Over the years I’ve learned some interesting things about tricks restaurants use on their customers. A long time ago I read some literature about how different colors effect different moods. For example, red, yellow and orange are “high energy” colors and are often used in fast food restaurants because the restaurants know that those colors [...]
I was reading an article on the Time.com website about how abandoned ships are damaging the environment. That article talked about how a lot of fishing vessels that were sunk (either on purpose or accident) still having fishing gear on board and the fishing gear (nets and traps) continue to “fish” forever. The article also [...]
One of the largest problems we face as Americans today is the lack of medical care for the needy. Too many people lack health insurance, and too many people go without the medical care that they need because of that! Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield (the country’s premier health insurance provider for decades) has [...]
I was reading on the Yahoo news website that a new Mersenne prime number has been discovered by UCLA mathematicians last month. It has 13 million digits! They discovered the number by using a network of seventy five different computers running Windows XP. (Take THAT Vista!) (I don’t like Vista!)
The discovery makes them eligible for a [...]
I got an email from my cousin in Germany who tells me that she has just joined a free dating cafe called the WestEastCafe.eu. She is really excited about having joined it because first of all, it’s a free dating service that covers all of Europe, but also because it is a community where you can [...]
