Category Archives: Science
You are more than just your genes
Biologist Bruce Lipton recounts a startling revelation that the scientific world encountered soon after the mapping of the human genome. Turns out, what we are isn’t solely determined by our genes. The results of the Genome project reveal that there … Continue reading
Are dreams more than just dreams?
The New Scientist magazine has an interesting report on the ongoing research on human consciousness and how dreams play a large role in unfolding its many mysteries. The mental life of your common or garden human, however, is a lot … Continue reading
This is your brain on God
The NPR has a yummy summary of current research on the relation between brain activity and various instances of spiritual experience. There is a bunch of podcasts thrown in as well. More than half of adult Americans report they have … Continue reading
Creativity linked to mental health
I suspected it all along. Research has found a whole new bunch of links between creativity and mental health. High creative skills have been shown to be somewhat more common in people who have mental illness in the family. Creativity … Continue reading
The not-so-eternal laws of nature
Turns out, the so-called eternal laws of physics may not be so eternal after all. Study of a distant gas cloud out there in space suggests that some things assumed to be constants may have been different about 3 billion … Continue reading
There may be life on Titan
Titan, that most promising moon of Saturn may actually be home to biological entities, according to scientists. Two potential signatures of life on Saturn’s moon Titan have been found by the Cassini spacecraft. But scientists are quick to point out … Continue reading
Science, stupidity and arrogance
A must-read essay in the Journal of Cell Science on the importance of stupidity in scientific research and how the smug feeling of smartness actually hurts the true scientific mindset. For almost all of us, one of the reasons that … Continue reading