Sex study: Light on the Bedroom and Beyond

Kathy Jones (ANI/MedIndia.net, Nov. 15, 2011)

Unhappy pair, happy pair (Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and admirer ("Crazy Wisdom," movingpicturesnetwork.com)

There have been preconceived notions regarding men and women's attitude toward sex in the last few decades.

It has been taken for granted that men are more oriented towards sex while women are more commitment driven or men look for attractive mates and women go after social status.

However a new study, while defying all these notions has revealed that not all psychologists comply with these gender-essentialist statements.

Psychologist Terri Conley and colleagues of University of Michigan have asserted men think about sex every seven seconds is not true.

And while it's true that men think about sex more often than women do, they also think about other bodily needs, such as food and sleep, more than women do, Live Science reported.

For the study, psychologists asked research participants to record their thoughts throughout the day.

They found that men pondered sex 18 times a day to a woman's 10 times a day, but men also thought about food and sleep proportionately more than women. That suggests sex doesn't hold as vaunted a position for men as one might expect. More

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Science: Laughter Really is Good Medicine

(SkypeLaughterChain.com) A contagious language we all understand that brings us closer.

Scientists Hint at Why Laughter Feels So Good
Text by James Gorman (New York Times, Sept. 13, 2011)

Laughter is regularly promoted as a source of health and well being, but it has been hard to pin down exactly why laughing until it hurts feels so good. The answer, reports Robin Dunbar, an evolutionary psychologist at Oxford, is not the intellectual pleasure of cerebral humor, but the physical act of laughing.... ha, ha, ha... endorphins... “Laughter is very weird stuff, actually”... laughter contributes to group bonding and may have been important in the evolution of highly social humans. Social laughter, Dr. Dunbar suggests, relaxed and contagious, is “grooming at a distance,” an activity that fosters closeness in a group the way one-on-one grooming, patting and delousing promote and maintain bonds between individual primates of all sorts. More

Public Opinion Polls on UFO beliefs

The public already believes (UFOevidence.org)

Public opinion is as important as the reality because, more than reality, it leads to action (theragblog).

Public Opinion Polls on UFOs

Numerous public opinion polls from the last 50 years from different countries report very consistent and similar findings: 50% of the population believes in the reality of UFOs; 5% has seen a UFO.

Canadian UFO Poll: 3 million Canadians have seen UFOs
A national survey by an independent research consortium has found that 9.6% of all Canadians believe they have seen UFOs. "This translates into nearly 3 million people who say they are UFO witnesses," notes Chris Rutkowski, project coordinator.

Condon Report: Public Attitudes Toward UFO Phenomena
Aldora Lee, The Condon Report, Sec. 3, Chp. 7

Reported in this chapter are the findings of four opinion surveys conducted during the spring of 1968. The major surveys were of 2050 adults and 451 teenagers, representing a cross-section of the U.S. population. The other two surveys concerned college students and UFO sighters. In this report, opinions regarding the proportion of sighters in the United States, opinions regarding the reporting of UFOs, and attitudes toward UFOs and related phenomena are considered.

NIDS Extraterrestrial Intelligence Online Survey Results

NIDS (National Institute for Discovery Science)

Poll Reveals UFO Belief
Sci Fi Wire (Sci Fi Channel, Oct. 17, 2002)

A new national poll found that 72 percent of Americans believe the government is not telling the public everything it knows about UFO activity, and 68 percent think the government knows more about extraterrestrial life than it is letting on, the SCI FI Channel reported.

In ancient times an ancient tablet reveals that everyone not only believed but lived the reality of extraterrestrial visitors.

Poll: U.S. hiding knowledge of aliens

(CNN, June 15, 1997) Nearly 50 years since an alleged UFO was sighted at Roswell, New Mexico, a CNN/Time poll shows that 80 percent of Americans think the government is hiding knowledge of the existence of extraterrestrial life forms.

Poll: U.S. hiding knowledge of aliens (CNN, 1997)

(CNN, June 15, 1997) Nearly 50 years since an alleged UFO was sighted at Roswell, New Mexico, a new CNN/Time poll released Sunday shows that 80 percent of Americans think the government is hiding knowledge of the existence of extraterrestrial life forms.

Public Opinion Surveys and Unidentified Flying Objects: 50+ years of Sampling Public Opinions (PDF)
John F. Schuessler, International Director, MUFON (Mutual UFO Network)
Public opinion surveys fill an important need in business, politics, and advertising. For more than 50 years surveys of public opinions about Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) have been conducted to satisfy a variety of customers. While the numbers h ave fluctuated from time to time, the general results of these surveys showed the public to be very aware of UFO sightings, interested in what may be causing them, and concerned that the government was not doing enough to resolve the mystery. The purpose of this paper is to summarize a large number of surveys of public opinions about UFOs, starting in 1947 and continuing to the present.

Roper Poll Survey 1999 - Press Release
NIDS (National Institute for Discovery Science)

A nationwide survey by the Roper Organization has uncovered the following: when asked what they thought UFOs were, 25% thought they were alien spaceships, 12% thought they were secret government programs, 9% said hallucinations, 19% said UFOs are normal events that are misinterpreted by witnesses, and 7% said travelers from other dimensions.

Roper Poll Survey 1999 - Survey Data and Methodology
National Institute of Discovery Science (NIDS)

It goes much further than "belief," many Americans have contacted the others. There are many "others." And then as now they have many agendas and are engaged in many different activities on this planet.

Roper Poll Survey on "The Day After Contact"
National Institute of Discovery Science (NIDS)

How would humans react if E.T. landed? That is the question explored by the 1999 Roper Poll Survey, on behalf of the National Institute of Discovery Science.

Roper Poll Survey on UFOs and Extraterrestrials 1999 (PDF)
National Institute of Discovery Science (NIDS)

The 1999 Roper Poll on human reaction to contact with extraterrestrial civilizations.

Sci Fi Channel / Roper Poll 2002: UFOs & Extraterrestrial Life
Sci Fi Channel

The 2002 Roper Poll, commissioned by the Sci Fi Channel, on UFOs and Extraterrestrial Life, found that 72 percent of Americans believe the government is not telling the public everything it knows about UFO activity, and 68 percent think the government knows more about extraterrestrial life than it is letting on, the SCI FI Channel reported. This page has the results and summary of the survey.

Sci Fi Channel / Roper UFOs Poll 2002: Majority Already Believe in the Extraterrestrial
Sci Fi Channel/Roper Poll 2002
More than half (56 percent) of the American public think that UFOs are something real and not just in people's imagination. Nearly as many (48 percent) believe that UFOs have visited earth in some form.

Sci Fi Channel / Roper UFOs Poll 2002: Many Wonder What Government Really Knows About Other Intelligent Life
Sci Fi Channel/Roper Poll 2002
More than two-thirds of Americans say that the government is not telling the public everything it knows about UFO activity (72 percent) or extraterrestrial life (68 percent).

Sci Fi Channel/Roper UFOs Poll 2002: Most Americans Psychologically Prepared for Proof of Extraterrestrial Life
Sci Fi Channel/Roper 2002 Poll
Three in Four (74 percent) Claim They Are At Least Somewhat Psychologically Prepared For an Official Government Announcement Regarding the Discovery of Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life.

Sci Fi Channel/Roper UFOs Poll 2002: UFO Experiences Are Not Foreign to Americans
Sci Fi Channel/Roper Poll 2002
One in seven Americans say they or someone they know has had an experience involving a UFO.

Sci Fi Channel/Roper UFOs Poll 2002: Highlights
Sci Fi Channel

Overview and highlights from the recent poll, "UFOs and Extraterrestrial Life."

Summaries of Some Recent Opinion Polls on UFOs
Alberta UFO Study Group

In studying the UFO phenomenon I am always stuck by the results of the most recent surveys. Recall the argument that there would be wide spread panic if the government announced that there was an extraterrestrial presence visiting earth. Well every polling result in the last 10 years simply doesn’t support that argument.

The Attitudes of Canadians Toward the Existence of Extra-Terrestrial Life and UFOs
Geoff Dittman

Survey of several major opinion polls taken of Canadian's beliefs on UFOs and extraterrestrial life. Over the years, a consistently large portion of the Canadian population has expressed a belief in UFOs and aliens. I did manage to locate four professional polls and an informal survey conducted by ufologists. The first poll goes back to 1974, the last to 1997.

UFOs: Seeking the Truth Through Savvy Marketing
Leonard David, Space.com, Oct. 25, 2002 More

New Studies Confirm Cell Phone Hazards

Mark Huffman (ConsumerAffairs.com, May 23, 2011)


"Stunning proof" ignored in USA, scientists say

Since the days when cell phones were the size of bricks, there has been debate over the safety of these devices, which use radio waves to transmit voice and data.

A number of studies, stretching back more than a decade, have suggested extended cell phone exposure increases the risk of tumors and can harm human reproduction. The industry staunchly defends the safety of mobile phones, saying the studies' conclusions are unfounded.

"Stunning proof"

Now a group of international researchers meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, has released what they call “stunning proof” that confirms findings from the Council of Europe:

• pulsed digital signals from cell phones disrupt DNA,
• impair brain function, and
• lower sperm count.

A meeting convened by Environmental Health Trust, with the Turkish cancer society, and Gazi University, revealed the new research that the scientists say shows damage to DNA, brain, and sperm.

Nesrin Seyhan -- an advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) and NATO and head of the Biophysics Department and Bioelectromagnetics Laboratory at Gazi University in Ankara --presented findings that he says confirm the warning that just four hours of exposure to cell phone radiation disrupts the ability of human brain cells to repair damaged genes.

“We are deeply concerned about what this could mean for public health,” Seyhan said.

Prof. Wilhelm Mosgoeller from the Medical University of Vienna, who has led European research teams, said he found that the cell waves induce DNA breaks. Despite industry claims to the contrary, he says DNA breaks are real.

Insect studies

A research team at the University of Athens said insect studies have demonstrated that acute exposure to GSM (Global System for Mobile) signals brings about DNA fragmentation in insects’ ovarian cells, and consequently a large reduction in the reproductive capacity of the insects.

Further studies, they said, demonstrated that long exposures induced cell death to the insects in the study.

Other researchers said throughout a gestation period, exposure to radiation for just six minutes a day affects the bone formation of fetuses. The researchers also worry about the effect of cell phone use on children.

At higher frequencies, children absorb more energy from external radio frequency radiation than adults, because their tissue normally contains a larger number of ions and so has a higher conductivity.

The researchers strongly suggest limiting cell phone and cordless phone use by young children and teenagers to the lowest possible level and urgently ban telecom companies from marketing to them.

The researchers call their findings “thought-provoking” and say they have never been investigated in North America.

“The evidence justifies precautionary measures to reduce the risks for everyone of us,” Wosgoeller said.

The meeting was sponsored by Environmental Health Trust, The International Commission on Electromagnetic Safety, Gazi University and Athens University. Source

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Natural Cures: "Dying to Have Known" (film)

(NewVideoDigital) In "Dying To Have Known," filmmaker Steve Kroschel went on a 52-day journey to find evidence to the effectiveness of the Gerson Therapy -- a long-suppressed natural cancer cure.

The filmmaker's travels take him across the Atlantic and the Pacific, from upstate New York to San Diego to Alaska, from Japan and Holland to Spain and Mexico. In the end, he presents the testimonies of patients, scientists, surgeons, and nutritionists who attest to the therapy's effectiveness.

Gerson Therapy is efficacious: It cures cancer and other degenerative diseases (heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, hypoglycemia, and more)!

Scientists present the hard scientific proof to back up their claims. We hear from a Japanese medical school professor who cured himself of liver cancer over 15 years ago, a lymphoma patient who was diagnosed as terminal over 50 years ago, as well as noted critics of this world-renowned healing method who dismiss it out of hand as "pure quackery."

So the question remains, "Why is this powerful curative therapy still suppressed, more than 75 years after it was clearly proven to cure degenerative disease?" Viewers are left to decide for themselves.

• BOOK: Healing the Gerson Way: Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases (gerson.org)