What Makes People Tick?

Most people don't think of themselves as actively working to change the world's climate. Yet in today's industrialised plastic-fantastic society, it is something we all do whether we like to face that fact or not. Smithsonian Magazine's April 10 2014 article by Sarah Zielinski entitled " Eight Ways That Climate Change Hurts Humans " looks at ways that the changing climate will influence human life in the future - and how it is already doing so today. Some of the ways mentioned in which humans can be hurt by climate change are through heat waves, droughts and flooding. Climate change is "a long-term change in the earth's climate, especially a change due to an increase in the average atmospheric temperature" ( Dictionary.com ). We've all heard of 'global warming' however climate change is more than just the atmospheric temperature getting warmer - it is the climate of the entire world changing. According to the blog of Roger A. Pi...

Remember all the panic pre-2012? Remember those who shouted about the end of the world? Remember reading hyped up reports about a planet that would approach earth, causing all sorts of mayhem and natural disasters? Well, what if the 'conspiracy nuts' got it partly right after all? I read an article today that I simply had to share! It states that a tiny planet has been discovered far beyond Pluto that has been calculated to have an elliptical orbit around our sun. Earth and the planets 'near' us all have a 'round' orbit (my words), which makes this new planet quite something. There might even be a much bigger planet still out there... The mystical planet the 'conspiracy nuts' talked about, known as Nibiru, is also said to have an elliptical orbit. Now I'm not saying that Nibiru of legend is real or anything of the sort - I'm not a scientist, nor a conspiracy theorist in all honesty. I did make the connection, however and it made me wonder i...