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Collision second! Wearing a helmet may improve your chances of contact with a car. On-road research reveals that cars drive closer to helmeted bike riders than unhelmeted ones. It would seem the perceived protection invites calamity. So, use your head.
This year’s bout of threeday gastro has reduced some 200,000 Australians to nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, fever and headaches.
Norovirous is particularly contagious due to its ability to spread in droplet form through the air. Consistent personal cleanliness greatly reduces the chances of catching it.
Scientists report that instruction in music impacts pitch perception, visual, motor and language-processing skills, owing to the multisensory effects of playing an instrument. Listening to music, as opposed to playing, is far less useful in accelerated learning.
REM rebound We dream in lengthening spurts throughout the night. These dream times are called “REM sleep” (named after Rapid Eye Movement during dreaming).
The first five-minute REM sleep comes after 70 minutes of slow-wave sleep. REM sleep lengthens with each occurrence— the finale being a 40-minute dreamscape just before waking. Sleep deprivation breaks the REM sleep cycle, causing longer REM sleep next time.
In Signs of the times on April 13, 1942, Harold W Clark wrote: “The Bible contains the only positive and authoritative statement regarding Creation. The record in the first chapter declares that Creation took place in six days. . . . We must depend on the Word of God to tell us some things that we cannot learn from our own studies. But this does not mean that we should close our eyes to the facts of science. By studying nature, we may learn many things that will help us to better understand the Bible.”
Extract from Signs of the Times, December 2007.
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