poddys/science

Blame your brain for sabotaging your efforts to get back on track after splurging on an extra scoop of ice cream or that second burger during Friday night's football game.

Findings from a new UT Southwestern Medical Center study suggest that fat from certain foods we eat makes its way to the brain. Once there, the fat molecules cause the brain to send messages to the body's cells, warning them to ignore the appetite-suppressing signals from leptin and insulin, hormones involved in weight regulation.

Do you ever have to make international phone calls, and are you just horrified at the cost when you do? Do you ever get additional charges applied as well?

I think it's disgusting the rates that the large phone companies charge you to make an international call, and the cellular companies are even worse.

Having lived in the USA for some years and having had to call family and friends in the UK, Australasia and Caribbean regularly, I searched around to find a calling card that would give me good rates, and I came across Almost Free Phone Calls.

This company has phone cards for calling from most countries to most others, the lowest rates, and best of all no hidden charges. I have used them for several years, and am happy to sing their praises. These phone cards have literally saved me hundreds of dollars, since I was spending at one time 2 or more hours a day on the phone to the UK.

The Perseid meteor shower. Impressive - wish it hadn't been cloudy here.

A Russian spacecraft landed on moon hours before Americans.
A previously unheard recording of a Russian spacecraft attempting to beat NASA's Apollo 11 in 1969's race to the moon has been released.

Very cool aircraft design concepts.

The use of Sky Pilots high gain antennas in Europe.