Birds fall, dead fish: How the ancients found meaning in bird signs and omens
Bernhard Rode 1768-69Wikimedia Commons In a Time.com article, Why the Aflockalypse Is Business As...
Bernhard Rode 1768-69Wikimedia Commons In a Time.com article, Why the Aflockalypse Is Business As...
FSC cigarettes even more dangerous? After lighting up are you experiencing more headaches, stomach cramps or a coppery taste in your mouth? Does your new FSC (fire-safe cigarette) taste bad, cause dry mouth and are you coughing more? New York State was one of the first states...
Before the 1970s, there were no regulations protecting the environment. It was perfectly legal for a factory to dump toxic waste into streams and spew toxic fumes in the air. In 1962, Rachel Carson, a renowned biologist and nature writer, published "Silent Spring", a work against...
The hypothalamus, an almond-sized structure located deep within the brain, is known to have fundamental roles in growth, development, reproduction, and metabolismAlbert Einstein College of Medicine ...
PlayRice students have created what they call a "virtual fitting room." Their goal is simple and consumer-friendly: to assure online clothing shoppers a perfect fit and a perfect look with every purchaseYouTube Rice University ...
What would happen during a magnetic pole shift?Geir Akselsen: Creative Commons Have magnetic pole...
University of Colorado Denver in a press release on April 22, 2014, reports the results of two studies published in the 2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences on the most common type of `friend' to be unfriended on Facebook and how "unfriending" them...
We consider the computer an invention particular to our modern-day world, but it appears the ancients had their computers as well....
"Sometimes, a hug is all that we need." Juan Mann started the Free Hugs Campaign simply because he needed cheering up one day in 2004 when he had to leave London and return to his hometown of Sydney with only a bag full of clothes and...
I should advise you to put it all down as beautifully as you can in some beautifully bound book,” Jung instructed. “It will seem as if you were making the visions banal but then you need to do tha...
In an April 23, 2014 press release, “A key to enjoying massive online photo files may be giving up some control, researchers say” researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK, present the results of a 14-month study of a new device called...
According to a study conducted at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital of McGill University (MNI), listening to music we love stimulates production of the pleasure chemical, dopamine, in our brain Music appears to have no biological/survival value and unlike other more physically rewarding stimuli like...
After studying 30,000-year-old sedimentary DNA from permafrost deposits in the Yukon a Canadian research team from the University of Alberta and McMaster University have found that microbes "have been building their defences to antibiotics since the time of woolly mammoths". Their research findings published on August...
The mechanics of sleep and the process by which we store and retrieve memories has from ancient times been approached through many myths and theories, but it is only recently that hard science is seriously uncovering these mysteries of the mind. A study in Nature Neuroscience,...
Randomness and Free Will Part of the Plan? Many of us assume that...
Futurustic fashion that responds to your moods There is a garment that might...
PlayThere's a new secret to get your child to behave at the dinner table?cut up their food! YouTube: Brian Wansink ...
Mayan Indian elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun (AP) With the hype surrounding the upcoming movie release...
Woody Allen's movie Sleeper (1973) According to science author Hank Hyena's article, Sexbots...