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Halloween conjures up images of gravestones and ghostly ghouls. People often choose to take a drive or a stroll if they're more daring through a creepy old graveyard on Halloween …
It’s become mostly widespread knowledge that living “too clean” is causing the human body trouble by not allowing it to become used to and prepared to fight certain bacteria and diseases. What isn’t yet widespread is the understanding that what we’re doing is contributing to the extinction of species that …
Did you ever want to be super smart in Math, history, or science or how about have an incredible memory or even be the next Picasso or Rembrandt? What if all you had to do was get hit in the head and that was that? There have been documented cases of …
There is no death. It is only a transition to a different sphere of consciousness. Poltergeists, a name derived from German words meaning "noisy spirit" have been around for a long time, with some of the earliest activity recorded in the 17th century. At that time, poltergeists were thought to be …
The concept of life beyond the borders of our tiny little rock has been a staple in science fiction for over a hundred years and humanity has long been asking if we are alone in the vastness of the Universe. The answer is that there surely must be life out …
In 1953 the structure of DNA was discovered, although a Swiss physician, Friedrich Miescher, had isolated it back in 1869. With that discovery the way we saw ourselves, and life in general changed dramatically. We had a way to individually identify and find the origins of all living things. It …
In a Calvin and Hobbes comic, six-year-old Calvin finds himself the only boy on a playground full of girls and declares: “Oh no! I’m in cootie central! I haven’t had my shots!” Thousands of kids on playgrounds all over the world continue to be infected with—that most incurable of all …
The sound of Earth is changing. It’s happening right now, this very minute and scientists are scratching their heads while gurus and transcendentalists are preparing. So… there is this natural phenomenon called the Schumann Resonances, named for physicist Winfried Otto Schumann who accurately predicted them back in 1952; yet weren’t actually …
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Everyone is brought up to believe in something. Some of us are Christian, Jewish, Buddhists, or even Atheists. For some our beliefs are sacrosanct and others not so much. You could say that as humans we are prone to believe in something, unless you are a Nihilist; but we’ll talk …
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, known in Tibet as the Bardo Thodol, is an eighth century Buddhist text used in rituals surrounding death and dying. The text became popular in the West with psychologists such as Carl Jung and psychedelic drug enthusiasts such as Timothy Leary. These thinkers proposed …
For years, Trevor had a tail. Okay, so it wasn’t a real tail but rather a long pseudo appendage that he incorporated into every aspect of his life. Calling himself the Indigo Monkey, he embodied what it would have been like if evolution had not seen fit to remove our tails. Yet tails …
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