Winter is here

It is getting colder now, winter is here. The Christmas decorations and the lights are out. There are bright dazzling trees everywhere, the streets are lined with lights, the shops are always inviting. There is no one around on the roads!
It is cold, people don't want to be walking around to experience the lights of Christmas, they just drive by.
It is nice to watch the lights reflecting off the wind shields of the car's, they just contour the car and as the car moves ahead they are moving like waves on the cars.
Jesus was born on one cold winter night in a stable. It would have been too cold. Anyway there has been a lot of debate if he was actually born at this time. It is nice to celebrate Christmas at this time because people come together during winter and create a feeling of companionship, warmth and friendliness which is what is need more on a cold winter night.

Recession Times

There is widespread talk everywhere that the economy is picking up. People are optimistic that the situation will improve in the coming time.
Still everyone is cautious about the situation, no one wants to buy a new car or make any new investments except saving for their holidays.
The companies although talk about improvements in the situation do not necessarily accept that when it comes to salaries and benefits of the workers.
Major industries are still reeling and waiting for a bailout, there are more mergers happening to increase the market hold.
Gold prices are steadily increasing everyday, seems like gold is going to be the trading commodity in the days to come for the governments of the world.

Slow down time

Have you ever been in a situation when momentarily everything blurs and there is only one thing in focus in your mind?
This happens to people when they are put in a kind of do or die situation. The brain realises the gravity of the situation and starts working instinctively. You no longer can actually think in those situations. There is one objective to achieve and everything else actually blurs as your eyes only concentrate on that particular thing, it is not just the eyes but all the senses are tuned into one thing.

During this time, the brain overclocks, it works faster than it normally does, because of the adrenaline released. This creates and illusion of time slowing down although the brain is working faster to help us get out of the do or die situation we are facing.

Cosmetic surgery

Cosmetic surgery has come a long way, from repairing damaged body parts to enhancing body parts.
If Pamela Anderson made it famous then there are a lot of people who made it notorious.
Recently there is a Chinese woman, who had plastic surgery on her fingers. One might wonder why, did she make her fingers bigger? The answer is no, she got her fingers done so that she can illegally immigrate to Japan.
She altered her finger prints so that she can pass through the biometric testing, which she succeeded.
Eventually she was caught for some other crime and she was busted or is it fingered.

Flagellum

I was watching a program on the origins of life. There was a talk about intelligent design being the cause of life rather than the evolution model.

The proponents of intelligent design cited as an example the flagellum. This is a long thread like structure on certain bacteria that is used for movement.

The flagellum is a miniature motor, it is quite clear from the images that was shown. Their argument was that this was the most simplest form of cell machinery. It is not possible for this structure to evolve. Evolution means smaller changes happening over a course of time that produce a larger entity. If this explanation is applied to the flagellum, then the flagellum would not exist as the flagellum requires all the parts to be present simultaneously for it to exhibit a particular behaviour namely transportation.

Once again scientists differ.

Photobomb

Photobomb is a recent phenomenon popular on viral and photo sharing sites. A photobomb is a photo which has got more that the subject of the photo. In photos termed as photobombs, the subject of the photo is merely an excuse for taking the photo which might contain something funny happening in the background.

Sometimes, a genuine photo of a subject might become a photobomb when an intruder comes in the background to intentionally "bomb" the photo.

Most of the photobombs are usually graphic, which shows the trends of people's interests. It might be varied from drunk people passed out to sober people making out. There are even animal channel type photobombs, one such being a guy posing in front of mating lions in a zoo.

Check out this new phenomenon, just type photobomb in google and have a laugh.

Do you watch pornography?

If you don't then your might be of some help to scientists who are doing some research on sexual preferences.
They had done some research on men who watch porn and when it was time to do some research on men who do not watch any porn, they could not find any.
So all men watch porn, I guess that is what is keeping the internet up and running.
If you have not heard, I would suggest you listen to the song "The internet is for porn" on youtube.