Category: Human
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Human body is 90% microbes and bacteria. Who is in “control” ?
Almost 90% of the cells of the human body are microbes [1]. A recent publication in American Scientific claimed that bacteria outnumber your own cells 10 to 1. [American Scientific, June 2012] Who are we? What are we? Who is actually in “control” in the thing we like to call “human body” ? If bacteria…
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Mice, humans, harmony…
US researchers say that mice may have the ability to learn songs based on the sounds they hear. They found that when male mice were housed together they learned to match the pitch of their songs to each other. [1] If only humans could find harmony with one another so easily as this “less evolved”…
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Ants’ hive mind – Could humans also have one?
Researchers at Arizona State University tracked individual ants marked with colored dots as they selected a home out of a set of eight nest sites, half good and half poor. On their own, ants got overwhelmed and chose good sites only 50 percent of the time — no better than chance. But when the whole colony was…
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BBC and Apes, the new generation!
The initial page of the BBC.co.uk is full of news concerning apes and other primates. How apes communicate with iPads (!!! Yes you read correctly), how apes change their behaviour depending on who is watching them in the zoo et cetera et cetera… Some people claim that “what you want becomes reality”. After so much…
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Controlling your passions, Robots, Humans
Controlling your passions is very hard. But every time you decide to postpone your face-to-face encounter with them, you take a step away from being complete. Being a robot and simply obey your passions is easy. Controlling your self and imposing your FREE WILL is the hard way. And – sadly but true – the…
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