Tagged: mind and brain

The human brain is amazing! Our brain is an advanced super computer that is more efficient, and possesses more raw computational power than the most impressive supercomputers that have ever been built. A groundbreaking discovery begins to reveal the brain’s deepest architectural secrets and it’s...

A researcher will build a huge bank filled with frozen human tears. When you first hear about this idea, it may sound very odd and even pointless, but the collected tears will serve as valuable researcher material for scientists around the world. Behind this idea,...

– It’s important to offer empathy to others in need and remind them that we care. It certainly helps them to cope with negative emotions. But we have to remember that putting ourselves in a friend’s shoes, imagining how we would feel if we were...

– The human race is in so much trouble that it needs to colonise another planet within 100 years or face extinction. So said the physicist Stephen Hawking in a BBC documentary, Stephen Hawking: Expedition New Earth. According to Hawking, “with climate change, overdue asteroid...

– The idea that the mind and the body are united is not born in modern times. Already in ancient times attention was paid to the existence of the relationship between the body and the mind. However, for the first time now, we begin to...

– During the Middle Ages alchemists tried to transform base metal into gold. Mental alchemy is also a process that involves transmutation, only it applies to our spiritual growth and problem solving. By altering certain aspects of our lives to make them more compatible with...

– Do we have a free will or is everything pre-determined? The subject of free will vs. pre-destination has occupied the philosophers and scientists for ages. The nature of reality has been debated by great thinkers and they’ve reached different conclusions. What if we don’t...

– Albert Einstein, one of the recognized and well-known scientists of the century died on April 17,1955 at Princeton Hospital in New Jersey. Before Einstein passed away, he left specific instructions that he didn’t want his brain or his body to be studied. He wanted...

– As you are reading these words right now, can you prove that you are not dreaming? Most of us will say our senses are telling us that we are awake, but can we trust our senses? Can our senses be fooling us? René Descartes,...

Are you an early bird or a night owl? If you hate mornings and you like staying up late, then you’re a night owl. There are many people who stay up very late in the night and later find it almost impossible to wake up...