What To Do In Hard Time?

If you are in touch with the media, as most of us are most of the time, you are aware of the severe economic times we are in. The entire world is being affected by economic crisis. Many countries have experienced this and worse many times over. In a recent survey it was reported that 89% of Americans are having some trouble with insomnia due to anxiety over the state of the economy. All the media reports are designed to instill fear in us and when we feel fear we look for ways to escape or to protect ourselves. This is called “fight or flight.” We have adrenaline pumping in our bodies, causing increased heart and breathing rates, even sweating and trembling. This can be continuing on an unconscious level so that we don’t even know how badly it is affecting us. We are not designed to live like this for any length of time. Fear is not good for us. Worry for the future shuts us down in the present, which is where we need to be living.

Outbreaks of depression immobilize our bodies, making them feel heavy and weighed down.  Our minds become fogged and closed, as if shutting down. For security we often want to hide underneath the covers or escape into addictions.

The most dangerous state is denial: when we refuse to look at our reality and pretend that everything is just fine.
Tremendous anger turns into rage and resentment, which is harmful to the body and spirit.  We don’t even know for sure with whom we are so deeply angry. It’s often turned in on ourselves, and we blame ourselves, even though we don’t know for what.

What can we do when faced with these overwhelming feelings and thoughts?
1.    Realize we are not alone.  This world-wide problem is not of our making.  Pick up the phone and talk to friends and family and share honestly what is going on.  Listen sincerely to their plights and offer them support and comfort.
2.    Take care of yourself.  Guard against letting yourself go when under undo stress.  Stay well groomed, clean, eat regularly and in a healthy way, and also brush and floss your teeth. Keep a home and office environment as organized as possible.
3.    Take personal inventory. What thoughts or events prompted your anxiety? What are you afraid will happen? What aspect of yourself is threatened: pride, security, physical safety, relationships?  What needs to be dealt with and can be changed, and what is out of your control?  Be realistic and honest with yourself.
4.    Turn to a higher power. This may be a universal source, or whatever is greater than you are, to clear your thinking, to give you solace, a power to overcome the debilitating effect of negative thoughts.
5.    Seek help from a professional or mentor. So you can make clear decisions that our truly in your best interest, this should be someone who you believe will be honest, nonjudgmental and who can help clear out all the destructive emotional debris from the past as well as the present. This should be someone who will call you on your impulsiveness, fears, and discouragement, which help you keep from making fight or flight choices that could prove harmful to you in the long run. Finally, this should be someone who helps you keep faith in yourself and reminds you to stay positive.

We need to change our minds and get into our hearts. We need to make a personal choice: to stop struggling and to accept the situation we are individually in. We need to choose not to be a victim, regardless of our circumstances. We need to turn off all the negative messages bombarding us and turn on faith in ourselves, in those we believe in and trust, and in a higher power. We need to face the fear and do all that is positive for our life. Only then do we have a chance to really come out of this in a better place as whole, having grown, human beings.

Is Facebook good?

“What is so bad about Facebook?” Whenever I hear this question, I usually start a – seemingly – never-ending, heated discussion about why Facebook is bad and how stupid it is to use Facebook.

The more you know about the hidden costs (e.g. giving up privacy and private conversation) of the so called “free” social network, the more the cost-benefit function gets out of proportion.

From my point of view there are millions of very good reasons to stop using Facebook immediately. However many of the reasons stated below are not only valid for Facebook, but for other closed and centralized social networks as well, espcially Twitter.

Political Reasons to quit Facebook

• Facebook is based, registered and run in the United States of America.
  This is bad because of the “Patriot Act”. Even if Facebook starts respecting your privacy, your data is still easily available to every governmental institution in the Country through open backdoors or requests, as this Facebook.pdf-file documents. Think about what this means to your freedom.
• Facebook is a deliberate experiment in global manipulation.
  Facebook and Government institutions have a history. Since the article was released in 2008 it got a lot worse. In 2010 the U.S. Government started developing and using a software which creates fake profiles on social networks to spread messages and to spy on people.
• Facebook wants to go public.
  When the time comes, everything that counts is money. They will try everything to make money out of Facebook, thus you, your friends, your communication, everything. At least, I bet on it.

Technical Reasons & Internet Politics

• Facebook is a centralized social network. It is run by Facebook alone.
  Not only does this contradict reality (you do not meet all your real-life friends only (!) in the same, single real-life place) it also makes the whole network prone to attacks and breakdowns. Think hacking attacks or software failures. The real-life complement would be destroying the one, single place where you meet all your friends making impossible to contact them anymore.
• Facebook adds an unnecessary layer to the Internet.
  Facebook hasn’t introduced anything new, apart from being able to “like” something. Facebook Mail resembles Email, Facebook Chat resembles chat software, Facebook Threads resemble forums, Facebook Pages resemble normal web sites, galleries, videos, links…they all have an equivalent in the regular Internet world. Why put all of this in the hands of a privately owned company like Facebook?
• Facebook and the Open Social Web.
  There are plenty of people working on the idea of an open social network, which would work decentralized, with whichever social network you prefer. For example Open Social. Instead of joing these people, like Hi5.com, MySpace, orkut, Netlog, Sonico.com, Friendster, Ning, and Yahoo!, Facebook decided to present something stupid, called “the Open Graph API”. Facebooks idea with this is to use it’s market power to install a Facebook-owned pseudo web standard. The name just disguises its fundamentally closed nature.
• Facebook Like-Buttons on External Web Sites – I can only warn you about the everywhere emerging Facebook Like-buttons on external (non-Facebook) web sites. When you are logged in to Facebook while browing the Internet. Due to the fact that the buttons are loaded through an embedded iframe (the non-Facebook web site embeds a Facebook web site), these buttons provide your personal browing habits to Facebook, even without you clicking on them.
• Mark Zuckerberg is an evil hacker.
  When Mark Suckerberg started Facebook he scraped student’s profiles (names, images and other personal information) from several University websites to get his network – The Facebook – started. That is only one aspect of unethical behavior in his “sketchy” past. The question you have to ask yourself is: “Do I want to entrust a hacker like Mark Zuckerberg with personal information of myself and my friends and our communication?” Let me help you out: No!
• Even if you want, you cannot protect your privacy.
  You automatically entrust all your Facebook friends with your personal information, even against third-parties (like web applications (web apps) and data-sharing partners of Facebook). You would never do this in real life, maybe not even with your closest friends. On Facebook you even let the least tech-savvy person you know (or maybe do not even know) manage your online privacy issues. How sick is that?
• Data-sharing deals.
  Anyone who connects the American Amazon web site with his or her Facebook account, gives Amazon not only his own personal data but also the data of all his / her Facebook friends. There are other, similar data-sharing deals.
• Datasharing for personal purposes.
  I do not understand why Facebook allows everyone to access and import my personal data, contacts, chats, etc. but me. Why can’t I export my Facebook address book but only parts of it? I do not like that kind of “nannyism”, at least, I do not need it. Do you?
• Constantly changing privacy and account settings are annoying.
  The Electronic Fountier Foundation has a nice chart, you might be interested in. Time tells: What’s private now, will be open in the future. You have to constantly re-read the changes Facebooks settings. Those changes used to be communicated to every memeber up until 2010 (I believe). This is when Facebook started to have you join the Facebook Fan-Page to be informed about TOC changes. Fail.
• “The default is now social…”
  Mark Zuckerberg says. Meaning, we will share all your information, there is no more private, learn to live with it. “People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people. That social norm is just something that has evolved over time.” No, it just made your business model work.

Personal & Social Reasons to quit Facebook

• Facebook doesn’t let you delete all your data.
  When I tried to edit or delete my checkins to the newly introduced Facebook Places in Q1 2011, I realized, there is no way functionality for this. The Facebook Statement of Rights and Responsibilities reads: For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (“IP content”), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (“IP License”). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it. As sharing data you and your friends upload to Facebook is what all the fun is about, this actually translates into “We will never delete anything”. Think about this.
• Facial Recognition
  Facebook’s facial-recognition feature – or “tag suggestions” – which allow users to identify people across multiple photos at once using facial-recognition software invades my privacy. The more photos of me are tagged with my name, the better the software works, the lesser privacy I get.
• Facebook takes too much of my time.
  I have better things to do than wasting my time on Facebook.
• Broken Social Circle.
  I have a huge friend list full of people who are not actual friends. I don’t know how that happened but my real-life social circle looks kind of different.
• Friend or Foe?
  People whom you would rather not like to be connected with, find and contact you. It is hard not to accept friendship requests.
• You are being stalked.
  Generally speaking, Facebook is not really helpful when it comes to relationships. It usually just causes ridiculous jealousy.
• It just feels bad.
  I live my life in a free world with plenty of freedoms. They range from free thinking, free software, freedom of speech, …simply freedom in all my decisions. Why would I want to be stuck in a walled garden like Facebook?
• Facebook makes it incredibly difficult to really delete an account.
  It is easy to find the “deactivate” option, but deactivation is not the same as deletion.

Personally,I don’t Use Facebook.

Happiness,The Gift That You Give to Others

Life,it is a really beautiful gift,When you see someone die,and you see his/her body,think,that this body is your’s,and than,see your self in a mirror,than thank life for supporting you,but life is a food,it will stay hot for sometime,than it cool’s down,and than it’s gone bad,but before this life goes away,let’s hold our hand’s and give a gift to each other,that gift is happiness,but how to do it? how to make happiness,it might sound hard,but it is easy than even making a tea!

1. Smile at them. Learn how to have a real smile, and care about people. Learn how to feel compassion when regarding someone.
2. Tell them a funny joke. Inside jokes work really well, especially if it is something only between the two of you. Learn how to make them laugh.

3. Find something funny online that you absolutely know they’ll like and send it to them in an email.

4. Compliment them sincerely. Tell them something you love about them.

5. Invite them to do something fun with you. Go bowling, swimming, or something else fun and active.

6. Pick a dandelion or blade of grass and give it to them. Say things such as, “I got this especially for you!” or “I picked this weed just for you!” It is different and might make themlaugh at your silliness, make them smile at your sweet nature.

7. Listen to them. Try to understand their thoughts and be in their shoes. This shows you care and love them, whether they may appreciate it or not. Be there. They will come to realize what a friend you’ve been.

8. Hug the person. If you have an open relationship with someone, a warm and affectionate hug can lift the spirits and bring a sense of joy and community.

9. Give a gift. Take the time out to pick out a special gift that is suitable for the person. The more thought you put into the gift, the better it is from the point of being an expression of positive energy. Be sure to include an inscription in the gift wherever possible, and make the message one that is uplifting and spiritual.

10. Spend quality time with the person. Plan for an event or simply time together in which you share precious moments on this world in each other’s company.

11. Constantly remind the person how much you value them, but don’t go too overboard. Positive affirmations to others can help build the bridge of friendship and trust. Never use sarcasm though, as sarcasm is the biggest turn-off when it comes to building strong bonds with people.

12. If you want to get creative with some of your compliments or “I love yous” depending on your relationship, you can always hide a little note saying any of these things and have a little fun with it. This can make him/her feel like you’re really going the extra mile and that they mean something to you.

If one person change’s the whole humanity will change,and if one person misleads the who of humanity is misleaded 

Tip’s For Writing An Article Unto Your Blog

Sometime’s,when you sit in-front of your PC screen,your hand’s barely touching the keyboard,thinking about,”What…What..Should I write today?” Unless you have a clear thought of what to write,but you always can’t say what to write,let’s say you want to write about Life,How would you start? Starting with emotion’s can be a good idea! Or Perhaps write about your own life,in which state you are,how are your emotion’s now etc etc etc…May you might want to give advice’s,but what kind of advice,make it clear.Is it Peace? Love? Or Is it Personal Experience? When you sit in-front  of your  screen,think about-

• What to write? i.e Your topic
• How (By how it doesn’t mean learn to type,but how to insert picture that can be attracting)
• Write with respect to elder’s,young one’s,religion etc..

There are many thing’s,that you must also know,eg. Nudity,or even such thing’s can be danger for your blog stat’s.

You don’t need thousand tips to write a blog,these 3 are quite good tip’s,write in such a good and advising way that people get attracted.

Your comments are welcome.

“Live in such a way,that when when you are alive people run behind your company,and when you die,they weep for you”

Why To Recycle?

Recycling is good for our community and economy. It reduces pollution and unnecessary accumulation of waste.  Any environmentalist will agree that recycling conserves our natural resources.

No doubt, numerous recycling lists to “live by” have been written and put forward by concerned citizens and non-profit organisations.  Why indeed recycle? Here are carefully chosen reasons – simply three –  why everyone, from the concerned individual to the local community councils and enterprising business companies have prevailed in the recycling activity.

1. Recycling Saves Energy and Resources

Each time energy is used up, so are essential, non-renewable resources. The energy used to produce the metal for one aluminium can is perhaps the same as that needed to recycle around two dozen. The energy required to make two hundred aluminium cans is equivalent to two weeks petrol for an average motorist, thereabout.

Natural resources will last longer if we recycle instead of using raw materials – each tonne of recycled paper saving half a hectare of trees. No wonder, many publishing houses have been smart to recycle their daily printed publications.  This is certainly good news for advocates of tree conservation.

2. Recycling Creates Job Opportunities

Nowadays, companies have become involved in recycling, from paper to computer recycling. Recycling has become a modern growth industry. Computer-related recycling includes recycling of computers, monitors, equipments and other hardware accessories. With overflow of paper and other recyclable materials in office recycling bins, companies need more and more people to collect and sort goods. So do local community councils as outdoor recycling bins become a part of an ideal solution designed to support waste program.

3. Recycling Earns Cash

Ever heard of “trash is cash”?  With the advent of Apple’s iPods and iPhones, old mobile phones recycling has been traded for cash. Also, the sale of recyclable materials can earn money for schools, clubs and charities.

How about garage or car boot sales?  Since the original form of the items is often preserved, this is considered a best kind of recycling. What’s junk to one person is a treasure to another.

Scrap metals and aluminium cans are also worth considering. Aluminium companies buy aluminium cans. It’s a way to earn extra pocket money for the kids. Some people collect them in public places including beaches and parks.  Look around your home for possible trash for cash.

Certainly, recycling is a major step towards a sustainable future but needs participation of everyone to make it workable.

Is There A Life After Death?

This Post Was To Me By A Member of  Thomas Wozi,It Is Written By David Nichols.Copy and Distribution was not permitted by the sender. 

Before an inquiry into this topic can be initiated, it would be of benefit to establish what we know about life.

Science has clearly demonstrated that we homo sapiens are an end product of millions of years of evolution. It also has shown that our species is not in itself the end result of all evolution, but merely the successful adaptations able to talk about it. There is in excess of ten million other species on our planet, with humans as one of the latecomers. Each and every one of the other creatures have adaptations that assure their survival, with many having occupied Earth for many hundreds of millions of years, some in their present form.

The great proof of the truth in evolutionary theory is the very fact, that of the numerous species, every individual will eventually die and species themselves will one day disappear forever. The DNA of all creatures predetermines this to be so. Each new life carries with it the chance of some small difference that might enhance the survival characteristics in continual changing circumstances of environment and/or social structure. Death is the engine which promotes better survival variation. It is a necessary process.

Fact one: Every creature is “programmed” to die in the name of evolutionary adaptation. That is the naked truth.

It follows from this that the knowledge of our own demise, and that of our friends and family, has never been seen as something to accept willingly. None of us actually want to return to the Universe as lifeless individual components. One of our greatest fantasies is to have at least a choice on whether we would like to live forever, or for a very long time.

Fact two: We have a strong yearning for immortality.

One of the very interesting parts of our makeup is the ability to live in a state of denial concerning things we do not wish to believe and a ready acceptance of that which we want to believe. The example of flying a plane into a building for the eternal reward of having 70 virgins at one’s disposal is the extreme, (As well as being a tad sexist!) but it clearly demonstrates that as humans, this is how some people think.

Fact three: Humans will do almost anything for the perceived reward of “eternal life”.

Unfortunately, there is not a skerrick of truth in the promise of the Muslim religion that inspired the flying of a plane into a building. This fact applies to all religious promises. There is no credible empirical or reliable scientific evidence for the truth of any religion. The books of old were not eyewitness accounts and were written long after the supposed events. They were written in days of ignorance, by peoples ruled by superstition and changed throughout history by the powerful to suite their own ends.

Fact four: Religions do not represent any kind of objective truth and therefore their “supernatural” element cannot be trusted to be at all factual.

Countless billions upon billions of individual lives, both human and non-human, have existed and died over the millennia. There is no evidence that any have returned to make credible the notion that an after-life exists, excepting in the fantasy stories already discussed.

Fact five: There is no concrete evidence or even an inkling of a suggestion of evidence that we live after we die.

If we were to have an after-life, what would it be like? Would we have the body and mind at the moment of death, or would it be the body and mind of a time of peak health? Would it be no body and only mind, an impossibility to reasoned thinking, (for a mind requires a living brain) or would it be something totally different? Just because we are able to think of these combinations does not give any of them, or indeed any other such thought, some kind of credibility.

Fact six: After-life thoughts are just thoughts.

Even though there is a case for religion being a necessary part of our social evolution, we have now reached a time when the use of reason and not superstition is the only hope of our happy survival. Eons of ethereal teachings have primed us to want that which is not obtainable as of yet – eternal life. Maybe one-day science will overcome this “problem” to some extent, but right here and right now, regrettable as this is, we all must die and that is the end – goodnight.

It is a sad occurrence that religions are still fooling so many people into accepting that they will go to a heaven (If they are nice???) or a hell (If they’re naughty???) and that they should waste the one and only life they have in this hopeless venture. Not only do the religious miss out on the imaginary after-life, but the present life they have can be so distorted as to make it none too worthwhile or even totally wasted.

The Universe is an entirely natural process and scientists have not detected one super-natural atom. That our imagination can lead us in directions guided by nothing but fantasy is no reason at all to accept the convenient doctrines of an eternal life.

There may well be something we cannot even conceive of about the Universe, but that statement is self-explanatory. If we cannot conceive of it, we can therefore make no assumptions or predictions about it, nor claim that we can. Religion is of such a serious concern to planet Earth, that its guessings are no longer good enough.

Reaching a full potential of life before death is only afforded to those who reject the notion of life after death.

Happy 125th Birthday Juan Gris

Today,Google has transformed it’s homepage doodle into something like this-

Let’s see who was Juan Gris

“Juan Gris was a quietist, whose life was ostensibly marked by few major incidents. Though not the inventor of Cubism, he was one of its most able practitioners and evolved a very personal variety of it, combining elements which he had learned from Braque and Picassowith others which were his own personal invention. Typical of his approach was his remark about Cezanne, the universally acknowledged father of Cubism: ‘Cezanne made a cylinder out of a bottle. I start from the cylinder to create a special kind of individual object. I make a bottle out of a cylinder.’ A highly intelligent man, he had a marked impact on other painters – not only on the artists of the Section d’Or, the group with whom he identified himself, but also on senior members of the Ecole de Paris, such as Matisse, with whom he spent the summer at Collioure in 1914. He had a special sympathy for poets, and collaborated with a number of distinguished writers, among them Pierre Reverdy, whoseGuitare Endormie he illustrated, Gertrude Stein and Raymond Radiguet.

“Gris was a pseudonym: he was born Jose Victoriano González in 1887, in Madrid, the thirteenth child of a rich Castilian merchant. He studied first to be an engineer at the School of Arts and Manufactures in Madrid, which he entered in 1902. By the time he abandoned this for an artistic career he was already contributing illustrations to the reviews Blanco y Negro and Madrid Comico.

“Madrid at this time was an extremely provincial milieu, much more so than Barcelona, and as soon as he could Gris abandoned it for Paris, arriving there in 1906 at the age of nineteen. He found himself a studio at the famous Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre, and was soon in contact with his compatriot Picasso, who also lived and worked there, and with the poets Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob and André Salmon, who formed part of Picasso’s circle. At first he supported himself by making humorous drawings for papers such as Lássiette au beurre and Le Charivari, but in 1910 he began his career as a serious artist by making a series of large watercolours. In the following year he started to paint. Gris’s subject-matter was always his immediate surroundings: he produced still lifes composed of simple, everyday objects, portraits of friends, and occasionally landscapes or cityscapes.

“In 1911 (the year in which he spent time with Picasso at Ceret) he held his first exhibition, showing fifteen paintings at the little gallery run by Clovis Sagot. This was well received by those whose opinion he respected, and he was sufficiently encouraged to send three paintings to the Salon des Indépendants in the spring of 1912. In October of the same year he showed his work in the Section d’Or exhibition, with Marcoussis, Gleizes and Metzinger. Since Braque and Picasso were not at this time showing their work, the Section d’Or was the public face of Cubism. Gris was clearly the most gifted of the group, and he attracted the attention both of dealers and of well informed collectors. Gertrude Stein and Leonce Rosenberg bought paintings, and Daniel-Henri Kahnweiler offered Gris a contract, which he accepted. His work was evolving rapidly; he had grasped the significance of collage almost as soon as it was invented by Braque and Picasso in 1912. This liberated his compositional sense enabling him to evolve the subtler patterns of overlapping planes characteristic of his mature work. At this time he was friendly with the Delaunays. Sonia recalled that he spent so much time at the Bal Bullier, their favourite night-spot, that they wondered that he still had enough energy left to work.

“The outbreak of war brought a momentary check, since Kahnweiler was an enemy alien and was forced to leave Paris. Gris’s contract with him lapsed, but in 1917 he was able to make another with Leonce Rosenberg which tided him over until Kahnweiler’s return to France, when he renewed his former allegiance. But in 1920, just after his new contract was signed, Gris suffered a serious attack of pleurisy, and his health was never to be strong again.

“Diaghilev was now taking an interest in Gris, having recognized in him a kind of classicism in tune with postwar taste. A first project, for Cuadro Flamenco, did not come to fruition, but in November 1922 Diaghilev commissioned Gris to design sets and costumes for Les Tentations de la Berë, which was premiered in 1924. In 1925 Gris had his first exhibition – and the only one in his lifetime – outside France, at the Flechtheim Gallery in Duesseldorf. His health was now very poor: bronchitis was succeeded by asthma and finally by uremia. Gris died on 11 May 1927 at the age of forty, leaving a wife, Josette, and a son, Georges.”

What is Evolution?

Do you know what is evolution? If NO! than this is for you.

Human evolution is the lengthy process of change by which people originated from apelike ancestors. Scientific evidence shows that the physical and behavioral traits shared by all people originated from apelike ancestors and evolved over a period of approximately six million years.

One of the earliest defining human traits, bipedalism — the ability to walk on two legs — evolved over 4 million years ago. Other important human characteristics — such as a large and complex brain, the ability to make and use tools, and the capacity for language — developed more recently. Many advanced traits — including complex symbolic expression, art, and elaborate cultural diversity — emerged mainly during the past 100,000 years.

Humans are primates. Physical and genetic similarities show that the modern human species, Homo sapiens, has a very close relationship to another group of primate species, the apes. Humans and the great apes (large apes) of Africa — chimpanzees (including bonobos, or so-called “pygmy chimpanzees”) and gorillas — share a common ancestor that lived between 8 and 6 million years ago. Humans first evolved in Africa, and much of human evolution occurred on that continent. The fossils of early humans who lived between 6 and 2 million years ago come entirely from Africa.

Most scientists currently recognize some 15 to 20 different species of early humans. Scientists do not all agree, however, about how these species are related or which ones simply died out. Many early human species — certainly the majority of them – left no living descendants. Scientists also debate over how to identify and classify particular species of early humans, and about what factors influenced the evolution and extinction of each species.

Early humans first migrated out of Africa into Asia probably between 2 million and 1.8 million years ago. They entered Europe somewhat later, between 1.5 million and 1 million years. Species of modern humans populated many parts of the world much later. For instance, people first came to Australia probably within the past 60,000 years and to the Americas within the past 30,000 years or so. The beginnings of agriculture and the rise of the first civilizations occurred within the past 12,000 years.

Paleoanthropology

Paleoanthropology is the scientific study of human evolution. Paleoanthropology is a subfield of anthropology, the study of human culture, society, and biology. The field involves an understanding of the similarities and differences between humans and other species in their genes, body form, physiology, and behavior. Paleoanthropologists search for the roots of human physical traits and behavior. They seek to discover how evolution has shaped the potentials, tendencies, and limitations of all people. For many people, paleoanthropology is an exciting scientific field because it investigates the origin, over millions of years, of the universal and defining traits of our species. However, some people find the concept of human evolution troubling because it can seem not to fit with religious and other traditional beliefs about how people, other living things, and the world came to be. Nevertheless, many people have come to reconcile their beliefs with the scientific evidence.

Early human fossils and archeological remains offer the most important clues about this ancient past. These remains include bones, tools and any other evidence (such as footprints, evidence of hearths, or butchery marks on animal bones) left by earlier people. Usually, the remains were buried and preserved naturally. They are then found either on the surface (exposed by rain, rivers, and wind erosion) or by digging in the ground. By studying fossilized bones, scientists learn about the physical appearance of earlier humans and how it changed. Bone size, shape, and markings left by muscles tell us how those predecessors moved around, held tools, and how the size of their brains changed over a long time. Archeological evidence refers to the things earlier people made and the places where scientists find them. By studying this type of evidence, archeologists can understand how early humans made and used tools and lived in their environments.

The process of evolution

The process of evolution involves a series of natural changes that cause species (populations of different organisms) to arise, adapt to the environment, and become extinct. All species or organisms have originated through the process of biological evolution. In animals that reproduce sexually, including humans, the term species refers to a group whose adult members regularly interbreed, resulting in fertile offspring — that is, offspring themselves capable of reproducing. Scientists classify each species with a unique, two-part scientific name. In this system, modern humans are classified as Homo sapiens.

Evolution occurs when there is change in the genetic material — the chemical molecule, DNA — which is inherited from the parents, and especially in the proportions of different genes in a population. Genes represent the segments of DNA that provide the chemical code for producing proteins. Information contained in the DNA can change by a process known as mutation. The way particular genes are expressed – that is, how they influence the body or behavior of an organism — can also change. Genes affect how the body and behavior of an organism develop during its life, and this is why genetically inherited characteristics can influence the likelihood of an organism’s survival and reproduction.

Evolution does not change any single individual. Instead, it changes the inherited means of growth and development that typify a population (a group of individuals of the same species living in a particular habitat). Parents pass adaptive genetic changes to their offspring, and ultimately these changes become common throughout a population. As a result, the offspring inherit those genetic characteristics that enhance their chances of survival and ability to give birth, which may work well until the environment changes. Over time, genetic change can alter a species’ overall way of life, such as what it eats, how it grows, and where it can live. Human evolution took place as new genetic variations in early ancestor populations favored new abilities to adapt to environmental change and so altered the human way of life.

The God Delusion

Have you heard of a beautiful book,written by Richard Dawkin’s ?

Here are some link’s regarding.

To know about the book click here

download the book here

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Quotes from The God Delusion

“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”

-Chapter 2

“I am one of an increasing number of biologists who see religion as a by-product of something else.”

-Chapter 5

“By contrast, what I, as a scientist, believe (for example, evolution) I believe not because of reading a holy book but because I have studied the evidence… Books about evolution are believed because they present overwhelming quantities of mutually buttressed evidence.”

-Chapter 8

“… [Moral absolutism] rules the minds of a great number of people in the world today, most dangerously so in the Muslim world and in the incipient American theocracy… Such absolutism nearly always results from strong religious faith, and it constitutes a major reason for suggesting that religion can be a force for evil in the world.”

-Chapter 8

Why Water?

We all know that water is good for us, but often the reasons are a little fuzzy. And even if we know why we should drink water, it’s not a habit that many people form.

But there are some very powerful reasons to drink lots of water every day, and forming the habit isn’t hard, with a little focus.

The thing about it is, we don’t often focus on this habit. We end up drinking coffee, and lots of soda, and alcohol, not to mention fruit juices and teas and milk and a bunch of other possibilities. Or just as often, we don’t drink enough fluids, and we become dehydrated — and that isn’t good for our health.

I’ve made drinking water a daily habit, although I will admit that a couple of years ago I was more likely to drink anything but water. Now I don’t drink anything but water, except for a cup of coffee in the morning and once in awhile a beer with dinner. I love it.

Here are 9 powerful reasons to drink water (with tips on how to form the water habit afterwards):
Weight loss
Water is one of the best tools for weight loss, first of all because it often replaces high-calorie drinks like soda and juice and alcohol with a drink that doesn’t have any calories. But it’s also a great appetite suppressant, and often when we think we’re hungry, we’re actually just thirsty. Water has no fat, no calories, no carbs, no sugar. Drink plenty to help your weight-loss regimen.

Heart healthy
Drinking a good amount of water could lower your risks of a heart attack. A six-year study published in the May 1, 2002 American Journal of Epidemiology found that those who drink more than 5 glasses of water a day were 41% less likely to die from a heart attack during the study period than those who drank less than two glasses.

Energy
Being dehydrated can sap your energy and make you feel tired — even mild dehydration of as little as 1 or 2 percent of your body weight. If you’re thirsty, you’re already dehydrated — and this can lead to fatigue, muscle weakness, dizziness and other symptoms.

Headache cure
Another symptom of dehydration is headaches. In fact, often when we have headaches it’s simply a matter of not drinking enough water. There are lots of other causes of headaches of course, but dehydration is a common one.

Healthy skin
Drinking water can clear up your skin and people often report a healthy glow after drinking water. It won’t happen overnight, of course, but just a week of drinking a healthy amount of water can have good effects on your skin.

Digestive problems
Our digestive systems need a good amount of water to digest food properly. Often water can help cure stomach acid problems, and water along with fiber can cure constipation (often a result of dehydration).

Cleansing
Water is used by the body to help flush out toxins and waste products from the body.

Cancer risk
Related to the digestive system item above, drinking a healthy amount of water has also been found to reduce the risk of colon cancer by 45%. Drinking lots of water can also reduce the risk of bladder cancer by 50% and potentially reduce the risk of breast cancer.

Better exerciseBeing dehydrated can severely hamper your athletic activities, slowing you down and making it harder to lift weights. Exercise requires additional water, so be sure to hydrate before, during and after exercise.