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Data Mining: How Companies Now Know Everything About You
Every detail of your life — what you buy, where you go, whom you love — is being extracted from the Internet, bundled and traded by data-mining companies. What's ...Full Article
Brain Waves Create Internal Map of Our Surroundings
Electrical oscillations (rhythmic wave activity) in the brain may play an important role in our ability to navigate through the physical world and store memories based on this experience, ...Full Article
A Small Part of the Brain, and Its Profound Effects
The recent news about smoking was sensational: some people with damage to a prune-size slab of brain tissue called the insula were able to give up cigarettes instantly. Suppose scientists could ...Full Article
Nutrition Advice From the China Study
Six years ago a small Texas publisher released an obscure book written by a father-son research team. The work, based on a series of studies conducted in rural China ...Full Article
Sleep Paralysis: Awake But Still Asleep
Sleep Paralysis: Awake But Still Asleep Hiro Takahashi A person may wake up and find himself unable to move or speak as if he is frozen. He also may ...Full Article
Heart and Brain
Before exploring the brains unique role in connecting a human being to what many call God, it is essential to honor new scientific information about the human heart that ...Full Article
Talking To Cells
For an organism to develop and function, the individual cells must exchange information, or communicate, with each other. Is it possible to learn their language and “talk to” the ...Full Article
Why Do Astronauts Experience God?
In February, 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell experienced the little understood phenomenon sometimes called the “Overview Effect”. He describes being completely engulfed by a profound sense of universal ...Full Article
Think Twice: How the Gut’s “Second Brain” Influences Mood and Well-Being
As Olympians go for the gold in Vancouver, even the steeliest are likely to experience that familiar feeling of “butterflies” in the stomach. Underlying this sensation is an often-overlooked network of neurons lining ...Full Article
Magnetic Water’s Memory Effect
Water is the most common and important material in nature but exactly what is water on earth and what properties does it have? It’s a more challenging problem than ...Full Article