Last week I was told a story which is not so unusual I think. A colleague of mine visited Germany for a training course. Her mother was supposed to come to Germany right after the last day of the training course. Mother and daughter then wanted to travel around in Europe and have a nice time together.
Unfortunately it did not happen to be so!
Without any obvious regret ……..
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Rapid increase of eye-problems
Scientists have found out that there is a rapid increase in short-sightedness, especially in East-Asia like China and South-Corea.
What does this mean? How is this related to you? How is this related to you if you even don’t have any eye-problems yet?
Scientists meanwhile talk about a global epidemic. ………..
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Anger in the face enhances cues of strength
New research has been done on facial expression and human behaviour. This research (Evolution and human behaviour magazine) proves that humans assess others` fighting ability by monitoring cues of strength. Cues can be found and clearly identified by facial expression. Biologically and socially this is a hidden important competence of humans. So to say ………
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Demand for better sex education
“Adult videos can’t be our sex-education” is one of the main messages of Chinese students demonstrating for sex-education.
They demand an especially universities and schools have to say “yes” to sex-education. Young Chinese people obviously want and of course need a save sexual life, a sexual life with excitement, ……….
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Machine knows the attractiveness of your face
British scientists found out that the attractiveness of man`s face can be judged by a machine. They referred to three attributes: trustful, attractive and dominant.
The scientists based their study on 65 different items which help to identify a face and the differences between faces. By this they could find reliable judgement being made by a machine.
The results of the study underline the importance of the unconscious spontaneous judgement on first sight. This means much less than a second. If you are interested and want tro learn more about first sight and the judgement of the facial Expression please have a look.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/07/23/1409860111.abstract?sid=ef3cff09-4046-4244-8c2f-222f937f45d9
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/software-sagt-ersten-eindruck-ueber-gesichtszuege-voraus-a-983236.html
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Helplessness towards psychic problems in China
China with more than 1 Billion inhabitants only has about 25-35.000 psychiatrists and psychotherapists. Compared to other countries this is for too less to guarantee a good health-management and mental health system. For example in Germany there are even more psychiatrists and psycho-therapists for only 85 Million inhabitants.
This leads to significant and severe problems within in the population. People don’t know how to react………
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Red makes women sexually attractive and other women jealous
So, now something very practical: be Aware and even careful, women!
Everybody knows that women like to wear red clothes. This is an attractive colour. In nature red is the signal colour and everybody looks at once to the red colour when it appears somewhere.
But this is also a reason that women get jealous!
Researchers ………..
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Change of households in China
Chinese families become smaller and smaller. The number of one-person-households grows instead rapidly. This is due to the low birth-rate and a changed attitude towards marriage.
The National Committee on Health and Family-planning states that the average of …………….
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Lowest suicide rate in the world
In 2002 the Lancet, a British medical journal, said there were 23.2 suicides per 100,000 people annually from 1995 to 1999. This year a report by a group of researchers from the University of Hong Kong found that had declined to an average annual rate of 9.8 per 100,000 for the years 2009-11, a 58% drop.
Paul Yip, director of the Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention at the University of Hong Kong and a co-author of the recent study, says no ……..
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Gritty, emotional, smelly and dirty: new evidence supports Freud’s long-debunked theory that sex fuels our dreams.
In short, every 90 minutes during sleep, we enter the dangerous twilight zone called REM sleep. The reward centres of our brains are activated, and our sexual systems are turned on – yet our bodies are partially paralysed so we cannot move to take advantage of these activations. Instead, as key physiologic systems collapse, we are forced to watch these things we call dreams.
If you want to read more just have a look there:
http://aeon.co/magazine/altered-states/was-freud-right-about-dreams-all-along/
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