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Japanese are modest even when they are winners What do you attribute your victory over your friend? Did you win because you were more competent than your contestant? Or, did your opponent lose because he/she was inferior? You may have won because of mere luck. DIAGRAM OF THE EXPERIMENTAL SETTING Alike et al. (1997) conducted a social-comparison experiment utilizing aconfederate either win or lose in an intellectual competing game with a naïve participant. They found their American participants attributed their victory to their own ability, whereas they tended to regard their defeat caused by the winner’s exceptional ability. Alike et al. concluded that people tend to use these attribution  tendencies to protect their self-esteem. “I lost, but it was because the contestant was a genius. No one could outperform him.” They dubbed it “Genius Effect.” WINNERS AND LOSERS RATED FOR THEIR INTELLIGENCE BY WINNERS, LOSERS AND OBSERVERS (TWO OBSERVERS’ RATINGS WERE COMBINED IN THE FIGURE. T...

Two meteorites of 75 and 50 meters in diameter struck Morocco there 40,000 years result: two beautiful lakes, Isli and Tislit After a few months of studies, a group of geologists from the Ibn Zohr University concludes PANORAMA OF THE TWO LAKES, A: ISLI LAKE; B: TISLIT LAKE. that strange lakes, well known in the region Imilchil (Morocco) are the remains of a double impact crater done by a falling meteorite dating from 40,000 years. The aim would be one of the first impact crater discovered in Morocco. The work done by a scientific team from the Agadir (Morocco), under the direction of Professor Abderrahmane Ibhi ( specialist meteorites ) led to the discovery of other scientific evidence attesting that the two lakes Isli and Tislit correspond , in fact,to  impact craters resulting from the collapse of two metal pieces on earth, 40,000 years ago. The diameter of the meteorite fragment resulting Isli Lake is 75 m and a weight of around 1.7 million tons, while that of Tislit would be ...

Asymmetry of Sunspot distribution. What does this mean, is there any relate to the global worming? The solar activity features on the solar disk are not identical in the northern or the southern solar hemispheres. This North-South asymmetry (ANS) is considered to be a new index to tracing the nature of solar activity and the solar cycles. Sunspots are short-termfeatures on  the solar disk that appear as dark spots compared to surrounding regions.The sunspots numbersdemonstrate an asymmetry of its distribution over the  solar disk. The north-south asymmetry is considered to be due to periodical activities between the solar hemispheres. The asymmetry was northern dominated during the cycles 19 and 20 (1955- 1975), while during cycle 21 (1975-1986) it was southern dominated. In Hassan Basurah’s article from Department of Astronomy, King Abudlaziz University, Saudi Arabia, published in  IJAA , 2013  Vol.3   by  Scientific Research Publishing .(...

Extraterrestrial life found at a wrong place For thousands of years, humanity has wondered whether there is life outside the Earth. Observations of more than 1000 extrasolar planets indicate that many of them possess physical conditions close to those of Venus, not of Earth. Therefore, the planet Venus, with its dense and hot (460°C), waterless, oxygen-free atmosphere of CO 2 , having a high pressure of 9.2 MPa at the surface has been investigated as a natural laboratory for this kinds, using archive VENERA mission TV-data obtained 32 years ago. A result is  surprising: Most likely, the question on the existence of extraterrestrial life will be answered not as a result of its search for in other worlds removed by distances of dozens of parsecs but on the surface of Venus, i.e., of the nearest planet of the Solar system. In  Leonid Ksanfomality’  research reviews published in “ Possible Signs of Life on the Planet Venus ” (by  Scientific Research Publishing ,  ...

The biomedical hypothesis proposed here is that the immediate trigger for a yawn is a restricted collapse of a few alveoli in the lungs. The extent of this alveolar collapse may be too small for it to be detected by current X-ray technology, but this technology is continually improving and may soon be good enough to test the hypothesis. In support of the hypothesis, it is shown that  yawning can be inhibited by deep breaths of air, nitrogen or  carbogen, thus showing that yawning is not triggered by lack of oxygen or by excess carbon dioxide, leaving alveolar collapse as the most likely possibility. A more extensive form of alveolar collapse is termed atelectasis and this involves a serious state of hypoxia which, if deepened or prolonged, can be fatal. Therefore, if the hypothesis is correct, yawning may prevent the development of atelectasis and save lives. The paper which published in  Health ,   Vol.5 No.10, October 2013    by  Scientific Research...