If I had a superpower...

'Tunnel' links New York to London

Invisibility cloak edges closer

New gel is stronger than steel

I read the articles mentioned above and for some reason it made me wonder;

If you had a superpower, what would it be and why?

X-ray vision, being able to see further than anyone else, the power of invisibility perhaps a bit like Kevin Bacon in the movie The Hollow Man?

So the question is what would YOU choose?

Scary extremes in society

Tweenbots - I like the idea of these guys wandering around the city with the rest of us.

5 Psychological Experiments That Prove Humanity is Doomed.

Tweenbots are little robots wandering around a big city recording their journey as they go. Surprisingly they found that if the robots got knocked down or stuck somewhere, people would stop to help them. Cute isn’t it?

A little while later, I then read the following article...

Depressing title I know but I was intrigued. Some of the experiments do make you wonder what you would do if you were in those particular situations. But what struck me as odd was how the articles are complete opposites of each other, with regards to attitudes in society. Helping robots – sure; helping people – err, pass?!

So as the article advocates; are we doomed as a society?

(Sorry, I just love being melodramatic sometimes :P)

Too hot to handle

I’ll admit I like my food to be well seasoned food and often it is spicy but not the extreme levels that it would make your eyes water. I found an article that described how the Naga Jolokia is the now the hottest chilli in the world. It originates from Assam in north-western India and is so hot it has to be handled with a chemical mask and gloves. The chilli it is now being grown commercially for the first time by an Australian man named Marcel de Wit, who has spent three years learning how to grow the plants.

Based in Morisset, New South Wales, ’The Chilli Factory' has just harvested its’ first crop of the plant. The chillies which are sold in 100g jars are suppose to last 2 years. Apparently when Marcel tried the chilli for the first time, it was so hot that he to ‘drink a litre of milk and lie down for ten minutes afterwards’ and also people with heart or breathing problems have been warned NOT to eat them. I should think that’s a pretty good indication that maybe eating these chillies is not such a bright idea after all; I mean commercially it will probably be cost effective for food manufacturers but for general home use - well I can already see people daring each other to take a bite!

The Scoville Scale is used to measure the heat of a chilli measured in Scoville heat units (SHU’s). One Scoville unit is equal to a dilution of one part chilli to one million drops of water.