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Juan Enriquez: Will our kids be a different species?

Posted in VideoJuan Enriquez: Will our kids be a different species? – YouTube. Related posts: Cute Cambodian Kids Try to Say Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious That’s my friend… Best Friend

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NASA | SDO’s Ultra-HD View of 2012 Venus Transit

Posted in VideoNASA | SDO’s Ultra-high Definition View of 2012 Venus Transit – YouTube. Related posts: Bird’s-eye view Optical Illusions 2012 Hayden Hopkins 2012 – Wild Is The Wind

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The Difference Between Moths and Butterflies

Posted in ImagesSince the question came up in a comment earlier this week, I thought I would post the answer I found when I looked it up.   Excerpt:  “The physical differences between moths and...

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Questions No One Knows the Answers To

Posted in Video Related posts: Simple answers The Right Questions Can Increase Life Satisfaction Two questions: How & Why?

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Neil Harbisson: I listen to color

Posted in Video   Artist Neil Harbisson was born completely color blind, but these days a device attached to his head turns color into audible frequencies. Instead of seeing a world in grayscale,...

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Mark Applebaum: The mad scientist of music

Posted in VideoMark Applebaum: The mad scientist of music – YouTube. Related posts: Michael Tilson Thomas: Music and emotion through time Color Explosion | A Fluorescence Microscopy Image | The...

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Are Pets Psychic? A Cambridge Scientist Believes So

Posted in Articles    READ THE ARTICLE:  Are Pets Psychic? A Cambridge Scientist Believes So | Wake Up World. Related posts: Color Explosion | A Fluorescence Microscopy Image | The Scientist Are You...

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Margaret Heffernan: Dare to disagree

Posted in VideoMargaret Heffernan: Dare to disagree – YouTube. Related posts: Dare to be different Michael Norton: How to buy happiness Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy?

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How Many of Your Memories are False?

Posted in Articles  CLICK THROUGH TO READ:  How Many of Your Memories are False? | Psychology Today. Related posts: Awakening Your True Self Within Your False Self Never let your memories be greater...

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How to Prevent Stress from Shrinking Your Brain

Posted in Articles  Excerpt:  Have you ever felt so stressed out and overwhelmed that you can’t think straight? We now know that prolonged stress or trauma is associated with decreased volume in areas...

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What’s invisible? More than you think

Posted in VideoWhat’s invisible? More than you think – John Lloyd – YouTube. Related posts: Invisible bow and arrow Rowan Atkinson | Invisible Drum Kit Invisible window installation

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The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain – YouTube

Posted in VideoSarah-Jayne Blakemore: The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain – YouTube. Related posts: The Neuroscience of Your Brain On Fiction How to Prevent Stress from Shrinking Your Brain...

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24-hour clock of life

Posted in Images   via Tumblr Related posts: A Life | Snail Nine o’clock 7 Life Lessons

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How to Forecast Weather Without Gadgets

Posted in ImagesClick through to view the larger version of this wonderful image. How to Forecast Weather |.   Related posts: Weekend forecast Good Weather EMBROIDERED portraits | Cayce Zavaglia

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Freak weather

Posted in ImagesNature’s wrath … a spectacular gust front associated with cyclone Narelle was captured about 25 nautical miles north-west of Onslow in Western Australia on Wednesday. The red tinge...

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Hearts Have Their Own Brain and Consciousness

Posted in Articles   Excerpt:  “Basic research at the Institute of HeartMath shows that information pertaining to a person’s emotional state is also communicated throughout the body via the heart’s...

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The Birth of Sound: Why the Big Bang Was Actually Silent

Posted in Articles   via The Birth of Sound: Why the Big Bang Was Actually Silent | Brain Pickings. Related posts: the woods would be very silent Silent prayer Music is what feelings sound like

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What is déjà vu and why does it happen?

Posted in Articles   Have you ever experienced a sudden feeling of familiarity while in a completely new place? Or the feeling you’ve had the exact same conversation with someone before?   This feeling...

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Earthquake art

Posted in ImagesWhen a magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook Olympia, Wash., in 2001, shopowner Jason Ward discovered that a sand-tracing pendulum had recorded the vibrations in the image above....

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Undulatas asperatus cloud formation

Posted in NatureA cloud formation so rare it doesn’t even have official classification. “Undulatus asperatus” is its proposed designation, and if accepted as a new form by meteorologists, it’ll be the...

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Why Our Brains Love Sugar – And Why Our Bodies Don’t

Posted in ArticlesHow sugar affects our brain chemistry making us want more and more.   “That glazed doughnut is calling my name. Oh yes it is!  It’s so sweet and pink and full of sprinkles. I long to...

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Pre-programming in our brains

Posted in ImagesTry this out!  I was determined that I could prove this wrong, but, lo and behold, my foot changed direction!  Amazing!   Related posts: Squirrel determination Wrong is wrong… Right and...

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A beautiful example of surface tension

Posted in Images via FB Science Is Awesome Related posts: Look at the sky Concentrated awesome Awesome 3rd Birthday Cake

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Beautiful diversity of twins

Posted in Images“This is a rare and exceptional case. Incredibly, these two girls are twins. Both the parents were half black and half white. When the twins were born, one inherited all the black genes...

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Perspective

Posted in ImagesScience is nothing but perspective. ~ Plato   View dozens of new images added every day to CuriositiesByDickens on Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/asmile4u/   Related posts: Today flows...

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