An Age of Magic

Simply irresistible…are you?

Whether you are irresistible to the opposite sex or not may be a direct result of how sweet your sweat smells to the object of your desire. Research shows that clues to the genetic make-up of a woman could be held in her perspiration – or in her looks. According to Australian scientists, who studied the DNA of almost 150 university students, the secrets of attraction are hidden in immune system genes that we inherit from our parents.

Clues to this could be contained in a woman’s appearance or sweat – which signals to potential partners that children produced would have the greatest chance of fighting disease. The volunteers, including would-be doctors and engineers, also filled in detailed questionnaire about their love lives. The DNA was scrutinised for variation in genes known to influence the immune system. The more diverse these genes, the stronger a person’s defence against disease. The results of the genetic tests were then matched up with the survey answers. This showed that the women with the most varied major histocompatibility (MHC) genes, had the most sexual partners.

Previous studies have shown that the more different someone’s sweat is to yours, the more pleasant you find them – and their sweat. It is thought the phenomenon evolved to prevent us unintentionally mating with relatives – or others who are genetically similar to us.

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You’d need a nice back for this galaxy dress

One thing is for sure, you’d need a back with nice clear skin to pull off wearing this dress – it is called a ‘Galaxy Dress’ and I think it looks absolutely brilliant. The Galaxy Dress is the largest wearable display in the world and was created by designers Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz from the London-based fashion company CuteCircuit.

I think you would look brilliant wearing this dress down a red carpet dont you think…? but as I said, if you had a pimply back you would need some serious acne treatment as it would highlight every flaw on your skin. But it does look lovely eh?

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Some of Nostradamus’ prophecies…what do you think?

Here are some predictions of what the old guy reckoned would happen:

The year 1999, seventh month,
From the sky will come a great King of Terror:
To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols,
Before and after Mars to reign by good luck

The year of the great seventh number accomplished,
It will appear at the time of the games of slaughter:
Not far from the great millennial age,
When the buried will go out from their tombs.

In The Prophecies he compiled his collection of major, long-term predictions. The first installment was published in 1555. The second, with 289 further prophetic verses, was printed in 1557. The third edition, with three hundred new quatrains, was reportedly printed in 1558, but now only survives as part of the omnibus edition that was published after his death in 1568. This version contains one unrhymed and 941 rhymed quatrains, grouped into nine sets of 100 and one of 42, called “Centuries”.

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