New groundbreaking research shows that the insertion of an acupuncture needle into the skin disrupts the branching point of nerves called C fibres. These C fibres transmit low-grade sensory information over very long distances by using Merkel cells as intermediaries.… Continue Reading
General We are almost there-inches away from reaching some form of dry land. The phantasmagoric haze surrounding us will lift somewhat by the end of the month. Like Max in Where the Wild Things Are, we will return to find… Continue Reading
Below is a 75 year old speech of Chaplin’s still (unfortunately) so relevant even to even our present times. Some interpret it as an “out-of-character personal plea” from Chaplin himself on the state of our world and humanity at large.… Continue Reading
Want more followers on Twitter? Followers are Twitter “gold” but unless you are a celebrity or part of the “Twitterati” they are pretty hard to get. Georgia Tech with 522,368 tweets in hand found a few Twitter secrets. A research… Continue Reading
Did Paul Klee knowingly or unknowingly seed the first Twitter meme – a ‘mechanical chirping bird’ in his painting Twittering Machine? In 1922, a Swiss-German painter Paul Klee painted a watercolor and pen and ink oil transfer on paper which… Continue Reading
Look towards the West on Saturday night at a rare Venus-Jupiter conjunction! The astronomy The two most benefic planets, Jupiter and Venus will be the closest they have ever been and it won’t happen again until 2065! Though Venus and… Continue Reading
A recent study published in the Journal of Neuroscience by authors Peggy Mason, PhD, professor of neurobiology, and Hayley Foo, PhD, research associate professor of neurobiology at the University of Chicago, is the first to show that while ingesting food… Continue Reading
A study, “Quantifying Trading Behavior in Financial Markets Using Google Trends,” published in Scientific Reports by a team of UK and US researchers, found Google Trends keywords can predict the rise and fall of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Using… Continue Reading
On February 1st 1996, at Mpath’s Internet Game Developers Conference in San Jose, California a video game developer named Brain Moriarty gave an amazing lecture “to a crowd that seemingly grew smaller and smaller as he talked on.” “The Point… Continue Reading
Generosity and trustworthiness may go hand in hand. Researchers at Oxford University set out to discover the signals we rely on to decide who we can trust. What they found was that we distrust people who are stingy with their… Continue Reading
Daniel Goleman, PhD, is a psychologist and former science journalist at the New York Times and best-selling author of Emotional Intelligence, Social Intelligence, and most recently, Ecological Intelligence. Goleman supports the concept that conventional intelligence measured by one’s IQ isn’t… Continue Reading
In a study from Loma Linda University Health, presented at the Experimental Biology conference meetings in San Diego, joyful or mirthful laughter was shown to produce brain wave frequencies similar to those seen among people who reach what is considered… Continue Reading
You are driving down the street and suddenly someone walks out in front of you. You slam on the breaks in a split-second. A few seconds later, you probably wonder what part of you knew how to react so fast.… Continue Reading
This is a distillation of August’s astrological events for your Sun sign without references to the Planetary Beings responsible for the relay of information from the Cosmos. It’s much easier to digest the message without a lot of astrological… Continue Reading
In a paper, “On Universality in Human Correspondence Activity,” published in the journal “Science” by Northwestern University researchers, examined the letter correspondence of 16 famous writers, performers, politicians and scientists, including Einstein, Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and Ernest Hemingway,… Continue Reading
What happens when machines become smarter than humans? Will they take over the world? Is the survival of the human species at risk? These may seem like questions for science fiction enthusiasts, but with the release of recent movies like… Continue Reading
In the 1950’s Dr. Royal Rife, an American inventor designed a very powerful microscope that could detect living microbes by the color of their vibratory rates. Financed by millionaires like Henry Timken, Rife invented the Universal Microscope with 5,682 parts.… Continue Reading
It’s interesting what three physicists can come up with over a cup of coffee. When a theoretical physicist from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics was passing through Imperial College London, a casual coffee in a tiny office at… Continue Reading
Though teeth have been grown in mice before, scientists revealed in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences success at growing a ‘fully functional’ tooth from stem cells in mice. The article states: “Here, we report a successful fully… Continue Reading