Selfishness. This is what is all about. This is what is really all about. Being trapped in our little pathetic world. Thinking that we ‘re the only living creatures around who are suffering so much. Thinking that we ‘re the only living creatures around who deserve to have a better life,but life is fucking us. [...]
What’s a Stone Age Axe Doing in an Iron Age Tomb?
“If one finds something once, it’s accidental. If it is found twice, it’s puzzling. If found thrice, there is a pattern,” the archaeologists Olle Hemdorff and Eva Thäte say. In 2005 the archaeologists investigated a grave at Avaldsnes in Karmøy in southwestern Norway, supposed to be from the late Iron Age, i.e. from 600 to [...]
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Brain Signs of Schizophrenia Found in Babies
Schizophrenia is a debilitating mental disorder affecting one in 100 people worldwide. Most cases aren’t detected until a person starts experiencing symptoms like delusions and hallucinations as a teenager or adult. By that time, the disease has often progressed so far that it can be difficult to treat. In a paper published recently online by [...]
Revolutionary Medical Dressing Uses Nanotechnology to Fight Infection
Researchers are using nanotechnology to develop a medical dressing which will detect and treat infection in wounds. Scientists at the University of Bath and the burns team at the Southwest UK Paediatric Burns Centre at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol are working together with teams across Europe and Australia to create an advanced wound dressing. The [...]
Nasa Telescope: The evolution of a star shapes a Dragon cloud of Dust! Watch this!
A dragon-shaped cloud of dust seems to fly with the stars in a new image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope (bottom). In visible light (top), the creature disappears into the clouds — perhaps it’s “frolicking in the autumn mist” like Puff, the Magic Dragon, from the famous Peter, Paul and Mary song. The infrared image [...]
Ancient Greeks Speak to Us
By JUDITH H. DOBRZYNSKI No one would have predicted how the young Peter Meineck would turn out. At 15, he was expelled from his tough South London boys’ school, populated by assorted ruffians, and went to work as a laborer. At 16, he signed up for the Royal Marines—his only goal at the time. But [...]
10 things that women should know about men
1)More emotional While females are usually considered the more emotional gender, infant boys are more emotionally reactive and expressive than infant girls, researchers have found. Adult men have slightly stronger emotional reactions, too — but only before they are aware of their feelings, found a 2008 study published in the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology that [...]
Are Vampires Real? Physics Professor Drives Scientific Stake Into The Heart Of Supernatural Myths
As the weather cools and Halloween approaches, creaks in the stairs and scary stories become more believable — but not to physics professor Costas Efthimiou. The laws of physics and math debunk popular myths about ghosts and vampires, according to a paper published by Efthimiou and Sohang Gandhi last year. Using Isaac Newton’s Laws of [...]
New Technique Provides Continual View Of Approaching Hurricanes
Forecasters will test a new technique this summer that provides a detailed 3-D view of an approaching hurricane every six minutes and allows them to determine whether the storm is gathering strength as it nears land. The technique, developed by researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), [...]
