Last night I spent my time browsing through the science pages of  BBC’s web site.

There are so many interesting things to read about and I thought I should share some of those with you.

The Science of Love is one of the Hot Topics on BBC.CO.UK science section.
It basically breaks down love to chemicals and gives such a nice explanation about the 3 phases of falling in love: Lust, Attraction and Attachment.

There are 6 pages about this containing great information and it’s a must read.

The teaser:

• There are three phases to falling in love and different hormones are involved at each stage
• Events occurring in the brain when we are in love have similarities with mental illness
• When we are attracted to somebody, it could be because subconsciously we like their genes
• Smell could be as important as looks when it comes to the fanciability factor. We like the look and smell of people who are most like our parents
• Science can help determine whether a relationship will last

Source: BBC.CO.UK/Science

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• Cannabis contains more than 400 chemicals. The main psychoactive ingredient is delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, or ‘THC’ ?
• Cannabis contains more tar than tobacco, and has a higher concentration of carcinogens (cancer-causing agents) ?
• Cannabis became a controlled substance in Britain in 1928 ?
• 44% of 16 to 29 year-olds have tried cannabis at some point in their lives. Half of them have used it in the last year ?
• In 1998, 76% of people arrested for drugs offences in Britain were charged with possession of cannabis ?
• Smoking marijuana is more popular in America than surfing the Internet ?

Source: BBC.CO.UK/science

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Confession: I am a course addict.

Whenever I find a good course I’m immediately into it.

Most of the time the courses I read are not directly related to my job, but you might be surprised to find out how helpful they can be in certain situations.

FreeSkills in one of the web sites with over 650 courses and tutorials, and some of them are really worth having a look at.

Computer, Accountancy, Marketing, Finances are just few categories from about 50 available and the courses provided are very well presented and easy to understand.

This is not one of the usual learning web sites I usually blog about.

To get to the full courses, you will have to pay a yearly fee, around £99, and only then you will get a full access to all courses.
Don’t worry though…you can still access the courses, their very short versions or just the summaries.

If they are teasing you enough, you can then sign up….Like a “try before you buy”.

Curious enough? Follow the FreeSkills link and sign up for a trial.

Have fun

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)

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If you are interested in journalism and writing, and you are willing to learn more about the English writing styles, then you might want to have a look at “The BBC News Style Guide “.

As you probably expect, the article is very well written and very clear.

You can either read it via Docstoc.com or you can sign up and download a PDF copy of the file to your desktop.

While we are at Docstoc …this is a user generated community for document storage and sharing and you’ll find a whole variety of subjects and categories such as: high quality legal, business, technology, educational, and creative documents…all for free.

If you sign up and create an account, you should be able to upload the following file types:

PDF, Word, Excel, Power Point and Text files.

Docstoc is available in more languages than I can count.

So if you are interested, follow any of the links above and browse through the files.

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