Welcome to The Big Jewel, where we are bloody sick of all the worldwide natural disasters and are desperately seeking some comic relief. We hope we have found it, too, in the form of one of our little six-legged friends -- just about the only creatures to escape these catastrophes unscathed: "Nature's Little Seismographs" By Kurt Luchs I have here in my hand an article that would cause everyone a great deal of worry if there weren't already so many things to worry about. It seems a group of scientists at UCLA have discovered a new method of predicting earthquakes based on the reactions of the common cockroach (Blatta orientalis). Regardless of what we may think of them (cockroaches, I mean), they are highly sensitive creatures... For the full article please visit http://www.thebigjewel.com/ To unsubscribe from The Big Jewel's Hilarious Weekly Email please send an email with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line to neilpasricha@xxxxxxxxx