fulfill our wishes to the speculation that these wistful journeys are just a side rapid-eye-movement, or REM, sleep. Turns out, at least part of the reason may be critical thinking, according to Harvard psychologist Deirdre Barrett who presented her theory in 2010 at the Association for Psychological Science meeting in Boston. She has found that our slumbering hours may help us solve puzzles that have plagued us during daylight hours.

According to Barrett, it’s the visual and often illogical aspects of dreams that make them perfect for out-of-the-box thinking that is necessary to solve some problems.

The Brain Doesn’t Feel Pain

Ouch! When you stub your toe or touch something hot, your body releases chemicals that send pain signals up through the spinal cord to receptors in the brain. The brain then sends the pain message back down to the part of the body that hurts. But although it’s the interpreter of pain, the brain itself does not have pain-sensitive nerves. Only the structures that surround the brain feel pain. As a matter of fact, once inside the brain, surgeons can operate on the brain without anesthesia. In one technique known as brain mapping, surgeons probe brain tissue while monitoring reactions like muscle movement and speech — all while the patient is awake.

Reading can help prevent Alzheimer’s.

A recent study found that people who read are two and a half times less likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Syndrome later on in life. Although this does not mean that reading will prevent the disease, it proves a slight relationship between reading and prevention.

(It also helps use the right public restroom, see quote of the day)

The first parachute jump of note was made by André-Jacques Garnerin from a hydrogen balloon 3,200 feet above Paris in 1797. Leonardo da Vinci conceived the idea of the parachute in his writings but André-Jacques Garnerin was the first to design and test parachutes capable of slowing a man’s fall from a high altitude.

 

Scientist have determined that exercise makes you smarter. In tests done on twins, with all other factors being equal, the twin that exercised was smarter than the twin that did not. This was  because of hormones released in the body when exercising and also due to increased blood flow to the brain………. Simply put, Hulk smash was smarter than twin brother Hulk can’t smash. Of course, you have to have the education in the first place because just going to the gym isn’t going to help nor does smashing things.

President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt drank a gallon of coffee a day and a boxing accident left him nearly blind in one eye while serving as President, not at the same time.

Two things dear to my heart.

-M.Lam-Paz

 

Today is Christmas, Yesterday was Christmas Eve, tomorrow is the day after Christmas. Have a Merry Christmas and beautiful day!

“If you consistently fart for 6 years & 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb!”

My first fact of the day is my attempt to try and get us off of oil dependence from the middle east. I don’t know if it would help climate change though. And also for my son, who might just might be able to do what the fact says. Love you little man!