FACEBOOK FRIENDS

TIME 11/30

LUSCOMBE/ 59-60

You open your telephone bill and it is off the wall. What you discover is that you spent

100 dollars playing a Zynga game. Face book friends don’t know zynga, but they know

that often they receive a game from a fellow member asking you to help them out in a social game called FARMVILLE, MAFIA WAR, or FISHVILLE. The game goes on and on. Everyone who makes a contribution adds to the charge. You are paying for the game.

The phone bill adds up. This is the strategy to get you to play pricey games on FACEBOOK which is essentially free. Just sign up.

However, you may want to think about the games. Did you not join to get in touch with folks that you may never see again???????? Or did you sign to play a game?

THE SKELETON OF WATER

THE ECONOMIST (2009) 11/20

91-92

Using an incredibly complex and super intensive microscope (super computer), it appears in the latest research a hidden structure within liquids and gases that guides the movement of everything from pollution to airplanes. There appears to be a fluid dynamics more subtle and more dynamic than imagined. There are skeletons of the sea and the air. It is called the Lagrangian Coherent Structure. This was first noted by an autistic savant in the 18^th century who described it, but could not do anything further with it. This means that there is a skeletal structure to numerous entities in the universe unthought-of before. They form barriers, and the barriers are easier to research than the core. Further, data can be crunched from the barriers to discover correlations.

Numerous phenomena may be studied with this.

HEALTH AND SCIENCE

THE WEEK (2009) 11/27

25

Babies are crying in their native tongues, new research indicates that pick up the tongue of their culture in the third trimester. The cries of babies from different languages are noticeable and recordable by the 2^nd to 5^th day. The cry with the accent adds to the baby’s ability to attract an adult in a new setting according to evolutionary psychologists.

Diets that help you reduce can also make you feel depressed and grouchy. This the conclusion of folks who have studied the South Beach Diet and the Atkins diet.

In a splashdown on the moon, water was discovered. The water appears to be beneath the surface on the southern pole of the moon.

Pigs are smart enough to recognize themselves in the mirror. At least they have some

capacity for self awareness.

Juice that has been squeezed into liquid has more acid, higher calories than soda, and more sugar. It can be especially troubling for diabetics. Avoid fruit juice.