Tag: One
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Being unique, the Purpose of life & Running… (but not because you like it!) [free will, purpose of life etc]
What on earth do runners think about while pounding the pavement mile after mile after mile? Mostly, they think about how miserable they are. At least that’s what a new, first-of its-kind study of elite runners seems to show. For the study, 10 long-distance runners used audio recorders so they could speak aloud their thoughts…
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Colours. Synesthesia. One.
A new study has shown for the first time that people can be trained to “see” letters of the alphabet as colors in a way that simulates how those with synesthesia experience their world. The University of Sussex research, published on 18 November 2014 in Scientific Reports, also found that the training might potentially boost…
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Small parts. Smaller parts. Even smaller parts. Everything!
As we research smaller and smaller units of matter, it has became clear to some that there is perhaps no final unit waiting to be discovered but a fundamental unity to everything. Physicist David Bohm, whose work is described in Michael Talbot’s the Holographic Universe, calls the fundamental unity at the end of all matter…
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Big data analysis. Infinity. One.
Hoping to tame the torrent of data churning out of biology labs, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced $32 million in awards in 2014 to help researchers develop ways to analyze and use large biological data sets. The awards come out of NIH’s Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative, announced last year after…
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HIV spreading. Isolation. Sympathy.
Almost like detectives retracing the steps of a killer in a whodunnit, researchers have pieced together how the virus that later became known as HIV grew from infecting a few hunter-gatherers in Cameroon to affecting 76 million people across the globe. Using historic blood samples to create a viral timeline, the team confirms that Kinshasa,…
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