It was pretty scary.
I was at home two days ago during a very intense thunderstorm.
Hailstones were supposed to be really rare in such a tropical hot country like Singapore.
But around 3.15 in the afternoon, there was a thunderstorm, and as I sat on my bed tidying up some photos, I heard knocking sounds on my windows, as though someone was throwing stones at it. Seeing as I'm staying on the 30-something floor, I don't think any human being can throw stones that high up. I looked out of the window but couldn't see anything because the rain was just too heavy, it was like a blank white picture outside. But the knocking sounds continued and I suspected it could really be hailstones. I was quite afraid that my windows were going to break with the constant knocking, plus I couldn't tell what size they were.
Turns out, they were hailstones. Apparently, the storm was that intense that in the presence of a strong downdraft, the hailstones were most likely brought to the ground rapidly without melting.
Check out the news report here: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/337625/1/.html
Luckily, they were about the size of a five cents coin, too small to cause much damage.
Aside from that I have a second announcement from my E-book site:
I am now having a special opening one-week promotion for my E-book!
Instead of the introductory price of $6.95 for the E-book (worth $19.95),
You can now get the E-book for only $2.95!
Hurry! Go to http://www.search-effectively.com/ and grab a copy now!
Promotion lasts till 4th April!
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Unlocking Secrets of the Search Engine E-book
Finally, I've finished my E-book "Unlocking Secrets of the Search Engine".
You might be wondering what this book is about. Well, in short, it shows you how you can search the internet for information more effectively. Gives you tips and tricks on how you should pick your words so that you get relevant results from your search engine.
It includes a free bonus report: "Unlocking the secret to having fun researching on the internet, the scientific way." and a free bonus interview with Brad Callen (search engine optimization expert) on some key things you must take note when creating a website, especially if you're new to it and where you can get help regarding search engine optimization for your website.
For more information on the book, check out the website at http://www.search-effectively.com/ or click the banner in the sidebar.
You might be wondering what this book is about. Well, in short, it shows you how you can search the internet for information more effectively. Gives you tips and tricks on how you should pick your words so that you get relevant results from your search engine.
It includes a free bonus report: "Unlocking the secret to having fun researching on the internet, the scientific way." and a free bonus interview with Brad Callen (search engine optimization expert) on some key things you must take note when creating a website, especially if you're new to it and where you can get help regarding search engine optimization for your website.
For more information on the book, check out the website at http://www.search-effectively.com/ or click the banner in the sidebar.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
It's been a long time
Wow, I didn't realize it's been 3 months since I've posted anything here. Really sorry about it.
Here's an interesting article from NewScientist.com:
Stressed parents equals sick kids
STRESSED parents aren't just damaging their own health - they may also be making their children more vulnerable to illness.
Stress is well known to affect a person's own physical health, but the effect on their children's health was unclear. To investigate, Mary Caserta and her colleagues at the University of Rochester in New York asked the parents of 169 children aged between 5 and 10 to monitor their child's health over three years, recording symptoms of illnesses and taking their temperatures.
Every six months, the parents took a test designed to assess their own psychiatric health, noting markers of stress such as anxiety or depression.
Caserta's team found that the total number of illnesses, both with and without fever, was significantly higher in the children of parents who reported high levels of emotional stress. The team also measured the levels of immune cells in the children, and found those with highly stressed parents were much more likely to have heightened immune activity - a sign that they were working hard to fend off infection (Brain, Behavior and Immunity, DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2008.01.007)
David Jessop at the University of Bristol in the UK calls the results fascinating, and thinks that future studies should aim discover which stress factors have the biggest impact on children's immunity.
[Acknowledgement: Newscientist.com]
This is quite interesting isn't it? But I thinks its quite ironic, in a sense that, sometimes, it's the children that gives the parents stress because maybe they are naughty, they don't do their homework etc..plus the stress that parents get from work..but the children in turn become sick. Another thing is that, probably when the parents are around their children, the children's mirror neurons are at work, so they "feel" what their parents are feeling. And as stress lowers our immune system, it may have caused them to fall ill more easily.
For more information on the mirror neurons, click here to read the article i posted.
Here's an interesting article from NewScientist.com:
Stressed parents equals sick kids
STRESSED parents aren't just damaging their own health - they may also be making their children more vulnerable to illness.
Stress is well known to affect a person's own physical health, but the effect on their children's health was unclear. To investigate, Mary Caserta and her colleagues at the University of Rochester in New York asked the parents of 169 children aged between 5 and 10 to monitor their child's health over three years, recording symptoms of illnesses and taking their temperatures.
Every six months, the parents took a test designed to assess their own psychiatric health, noting markers of stress such as anxiety or depression.
Caserta's team found that the total number of illnesses, both with and without fever, was significantly higher in the children of parents who reported high levels of emotional stress. The team also measured the levels of immune cells in the children, and found those with highly stressed parents were much more likely to have heightened immune activity - a sign that they were working hard to fend off infection (Brain, Behavior and Immunity, DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2008.01.007)
David Jessop at the University of Bristol in the UK calls the results fascinating, and thinks that future studies should aim discover which stress factors have the biggest impact on children's immunity.
[Acknowledgement: Newscientist.com]
This is quite interesting isn't it? But I thinks its quite ironic, in a sense that, sometimes, it's the children that gives the parents stress because maybe they are naughty, they don't do their homework etc..plus the stress that parents get from work..but the children in turn become sick. Another thing is that, probably when the parents are around their children, the children's mirror neurons are at work, so they "feel" what their parents are feeling. And as stress lowers our immune system, it may have caused them to fall ill more easily.
For more information on the mirror neurons, click here to read the article i posted.
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