Intelligent Design

Quite a interesting video. Watch this with open mind

Science: Decision tires

According to this article, I seems that whe you use control towards stuff and in this example it’s food, you use up mental capacity. Reason is partly because when effort is needed to do something, it will naturally use up energy or effort.

Now I know why I did not do well during my studies in school!

Extracted from Scientific Americans

The human mind is a remarkable device. Nevertheless, it is not without limits. Recently, a growing body of research has focused on a particular mental limitation, which has to do with our ability to use a mental trait known as executive function. When you focus on a specific task for an extended period of time or choose to eat a salad instead of a piece of cake, you are flexing your executive function muscles. Both thought processes require conscious effort-you have to resist the temptation to let your mind wander or to indulge in the sweet dessert. It turns out, however, that use of executive function—a talent we all rely on throughout the day—draws upon a single resource of limited capacity in the brain. When this resource is exhausted by one activity, our mental capacity may be severely hindered in another, seemingly unrelated activity. (See here and here.)

Imagine, for a moment, that you are facing a very difficult decision about which of two job offers to accept. One position offers good pay and job security, but is pretty mundane, whereas the other job is really interesting and offers reasonable pay, but has questionable job security. Clearly you can go about resolving this dilemma in many ways. Few people, however, would say that your decision should be affected or influenced by whether or not you resisted the urge to eat cookies prior to contemplating the job offers. A decade of psychology research suggests otherwise. Unrelated activities that tax the executive function have important lingering effects, and may disrupt your ability to make such an important decision. In other words, you might choose the wrong job because you didn’t eat a cookie.

Guess what? The first stage of love

I didn’t make this up myself but according to Your Amazing Brain, the first stage of love is LUST. And this applies to both male and female. So for girls, don’t deny it anymore!

In continuation, the second and third stage of love are attraction and attachment respectively. During the attraction stage, it’s all those chemicals that keep you thinking about him/her and attachment is the need for couples to have physical contact and commitment.

For more details, click here.

Sperm for electronic gadgets

Finally someone find the use of sperm other than for reproduction. One question I ask is would I use something that is smeared with sperm. Yuck. But people have STM aka short term memory and eventually we will get use to it.

Salmon sperm used to intensify LEDs, grossify everyone: ”

See, the problem with bioengineering isn’t moral or ethical dilemmas, or even homicidal robo-droids enslaving humanity. It’s that if you let researchers go wild, eventually they’ll find a way to make LEDs out of salmon sperm, threatening the sanctity (and sperm-free-ness) of your entire gadget-based lifestyle. Yet that’s exactly what Professor Andrew Steckl of the University of Cincinnati has managed to do, using the DNA found in salmon sperm to enhance the brightness of LEDs. The so-called BioLEDs are being developed in cooperation with the Air Force (yes, the Air Force — they had a ‘good source’ of salmon sperm, apparently) and they’ve been so successful that Steckl has been getting salmon sperm from researchers worldwide ‘wanting to see if their sperm is good enough.’ Steckl says that since salmon sperm is considered a waste product of the fishing industry, BioLEDs are particularly green — kind of like our faces right now.

(Via Engadget.)