Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Crying Make People Happy?

Research has shown that those who would watch a sad movie relate the sorrows of the story into their own lives and relationships, and this would increase their overall life happiness. This is caused by making people realize the good aspects of their lives, something that many people often do not do. The thing is, it's not when people think "My life is better than the character's in the movie" that makes them happier, it's when they have sympathy with the fictional characters and then realize that they are glad they do not have the tragedy portrayed in the movie in their own lives.

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Dead bodies creating electricity?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45526347/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.Ttx09GMr2nA
In Durham, England they will soon be using corpses to generate electricity. By installing turbines in the burners of a crematorium, will convert wast heat from the combustion of the bodies into as much as 150 kilowatt hours of juice. Which is enough to power 1,500 televisions for an hour. Which could make the crematoriums more green, but the costs for the turbines anywhere between $250,000 to $500,000. This could happen to a lot more crematoriums in the near future.

This is just another way to help use our electricity. I don't see anything wrong with it. The bodies are being burned anyway, might as well get more out of it. Some might find it creepy that their deceased loved ones are help powering their electronics, but could be used a lot more in the future.