Could food addiction to the most addictive foods: meat, cheese, chocolate, and sugar be reinforced by sudden screams, sirens, and fast, repetitive clicking noises underlying the audio portion of TV and radio food advertisements? Is it possible that watching TV food ads that begin suddenly with no warning just a blast of loud screams or an ambulance siren […]
Solving Computer Problems
If there are several PC problems troubling you, it is time to assess the situation and come up with effective solutions. Procrastination never helps. So examine the areas of difficulty. Is it system errors pertaining to startup that is troubling your PC? Are there frequent crashes? Is the overall PC performance on the sluggish end? […]
For Ten Cents Per Gallon, How Far Would You Drive?
Cheap Gasoline? How far would you drive to save ten cents per gallon on gasoline? An eight cents per gallon savings is definitely hard to find and ten even harder. If your tank is twenty gallons and half empty, you would save eighty cents to a dollar at fill ups. Some fuels, even at the […]
The Next Roman Empire?
For approximately 500 years, it was arguably the greatest empire of the western world. Its military might enabled it to amass territories that spread from Europe throughout Africa to the Persian Gulf. It was the birthplace of numerous world-changing inventions and developments like the modern calendar, aqueducts, roads, and architecture. Much of America’s current […]
Spring Cleaning your PC
There comes a time when that computer of yours just does not seem to be as fast as it used to be. Strange things start to happen like you seem to get more crashes than you used to and the crashes become too frequent to be considered a glitch in the Microsoft Operating System. Inevitably, […]
Asia-Pacific needs US$9 trillion to develop new energy program
Rising demands for energy in the Asian region has been one of the focus of discussions during an open forum held at the 40th Annual Meeting of civil society representatives from the different parts of the world in Kyoto, Japan. Among the issues raised include hydropower, clean energy program, coal energy, and power sector privatization. If […]