UFO, A Mysteries Thing

What's a UFO?

Since man first started looking up into the skies he saw things he couldn't explain. For the last fifty years or so these things have taken on the label "UFOs." Originally an abbreviation for the Air Force term "Unidentified Flying Object", it has become a synonym to most people for "Alien Spaceship." For the Air Force, though, it is simply a term to refer to something in the skies that the observer can see but not recognize. Usually the explanation is less extraordinary than a flying saucer manned by visitors from other worlds. Often a weather balloon or natural phenomenon is the cause. However, there are cases on record where no good common explanation was ever found.

Photo from the cover of
Ufo Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth
by Curt Sutherly

Dr. J. Allen Hynek, astronomer, foremost proponent of UFOs, and the one who came up with the expression "close encounters of the third kind," defines a UFO as:

The reported perception of an object or light seen in the sky or upon land the appearance, trajectory, and general dynamic and luminescent behaviour of which do not suggest a logical, conventional explanation and which is not only mystifying to the original percipients but remains unidentified after close scrutiny of all available evidence by persons who are technically capable of making a common sense identification, if one is possible.

What Hynek considers to be "all available evidence" may be much less than what a skeptic would require. For example, the evidence appealed to by UFOlogists consists of (1) the testimony of people who claim to have seen aliens and/or alien spacecraft; (2) facts about the type of people who give the testimony; (3) the lack of contrary testimony or physical evidence that would either explain the sighting by conventional means (weather balloon, prank, meteor shower, reflection of light, etc.) or discredit the reliability of the eyewitness; and, (4) alleged weaknesses in the arguments of skeptics against the UFOlogists. The last item is irrelevant to the issue, yet it plays a disproportionately large role in UFOlogy.

It seems reasonable to believe that the only reason we cannot explain these sightings by conventional means is because we do not have all the evidence - not because these sightings are probably due to alien visitations. If we had all the evidence, we would probably be able to explain the sightings by some conventional means. The fact that we cannot prove that Mr. and Mrs. Barney Hill were not abducted by aliens, does not support the hypothesis that they were abducted by aliens.

Many UFOlogists think that if eyewitnesses such as Whitley Strieber, Betty and Barney Hill, or other alleged alien abductees are not insane or evil, then they cannot be deluded and are to be trusted with giving accurate accounts of alien abduction. Yet, it seems obvious that most sane, good, normal people are deluded about many things and not to be trusted about certain things.

UFOlogists would rather follow their faulty logic than accept the conclusions of Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force report which states that "after twenty-two years of investigation...none of the unidentified objects reported and evaluated posed a threat to our national security." (It was in this Blue Book that Edward Ruppelt coined the term "UFO.") UFOlogists are unimpressed with the Condon Report, as well. Edward U. Condon was the head of a scientific research team which was contracted to the University of Colorado to examine the UFO issue. His report concluded that "nothing has come from the study of UFOs in the past 21 years that has added to scientific knowledge...further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby."

It is assumed by UFOlogists that the government, especially the CIA, is lying and covering up alien landings and communication. However, there is no evidence for this other than a general distrust of the government and the fact that many government officials have lied, distorted the truth and been mistaken when reporting to the general public. The CIA, however, has shown little interest in UFOs since about 1950, except to encourage UFOlogists to believe that reconnaissance flights might be alien craft. UFOlogists prefer another kind of lie to the government lie. They support the work of NBC, for example, which produced two dozen programs called "Project UFO," said to be based on Project Blue Book. However, unlike the Air Force, NBC suggested that there were documented cases of alien spacecraft sightings. The programs, produced by Jack Webb of Dragnet fame, distorted and falsified information to make the presentation look more believable. No UFOlogist took NBC to task for lying. To the skeptic, NBC was pandering to the taste of the viewing audience. Government agents lie for all sorts of reasons, but covering up alien landings does not seem to be one of them.

Most unidentified flying objects are eventually identified as hoaxes or astronomical events, aircraft, satellites, weather balloons, or other natural phenomena. In studies done by the Air Force, less than 2% of UFO sightings remain unidentifiable. It is more probable that with more information those 2% would be identified as meteors, aircraft, etc., than that they are alien spacecraft.

The reason no logical explanation seems credible to UFOlogists is probably because those making and hearing the reports either do not want to hear a logical explanation or they make little or no effort to find one. In any case, the fact that some pilots or scientists claim they cannot think of any logical explanations for some perceptual observations is hardly proof that they have observed alien spacecraft.

If They are Out There, Where?

If we do assume there is intelligent life in places other than Earth, where might they be? Though scientists last century thought the planet Mars might be a good candidate, and some even thought they detected a huge canal system stretching across the planet, recent probes sent to Mars have failed to detect even bacteria-like creatures, let alone a civilization capable of producing a flying saucer. With the rest of the planets in our solar system seemingly too hot or cold, the best hope for intelligent life seems to be across the void of interstellar space in other parts of our galaxy.

In an attempt to detect intelligent life beyond our solar system researchers have conducted a number of SETI programs trying to use radio waves to detect the existence of other civilizations. So far no SETI program has been successful in finding intelligent life, but there are millions of stars in our galaxy alone that might have planets that could harbor life and carefully looking at each one of them will take a long time.

Is there intelligent life on other planets? Have they visited us on Earth? Are some UFOs alien spaceships? Or are there other explanations for saucers in the sky? Nobody has final proof one way or another. We need to keep open eyes and open minds.

Finally, it should be noted that UFOs are usually observed by untrained skywatchers and almost never by professional or amateur astronomers, people who spend inordinate amounts of time observing the heavens above. One would think that astronomers would have spotted some of these alien craft. Perhaps the crafty aliens know that good scientists are skeptical and inquisitive. Such beings might pose a threat to the security of a story well-told.

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The Lost Continent : ATLANTIS

The capital of Atlantis as described by Plato. (Copyright Lee Krystek 2006)

The idea of a lost, but highly advanced civilization has captured the interest of people for centuries. Perhaps the most compelling of these tales is the story of Atlantis. The story appears again and again in books, television shows and movies. Where did the story originate and is any of it true?

Plato's Atlantis

The story of the lost continent of Atlantis starts in 355 B.C. with the Greek philosopher Plato. Plato had planned to write a trilogy of books discussing the nature of man, the creation of the world, and the story of Atlantis, as well as other subjects. Only the first book was ever completed. The second book was abandoned part way through, and the final book was never even started.

Plato used dialogues to express his ideas. In this type of writing, the author's thoughts are explored in a series of arguments and debates between various characters in the story. Plato often used real people in his dialogues, such as his teacher, Socrates, but the words he gave them were his own.

In Plato's book, Timaeus, a character named Kritias tells an account of Atlantis that has been in his family for generations. According to the character, the story was originally told to his ancestor, Solon, by a priest during Solon's visit to Egypt.

There had been a powerful empire located to the west of the "Pillars of Hercules" (what we now call the Straight of Gibraltar) on an island in the Atlantic Ocean. The nation there had been established by Poseidon, the God of the Sea. Poseidon fathered five sets of twins on the island. The firstborn, Atlas, had the continent and the surrounding ocean named for him. Poseidon divided the land into ten sections, each to be ruled by a son, or his heirs.

The capital city of Atlantis was a marvel of architecture and engineering. The city was composed of a series of concentric walls and canals. At the very center was a hill, and on top of the hill a temple to Poseidon. Inside was a gold statue of the God of the Sea showing him driving six winged horses.

About 9000 years before the time of Plato, after the people of Atlantis became corrupt and greedy, the gods decided to destroy them. A violent earthquake shook the land, giant waves rolled over the shores, and the island sank into the sea, never to be seen again.

So, is the story of Atlantis just a fable used by Plato to make a point? Or is there some reason to think he was referring to a real place? Well, at numerous points in the dialogues, Plato's characters refer to the story of Atlantis as "genuine history" and it being within "the realm of fact." Plato also seems to put into the story a lot of detail about Atlantis that would be unnecessary if he had intended to use it only as a literary device.

On the other hand according to the writings of the historian Strabo, Plato's student Aristotle remarked that Atlantis was simply created by Plato to illustrate a point. Unfortunately, Aristotle's writings on this subject, which might have cleared the mystery up, have been lost eons ago.

Location, Location, Location

If we make the assumption that Atlantis was a real place, it seems logical that it could be found west of the Straight of Gibraltar near the Azores Islands. In 1882 a man named Ignatius Donnelly published a book titled Atlantis, the Antediluvian World. Donnelly, an American politician, had come to the belief that Plato's story represented actual historical fact. He located Atlantis in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, suggesting the Azores Islands represented what remained of the highest mountain peaks. Donnelly said he had studied zoology and geology and had come to the conclusion that civilization itself had begun with the Atlantians and had spread out throughout the world as the Atlantians established colonies in places like ancient Egypt and Peru. Donnelly's book became a world-wide best seller, but researchers could not take Donnelly's theories seriously as he offered no proof for his ideas.

As time when on it became obvious that Donnelly's theories were faulty. Modern scientific surveys of the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean shows it is covered with a blanket of sediment that must have taken millions of years to accumulate. There is no sign of a sunken island continent.

Are there any other candidates for the location of Atlantis? People have made cases for places as diverse as Switzerland, in the middle of Europe, and New Zealand, in the Pacific Ocean. The explorer, Percy Fawcett, thought that it might be located in Brazil. One of the most convincing arguments, though, came from K.T. Frost, a professor of history at the Queen's University in Belfast. Later, Spyridon Marinatos, an archaeologist, and A.G. Galanopoulos, a seismologist, added evidence to Frost's ideas.

The Minoan Connection

Frost suggested that instead of being west of the Pillars of Hercules, Atlantis was east. He also thought that the catastrophic end of the island had come not 9000 years before Plato's time, but only 900. If this was true, the land of Atlantis might already be a well-known place even in Plato's time: the island of Crete.

Crete is now a part of modern Greece and lies just south of Athens across part of the Mediterranean Sea. Before 1500 B.C. it was the seat of the Minoan Empire. The Minoans dominated the eastern Mediterranean with a powerful navy and probably extracted tribute from other surrounding nations. Archaeological excavations have shown that Minoan Crete was probably one of the most sophisticated cultures of its time. It had splendid architecture and art. A code of laws gave women equal legal status to men. Agriculture was highly developed and an extensive irrigation system existed.

Then, seemingly in a blink of an eye, the Minoan Civilization disappeared. Geological studies have shown that on an island we now know as Santorinas, located just ten miles to the north of Crete, a disaster occurred that was very capable of toppling the Minoan state.

Santorinas today is a lush Mediterranean paradise consisting of several islands in a ring shape. Twenty-five hundred years ago, though, it was a single large island with a volcano in the center. The volcano blew itself apart in a massive explosion around 1500 B.C.

To understand the effect of such an explosion, scientists have compared it with the most powerful volcanic explosion in historic times. This occurred on the Island of Krakatoa in 1883. There a giant wave, or tsunami, 120 feet high raced across the sea and hit neighboring islands, killing 36,000 people. Ash thrown up into the air blackened the skies for three days. The sound of the explosion was heard as far away as 3,000 miles.

The explosion at Santorinas was four times as powerful as Krakatoa.

The tsunami that hit Crete must have traveled inland for over half a mile, destroying any coastal towns or cities. The great Minoan fleet of ships were all sunk in a few seconds. Overnight the powerful Minoan Empire was crushed and Crete changed to a political backwater. One can hardly imagine a catastrophe more like Plato's description of Atlantis' fate than the destruction of Crete.

Many of the details of the Atlantis story fit with what is now known about Crete. Women had a relatively high political status, both cultures were peaceful, and both enjoyed the unusual sport of ritualistic bullfighting (where an unarmed man wrestled and jumped over a bull).

If the fall of the Minoans is the story of Atlantis, how did Plato get the location and time wrong? Galanopoulos suggested there was a mistake during translation of some of the figures from Egyptian to Greek and an extra zero added. This would mean 900 years ago became 9000, and the distance from Egypt to "Atlantis" went from 250 miles to 2,500. If this is true, Plato (knowing the layout of the Mediterranean Sea) would have been forced to assume the location of the island continent to be squarely in the Atlantic Ocean.

Not everyone accepts the Minoan Crete theory of the story of Atlantis, but until a convincing case can be made for some other place, it, perhaps, remains science's best guess.

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Mystery The Curse of Tutankhamun

Death Shall Come on Swift Wings To Him Who Disturbs the Peace of the King... -Supposedly engraved on the exterior of King Tutankhamen's Tomb

The king was only nineteen when he died, perhaps murdered by his enemies. His tomb, in comparison with his contemporaries, was modest. After his death, his successors made an attempt to expunge his memory by removing his name from all the official records. Even those carved in stone. As it turns out, his enemy's efforts only ensured his eventual fame. His name was Tutankhamen: King Tut.

The ancient Egyptians revered their Pharaohs as Gods. Upon their deaths the King's bodies were carefully preserved by embalming. The mummified corpses were interned in elaborate tombs (like the Great Pyramid) and surrounded with all the riches the royals would need in the next life. The tombs were then carefully sealed. Egypt's best architects designed the structures to resist thieves. In some cases heavy, hard-granite plugs were used to block passageways. In others, false doorways and hidden rooms were designed to fool intruders. Finally, in a few cases, a curse was placed on the entrance.

Most of these precautions failed. In ancient times grave robbers found their way into the tombs. They unsealed the doors, chiseled their way around the plugs and found the secrets of the hidden rooms. They stripped the dead Kings of their valuables. We will never know if any of the thieves suffered the wrath of a curse.

Archaeologists from Europe became very interested in Egypt in the 19th century. They uncovered the old tombs and explored their deep recesses always hoping to find that one forgotten crypt that had not been plundered in antiquity. They knew that the Pharaohs had been buried with untold treasures that would be of immense artistic, scientific, and monetary value. Always the archaeologists were disappointed.

The Search for the Missing King

In 1891 a young Englishman named Howard Carter arrived in Egypt. Over the years he became convinced that there was at least one undiscovered tomb. That of the almost unknown King Tutankhamen. Carter found a backer for his tomb search in the wealthy Lord Carnarvon. For five years Carter dug looking for the missing Pharaoh and found nothing.

Carter and Carnarvon

Carnarvon summonded Carter to England in1922 to tell him he was was calling off the search. Carter managed to talk the lord into supporting him for one more season of digging. Returning to Egypt the archaeologist brought with him a yellow canary.

A Few Authentic Curses from Mummy Tombs As for anybody who shall enter this tomb in his impurity: I shall ring his neck as a bird's. As for any man who shall destroy these, it is the god Thoth who shall destroy him. As for him who shall destroy this inscription: He shall not reach his home. He shall not embrace his children. He shall not see success.

"A golden bird!" Carter's foreman, Reis Ahmed, exclaimed. "It will lead us to the tomb!"

Perhaps it did. On November 4th, 1922 Carter's workmen discovered a step cut into the rock that had been hidden by debris left over from the building of the tomb of Ramesses IV.. Digging further they found fifteen more leading to an ancient doorway that appeared to be still sealed. On the doorway was the name Tutankhamen.

When Carter arrived home that night his servant met him at the door. In his hand he clutched a few yellow feathers. His eyes large with fear, he reported that the canary had been killed by a cobra. Carter, a practical man, told the servant to make sure the snake was out of the house. The man grabbed Carter by the sleeve.

"The pharaoh's serpent ate the bird because it led us to the hidden tomb! You must not disturb the tomb!"

Scoffing at such superstitious nonsense, Carter sent the man home.

Carter immediately sent a telegram to Carnarvon in England and waited anxiously for his arrival. Carnarvon made it to Egypt by November 26th and watched as Carter made a hole in the door. Carter leaned in, holding a candle, to take a look. Behind him Lord Carnarvon asked, "Can you see anything?"

Carter answered, "Yes, wonderful things."

The day the tomb was opened was one of joy and celebration for all those involved. Nobody seemed to be concerned about any curse. Rumors later circulated that Carter had found a tablet with the curse inscribed on it, but hid it immediately so it would not alarm his workers. Carter denied doing so.

The tomb was intact and contained an amazing collection of treasures including a stone sarcophagus. The sarcophagus contained three gold coffins nested within each other. Inside the final one was the mummy of the boy-king, Pharaoh Tutankhamen.

The Curse Strikes?

A few months after the tomb's opening tragedy struck. Lord Carnarvon, 57, was taken ill and rushed to Cairo. He died a few days later. The exact cause of death was not known, but it seemed to be from an infection started by an insect bite. Legend has it that when he died there was a short power failure and all the lights throughout Cairo went out. His son reported that back on his estate in England his favorite dog howled and suddenly dropped dead.

Even more strange, when the mummy of Tutankhamun was unwrapped in 1925, it was found to have a wound on the left cheek in the same exact position as the insect bite on Carnarvon that lead to his death.

By 1929 eleven people connected with the discovery of the Tomb had died early and of unnatural causes. This included two of Carnarvon's relatives, Carter's personal secretary, Richard Bethell, and Bethell's father, Lord Westbury. Westbury killed himself by jumping from a building. He left a note that read, "I really cannot stand any more horrors and hardly see what good I am going to do here, so I am making my exit."

Outside the tomb before it was opened.

What horrors did Westbury refer to?

The press followed the deaths carefully attributing each new one to the "Mummy's Curse" By 1935 they had credited 21 victims to King Tut. Was there really a curse? Or was it all just the ravings of a sensational press?

Herbert E. Winlock, the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, made his own calculations about the effectiveness of the curse. According to to Winlock's figures of the 22 people present when the tomb was opened in 1922, only 6 had died by 1934. Of the 22 people present at the opening of the sarcophagus in 1924, only 2 died in the following ten years. Also ten people were there when the mummy was unwrapped in 1925, and all survived until at least 1934.

In 2002 a medicine scholar at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, named Mark Nelson, completed a study which purportedly showed that the curse of King Tut never really existed. Nelson selected 44 Westerners in Egypt at the time the tomb was discovered. Of those, twenty-five of the group were people potentially exposed to the curse either because they were at the breaking of the sacred seals in the tomb, or at the opening of the sarcophagus, or at the opening of the coffins, or the unwrapping of the mummy. The study showed that these exposures had no effect on the length of their survival when compared to those not exposed.

Perhaps, the power of a curse is in the mind of the person who believes in it. Howard Carter, the man who actually opened the tomb, never believed in the curse and lived to a reasonably old age of 66 before dying of entirely natural causes.

A Rational Explaination?

Several people have suggested that illnesses associated with the ancient Egyptian tombs may have a rational explanation based in biology. Dr. Ezzeddin Taha, of Cairo University, examined the health records of museum workers and noticed that many of them had been exposed to Aspergillus niger, a fungus that causes fever, fatigue and rashes. He suggested that the fungus might have been able to survive in the tombs for thousands of years and then was picked up by archaeologists when they entered.

Dr. Nicola Di Paolo, a Italian physician identified another possible fungus, Aspergillus ochraceus, at Egyptian archaeological sites suggesting it might also have made visitors to the tomb, or even those that just handled artifacts from the tombs, sick. Aspergillus ochraceus has not been shown to be fatal, however.

In 1999 a German microbiologist, Gotthard Kramer, from the University of Leipzig, analyzed 40 mummies and identified several potentially dangerous mold spores on each. Mold spores are tough and can survive thousands of years even in a dark, dry tomb. Although most are harmless, a few can be toxic.

Kramer thinks that when tombs were first opened and fresh air gusted inside, these spores could have been blown up into the air. "When spores enter the body through the nose, mouth or eye mucous membranes, " he adds, "they can lead to organ failure or even death, particularly in individuals with weakened immune systems."

For this reason archaeologists now wear protective gear (such as masks and gloves) when unwrapping a mummy, something explorers from the days of Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon didn't do.

So was the curse of the mummy a mold spore named Aspergillus flavus or Cephalosporium? Or was it all media hype? Or is there another explaination?

from UnMuseum.org

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Sulfur Gas, One Signs Alien Existence

Sulfur or sulfur gas molecules could be a marker of the existence of aliens or at least microbial life. Thus disclosed Renyu Hu, a doctoral student at MIT planetary science, in American Astronomical Society Meeting in Boston. The opinion is based on the fact that there is a sulfur-based life on Earth.

Known, many microbes use sulfur compounds to produce energy, just like the way humans generate energy with the aid of oxygen.

Hu made the simulation in order to convince people of his opinion. He made a model of the planet in the habitable zone in the Sun-like star system. The planet was rich in nitrogen like Earth, but it has a sulfur content of 1,000 times greater than Earth.

According to Hu, sulfur-based life in the planet's surface removing residual hydrogen sulfide gas (H2S). "Hydrogen sulfide from the surface have a huge impact on the atmospheric composition of a planet," said Hu was quoted as saying Physorg.

If a planet's atmosphere has a high content of H2S, then maybe the planet has a life. H2S is difficult to be detected by astronomers. However, excess H2S resulted in many sulfur aerosols that can be detected with infrared or visible light.

Although Hu's reasonable opinion, the fact remains that until now have not found extra-solar planets (in the outer solar system) are inhabited star system similar to the Sun. Thus, Hu's opinion still needs to be studied.

Hu himself warned that the sulfur is not necessarily a sign of life. It could be the sulfur is a result of volcanic activity on a particular planet. "We still have to thoroughly examine this assumption," said Hu.

According to Hu, H2S is also not the only gas that could be a sign of life. "We want to see as much as possible the existing gas in Earth's atmosphere and assess whether the gas could be a marker of life," Hu explained. Hu do the experiment this time with his partner, Sara Seager and William Baines.

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Is Technology Changing Mind?

American scientists declared that the time spent by young people now on the Internet and gaming, this practice is gradually changing the model of learning, reading and being together with others, scientists in the various countries issued a similar warning: the more advanced computers, more and more degradation of the human brain , and this phenomenon in everyday life more seriously.

In today's modern life science and technology has infiltrated everywhere, not only in aspects of life, but also has expanded to education, spirit and entertainment fields. Most children at an early age, in all aspects of life, education and entertainment have united closely with technology and computers. Human dependence on computers has exceeded the limit, this problem has become a major concern in various scope.

Medical personnel in Japan do intelligence testing on 150 young people aged between 20-35 years who often use computers, they found more than 10% of their memory has suffered serious setbacks, and some have been unable to remember the names of friends and his appointment has made.

Professor of American psychiatry, Gary Small says that each day related to the large number of internet, mobile phones and other technology products, will change the way the human brain works. If the use of technology products over time for togetherness with others, in identifying the facial expressions and other brain functions will also decline. This way people will become increasingly strange and aloof, and lose interest in learning to traditional ways.

The doctor said this problem occurs mainly because in this computer age people excessively rely on electronic products to help remember something, rarely use their own brains to complete daily work and problems encountered in life. Internet usage in the long term create an interactive and togetherness among humans decreased. Scientists from Japan, Britain and the United States, has issued a similar warning to the world: the more advanced computers, more and more degradation of the human brain, and this phenomenon in everyday life more seriously.

"Digital natives" Impact Of Inter-Human Interaction

The most affected are young people that we are modern now refer to as "digital natives", ie people who have been together for memudahan life and is closely integrated with technology products since the early period when still a child. Professor Dana Small states are very important to help young people improve the skills to interact with others.

John Rowe, a 19-year-old Internet enthusiast who lives in Pasadena, California, United States, in the past he averaged 6-12 hours a day spent entrenched in the messenger, internet, discussion forums and online games.

After hearing the recommendations of Professor Rowe Fund Small said "If I do not often spend time together with friends, in terms of interpersonal relationships would not be able to deal with them as harmonious as it is today. You have no friends in reality this life, can not interact with them. "He felt in a week could be three or four out with friends, it's very good.

Is the Google Era Is Good or Worrying?

People in the past if you want to get the desired information, a lot of reading. Now because of the convenience of search engine on the internet, people will quickly find relevant information, and reduce the enormous amount of time to read. Professor Tara Brabazon from the University of Brighton, it's easy to get information not only create curiosity of students to be blunt, the more concern is students who are studying does not have the ability to distinguish the accuracy of information on the Internet.

Former editor of books famous Internet Nicholas Kaldor said "As a writer, the internet is like a cornucopia of treasures that fall from the sky, in the past had to spend several days doing research in the stacks of books, now only a few minutes is over. For me, the Internet is being transformed into millions of media, such as a pathway, through which information flows through the eyes, ears and put it into my mind. "

Despite a wealth of information has brought some certain comfort, but also seemed to begin to shape thinking mode. Karl said: "The Internet seems to have destroyed the ability to concentrate and think I am keen in the past. In the past, my deep sea diver, and now it seems to me like stepping on a surfboard, just fly over the ocean surface only. "

Professor Bruce Friedman of Michigan Medical School are also mentioned: "Now kamauan me to read a long article was almost lost completely. My mind has emerged a kind of characteristic "staccato" (read bits and pieces). All of this comes from the habit of fast browsing on the internet. "

Lowering the Learning Ability

Since 2000 years ago, the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates has warned the traditional learning methods with the oral method which has been replaced by learning by writing. Socrates considers compared with the traditional way to learn orally, in writing how to learn more shallow. Until recently, the popularity of television and the Internet increasingly makes people feel worried about a major change in approach to learning, worried about children under the information that no good will become more ferocious, passive, and influences their learning.

Armstrong was a famous educator in Canada, in a book "Children and computers" shows the weakness of teaching with computers. The dependence of children on the machine has seriously hindered the development of children's intelligence. A U.S. study also showed that elementary school students who increasingly rely on computers, their arithmetic skills are also getting weaker. "

In a book by Maryanne Wolf with the title of "Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain" he said, "Usually when kids are learning to read the brain will develop slowly, it could only accept a more complex level . And analysis of the reading will spend a lot to understand in depth can be learned steadily. But the emphasis on the Internet is speed, how to gather information quickly, therefore it can only understand the knowledge of the surface. "

Maryanne said, if children from the age of childhood continue to use the internet to acquire knowledge, is likely to affect children's ability to think after reading. He also said that all we need to discuss this issue in depth. In this digital age, the children need is an educator's more appropriate to improve their ability to understand the knowledge.

Do not Let the Computer Replace Your Mind

Google recently announced that their goal is to to organize information from around the world and make it available everywhere. Through a quick internet search engine, it can quickly obtain the desired information. However, whether this is really beneficial to the developing brain?

Karl said "Over the last few years, I began to feel there is something unpleasant, I feel there are certain people, or are there certain things are always in my brain constantly screw up, make a return" image my computer ", or write back the memory of the brain. He is in "if Google makes me more and more stupid" to write, I've not used the methods used to think anymore.

He noticed, that once when reading a book or a lengthy article, do not need to devote effort can focus on one story. Now often read two or three times, his attention on the disappearing.

Wolf believes that reading is not a skill that people obtain from birth, do not like speaking it is our genes. Must train our own brains, new characters can interpret what we see as a whole and read a language we can understand. But if we always compare the efficiency and put it on top of all, there will likely reduce our ability to read in depth. The spirit of the rich thinking and the ability to understand reading an article that is formed in such depth that, in a very large coverage has been lost.

Many experts believe that the Internet has not only changed the way humans to read, but also a way of thinking, even his ego. Carl finally said: "I feel. When we rely on computers as a medium of understanding the world, he will be our own minds. "

Although the impact of computers on the brain tissue still has a stage again for review, there are also studies that say using the internet affect the operation of our minds. But we can determine is, together to enjoy the comfort that can be obtained, do not let the Internet computer network replaces the ability to think oneself. Even the best computer, it also can only be a tool, used appropriately, do not be too dependent, we are just not getting lost in the Internet space.

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Ghost Car, Unique Cars are Invisible

The car, dubbed the 'Ghost Car', the Pontiac Deluxe Six, because this car throughout its body is covered by a glass material.

Created in 1939 by General Motors and chemical company Rohm and Haas a cost of $ 25,000 and became the first transparent car, made ​​in America.

The car is the only one made ​​of glass and will soon be auctioned. Expected to be sold for $ 500,000. Here are some photos.

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World's Largest Tree House

A resident in Crossville, TN (U.S.) named Horace Burgess has the world's largest tree house. reach 97 meters high towering to the sky, which is supported by a white oak tree, with a high 80-foot diameter and 12 feet.

Six other trees grown as a castle tower. This magnificent house has 80 rooms and 20 veranda, overlooking the gap and staircase. Built of wood used, this building stands in rural areas, but has attracted many people from all over the country.

He tells his story, in 1993, Horace Burgess was praying when God told him, "If you build a tree house, I'll see that you never run out of material."

Itself into an impromptu carpenter who learns self-taught and also for landscape architects. Although he has spent all the time and cost to build his dream house, but he never felt that his job had been perfect.

Over the past fourteen years, Burgess has added to the tree house by using pieces of recycled wood from the garage, and warehouse.

Treehouse has 10 floors, an average of nine to 11 feet high and wide between 8,000 to 10,000 square feet. And on it there is a bell tower weighing 5700 pounds, comes with 10 bottles of oxygen-acetylene refill the bell.

Approximately 400 to 500 people visited during the week, most of them from outside the country and most of them heard of this special home from mouth to mouth.

Horace Burgess tree house will soon get into the Guinness book of records, but before that Burgess should provide measurements of every inch of his tree house, a difficult task but it sure will get it done with the help of his friends who volunteered their time.

Burgess has also vowed to continue to improve every structure fragile because he did not want to lose the title as the owner of the world's largest tree house.

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11 How to Become a Smarter Brain

Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, USA, has examined the brains of rats. They found that the brains of mice grew by 4 percent when they were forced to perform mental tasks every day, for example, find a way out of a winding alley, climbing stairs, and socialize with other rats.

Well, the mouse brain can be trained to grow, let alone the human brain. The more trained, our brains must be more sharply. Memory loss in a certain amount at any age is natural, just as changes in other organs. Importantly, do not be lazy to diligently train our brain to stay strong memory of all time.

Here's 11 Ways to make your brain Smarter:

1. Practice your ability to observe. Note the surrounding environment. Record in your mind what you see, ranging from the simplest and forwarded with the observation that more complicated.

2. Sharpen your senses. Can be trained to distinguish the taste of food likes and what does not. Recognizing the smell and aroma in the vicinity or the sounds that exist in the way or may feel hot or cold air around you.

3. Memorize the names of friends and the pair number. How many can remember? Rehearse so I could remember more.

4. Learn something new. Many read and get acquainted with other things that may not be your field, can a foreign language, knowledge of computers, and others.

5. Use your hands to follow the instructions of the brain. Such as playing guitar, typing without looking at the keys, doing crafts out of wood, or practicing penmanship.

6. Tekuni hobby. Use the opportunity to develop your hobby.

7. Learn and memorize important dates, involving family members, friends, or a particular celebration.

8. Memorize something you like. Could be it poetry, song, words from a book or someone's words. As much as possible also try to phrase that is used is a foreign language.

9. Exercise memorize a long sequence of numbers lined up, for example 32145687390282930498. This is a form of exercise to improve short-term memory. Do it by grouping or splitting it into several parts numbers, eg 7390282 and 3214568 then the last 930 498.

10. Remember personal journey. What you are doing an hour ago, last week on Wednesday at 10.00, for example. With whom, where, and so on.

11. Remember and re-spending meticulous daily. What did you buy yesterday? How much money is in your wallet right now? When did you last take the cash, and so on.

These exercises will allow brain cells remain active and intercellular connective tissue of the brain the meeting. Challenging mental activities increase the number of active circuits or synapses in the brain. The more circuits, more and more associations, the greater the ability to remember

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