10 Optical Illusions in 2 minutes

Do fruit lovers eat more sweets?
A U.S. study suggests people who like sweets eat more fruit than salty-snack lovers and people who love fruit eat more sweets than vegetable lovers.

Life Expectancy for Selected Countries, 2006
Australia 80.5  Canada 80.2  Israel 79.5  Norway 79.5  United Kingdom 78.5  United States 77.8  life expectancy chart

Only one free credit report service online Are you monitoring your credit report on a yearly basis? If the answer is no, what are you waiting for? Thanks to the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, which took effect nationwide in September 2005, you are entitled to a free copy of your credit report from each of the three credit-reporting agencies (Equifax, Experian, Trans Union) every year. free credit report service

NEW STUDY: Meditating at the Office May Improve Your Performance
Daily meditation may improve performance at work and reduce stress, suggests a study in Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience. Subjects sat and focused on their breathing for 30 minutes a day for eight weeks.  The result: Mediators responded significantly faster than a control group to commands to push certain computer buttons, an indicator of precise focus and an ability to make quick decisions. Meditation may help control your attention and push troubling thoughts aside, making room to focus on tasks at hand, says lead author Amishi P. Jha, Ph.D.

Gelotology is the study of humor and laughter, and its effects on the human body. It is also the psychological and physiological study of laughter. The word is from the Greek gelos, geloto meaning laugh, laughter, laughing.

Hitting the books at any age Who is the typical student of higher learning in America? Nearly half of Americans ages 25 and older - 92 million people - take part in some form of continuing education. They may be mothers or grandfathers, white-collar professionals or soldiers. They may study online or attend college summer sessions. Some just want to learn how to paint a Maine coastal scene, but the majority are enrolled in work-related training, and many are earning degrees. higher learning

Laughter is a form of internal jogging,
 Lee S. Berk, an associate professor  of Public Health and Medicine.

NASA Takes Google on Journey into Space  NASA Ames Research Center, located in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, and Mountain View-based Google Inc. today announced plans to collaborate on a number of technology-focused research-and-development activities that will couple some of Earth’s most powerful technology resources. NASA goes Google

Patent Search uses the same technology as Book Search, which means you can scroll through pages and zoom in and out on text and illustrations. So far you are limited to viewing the original documents but the Google Blog says that saving and printing features will be coming soon.