Ideas Galore

By nature people tend to believe in gossip other than the truth, a study has shown. It has found further that gossip played a vital role in people lives for making a decision, noted an evolutionary biologist at the Max Planck Institute who led the study. It has also shown that gossip has still a strong influence to people despite their access to original information. Hence, it has been noted that gossip has strong manipulative potential to people. With a series of experiments conducted by researchers through playing games, people reacted by a mere gossip as soon as they receive the information despite no hard evidence to substantiate it when they responded to give less to those who are described as “nasty misers” and give more to those who are portrayed as “generous players”.

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Just recently, a student was rejected by an international summer camp organization despite the academic qualification the child holds because he had been diagnosed with Attention Deficit with Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). He was feeling depressed and disappointed then because of that. However, with the word of moral support and self assurance by the parent towards her child, it can make a real difference as the parent did the right thing to help her child cope with a difficult situation such as this. Many times, parents are caught unprepared to deal with their children’s frustrations and problems in life. This holds true for many parents so that instead of helping, they end up either aggravating to the problem or feeling helpless themselves. What can we do to help children overcome with challenging life situations? The following suggestion may help:

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Scientists had warned that exhaust fumes from motor vehicles can aggravate heart disease by triggering inflammation and hardening of blood vessels. Fine particles in exhaust fumes in combination with natural fats in arteries can evolve into a cascading genetic changes capable of inducing cardiovascular atherosclerosis a major case of death in the west. Significant rise in hospital admissions and deaths from heart disease were noted and it has something to do with greater levels of pollution as the underlying explanation.

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I had known my father as a heavy smoker since I was a kid. I used to go for an errand just to buy cigarettes in a store near our home for his smoking needs. He usually consumes two to three packs a day. I had noticed his forefinger, middlefinger and thumbfinger nicotinized and colored rusty yellow. I know how he had been addicted to nicotine because he had tried to quit the vice on several occasions only to start craving for cigarettes again and resume the habit.

Until one day when he retired from the military service that he underwent an executive medical check up. The doctor had advised him to stop smoking for good, if he wanted to live longer beyond five years from the date of his retirement. The doctor’s findings, that my father’s heart was already engulfed with nicotine that blackened the external surface of his heart.

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