KEPLER-22B may be the most Earth-like world yet found in the galaxy — and it could be home to alien life.

It orbits a star like the Sun 600 light years — that’s nearly 4,000BILLION MILES — away in the constellation Cygnus.

Importantly, the planet lies inside the habitable zone of its solar system, so-called because it is not too hot and not too cold for life to exist. Water — an essential requirement for life as we know it — would be a liquid.

Christmas would come around sooner there every year, because it takes just 290 days to go round its parent star.

Scientists cannot tell for sure yet whether Kepler-22b is a rocky world, a ball of gas or even a liquid object.

But its discovery, announced this week, suggests we’re getting closer to discovering we’re not alone in the universe.

The Kepler mission, launched in March 2009, has discovered more than 2,000 candidate planets — 200 are around the size of Earth.

Kepler looks for new worlds by monitoring 100,000 stars.

If sometimes the star’s light is not quite so bright, it guesses that a planet has crossed in front of its sun like an eclipse. Kepler has only been looking close to home in our galaxy, called the Milky Way.

There are 50billion other galaxies and each probably has more than 50billion stars — so somewhere out there there is very likely alien life looking hopefully into the universe wondering if they are alone.

It’s all very well being able to detect life far, far away when we will probably be unable to visit it. What I’d like to do is find it much closer — on Mars.

That is why I attempted to land a UK-built robot, Beagle 2, there to look for signs of life in 2003.

Sadly the mission was lost but the quest to explore Mars continues with NASA’s latest mission Mars Science Laboratory.

Next August nuclear-powered vehicle Curiosity will be lowered into a Mars crater that is believed to be a dried-up lake.

In 1989 my colleagues and I predicted life on Mars when we discovered the right sort of chemicals in a meteorite from Mars.

Perhaps we’ll be proved right.

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The findings of this study was based on post-mortem analysis of seven autistic boys aged between 2-16 years who are all suffering from accidental death. Most deaths were caused by drowning, one people lost their lives due to muscle cancer at the age of 8 years, and cause of death of an autistic at the age of 16 years has not been found.

The researchers examined the brains of boys living with autism and compared with a control group of half a dozen children who died in an accident. The results of their findings revealed that the brains of boys with autism who got 18 percent more weight, contains 67 percent of neurons in the prefrontal cortex compared to normal brain based on age. Prefrontal cortex is the area of the brain that is responsible for certain behaviors, including social skills, attention, mood.

Researchers writing in the journal, “Because cortical neurons are not produced in postnatal life, an increase in the number of neurons in pathological autistic children indicate the cause of the prenatal period.”

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The study also found that those who break the habit have the ability to remember information back to a level similar to nonsmokers.

The study involved more than seventy people aged 18 to 25 years.

Those who took part in the study were asked to remember the small details, such as musical performances that will be played at the student union and the tasks that have been completed at various points. The procedure is known as a memory test of the real world.

Smokers showed a bad performance, they only remember 59 percent of the task. Those who have stop smoking, remember 74 percent and those who have never smoked, remember 81 percent of the task.

Dr Tom Heffernan, who led the research, said that the findings would be useful in anti-smoking campaign. There are up to 10 million smokers in the UK and 45 million in the United States, it is important to understand the effects of smoking on daily cognitive function.

This is the first time a study conducted to determine whether stop smoking has an impact on memory. We already know that stop smoking has major health benefits for the body, but the study also shows how stop smoking can have huge benefits for cognitive function.

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Busy working during the day tends to make you stress.  Especially for those who work as writers and engineers whose work regularly involves a lot of thought. In times of stress, you need to refresh the mind, and re-calibrate all of its functions.

Here are the tricks to help refresh your mind:

1. Music
Soothing music is very beneficial to your mental resources. Clear your mind with just sitting and enjoy the beautiful music. If you love to play music, it’s very good, immediately remove your old piano music or download an music application on your phone and start playing.

2. Sport
Exercise regularly in addition to refreshing the mind can also nourish the body.

3. Laugh
Laughter is the best medicine to relieve boredom. It’s because laughter and humor releases “endorphins” which can improve mood and happy feeling.

4. Mental Coaching
Your brain were happy with something daunting. So when you feel tired, try to resolve a ‘fun question’ to strengthen your brain.

5. Socialize
Humans are social beings. Besides being a requirement, socializing can also keep our brains stay fresh. Try to relate to new people or to call an old friend. Look for talks outside of your situation.

6. Short sleep
Nothing is more refreshing than short sleep. Immediately after a short sleep, you’ll feel better and more complete job than when you’re tired.

7. Inhaling something smell good
Turn on your favorite scented candle or breathe the smell of a cup of hot coffee. Inhaling something smells good can refresh your mind.

8. Massage
Massage is the perfect way to relieve tension and reduce stress. You can try different types of massage on different days to re-invigorate yourself.

9. Bath
Get a bath with warm water, because it can make your muscles and your mind becomes relaxed.

10. Daydream
For a moment, let your imagination wander as during childhood. It can also refresh the mind so that you can re-focus on the task in the following days.

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High-tech air radar

Scanner shows, woody vegetation tended to choose the slope of the hill which is also favored by termites. The larger and evenly distributed of termite mound, the more vegetation in there. Seems, the termites tend to avoid building mounds in clay soils which are susceptible to flooding. They generally prefer a soil that is not too wet, but not too dry and has good drainage.

The air scanner shows there are patterns of termite mounds and dense vegetation along the slopes of the hill, above the lowlands. There were drainage and water runoff. Typography savanna is largely determined by the organism.

Termite mound turned out to be a key indicator of conditions that favored woody vegetation. The lower of lands, the greater of the dominance of grassland in the water area. As the diagnosis in the medical field, scanning through the air also comes with pictures of vegetation, termite mounds, and soil layers.

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Sibling rivalry is a fact of life and is actually a normal part of healthy living. There will always be differences of opinion between siblings. Actually, parents can use this opportunity to teach children about the ways to resolve conflicts, learn to work together, and negotiate, a competition which is very important to have by every person in the future.

So actually the sibling rivalry has a positive side as well. The children probably will grow into more tolerant and more generous toward others. It’s just that the severity and frequency of sibling rivalry between siblings are dependent on many things, including differences in age, personality, age of children, and how the parents handled fighting. Sibling rivalry can continue into adulthood.

In the case occurs in my closet family, it seems that the role of parents is very great. The eldest daughter has had a relationship with a man who never approved of her parents. Until at last they parted and then the eldest daughter get marry with someone from the ‘ordinary’ class. Once blessed with one daughter, she turned to be a strange and pretty annoying person for her younger siblings. She sometimes makes false stories seem to just want to make her mother look busy and panic. For example, she asks her mother immediately came to her house because her husband was suddenly blind, but that’s not true. Or when the mother was going to visit another brother/sister, she lied by saying her daughter was seriously ill and vomiting only for the mother canceled to visit to. On the other hand, the mother often defends the eldest daughter and asked for understanding of her sisters to budge. What should be done?

For case above ,  an expert said it is important to be repaired within the family system, a system that is dynamic and sustainable, involving all other family members. If necessary, the family may request the help of a therapist. The mother is necessary to make a little change. She should be more assertive, but stay calm and pay attention and fair to all parties. If the other sister/brother wants to defuse the atmosphere, they can show a neutral attitude, not demanding or blaming the mother, but actually willing to sacrifice by not asking the mother to have to pay attention to others as well.

So .. how do you think?

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There are basically five components of this theory—the basic human needs, the quality world, the perceived world, the comparing place and total behavior. I’ll give a brief overview of each one, starting with the five basic human needs.

The Basic Human Needs
We are born with five basic human needs—survival, love & belonging, power, freedom and fun. We are all born with these needs but we experience them to varying degrees. One person might have a high love & belonging need, while another person is high in freedom. We are born with these needs and are biologically driven to get them met in the best way available to us.

The Quality World
This is a place that exists inside all of us where we store pictures of things that have satisfied one or more of our basic needs in the past or things we think may satisfy them in the future. These things do not have to meet society’s definition of quality. Alcohol is in the quality world of an alcoholic, steeling cars in the quality world of a car thief, and domestic violence is in the quality world of a batterer. The only two requirements for entry into the quality world are that it meets one or more of our needs and it feels good.

The Perceived World
There is much to be said about the perceived world but for the purposes of this article, all I want to say is that we each have our own perceptions of the world. Our sensory system takes in information through sight, touch, sound, taste and scent, however we all have unique ways of processing that information based on our life experiences, our culture, and our values.

The main thing to remember about the perceived world is that if you encounter others whose perceived world doesn’t match yours, it doesn’t mean one of you is wrong. It simply means you are different. Remembering this simply statement will reduce much of the disagreements and fighting that occurs in people’s lives. Acceptance of this fact would mean we could give up the need to convince others of our point of view. We could simply accept the fact that we see things differently and move on.

The Comparing Place
The comparing place is where we weigh what we want from our quality world against our perceptions of what we believe we are actually getting. When these two things are a match, all is well.

However, when our perceptions and quality world don’t line up, in other words we perceive we are not in possession of the things we want, then we are driven to action to get those things we are thinking about. People generally don’t make a lot of progress or change the things they are currently doing unless they are in some degree of discomfort—the greater the pain the more motivation to try something different.

This is where conventional wisdom tells us that if we want what’s best for other people in our lives, then it is our responsibility to raise their pain level to get them to do things differently because we generally know what’s best for them. Right?

Wrong. We can only know what’s best for ourselves. Remember, our perceived worlds are all different. We have unique values and experiences. How can we possibly know what’s best for someone else when we haven’t been in their skin or lived their life? We can only know what’s best for ourselves.

Total Behavior
There are two main things about behavior. One is that all behavior is purposeful and two is that all behavior is total. Let’s begin with the idea that all behavior is total. There are four inseparable components of behavior—action, thinking, feeling and physiology. These all exist simultaneously during any given behavior in which we engage. The first two components—acting and thinking—are the only components over which we can have direct control. This means that if we want to change how we are feeling or something that is happening in our bodies (physiology), then we must first consciously change what we are doing or how we are thinking.

As for all behavior being purposeful, all behavior is our best attempt to get something we want. We are never acting in response to some external stimulus. We are always acting proactively to get something we want. This means that when I would yell at my son to clean his room after asking him nicely several times, I wasn’t yelling because my son “made me mad.” I was yelling because I was still using my best attempt to get him to do what I wanted, which was to clean his room. This seems like I’m splitting hairs but it’s an important distinction to make when you are attempting to move from a victim’s role to that of an empowered person.

The Implications
Choice Theory pretty much rids us of the idea that people are “misbehaving.” All anyone is doing is their best attempt to get something they want. Of course in the process, they may break laws, disregard rules and hurt others but those are really side effects of doing the best they know how to get their needs met. We are all doing our best—some of us simply have better tools, resources and behaviors at our disposal than others.

If we embrace Choice Theory’s concepts, then our function should be more to educate and help others self-evaluate the effectiveness of their own behavior. Know that often they will continue to do things exactly as they have because it’s familiar and/or because what they are doing really is getting them something they want. It is not our job to stop them, nor is it our job to rescue them from the consequences of their own behavior.

We can only make our best attempt to help others evaluate the effectiveness of their behavior and to choose a different way that perhaps is not against the rules or doesn’t hurt the person or someone else. Then, we need to get out of the way and let the situation play out. This may seem hard to do—like you aren’t doing your job as a parent, teacher, counselor, or supervisor, however, I ask, what is the alternative?

When you attempt to force or coerce or bribe another person to do things he or she doesn’t want to do, you may be successful. You may be able to find the right reward or create a painful enough consequence to get another person to do what you want but in so doing you are breeding resentment and contempt. Your relationship will suffer. If you believe, as I do, that relationship is the root of all influence, then you are losing your ability to influence another by using external control.

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A study presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, found that experiments hamster that experience the extreme and chronic jet-lag is actually has the ability to learn which more slump and low memory.

Not only on intelligence, according to Erin Gibson, a researcher from the University of California, Berkeley, jet-lag is also a serious threat to health. This study shows that people are the type of work requires them to frequently change his sleep pattern has the potential high risk of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancer.

Gibson and his colleagues make a specific schedule for this experiment hamster by advancing the schedule of day and night for six hours every three days in a period of almost a month. “Much like get flights from New York to Paris every three days. The total number of sleep the hamster is actually unchanged, but time of get up and sleep really changed.

So if you frequently travel far away on an airplane, do not forget to keep read books to stay smart and not forgetful …

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