Multiple Personality When You Speak Different Language
According to a research study published in the in the Journal of Consumer Research, people who are bi-cultural and speak two different languages can shift their personalities when they switch one language to another. In the study researchers found significant changes in one’s self perception called “frame-shifting” in bi-cultural participants who speak Spanish and English. Bi-cultural people switch frames more quickly and easily than those who are bilingual monoculturals. In the research women who came from Spanish background perceived themselves as more assertive when they spoke Spanish than when they spoke English.
In one of the studies, participants saw the ads in one language and in six months later, they saw the same ads in the other language. The participants saw an ad’s main character as a risk-taking, independent woman in the Spanish version and hopeless, lonely, confused woman in the English version.
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Seals’ Navigation aid: Stars
Seals can orient themselves and navigate to some degree using the stars as a guide,according to a research by University of Southern Denmark. Researchers have discovered that seals have the ability to recognize stars and groups of stars inside a modified planetarium. Humans used star navigation for centuries when sailing across the vast oceans. Bees use earth’s magnetic filed to navigate by.
Happy Canada Day !!
Canada Day is a Canada’s national holiday established by statute in 1879, under the name Dominion Day. Canadians celebrate this holiday on July 1 annually.
A royal proclamation was signed by the Governor General, Lord Monck on June 20, 1868, to join Canadians to celebrate the anniversary of the confederation.
Wish all Canadians a very Happy Canada Day !!
What Was Popular last month?
One of the drawbacks of delivering information in blogging format is earlier posts get buried deeper with time. I thought it would be useful to bring the most viewed news to the top one more time each month. Here is a recap of the most popular pieces from June.
- Turn Off the Play Station.
- Women think about Shopping as Men think about Sex.
- Gandhi’s 10 principles to change the world.
- Tornadoes on the sun.
- Christian dior launches cell-phone.
- Laptop for developing world by dell.
- Driver break point 450 per gallon.
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- Toyota Yaris green car of the year.
- Other species can learn foreign language.
- Nazi Dr.death still alive.
- Facebook rejected google.
- Hillary ready for vp.
- Breaking the brains code.
Factors Related to Homosexuality
Homosexuality is mostly influenced by both genetics and environmental factors. According to researchers from Queen Mary’s School and Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, genetics and environmental factors which are specific to an individual (biological processes such as different hormone exposure in the womb) are the important determinants of homosexuality. Finding a single ‘gay gene’/ gene for heterosexual behaviour is influenced by a mixture of genetic and environmental factors, therefore it is very complicated.
The overall study proved that genetics accounted for around 35% of the differences between men in homosexual behaviour and other individual-specific environmental factors are accounted for 64%.
One in Four Canadians don’t believe in God.
A new Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey reveals ,fewer than three-quarters of Canadians believe in a god. 72 per cent of poll participants said they believed in a god, while 23 per cent said they did not believe in any god. Compared to men(67 percent) more women(76 percent) believe in God. Also Canadians over the age of 50 (82 per cent) were far more likely than those under the age of 25 (60 per cent) to say they believed in a god. Belief in a god is higher in rural Canada (76 per cent) than in urban Canada (69 per cent). In one Harris Interactive study in the United States, conducted in 2007, the number who said they were non-believers was only eight per cent which is three times lower than Canada.
US Life Expectancy Reaches 78.
US life expectancy has surpassed 78 years for the first time. But there are 30 other countries that have higher estimated life span than US. Japan is No. 1 on the list, with a life expectancy of 83. U.S. life expectancy has been steadily rising, usually by about two to three months from year to year. White women continue to have the highest life expectancy (81 years), followed by black women (about 77 years), white men (76) and black men (70). Swaziland has the lowest life expectancy with 32.63 years.
Magic Of Hearing Silent Objects
A new study suggests that people can hear objects based on reflected and ambient sound. This study further explains how blind individuals are able to find doorways and objects without seeing or touching them. It may help to understand the echolocation, the technique used by animals, like bats.
In this research participants were blindfolded and transported around a basic campus classroom consisting of a linoleum floor, sheet rock walls, a tile ceiling, two white boards and large windows covered with plastic blinds. These participants were able use the sound of their own voices to determine what part of the room they were in. They were always accurate.
Communists Upset with Indiana Jones
Stephen Spielberg’s new Indiana Jones movie aims to undermine communist ideology and distort history, said Members of Russia’s Communist Party. They also called for a nationwide boycott of the movie. Moscow Communist lawmaker Andrei Andreyev said “it is very disturbing if talented directors want to provoke a new Cold War.” In the movie, Indiana Jones is fighting KGB agents for control of a crystal skull. The first Indiana Jones movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark (Special Edition)
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Mandela hideaway now a museum
The farm is just half an hour’s drive from the centre of Johannesburg, a site used by the African National Congress from which to launch its armed struggle against the apartheid state. The farm has been restored and opened as a museum. Nelson Mandela came to live here in 1961 when he was on the run. Later the farm was raided by the police, and the ANC’s high command was arrested. Mandela spent the next 27 years in prison after the arrest, much of it on Robben Island. Mandela has received more than one hundred awards over four decades, most notably the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
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