With soaring oil prices, everyone suffer from the effects of inflation… Shopping in HK used to be very affordable. It’s still cheaper than shopping in Australia, but it’s nowhere as cheap as how it used to be. Nowadays when you go shopping in HK, you shop for the style and quality, rather than for the [...]
Heart Attack: Fat Around the Heart May Increase Risk
(from MEDICA.de)
When it comes to risk for a heart attack, having excess fat around the heart may be worse than having a high body mass index or a thick waist, according to researchers.
30/07/2008
The study was among the first to explore whether there is a link between [...]
Why do autistic people do what they do? It can be explained scientifically:
Brain: Autism’s Social Struggle Explained
(from MEDICA.de)
According to a new study inefficient pathways for transmitting information between certain brain regions are to blame for the difficulties of people with autism to determine another person’s intentions in a social interaction.
24/07/2008
Picking up on innuendo and [...]
It’s really sad that cigarette companies are using whatever they can to make people addicted to smoking… all the harm just for the money they earn…
Menthol’s been used in cigarette for many years, but that doesn’t justify the reason for using it in cigarettes.
Tobacco: Menthol Used to Addict Youths
(from MEDICA.de)
Researchers explored menthol levels in specific [...]
Some people tend to skip meals during the day. It’s scientifically proven that this is very unhealthy.
A typical example would be for people in diets and for people who want to lose weight. People who eat two meals a day (usually skipping breakfast) gain more weight than people who eat three meals a day. [...]
The Parliament of New South Wales passed the World Youth Day Act 2006 especially for the event. The regulations made under this act however have been the source of some controversy, mainly in the operation of various provisions of the World Youth Day Regulation 2008 within hundreds of so-called declared areas across Sydney. Of the [...]
This means we can literally FINE someone if we feel like it…. XD
But then, I wonder how many overseas pilgrims actually know about this “new law” during WYD week. Maybe we’ll bump into some people annoying us afterall. At church, I heard about an “offending” t-shirt that has the map of Australia and the words [...]
