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.

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?

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”.

When I was a kid a documentary called ‘The Prophecies of Nostradamus’ was aired on television and it sent shockwaves around the public conscience. This was back in the 1980’s and I recall reports of kids being so distressed by the things in the show that complaints were registered with the tv channel.

If I recall correctly 1997 was the year earmarked for the start of WW3 – apart from Princess Diana being killed that year nothing of real note happened. So Nostradamus got it wrong in that case.

They like giving certain days a catchy name though – Black Friday, Cyber Monday and now Doomsday 2012…

But in 2012 – that’s just around the corner so at least we are somewhat forewarned. They reckon it will be a combination of natural disasters and man-made catastrophes, but we already have enough of those going on right now. It seems to me that we are in danger of losing it all at any given time or year – but as for me, on the 21st of December 2012 I will still be going about my Xmas shopping…

But now authorities have placed the blame on an unmanned stealth bomber – and it does not seem anywhere near as interesting an explanation as the former…does it?

Sometimes it is nicer, and more fun, when things cannot be explained away – a little bit of mystery always adds a touch of magic.

We are talking about John Titor of course.

But something very interesting has been unearthed in China. A 100 year old Swiss watch has been discovered in a Ming Dynasty tomb that has not been opened for 400 years. Who owned the watch and how did it get inside a tomb that was last sealed 300 years BEFORE the watch was created…?

Watches were not around at the time of the Ming Dynasty, of course, and Switzerland did not even exist as a country back then.

How did it get there?

Sceptics are calling it an early april fools joke but there is no doubt that we have a hell of a mystery to solve here. Did John Titor – or another time traveller – lose his watch in that tomb?

Fascinating.

But amazingly over six inches of snow fell on the city, forcing schools to close and causing problems for motorists unused to driving in slippery conditions.

The famous las vegas hotels and landmarks of America’s gambling capital were left covered under a blanket of snow as the snowy storm blew into the valley on Wednesday.     

This city has only seen light snow fall just five times since 1937 – makes you wonder dosen’t it…?                    

It was Venus and Jupiter in alignment near to the moon and it looked just fantastic. You can see the pics here.

The moon added to things by way of a ’smile’ as it was in it’s crescent form that night. Things like this just remind you that there is still plenty of magic left to be enjoyed.

At CERN in Geneva the LHC will be put into operation and, hopefully, the results will give us a look at something man never thought he would ever see…how the universe began. To date only one ‘being’ knew what actually happened – God. And I wonder just what God is thinking right now – is he guiding those scientists along the way; will God allow us to see just how things were done…?

While the results that will come out of all this won’t be related in any way to the ’seven days of creation’ theory that the Bible would have us believe, it will tell us that, if God really DID create the universe in seven days, he did it without the LHC and HOW he did it could never, ever  be replicated by mankind.

The atheists will be as openminded as ever, the theologians will be as bible-quoting as ever. But one thing is sure – we are standing at the threshold of a whole new age. We are about to find out how it all began – the only question that may never be answered though is…’why’.

But give them time.

Nevada is one of them; you hear about dolphin watching tours, whale watching tours - so why has no-one yet come up with their own version of Vegas vacations which focus on UFO spotting…?

I think it’s great runner – there’s a lot of weird stuff going on right now up there!