A nation is developing. And destroys its monuments in the process. (1)
Why should we care?
What is better tribute to these monuments than their total destruction in the process of progress?
What good is a dead monument? Ancient people did not have “monuments”…
Epilepsy that does not respond to drugs can be halted in adult mice by transplanting a specific type of cell into the brain, UC San Francisco researchers have discovered, raising hope that a similar treatment might work in severe forms of human epilepsy.
UCSF scientists controlled seizures in epileptic mice with a one-time transplantation of medial ganglionic eminence (MGE) cells, which inhibit signaling in overactive nerve circuits, into the hippocampus, a brain region associated with seizures, as well as with learning and memory. [1]
Epilepsy is one of the most interesting human diseases.
The problem of the patient is not that his brain is not working, but rather that it is working too much! And it is really bad (and characteristic of today’s mentality) that official research has gone into the path of trying to find how to inhibit this activity, rather than understand it and harness it’s power…
Accept “crazy”. Progress forward.
In a “breakthrough” for the field of particle physics, Professor of Physics Larry Hunter and colleagues at Amherst College and The University of Texas at Austin have established new limits on what scientists call “long-range spin-spin interactions” between atomic particles. Their observation would constitute the discovery of a “fifth force of nature” (in addition to the four known fundamental forces) and would suggest the existence of new particles as well (beyond the ones known in the Standard Model). [1]
I don’t know about you, but I believe progress in science is finding more elegant and simple theories to explain things. A theory which produces “new” particles” or forces is certainly not in that direction…
The third attempt of South Korea to launch a space rocket failed. Don’t jump to conclusions too fast. The reason behind the failure is not related to Koreans not having the right technology. Its just that the US are afraid of the dissipation of space technology that they do not allow the S. Korean space budget to exceed a certain limit (!!!) – thus limiting it to only 320 millions per yeas as opposed to billions spent each year by US, Japan or India. [1]
Technology and progress today is directly related to available money.
How twisted is the world we live in…
There was a time – not too long ago – when humans progressed via pure thinking, when humanity measured success by measuring how happy its people were, when money was nothing more than a means to facilitate exchange of goods…
How twisted is the world we live in…
