Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Chimps beat humans in memory tests (restatement summary)
There are many people who think that humans are superior to chimpanzees in all cognitive functions. However it seems it's not true. There was a research made and the result is that young chimpanzees at the age of five have better short-term memory than adult people. So it tells us that early humans may have had better short term memory than modern humans. Moreover, such experiments give us more understanding about the skills necessary for the evolution of modern humanity.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Phobias
Nowdays a lot of people are suffering from phobias. Phobia is an irrational, intense, persistent fear of certain situations, objects, activities, or persons. There are many kinds of phobias, some of them are more common, some are less, but they all make life more difficult. Some of them are realy strange and it is realy difficult to understand how people can be afraid of those thing. For example: hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is a fear of long words, or ideophobia, a fear of ideas. However people are afraid of things like that. So it should cause big prolems in every day life.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Drugs
Nowdays, when using drugs is becoming more and more popular we sfould seriously consider the causes of this situation.
There are a lot of reasons why people start using drugs. But I'll talk about the most common ones. First of all, a lot of people start using drugs, because their friend do that, and they don't want to be different, because being different is considered as being uncool.What is more, a lot of people start using drugs, besause of curiosity, they want to feel something new, something that is unknown, so in many cases it leads to drugs, as new experience. Moreover, some people try drugs because of trieing to forget about their problems, because they feel too weak to manage problems.
To sum up, there are a lot more reasons why people start using drugs because every situations is unique. So society should not deny the existance of this fast growing problem and consider the ways how to sove it.
There are a lot of reasons why people start using drugs. But I'll talk about the most common ones. First of all, a lot of people start using drugs, because their friend do that, and they don't want to be different, because being different is considered as being uncool.What is more, a lot of people start using drugs, besause of curiosity, they want to feel something new, something that is unknown, so in many cases it leads to drugs, as new experience. Moreover, some people try drugs because of trieing to forget about their problems, because they feel too weak to manage problems.
To sum up, there are a lot more reasons why people start using drugs because every situations is unique. So society should not deny the existance of this fast growing problem and consider the ways how to sove it.
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