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////////////////////670 million years ago - First animals.
800 million years ago - Snowball Earth - worst ice age in the Earth's history.
1.3 billion years ago - First plants.


////////////////////////The eventual result was the inflation theory, which holds that a fraction of a moment after the dawn of creation, the universe underwent a sudden dramatic expansion. It inflated--in effect ran away with itself, doubling in size every 10-34 seconds. The whole episode may have lasted no more than 10-30 seconds--that's one million million million million millionths of a second--but it changed the universe from something you could hold in your hand to something at least 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times bigger. Inflation theory explains the ripples and eddies that make our universe possible. Without it, there would be no clumps of matter and thus no stars, just drifting gas and everlasting darkness.According to Guth's theory, at one ten-millionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second, gravity emerged. After another ludicrously brief interval it was joined by electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces--the stuff of physics. These were joined an instant later by swarms of elementary particles--the stuff of stuff. From nothing at all, suddenly there were swarms of photons, protons, electrons, neutrons, and much else--between 1079 and 1089 of each, according to the standard Big Bang theory.



///////////////////////CANCER STUDY=RED MEAT,ALCOHOL,SMOKING,OBESITY ARE LIFESTYLE RISK FACTORS
////////////////////BGM LINE=AVOID DAILY ALCOHOL,IF DRINK-ONLY A BIT OF RED WINE



///////////////////////LIFE EXPECTANCIES
Non-manual man: 79.2
Manual man: 75.9
Non-manual woman: 82.9
Manual woman: 80


/////////////////////////////////////////////TED CRTSY
Richard Branson: Life at 30,000 feetWhen Richard Branson was at school, his headmaster predicted he would wind up either a millionaire or in jail. Since then, he's done both. Here he talks to TED's Chris Anderson about the ups and the downs of his career, from his multibillionaire success to his multiple near-death experiences. Watch this talk >>



///////////////////////of the here-today-gone-tomorrow nature of medical wisdom —



/////////////////////////ENTROPY ALWAYS WINS




//////////////////////A GREAT MIND IN A DIRTY BODY



////////////////////Although it is fairly uncontroversial to say that we have privileged access to our mental states in some form or another, its extent can be exaggerated. With the possible exception of sensations such as pain, errors about one’s mental states are not at all uncommon. Do I feel resentment, or is it just irritation? Do I really believe that The Da Vinci Code is a shoddy potboiler, or do I just give that impression to avoid seeming lowbrow? Sometimes others are much better placed to find out what your mental condition is, and their discoveries can cost you hundreds of dollars an hour. In the early chapters of George Sand’s Marianne, it is apparent to the reader that Pierre loves the eponymous heroine, but Pierre himself believes the opposite. And—as summarized in Timothy Wilson’s recent book Strangers to Ourselves—social psychology has uncovered our remarkable tendency to confabulate about our mental lives.
Peculiar access—a special first-person method of knowing our own minds—and privileged access—easier knowledge of our own minds—are quite different features of self-knowledge: the first could be present without the second, and vice versa. The British philosopher Gilbert Ryle agreed that we have privileged access to our mental states, but denied that we have peculiar access. Ryle thought that we find out about our mental states in the same way that we find out about the mental states of others—by observing behavior. Thus, in Ryle’s view, we lack peculiar access. But we do have privileged access, according to Ryle, simply because we have much more evidence of our own behavior than that of others; we are our own constant companions, after all. “The turns taken by a man’s conversation,” he writes in The Concept of Mind, “do not startle or perplex his wife as much as they had surprised and puzzled his fiancée, nor do close colleagues have to explain themselves to each other as much as they have to explain themselves to their pupils.” Privileged access, according to Ryle, is no more problematic than the fact that one’s spouse and close friends are less likely to err about one’s mental life than one’s casual acquaintances—the explanation of both is basically the same. You spend so much more time with yourself than anyone else does—how could you fail to be the best authority?


///////////////////Study Of African Traditional Medicine Will Begin World-first Clinical Trial (December 7, 2007) -- Sutherlandia may be unfamiliar to many North Americans, but in South Africa, where traditional medicines are used by many people, and often supplement conventional medicines, many consider it a miracle plant. Those that use Sutherlandia claim it cures ailments from depression to cancer. Sutherlandia is a new focus of research. ... > full story



///////////////////////IS CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE CAUSAL OR ITS NEURAL CORRELATE?



///////////////////////EMERGENT DETERMINISM OF CONSC

///////////////////MONISM OVER DUALISM


////////////////////MATERIALISM OVER MENTALISM


///////////////////What Do You REALLY Want?
The statement, “You can do anything you put your mind to,” leads us to believe that all you must do is imagine what you’d like to accomplish, set your mind to the task, and wait for success.
To a certain degree this is true. Focused intention combined with action is a powerful force. But the statement is misleading because it fails to mention the difficulty and necessity of focusing your mind on a specific goal.
Most of us don’t know what we want. We think we do, but we really don’t. We only know what we don’t want. We don’t want a boring job. We don’t want to be poor. We don’t want to disappoint our loved ones.
Knowing specifically what you want is much different than knowing what you don’t want. When you only know what you don’t want, your intentions aren’t focused. Consider this example.
Pete doesn’t want to be poor. He’s sick of earning less than his friends, and he’s determined to raise his status. To accomplish this goal, Pete could take many different paths. He could train for a high paying profession, such as doctor or lawyer. He could start his own company, go into real estate, or do many other things that would lead to acquiring wealth.
But Pete isn’t sure what he wants to do. He doesn’t know which path best fits his skills and personality, so he doesn’t resolve to follow any particular path.
Hoping to answer this question, he investigates a dozen possibilities, but as soon as he runs into adversity he decides that path isn’t for him and moves on to a new solution.
Pete’s actions aren’t focused. Although he works very hard, his efforts don’t build on each other. Rather than building one giant impenetrable sand castle, Pete has built twenty smalls ones that are easily toppled. He ends up confused and discouraged. Ultimately Pete’s lack of focus leads to failure.
Now, what if Pete had chosen a specific path? Suppose he decided on the law profession. His actions would have been clearly defined:
Get a high score on the LSAT
Attain letters of recommendation
Get accepted to a good law school
Decide on a field of law
Earn a law degree
Find a high paying job with a good law firm
A set of specific goals is much easier to achieve than a vague end goal like becoming wealthy. Being focused on a path gives Pete a logical set of actions to follow. Each accomplishment is one step closer to the final goal.
I think we can all agree that committing to a clearly defined path, regardless of which one, gives Pete the best chance of becoming wealthy.
But how can he choose a path if he doesn’t know what he wants? Maybe money isn’t his only goal. Maybe he wants to do something he loves at the same time. Maybe he can’t afford to go back to school. Reality is complicated, and Pete doesn’t want to commit too soon.
And that’s why he fails.
But I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing. Most people don’t fit neatly into a predefined path. Forcing yourself into one may lead to success, but it probably won’t make you happy.
This is the point. If you want to be conventionally successful, to attain wealth and status, you need to choose a specific path (preferably something mainstream) and follow it to the letter.
On the other hand, if you aren’t particularly concerned with wealth or success, you can take your time searching for that perfect niche.
Just don’t wait too long to decide. Each moment you deliberate, your already committed competitors sprint further ahead.
But, then again, maybe life isn’t a race, and maybe the most interesting people follow a path all their own.

A POOR MAN WITH POTS OF MONEY AND DONATING TO CHARITY



////////////////////I EXAGGERATE FOR EFFECT


/////////////////////Such efforts to reveal the neural correlates of the divine—a new discipline with the warring titles “neurotheology” and “spiritual neuroscience”—not only might reconcile religion and science but also might help point to ways of eliciting pleasurable otherworldly feelings in people who do not have them or who cannot summon them at will. Because of the positive effect of such experiences on those who have them, some researchers speculate that the ability to induce them artificially could transform people’s lives by making them happier, healthier and better able to concentrate. Ultimately, however, neuroscientists study this question because they want to better understand the neural basis of a phenomenon that plays a central role in the lives of so many. “These experiences have existed since the dawn of humanity. They have been reported across all cultures,” Beauregard says. “It is as important to study the neural basis of [religious] experience as it is to investigate the neural basis of emotion, memory or language.”
Mystical MisfiringsScientists and scholars have long speculated that religious feeling can be tied to a specific place in the brain. In 1892 textbooks on mental illness noted a link between “religious emotionalism” and epilepsy. Nearly a century later, in 1975, neurologist Norman Geschwind of the Boston Veterans Administration Hospital first clinically described a form of epilepsy in which seizures originate as electrical misfirings within the temporal lobes, large sections of the brain that sit over the ears. Epileptics who have this form of the disorder often report intense religious experiences, leading Geschwind and others, such as neuropsychiatrist David Bear of Vanderbilt University, to speculate that localized electrical storms in the brain’s temporal lobe might sometimes underlie an obsession with religious or moral issues.
Exploring this hypothesis, neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran of the University of California, San Diego, asked several of his patients who have temporal lobe epilepsy to listen to a mixture of religious, sexual and neutral words while he tested the intensity of their emotional reactions using a measure of arousal called the galvanic skin response, a fluctuation in the electrical resistance of the skin. In 1998 he reported in his book Phantoms in the Brain (William Morrow), co-authored with journalist Sandra Blakeslee, that the religious words, such as “God,” elicited an unusually large emotional response in these patients, indicating that people with temporal lobe epilepsy may indeed have a greater propensity toward religious feeling.PAGE 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next»


///////////////////////////Don't tell your kids that they are. More than three decades of research shows that a focus on effort—not on intelligence or ability—is key to success in school and in life

BHAREY KATA OVER DHAREY KATA



//////////////////DG=Rise of the Age of “Gattaca”? -The Human Genome Project
The technological thriller Gattaca portrays an aerospace firm in a future where society analyzes each individuals DNA at birth. It now appears that the premises of this fictional movie isn’t all that far-fetched. In the film, Vincent Freeman, a character played by Ethan Hawke, was born with a congenital heart condition, which nullifies his chances of living his life’s ambition of space travel. Vincent is one of the planet’s last "natural" babies born into a genetically...
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/////////////////////Hubblecast Videos of the Cosmos
"Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. The urge is older than history. It is not satisfied and it will not be oppressed. The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons."
Edwin Hubble -Astronomer
Hubblecast features 17-years of videos of news and Images from...
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/////////////////////World's Coolest Billboard (Is a Power Plant!)
The world's coolest billboard is actually a power plant, generating 3.4 Kw of electricity during the day, which is enough for a family of four. It has no storage and takes electricity from the grid at night, but is a net producer.
"The energy that is collected by the solar panels actually exceeds the amount used by it on a day-to-day basis," said Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) spokesperson Jennifer Zelwer of the standard-sized billboard,
Zelwer cautioned that...
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Mr. Hardwood had two daughters by his first wife, the eldest of whom was married to John Coshick: this Coshick had a daughter by his first wife whom old Hardwood married, and by her had a son; therefore John Coshick's second wife could say:
My father is my son, and I'm my mother's mother;My sister is my daughter, and I'm grandmother to my brother.
– The Cabinet of Curiosities, 1824



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