Just what we were missing, another active volcano in Iceland ● Be quiet, the spiders are sleeping! ● Danger in the shadows, women are no longer interested in board games ● Even sleep will not be the same

• Just what we were missing, another active volcano in Iceland. We don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the past two years have seen nothing but bad things happen on this planet. Pandemics, wars, record temperatures, earthquakes, devastating fires, inflation or the performances of the Romanian national football team… you say that these disasters do not stop. Lately humanity has been told to stop giving money to the church. You don’t even know what to do or say. Now, to spoil your day, we are reporting that a few days ago a new volcano erupted in Iceland. so we know corrected this news you missed it, but it doesn’t matter, the main thing is to be well informed. But we have good news and bad news. The bad news is that no one knows how long the eruption will last. The last time it lasted about six months. The good news is that this new volcano actually has a good name. It is called Fagradalsfjall, and it translates as “beautiful mountain valley”. Don’t be shy, it could be called the last volcano that destroyed this area about 12 years ago, Eyjafjörður, which means exactly what it sounds like. Icelandic volcanologists also say that this eruption is taking place against the backdrop of global warming. Because the melting of the glaciers reduces the pressure on the Earth’s crust, it is easier for magma to come to the surface. According to this, volcanic activity in the area has increased about 100 times in the last 5000 years and is still growing well. Come on, it’s good!

• Be quiet, the spiders are sleeping! Daniela Ressler, a biologist from the University of Konstanz, Germany, together with several of her colleagues, published a very interesting article yesterday in a prestigious journal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, where some of the hottest scientists in the world breed. Please, it was not news that Daniela wrote the article. We are interested in what is written in it. This is the news. And this article says that spiders are able to sleep well, soundly, with dreams. Yes, you read that right. Spiders will be able to enter REM sleep and see dreams. These researchers sat and observed specimens of the Evarcha arcuata (jumping spider) species while they slept in their webs. And thus they noticed that spiders have involuntary movements like humans or other mammals. They also observed eye movements similar to those of humans during sleep. So, it’s clear! The answer to this question, which has tormented humanity for hundreds of thousands of years, has been found. Spiders are dreaming. Now, what you can do is, in academic parlance, not be a slob. If you hear subtle snoring around the house at night, do not despair, these are spiders. Let them sleep, they will get tired too. Don’t jump on them with your slippers or a rolled-up newspaper, because you don’t want to be woken up like that either. Please, those who have children already know what this is and it is not good at all.

• Danger in the shadows, women are no longer interested in board games. As you know, our country no longer invests in science, in serious research. But developed countries, interested in such aspects, do it. It is the same today, when we reproduce the results of a particularly important study from the socio-economic point of view, published yesterday by American researchers from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Teaching, taken from Phys.org, raises serious concerns about the behavior of modern women. The analysis of the target groups of the researched clearly shows that women are less and less interested in board games. True, they work more, pay poorly, have less time for rest. But that’s no excuse because after you’ve come home from work, picked up the kids from daycare, fed them, taken them out to play, done the laundry, run the washing machine, vacuumed and washed the dishes, why not relax a little with your husband or friends who are waiting for you you with monopoly, katana or other board game. Scientific studies have already shown that such games strengthen interpersonal ties, increase motivation and help to learn better. Instead, more and more women prefer to spend their free time sleeping or just sitting on the couch. Finally, the study suggests that men could make an important contribution if they were more involved in household chores, freeing women from certain responsibilities. But do we even know how much it can solve such a pressing problem?

• Even sleep will not be the same. A joint team of researchers from China, the United States, Germany, South Korea and Japan is sounding the alarm about the impact of global warming on sleep. A study published in The Lancet Planetary Health, claims that it’s like dusting our sleep. Where is it from? Well, simple! The night temperature continues to rise. By 2090, the average temperature is also predicted to be 39.7 degrees Celsius (we can still make it). Whoever dreamed of hot nights, here they will be. The main problem is that sleep disturbances caused by heat will have a negative impact on people’s health. And this will lead, according to estimates, to an increase in mortality up to 60% compared to the current average. Please research mainly for Asian cities, but the rest of the continents won’t be too far either. Now there is nothing to do. Recycle what has been recycled, stop polluting the environment, ride a bike – here’s what you can do too. Captain Planet is only in cartoons. But if that’s the case, and if you can’t sleep anymore, you still have an excuse to put your hat on the head of that spider that snores like the aforementioned jerk as you toss and turn with your eyes open in the dark.