Religion may have shaped our morality and how we cooperate, but this research suggests that these traits were already built into our brains before we began singing hymns. Can I get an “Amen”?Clipped from www.sciencecodex.comThere is no doubt that spiritual experiences and religion, which are ubiquitous across cultures and time and associated exclusively with [...] (More)

How long are your telomeres? You could always get them extended using new regenerative techniques , once the FDA approves them. Clipped from www.eurekalert.org“What we studied are structures called telomeres which are parts of one’s chromosomes. Individuals are born with telomeres of certain length and in many cells telomeres shorten as the cells divide [...] (More)

Now, we simply need to get the FDA to agree that this is a safe way to conduct regenerative medicine and end diseases once and for all. This method doesn’t require embryos and doesn’t introduce cancer into the body like previous ‘virus techniques’. Clipped from www.eurekalert.orgSTANFORD, Calif. - Tiny circles of DNA are [...] (More)

Moms' Depression in Pregnancy Tied to Antisocial Behavior in Teens ScienceDaily for February 6, 2010 reported on depression in pregnancy and antisocial behavior later on in the children. Children from urban areas whose mothers suffer from depression during pregnancy are more likely than others to show antisocial behavior, including violent behavior, later in life. Furthermore, women who are aggressive and disruptive in their own teen years are more likely to become depressed in pregnancy, so that the moms' history . . . (More)

I found the following short bio in the book “Strength is What Remains” by Tracy Kidder. The book is about a Burundian refugee’s horrific experiences in his homeland and in New York. While the story of Deo is very inspirational, it is the life of one of side characters that really haunts me: “Sharon (McKenna) grew up in Norwich, [...] (More)

Clipped from www.dailygalaxy.com“We stimulated the proteins with femtosecond laser pulses to mimic the absorption of sunlight,” explains Scholes. “This enabled us to monitor the subsequent processes, including the movement of energy between special molecules bound in the protein, against a stop-clock. We were astonished to find clear evidence of long-lived quantum mechanical states involved in [...] (More)

Seconds, minutes, hours, and months pass us by, but are any of these measurements real? Didn’t somebody just make it up? These calendars and clocks are all very antiquated instruments. We keep upgrading everything, but we’re still stuck within the nostalgia of a time measurement system that is broken. You know horology is not a [...] (More)

While I was on my Mormon mission in the Franco-Belgian area in the 1960s, I found somebody’s list of the 100 most important novels of western civilization. On the list were two novels by the french writer Albert Camus: The Stranger (or The Outsider) and the Plague. I purchased a copy of The Stranger and in short [...] (More)

Want a more efficient brain? How about more durability, flexibility, and strength? Your future body may have these qualities according to futurist Natasha Vita-More. Check out the full interview, conducted by Amplify’s wildly insightful Wildcat from spacecollective.org ,and keep an eye out for more interviews from Wildcat’s “Free Radicals”; the world’s most [...] (More)