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Another Secrets Inside Our Brain

Supreme — Sat, 04 May 2013 11:04:31 +0000

Recently, scientists identified mechanism deep in brains of mice that can be tweaked to shorten or lengthen lives. They have found a biological command centre for the ageing process in a lump of brain the size of a nut. The key to stalling the harsh march of aging is likely deep inside your brain, specifically [...]

Musics You Like Define Your Mental Health

Supreme — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:22:24 +0000

I wonder, when we write or compose musics, which part of the brain activate? When we play musical improvisations, instead of reading music notations, which part of the brain activate? Music is to mental health what sports is to physical health. Since sound recognition involves developing long-term memories for sounds, this theory helps to explain [...]

Would It Be Boring if We could Live Forever?

Supreme — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 06:44:04 +0000

Not if we could work a way around our boredom, it could be a very different kind of future waiting for us If you imagine yourself as an elf, live along side with men, dwarves, goblins and orcs, and any nasty creatures of Middle Earth for thousands of years, you might get frustrated and [...]

Being Unique and Different

Supreme — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 07:54:20 +0000

“We all wonder why we don’t look like, act like, feel like everybody else. Each of our brains has the exact same parts. The Cortex, Hypothalamus, Fornix, Septal Nucleus so on.. and yet.. no two brains are exactly alike. So being different.. Being unique.. is undeniably a fundamental characteristic. Of being human.” – Professor Daniel [...]

A Quest for the Secret to Immortality

Supreme — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 08:32:07 +0000

Human immortality is a broad subject. It is science and religion. It is futurism and conservatism. Since forever, human beings have wanted immortality. It literally goes back to the first epic that’s ever been written, the Epic of Gilgamesh. Sumerians’ epic poems that lead us into the wilderness of errors, the ones which inspired humans [...]

Life Without Free Will

Supreme — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:42:54 +0000

One of the most common objections to my position on free will is that accepting it could have terrible consequences, psychologically or socially. This is a strange rejoinder, analogous to what many religious people allege against atheism: Without a belief in God, human beings will cease to be good to one another. Both responses abandon [...]

Different Kinds of Truth

Supreme — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:06:42 +0000

Truth is provisional, shifting, temporary and subjective, and the quest for elucidation is forever incomplete and wholly narrative. Fiction allows scientists to explore reality in the way the day job doesn’t allow One of the mistakes that people – and I include scientists and journalists in my definition of “people”, because, well, I’m charitable [...]

Alexandria 2.0 – The Future of Libraries

Supreme — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:35:37 +0000

One Millionaire’s Quest to Build the Biggest Library on Earth Here’s the problem with libraries. They catch on fire really easily. As such, they were the prized targets of the invading hordes of antiquity – the model collections of knowledge of their times, whose only fault was their inherent flammability. They were one-man, one-torch jobs. [...]

How Your Brain Cleans Itself

Supreme — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 08:10:48 +0000

Plumbing system found in mice makes scientist’s “heart sing.” Talk about brainwashing—a newfound plumbing system, identified in mice, likely helps the brain empty its waste, a new study says. Because mouse biology is similar to ours, the same findings should apply to people too, experts say. Thanks to a blood-brain barrier—a natural wall that [...]

The Six Dimensions of Time

Supreme — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:55:55 +0000

I believe that this presentation is not just theory; it is fact. We live in a world, a galaxy, and a universe of six dimensions. The physics used today do not reflect the last two dimensions and are thus limited in theory, especially where and when different fields are involved. With six dimensional theory, all [...]

Chronic Self-Disclosure

Supreme — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 10:17:17 +0000

A decade ago, the internet’s signature feature was obfuscation. You could invent a new identity; embellish your life to make it that much more interesting; buff out the imperfections; or just hide without feeling like an anti-social creep for it. Message boards, chat rooms, and nascent blogs, all depended on a technology-induced veil, a curtain [...]

Lying Makes You Sick

Supreme — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:50:39 +0000

There’s a lot to be said for living a good, honest life. If you avoid lying, chances are you’ll have an easier time at work. You won’t have to sneak around with your significant other. You’ll be well liked by the clergy. And according to new research by scientists at the University of Notre Dame [...]

Dark Energy and Fate of the Universe

Supreme — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:40:36 +0000

The Big Rip Theory might be the scariest scenario for the end of everything we’ve come across. That the universe will just tear itself apart. Most experts believe the amount of matter in the universe will cause the expansion of the universe to slow down — and the universe may even contract once again to [...]

An Evolving Perspective

Supreme — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 03:56:34 +0000

With respect to the cosmos, mankind has just been born. Hypothetically, if our 14 billion-year-old universe were scaled down to just 10 years (for the sake of comparison), dinosaurs would have been extinct 17 days ago, our earliest relative Lucy would have been playing around on the Savannah 19 hours ago, modern humans would have [...]

Freedom of Expression is More Important than Dignity

Supreme — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 01:19:25 +0000

Without it, the evolution of ideas can’t take place. In order to choose the best ideas, we must be able to debate all ideas equally and freely. No doubt most of us are tired of dealing with President Zuma’s penis. But the important issue of “dignity” versus “free expression” was at least raised during those [...]

When Bad Theories Happen to Good Scientists

Supreme — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 15:41:32 +0000

There’s a myth out there that has gained the status of a cliché: that scientists love proving themselves wrong, that the first thing they do after constructing a hypothesis is to try to falsify it. Professors tell students that this is the essence of science. Yet most scientists behave very differently in practice. They not [...]

Time Perception Is A Construction of the Brain

Supreme — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 09:05:03 +0000

At some point, the Mongol military leader Kublai Khan (1215–94) realized that his empire had grown so vast that he would never be able to see what it contained. To remedy this, he commissioned emissaries to travel to the empire’s distant reaches and convey back news of what he owned. Since his messengers returned with [...]

Music: The Internet’s Original Sin

Supreme — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 01:52:41 +0000

In a recent Search Engine podcast, host Jesse Brown wondered about music’s ongoing centrality to the debate over file-sharing and freedom. After all, the music industry has all but abandoned lawsuits against fans, and services from Last.fm to the Amazon MP3 store present a robust set of legit ways of hearing and acquiring music. The [...]

We Have A Discovery, It Behaves Like Higgs boson

Supreme — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 09:23:55 +0000

Geneva, 4 July 2012. At a seminar held at CERN1 today as a curtain raiser to the year’s major particle physics conference, ICHEP2012 in Melbourne, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented their latest preliminary results in the search for the long sought Higgs particle. Both experiments observe a new particle in the mass region around [...]

The Trouble at the Start of Time

Supreme — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 03:32:32 +0000

There’s trouble at the start of time: the theory of cosmic inflation has got way out of control. Can quantum theory and holograms tame it? “You know how sometimes you meet somebody and they’re really nice, so you invite them over to your house and you keep talking with them and they keep telling [...]