Your Body Literally Glows With Light

The human body literally glows, emitting a visible light in extremely small quantities at levels that rise and fall with the day.

Past research has shown that the body emits visible light, 1,000 times less intense than the levels which can be seen with the naked eye. In fact, virtually all living creatures emit very weak light.

To learn more about this faint visible light, scientists in Japan employed extraordinarily sensitive cameras capable of detecting single photons. Five healthy male volunteers in their 20’s were placed bare-chested in front of the cameras in complete darkness in light-tight rooms for 20 minutes every three hours.

The researchers found the body glow rose and fell over the day, with its lowest point at 10 AM and its peak at 4 PM, dropping gradually after that. These findings suggest there is light emission linked to the body clock, most likely due to how metabolic rhythms fluctuate over the course of the day.

Faces glowed more than the rest of the body. This might be because faces are more tanned than the rest of the body, since they get more exposure to sunlight.

Sources:

Live Science July 22, 2009

PLoS One July 16, 2009; 4(7): e6256 [Free Full-Text Article]

Selfish

It is difficult not to be selfish. It is native and not learned. The mind always looks out for "number one". It is however possible to learn to respect and be fair to the wants and needs of others.

Many a times in this blog, I have written about taking of one's own self and perhaps might be accused of narcissism, I truly believe we have to fair to others. After all there are about 7 billion humans on earth and all have the same right to live as you.

Here are ways we can learn to be more fair minded in your affairs.

• Am I being fair to ... right now?
• Do I put myself in another person's shoes when deciding things of mutual interest?
• Am I thinking broadly enough?
• Am I putting my desires ahead of others' right and needs?

Action

Action. No matter what you talk, who you know, how intelligent you are, how good you look and how talented you are; you will never be on top of your game without taking the right action. Act. And act now.

You and Your Circle - 3

Respect everyone.

Maintain good manners at all times.

Smile always.

And see your stock rise.

Washing Your Hands Properly Stops the Spread of Contagious Disease

Most people know that washing your hands can help to prevent passing on nasty viruses and bacteria. But how many people just flick their hands under a dribbling tap and think that will do? Now hopeless hand washers will be caught with glowing green fingers by a good hand-washing test.

A new hand-washing training kit uses a cream containing a harmless dye that glows green in ultraviolet light to show up shoddy hand washing. Demonstrators put a blob of cream on people’s hands and send them away to wash them. When they come back, they are often amazed at how much glowing green dye remains on their fingers. If the dye were a microbe, they would be standing a good chance of infecting themselves and passing it on to other people.

The glowing cream can also be used to show how viruses such as those that cause colds and flu can survive on hard surfaces and be spread from hand to hand. Just touching a doorknob that has had a little of the special cream applied to it can make people’s fingers turn green under UV light -- and then when they touch another person’s hand the green glow gets passed on.

Source: Science Daily June 3, 2009

You and Your Circle - 2

Listen to those around you. Listen, but never be influenced by what others say about anything. Only you know best. So you decide what is best for you. Only you had experienced what you been through. No one else. Everything about you is unique. So, you must evaluate for yourself everything that goes around you and make decisions that will serve you best.

You and Your Circle - 1

There are always people who will be negative towards you. You must learn to accept this. There is no point in trying to win this people over unless there is a real great reward in doing so or real pain failing to do so. There are two types of negative people. There are those who show directly that they do not think of highly you and there are those who outwardly appear as your friend but are subtlely putting you down.

Avoid the first type. Beware of the second.