Laid-off workers who wrote about their trials were more likely to find new jobs than a control group,
asthma and arthritis patients who wrote about a stressful event just once were more likely to report health improvements than fellow patients who wrote about a neutral event,
and people who wrote about a stressful time made fewer visits than average adults to health clinics over the next 15 months.
Those who jot down what they ate in a food diary lost more weight than a control group, and women who wrote about past traumatic experiences slept better than those who didn't.
First, every human pupil is dark brown, regardless of the color of the iris, which encloses the pupil and determines the color of the eye.
Second, blue is the lightest color of human iris. The consequence of these two observations is that the size of the pupil is easiest to determine in blue eyes.
If you face people with different eye colors and must determine whether each person likes or is interested in you, with all else equal, it is easiest to read the blue-eyed person’s level of interest or attraction.
Modern Homo sapiens is still evolving. Despite the long-held view that natural selection has ceased to affect humans because almost everybody now lives long enough to have children, a new study of a contemporary Massachusetts population offers evidence of evolution still in action.
It was reported that then-US President Gerald Ford was pondering a trip to Hiroshima in 1974, but the plans were scrapped for fear of ruffling feathers in Japan. No sitting American president has ever visited either Hiroshima or Nagasaki
