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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Im-mobile house

A man makes his car his permanent home when it breaks down in the middle of te Arabian Desert.
Saad al-Qahtani was driving in the western Saudi desert between Mecca and Jeddah one day 18 years ago when his beloved Chevrolet Suburban broke down. He couldn’t fix it, so he did the next best thing: he stayed there and made it his home. The 61-year-old man’s parents and sisters had all passed away by that time, according to the Saudi Gazette on Saturday. He had lost his security guard job for health reasons, tried cattle ranching but the livestock all went missing, so he began driving on odd jobs in the area until the fateful day when the huge SUV gave in. Instead of calling a mechanic, he decided to make it his permanent home.


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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Say the Truth

Scientists have now discovered the physiological mechanisms in the brain, which they claim can enable predicting whether someone will break a promise. A team at the University of Zurich carried out an experiment in a brain scanner where the breach of a promise led both to monetary benefits for the promise breaker and to monetary costs for the partner. The study showed that there was increased activity in areas of the brain playing a vital role in processes of emotion and control.
The pattern suggests that breaking a promise triggers an emotional conflict in a promise breaker due to suppression of an honest response.