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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Emotional expression judged by Software
Facial expression shows how somebody feels. There might be joy, sadness, anger, shame, but also a sad-anger, a joyful surprise or frightening discussed. Even those complex feelings can be expressed by facial expression. We have a so to say born and learned competence to understand this unconsciously, consciously and can adjust or react to this.
Scientist of the OhioStateUniversity in Columbus recently …….
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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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The art of playing an instrument
It requires a lot of a musician to be an expert together with his instrument. Hands, head and heart have to work together in a perfect combination. Pedro Alcantara explains how to do and how to achieve this state of coordination and expression.
She mostly stresses the three most important parts:
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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Big gap between rich and poor
Chinas wages increase and lead to a deep gap between rich-poor.
The China labour bulletin shows that wages increase very much over the past two decades. This leads to a very big gap between rich and poor people.
Of course the highest minimum wage is to be found at the coastal area just like Shenzen, Shanghai, Shangdon and so on.
Compared to other countries in Asia …………..
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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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Sitting is killing yourself
The health impact of sitting is a topic of hot discussion these days– The New York Times covered the topic last month–and for good reason. All along we’ve known that sitting all day isn’t great for you but emerging research indicates that it’s not just a poor alternative to spending your day hiking the Appalachian Trail, it actually alters our bodies and decreases our health and lifespan. Check out the full infographic below for more stats and Information.
http://www.howtogeek.com/93822/sitting-is-killing-you-infographic/
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