Flying fitness: Cathy Rigby’s tips for soaring while nearing 60

DALLAS ― Peter Pan never grows up. Cathy Rigby, who has made Peter her signature role for more than two decades, doesn’t seem to have aged much either.Peter’s secret is fairy dust, but Rigby, who turns 60 in December, relies on a sprinkling of pulverized herbs sprinkled on fresh food and regular exercise to perform Peter’s cartwheels, flips and flying during her national tour.She spoke about her fitness routine before a recent Dallas show.“There’s something really joyous in doing the things I st

July 26, 2012

Coping with insomnia

Fifty-six-year-old housewife Choi Eun-hee cannot go to sleep at night. She said she is usually ready to sleep long before she actually falls asleep. “From around 10 p.m. I wait to fall asleep but stay awake all through the night. It’s only around 4 a.m. that I finally get some sleep,” she said. Choi said her problem is negatively affecting her life. “When I was able to sleep I did not realize that it was so important. Now I feel lethargic and sometimes depressed. The harder I try to fall asleep

July 26, 2012

Birds outperform 7-year-olds in logic test

In a series of tests at Cambridge University, birds had to compete against boys and girls aged four to ten.In two of the three tests, birds did just as well as children up to seven years old.The tests was modeled on Aesop’s fable in which a thirsty crow can drink from a pitcher if it uses pebbles to raise the water level to within its reach.In the first task, both the birds and children quickly realized that adding stones to a cylinder half-filled with water would raise the water level.But in th

July 26, 2012

Mystery of missing Mars signals solved

  A spacecraft sending data from Mars to Earth had its signal repeatedly interrupted in 2005 and scientists say they‘ve learned the culprit -- the Sun.In August of that year, the Mars Express spacecraft was dutifully sending back data on the stratigraphy, or layering, of the upper regions of the Martian crust, when its signals were knocked off the air.Researchers in the Boston University Astronomy Department say solar flares, and the high-energy particles they emit, can strongly interfere with r

July 26, 2012

New WoW expansion pack to be released on September amid uncertainty over its publisher

A new expansion pack of the online role-playing game World of Warcraft will be released on Sept. 25, according to the Blizzard Entertainment website. Blizzard is both the developer and publisher of World of Warcraft and its expansion packs.World of Warcraft is one of the most popular subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing games in the world, and the new expansion pack, titled “Mists of Pandaria,” will be the fourth extension to the game, following its predecessors: "The Bur

July 26, 2012

French archaeologists unearth pharaoh boat

French archaeologists have discovered a roughly 5,000-year-old pharaonic solar boat in an expedition in Abu Rawash, west of the Egyptian capital, the antiquities ministry said on Wednesday.The antiquities minister, Mohammed Ibrahim, said the boat was up to 5,000 years old. “It goes back to the era of Pharaoh Den, one of the First Dynasty kings,” he said in a statement.The six-metre (19.6 feet) long and 1.5-metre wide boat “is in good condition,” he added. Its planks are now undergoing renovation

July 26, 2012

Samsung to sell smartphone for direct consumer purchase

Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it plans to introduce the country’s first smartphone model that consumers can directly buy, opening the way for getting mobile devices outside of wireless operators.The Galaxy M Style model, which runs on the third-generation network, will hit local shelves on Thursday, according to the world’s largest smartphone maker.Consumers can directly purchase the smartphone and open accounts with two of the country’s three mobile carriers, SK Telecom Co. and KT Corp

July 25, 2012

‘Mobile ads are the future’

Semantic Rep’s CEO says firm in talks with U.S. company for M&A, allianceFrom newspapers, television to the Internet, the birth of new media has introduced novel ways for advertisers to market brands and products over the years.The Internet, for instance, has offered new ad solutions such as Web banners and search advertising.The emergence of smart devices and Long Term Evolution is about to launch a new era of mobile video advertising that will offer a lot more interactivity with consumers than

July 25, 2012

Apple‘s ‘Mountain Lion’ has been released

Apple's new mac OS X 'Mountain Lion' has been released on Wednesday.When Apple releases its quarterly earnings report at the end of the business day Tuesday, Mac users can also anticipate the official release of the upgraded operating system, dubbed Mountain Lion.“We’re thrilled with record sales of 17 million iPads in the June quarter,” said Apple CEO Tim Cook. “We’ve also just updated the entire MacBook line, will release Mountain Lion on Wednesday and will be launching iOS 6 this Fall. We are

July 25, 2012

How not sleeping affects your body

  Even men in excellent health have their attention and working memory decreased along with an increase in stress hormones when not sleeping for a day, according to Samsung Medical Center’s psychiatry professor Hong Seung-bong’s team.Professor Hong’s team held a study on how sleep deprivation affects a person’s attention and working memory. The team forbade five healthy men to sleep for 24 hours, who had an average age of 25.3 with normal sleeping patterns. This experiment was put on the Journa

July 25, 2012

Best-ever images of solar corona captured

U.S. astronomers have released what they say are the highest-resolution images ever captured of the Sun’s corona, its million-degree outer atmosphere.NASA’s High Resolution Coronal Imager, or Hi-C, on July 11 launched a sounding rocket and captured the 16-megapixel images in an extreme-ultraviolet wavelength of light.“Even though this mission was only a few minutes long, it marks a big breakthrough in coronal studies,” Leon Golub of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said.The new i

July 24, 2012

Galaxy Note II to have bigger screen

 The Galaxy Note II, a follow-up to the Galaxy Note of Samsung Electronics Co., will feature a 5.5-inch display, according to a report. Boy Genius Report, a U.S. weblog specializing in technology, said on Monday that Samsung will unveil the Galaxy Note II at its press conference slated for Aug. 15. BGR said that Samsung will replace the original Galaxy Note’s 5.3 inch display with a larger Super A

July 24, 2012