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/////////////////////Prostate Cancer Prevention and Tomatoes
Can eating pasta with tomato sauce really help prevent prostate cancer? Experts say yes.
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////////////////////////////////Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed.
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/////////////////////////////////1960:
American author Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird, featuring
themes of racial injustice and the destruction of innocence in the
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aflutter (adj):
In a state of excited anticipation or confusion
/////////////////////////////////////Is the Universe Inside Your Head?
By Alan Boyle / Source: MSNBC
Biomedical researcher Robert Lanza has been on the frontier of cloning and stem cell studies for more than a decade, so he's well-acclimated to controversy. But his book "Biocentrism" is generating controversy on a different plane by arguing that our consciousness plays a central role in creating the cosmos.
"By treating space and time as physical things, science picks a completely wrong starting point for understanding the world," Lanza declares.
Any claim that space and time aren't cold, hard, physical things has to raise an eyebrow. Some of the reactions to Lanza's ideas, first set forth two years ago in an essay for The American Scholar, brand them as "pseudo-scientific philosophical claptrap" or "no better than any religion."
Lanza admits that the reviews haven't all been glowing, particularly among some physicists. "Their response has been much how you'd expect priests to respond to stem cell research," he told me Monday.
Other physicists, however, point out that Lanza's view is fully in line with the perspective from quantum mechanics that the observer plays a huge role in how reality is observed.
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Stephen Hawking: 'Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution'
By Casey Kazan / Source: Daily Galaxy
Although It has taken homo sapiens several million years to evolve from the apes the useful information in our DNA has probably changed by only a few million bits. So the rate of biological evolution in humans, Stephen Hawking points out in his Life in the Universe lecture, is about a bit a year.
"By contrast," Hawking says, "there are about 50,000 new books published in the English language each year, containing of the order of a hundred billion bits of information. Of course, the great majority of this information is garbage, and no use to any form of life. But, even so, the rate at which useful information can be added is millions, if not billions, higher than with DNA."
This means Hawking says that we have entered a new phase of evolution. "At first, evolution proceeded by natural selection, from random mutations. This Darwinian phase, lasted about three and a half billion years, and produced us, beings who developed language, to exchange information."
But what distinguishes us from our cave man ancestors is the knowledge that we have accumulated over the last ten thousand years, and particularly, Hawking points out, over the last three hundred.
"I think it is legitimate to take a broader view, and include externally transmitted information, as well as DNA, in the evolution of the human race," Hawking said.
In the last ten thousand years the human species has been in what Hawking calls, "an external transmission phase," where the internal record of information, handed down to succeeding generations in DNA, has not changed significantly. "But the external record, in books, and other long lasting forms of storage," Hawking says, "has grown enormously. Some people would use the term, evolution, only for the internally transmitted genetic material, and would object to it being applied to information handed down externally. But I think that is too narrow a view. We are more than just our genes."
The time scale for evolution, in the external transmission period, has collapsed to about 50 years, or less.
Meanwhile, Hawking observes, our human brains "with which we process this information have evolved only on the Darwinian time scale, of hundreds of thousands of years. This is beginning to cause problems. In the 18th century, there was said to be a man who had read every book written. But nowadays, if you read one book a day, it would take you about 15,000 years to read through the books in a national Library. By which time, many more books would have been written."
But we are now entering a new phase, of what Hawking calls "self designed evolution," in which we will be able to change and improve our DNA. "At first," he continues "these changes will be confined to the repair of genetic defects, like cystic fibrosis, and muscular dystrophy. These are controlled by single genes, and so are fairly easy to identify, and correct. Other qualities, such as intelligence, are probably controlled by a large number of genes. It will be much more difficult to find them, and work out the relations between them. Nevertheless, I am sure that during the next century, people will discover how to modify both intelligence, and instincts like aggression."
If the human race manages to redesign itself, to reduce or eliminate the risk of self-destruction, we will probably reach out to the stars and colonize other planets. But this will be done, Hawking believes, with intelligent machines based on mechanical and electronic components, rather than macromolecules, which could eventually replace DNA based life, just as DNA may have replaced an earlier form of life.
///////////////////////////////////////////////Change Your Routine, Change Your Life
Are you stuck in the same old routine? Making small everyday changes can help you renew your sense of wonder and open up your mind, says psychologist Elisha Goldstein.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////Sleep Improves (and Destroys) Memories
By Bonnie Prescott / Source: Harvard Science
As poets, songwriters and authors have described, our memories range from misty water-colored recollections to vividly detailed images of the times of our lives.
Now, a study led by Harvard researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Boston College offers new insights into the specific components of emotional memories, suggesting that sleep plays a key role in determining what we remember – and what we forget.
Reported in the August 2008 issue of the journal Psychological Science, the findings show that a period of slumber helps the brain to selectively preserve and enhance those aspects of a memory that are of greatest emotional resonance, while at the same time diminishing the memory’s neutral background details.
“This tells us that sleep’s role in emotional memory preservation is more than just mechanistic,” says the study’s first author Jessica Payne, PhD, a Harvard University research fellow in the Division of Psychiatry at BIDMC. “In order to preserve what it deems most important, the brain makes a tradeoff, strengthening the memory’s emotional core and obscuring its neutral background.”
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What does not kill me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1888
German philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- More quotations on: [Sanity]
Only sick music makes money today.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Der Fall Wagner, Section 5
- More quotations on: [Music]
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- More quotations on: [Nobility]
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), "On Reading and Writing"
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
//////////////////////////////////Uttar Pradesh
state, India
Overview
State (pop., 2008 est.: 190,891,000), north-central India.
It is bordered by Nepal; the states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, and Uttarakhand; and Delhi national capital territory. Uttar Pradesh covers an area of 93,933 sq mi (243,286 sq km). Its capital is Lucknow. The state is the most populous in the country. It lies largely in the plains formed by the Ganges and Yamuna rivers. The region was the setting of two great Sanskrit epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, and was the scene of the rise of Buddhism after the 6th century bce. It was ruled by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka in the mid-3rd century bce, the Gupta dynasty in the 4th–6th centuries ce, and King Harsha in 606–647. The Mughals gained control in the 16th century, at which time the city of Agra became a chief centre. The British arrived in the late 18th century; by the 1830s they held sway and organized the region as the North-Western Provinces (later renamed the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh; eventually shortened to the United Provinces). The area was the main scene of the Indian Mutiny of 1857–58. Following Indian independence in 1947, the United Provinces became the state of Uttar Pradesh. In 2000 the state’s northern portion was made into the new state of Uttaranchal (now Uttarakhand). Agriculture is the most important economic sector. Noted tourist PLACES are Agra and Varanasi.
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