... if there was any doubt in your mind:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011221/sc/health_superstition_dc_1.html


A researcher at the University of California, San Diego has found that deaths caused by heart attacks among U.S. residents of Chinese and Japanese descent tend to spike on the fourth of the month, an increase linked to the psychological stress brought about by fear of the number itself.

I have to pee, anyone else have to pee?

I'm going to go pee, I'll talk to you all after I go pee

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that is an interesting article/study, a 27% increase is quite substantial

Ba.... ahahahahhahaha! Whoa thats funny!

I suggest an article on Natural History. I am not quite sure what the title is or when it was printed but I will check When i return home from Florida. This Astrophysist always writes articles for NH and the one was about the fear of Numbers. Very good. Later

I wonder if anyone did any work on the Chinese fortune cookies and their effect on people!

I think the Power of suggestion is really powerful. I changed my career and doubled my income based on my astrologer's forecast. I wanted his prediction to come true so much that I actually took some risk and made it happen.

I think, negetive power of suggestion is called Vodoo... (including the Vodoo Economics!) :D

That Article

Natural History
"Fear Of Numbers"
By: Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Pg. 30
Issue 12/01-1/01