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Steve Jobs replied: “you know, throughout the years in business, I found something, which was I’d always ask why people do things. And the answers you invariably get are, ‘Oh that’s just the way it's done.’ … I call it ‘folklore’—a lot of things are done because they were done yesterday and the day before…Nobody knows why they do what they do.... See more
conducting the first study of brain activity when in a “resting state.” “We found activations in multiple regions of the association cortex,” she writes. “We were not [seeing] a passive silent brain during the ‘resting state,’ but rather a brain that was actively connecting thoughts and experiences.” Essentially, Dr. Andreasen demonstrated that the... See more
Dr Nancy C. Andreasen is an American neuroscientist and psychiatrist whose pioneering brain-imaging research revealed how creativity and mental illness share overlapping neural pathways.
Carrington Event
Gordon White • Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits
After more than two decades helming the august New England Journal of Medicine, outgoing editor-in-chief, Dr Marcia Angell, said in the January 2009 New York Review of Books that ‘it is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published.’ Science is now so riddled with corporate self-interest and falsified
... See moreGordon White • Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits
Essentially, every story in the first ten or so books of the Bible is found in the mythology of Melanesia and Polynesia. The parallels are so startling that the first missionaries to arrive thought they had discovered the lost tribe of Israel.
Gordon White • Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits
There is a common misconception that the Ice Age was wet, cold and snowy. Certainly, it would have been cold in Northern Europe but, at the time, a huge amount of the planet’s water was locked up in glaciers and polar ice caps, so it was actually quite dry for much of the earth. Twenty thousand years of coming up on mushrooms under a canopy of
... See moreGordon White • Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits
Carrington level event reaching the Earth today, for which we are overdue, would fry the nerve system of the entire planet