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John Lennox: Science DOESN’T Explain What You Think It Does (Brilliant Insights!)


John Lennox – Seven Days That Divide the World.


John Lennox discusses the indeterminate timeframe of Genesis 1:1.


John Lennox discusses science pointing toward God.


John Lennox explains.


Maybe it’s time to stop drinking coffee?


“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.” Carl Gustav Jung


Robots Will be Amazed.


Mind shaped brain.


Brain shaped mind.


Plants remove cancer causing toxins from air. May 25, 2023


Houseplants can protect you from cancer-causing air pollutants, study reveals. May 26, 2023


Which mobile phones emit the most radiation. May 28, 2023


Math Coach Po-Shen Lo Teaching American Students How to Outsmart AI – develop human potentials, which AI does not possess. May 25, 2023


Why we should all be gazing at more sunsets April 13, 2023


Need Help for Stress and Anxiety? Maybe You Shouldn’t Talk to a Therapist March 10, 2023


New facial recognition technology scans your ear December 8, 2022


Facial recognition’s alarming pitfalls. Axios Jan 7, 2023 Alex Fitzpatrick


What Happened to the Men? September 10, 2021


Men, Women, Enrollment, Admissions – “What I see is there is a kind of hope deficit,” Mr. Grocholski said. Wall Street Journal 2021


“The vaccine appears to be blocking our ability to reach herd immunity…”
Del Bigtree, on coasttocoastam.com December 1st, 2021.
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Slow waves in deep sleep combine with pulses of cerebrospinal fluid washing across the brain. Jon Hamilton October 31, 20193:21 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered


The jab becomes less effective in reducing symptoms of Covid infection over time.


How stress affects women’s brains.


The role of blood cells in support of the immune system.


Delayed Captopril Administration Mitigates Hematopoietic Injury in a Murine Model of Total Body Irradiation.


Herd Immunity. Are we there yet?


Griddy in Texas.


Encyclopedia Britannica presents an excellent account of virus study.


“Taking a look at RNA’s structure” By Nick Carne. This is an accessible article with some information on Covid-19. Accessible means that your eyes won’t glaze over in under 60 seconds if you don’t have a degree in a related biological science. So give it a try! Viruses are strange and weird things. By example, no DNA in Cov-19


Moratorium on Gain-of-Function Research


Maybe it’s not a good idea to make a stronger version of corona virus for study. “In October 2013, the US government put a stop to all federal funding for gain-of-function studies, with particular concern rising about influenza, SARS, and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).”


Biologists rush to re-create the China coronavirus from its DNA code


Efficient Reverse Genetic Systems for Rapid Genetic Manipulation of Emergent and Preemergent Infectious Coronaviruses.


Your immune system is powerful. Don’t believe it? Read this article on immune system support as a way to defeat cancer.


Dr. Erickson COVID-19 Briefing. Insightful review of data from the recent novel corona virus episode.


When it comes to Fauci, not everyone is a fan.


Vitamin D and your immune system.


“Sweden has not cracked down on basic liberties like others have, and has not wrecked society and the economy to the same extent.”


Here is a refreshingly clear-sighted review of the problems with Fauci’s approach to Covid-19, and some healthy alternatives. Fauci would not consider a biological solution to the HIV problem. Fauci only wanted a molecular or pharmaceutical solution to HIV.


COVID-19 cases in the United States by date of illness onset


A Multitrillion Dollar Helicopter Credit Drop”: How The Fed Turned $454 Billion Into $4.5 Trillion.


A Heart Attack? No, It Was the Coronavirus.


Why this Nobel laureate predicts a quicker coronavirus recovery: ‘We’re going to be fine’


Israeli Nobel Laureate: Coronavirus spread is slowing.


Please take time to read this positive and uplifting story of teenage Keeley overcoming epileptic seizures. See how the actions of a dedicated team of people brought a new level of joy into the life of young Keeley.


Punch Drunk Syndrome and CTE


10 Things We Learned About the Brain in 2019


Unique Brain Signal Just Discovered. And It Might Make Us ‘Human’


The medications that change who we are


The hypersane are among us, if only we are prepared to look


Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life


This map shows how the US really has 11 separate ‘nations’ with entirely different cultures


[Here is one way to promote humanity living long, and prospering on planet Earth.] Researchers built AI technology that uses algae to fight climate change, and they’re planning on releasing the design so anyone can build one.


Here is an article about a developing method for repairing the retina, a layer of light sensors in the back of the eye, which enables us to see.


Editorial note from Dr. Epling: Getting pluripotent stem cells to circulate in the blood can be accomplished in a number of ways. However, these cells need a good home to grow and repair the body. This new home can come by way of scaffolding. Scaffolding provides a place for a new primitive cell to settle in and grow to be a part of the body. Here is a link to an article that reports the achievement of scaffolding in the retina, which may, some day, lead to retina repair in people. It appears to have all of the right theoretical ducks in a row. 1. Use peoples own primitve cells, 2. Get some pluripotent primitive cells to begin developing into the needed cell types. 3. Provide these cells with a home to grow – In this case an ingenious scaffolding.

Opinion – Speech Decoded from Brain Activity in Area for Hand Control

Therapy Wars: The Revenge of Freud

What is the Return On Investment (ROI) for a college degree? Is it worth the investment in capital, time, lost-opportunity?

Live Long and Prosper?

The Business Case for Sleep

If you have benefitted from Avastin® or Humira® or similar anti-inflamation drugs then you have benefited from the basic scientific research of Sir Gregory Winter

Childhood Trauma is Linked to Adult Illness.

Plants respond to human intention and actions of people – but are plants conscious? Are plant memories of someone who damages cohort plants signs of emotion? Emotional impulses may fall short of the bar for conscious awareness. The debate on the possibility of conscious awareness in plants continues.

Science Says Do This (but Their Schools Probably Won’t)

As we sleep there is a normal, temporary reduction of the size or volume of the brain. This leaves more room for cleansing cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) to flow around the contours of the brain. In deep sleep, slow waves gently move CSF over the surface of the brain, washing away the days residue; including some beta amyloid plaques. Studies of this nightly cleansing cycle are supported with animal research and, more recently human research. NPR has a good audio-visual presentation of how this nightly cleansing works in a healthy-normal person.

It is the electromagnetic waves generated in deep sleep that drives the slow waves of CSF in deep sleep.

Short form presentation from NPR.

Journal presentation from Science.

When Efforts To Eat ‘Clean’ Become An Unhealthy Obsession

Aspirin may halve air pollution harms

Physicist George Sherard Jr. was one of the many African American experts who contributed to the U.S. space race

State investigating death from severe lung illness linked to vaping

Meditation can help prevent Alzheimer’s disease: study

Is Fluoride Potentially Neurotoxic?

Association Between Maternal Fluoride Exposure During Pregnancy and IQ Scores in Offspring in Canada

The problem of mindfulness

Sharon Stone Gets Candid About Life After Her Stroke

Learn about a mindset, which encompasses antisocial personality disorder.

“We have to get our arms around the mental health issues. We’re not even at the Sputnik stage when it comes to fathoming what goes on in the brain.” “… we’re not going to be able to prevent all of these. The human heart the human condition is such that you just never know what will happen.” – Robert Wilke, Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Listen following Time location 103:36 – Joe Pags Show, July 6, 2019)

Want to lengthen your telomeres? Try exercise.

How to make sure your company isn’t discriminating against older workers: 7 tips

One in 10 people have ‘near-death’ experiences, according to new study

One study fails to find an effect for vitamin D on heart disease. But, if you’re taking the vitamin for other reasons, including osteoporosis, you should keep taking it.

What’s the focus?
 

Libra – Cheaper commercial tranactions or boondoggle?
 

Ego is inversely proportional to Knowledge – Albert Einstein
 

Claim of 1.4 million computer science jobs with only 400,000 computer science graduates to fill them

What’s the focus?
 

The Gambling Nuns of Torrance, California

The first three cards were red, probably diamonds. Maybe hearts, but this was in the spring of 2011, years before anyone thought to make permanent note of such things.
 

Sleep apps backfire by causing anxiety and insomnia, says expert

Neurologist says ‘metricising our lives’ is counterproductive when it comes to sleep
 

What to know about gargling with salt water

The researchers reported that children who used one of the saltwater gargles twice daily for 21 days had significantly reduced levels of mouth bacteria, compared with children who used a placebo.
 

How to make saline solution

It is possible to make saline solution at home by mixing together certain amounts of salt and water.
 

Vitamin D deficiency

Rickets is the softening and weakening of bones in children, usually because of an extreme and prolonged vitamin D deficiency. Rare inherited problems also can cause rickets.
 

Vitamin C Deficiency (Scurvy)

Scurvy as a clinical manifestation of severe vitamin C deficiency is caused by ascorbic acids role in collagen synthesis. … Additionally, a lack of ascorbic acid leads to epigenetic DNA hypermethylation and inhibits the transcription of various types of collagen found in skin, blood vessels, and tissue. Mar 18, 2019
 

How can you prevent spina bifida?

Spina bifida is best prevented by taking 400 micrograms (mcg) of folic acid every day. Studies have shown that if all women who could become pregnant were to take a multivitamin with the B-vitamin folic acid, the risk of neural tube defects could be reduced by up to 70%.
 

Folic acid: new study a ‘game-changer’ in campaign to fortify foods

Bread and flour should be fortified with folic acid to help prevent babies from being born with neural tube defects such as spina bifida, according to new research.
Anencephaly and spina bifida – together known as neural tube defects – are serious and relatively common birth defects, affecting one in every 500-1,000 pregnancies. In 1991, a British Medical Research Council randomised trial showed that increasing folic acid intake immediately before and early in pregnancy prevented most cases of neural tube defects.

 


Alzheimer’s is a “Double-prion Disorder”

 

Electrical brain stimulation can boost memory function in older people

 

J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said that not everyone has reaped the benefits of economic growth.

 

 

What are the odds? The answer to this age-old question can be calculated with some precision. When the odds that an event occurred by chance are less than 5%, scientists tend to sit up and take notice. This hallowed p-value has been the source of much discussion in the scentific community for decades. Questions about the importance of a 5% or smaller p-value are explored in this article.

 

Hair follicles may die or regenerate to repair skin

 

Platlets linked to neurogenesis

 

California may ban smartphones in schools

 

The immune system and clean versus “dirty”.

 

Eye scans may detect alzheimers.

 

20 minutes in a park boosts mood.

 

FBI Finds No Motive In Las Vegas Shooting, Closes Investigation

 

No ‘Clear Motivating Factor’ Inspired Las Vegas Gunman, F.B.I. Says

 

Global Happiness by Country

 

Americans Are Starved for Sleep

 

Just 6 months of walking may reverse cognitive decline

 

Least-Educated State: California No. 1 in Percentage of Residents 25 and Older Who Never Finished 9th Grade; No. 50 in High School Graduates

 

Neurofeedback for a messy divorce

 

Chinese scientists to try to find the HUMAN SOUL with £100m state-of-the-art brain scanner

 

The Yin-Yang of Dopamine

 

Controlling Our Cravings


Macrophages Important for Mending a Broken Heart

 

Careful examination of the brain of the Las Vegas Gunman, Stephen Paddock by the director of pathology at Stanford University shows nothing that could explain the psychopathic activity. 

 

Tension builds at Facebook

 

Facebook can promote depression

 

Narcissistic Abuse

Jordan Peterson – The Most Terrifying IQ Statistic

Jordan Peterson on work.

What’s in a face?

Benefits of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response.

bacillus thurengensis kills mosquitoes…

From a behavioral perspective, talking is just another behavior and the mind doesn’t exist.  So, what can a behavioral scientist add to our understanding of thinking? 

Discover of sodium-potassium pump dies at 99  – After Skou retired in 1988, he learned programming and kept up his study of the sodium-potassium pump through computer modeling.

 

Low body weight is linked to longevity.  Occasional 24 hour fasts may be one facet of living longer by generating more circulating adult stem/primitive cells.

If it’s about memory it involves the hippocampus.

Do therapy dogs like their jobs?

Dynamics of Loneliness Today

 

Floating – How sensory deprivation affects the brain

 

Functional eating is associated with better cognitive function as well as support of neural health

Boosting the immune system helps medical cancer treatments succeed

Researchers Find The Timing of Your Stress Matters

 

Published on April 6, 2018 this news article shows the ability of older brains to make new neurons.  It is a nice read and provides a good contrast with another article from March 7, 2018 which claimed that older brains do not make new brain cells.

Organ cushioning effect is recognized in the living body

 

March 20th is National Agriculture Day

National Agriculture Day Proclamation

 

Mobile Madness leads to blood clots on the brain.

“Fraud is not a trade secret…”  News about the Theranos fraud investigation.

 Not really used by U.S. Army in Afghanistan…

Your Empathy is Partly Genetic.  [Notice the cognitive vs affective aspects of empathy in this article.]

 

In 1998 some work by Fred Gage and colleagues  was published in a Scientific American artcle.   This article  presented evidence of new brain cells, which were formed in the the hippocampi of the brains of adult cancer patients.  As part of their treatment cancer patients received some radioactve elements.  These radioactive particles were only accepted by newly forming cells; in an immature phase of life.  The evidence is quite clear but not well understood.  Not long after the Scientific American article came out a prestigious scientific journal know as “Science” also published an article on the research from Gage’s lab. Gage and colleagues mentioned that the process that led to new brain cells in hippocampus was not well understood.  Apparently this is still true.  An article published March 7, 2018 lays out another failure to identify the process of replacing old brain cells with new in the adult brain. 

 

Read more about the dogma-busting research of Fred Gage and associates here.

Ayn Rand on philosophy and life

Because flowers are beautiful…

 

This article covers some important aspects of memory and recall.  Imaging begins before the question is presented and continues as people think through their response.

 

Blood test to indicate concussion

 

He turned school into slaughterhouse, then stopped at McDonald’s

Florida school shooter arrived in an Uber

Mom’s flu death may have sent Florida massacre suspect over the edge

Psychotrophic drugs – Media ignoring 1 crucial factor in Florida school shooting

Nikolas Cruz was investigated after cutting himself on Snapchat, state report shows

 

 Peter Thiel Parts Ways With Silicon Valley

 

 

Six U.S. intelligence agencies warn against using Huawei phones

FBI says the whole of Chinese society is a threat to the US

Russians Charged With Meddling in 2016 Presidential Race

Reality Check: More Minnesotans Own Guns, Violent Crime Remains Low

 

“..some evidence of carcinogenic activity of GSM modulated cell phone RFR at 900 MHz in … rats…”  Conclusion section page 13.

“There was equivocal evidence of carcinogenic activity of GSM-modulated cell phone RFR at 1,900 MHz in female B6C3F1/N mice…”

 

Tickling the Brain Improves Memory

Lake Michigan has become dramatically clearer…

Tax terms are agreeable, Apple brings billions home.

 

CDC flu map for the US

Good news for modeling stimulation of the human nervous system with magnetic fields.  This is a “dry” approach to stimulation

 

Keeping cool extends life

Tuning out the noise around and observing can be good

Magnetic pulses to the brain temporarily impair all sorts of abilities, time to add changing musical taste to the list

 

Sheep help us learn more about human neurodegenerative disorders, such as Huntington’s Disease

Friends synch brain waves

 

Japan rolls out sleek, all-female police squad to protect Ivanka

Museum of the Bible in D.C.

 

How Does Your Spacegarden Grow?

Default Mode Network News!  Some of the Learning and Recall brain activation patterns have been imaged

Understanding Very Smart People

IQ Basics

History of the universe

‘Sound’ of the gravitational wave

Two ancient neutron stars collide, the gravitational waves arrive on Earth in 2017

Scott Kelley’s telomeres got longer while in space

Scott Kelley has a new book out

 

Stanford gets Vegas Shooter’s Brain

Vegas shooter remembered for berating his girlfriend