Charity and concern for loved ones reduce pressure and prolong life. But it is important not to overdo it Mother Teresa. Photo: Stefano Rellandini / Reuters A group of researchers from the University of British Colombia conducted an experiment in which older people with high pressure for three weeks received $ 40. Half of the participants were instructed to spend money on themselves, the rest were asked to take care of others (buy a gift to a friend, sacrifice for charity, etc.).

We buy watermelons because of their sweets-thanks to easy taste, delicate pulp and juiciness, they turned into an indispensable attribute of a summer picnic or weekend in the country. Mark Twain even called the fetus the gift of God. “Whoever tried the watermelon knows what the angels eat,” he wrote. But the watermelon was not always like that-once it was almost inedible.

This thought first painfully struck after a fire in the Kemerovo shopping center. At an urgently organized meeting with the participation of Vladimir Putin, officials seek guilty, discuss what to do next, how to help the families of the dead. In memory, of course, the words of Governor Tuleyev, who asked for forgiveness for the tragedy, were not in memory, not for people, but for some reason with the president. Tuleyev’s commentary was confused by even Putin.

If Facebook was a separate state, its population would be the largest in the world - at least once a month more than 2.2 billion people enter the most famous social network, that is, about a third of all earthlings. Given the huge audience of Facebook, the creator of the company Mark Zuckerberg increasingly has to think about the influence that the social network on society. And, of course, apologize for the mistakes made.