Transcendent Man - Documentary
>> Thursday, March 31, 2011
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Meet the Smartbird Robot
>> Tuesday, March 29, 2011
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The strange effects of injury to the brain - BBC
>> Saturday, March 26, 2011
The mother of a friend can no longer recognize that she's looking into a mirror. In her mind, she's seeing into a room in her own home she didn't know was there, and is looking at people in that room she doesn't know.
This is one of many sad and strange effects of injury to the human brain. Many people believe that the brain and the mind are two distinct things. I believe the evidence show that the brain produces the mind, the personality, our experiences, our consciousness, and the so-called soul.
When bits of the brain die, bits of who we are die with them. There's no reason then to believe that when the entire brain dies, any part of who we were lives on.
Here's a fascinating BBC documentary on the strange effects of traumatic brain injury.
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Forests of artificial trees?
>> Wednesday, March 16, 2011
AOL News - 3.16.11 by Lee Speigel
In the modern world of urban pollution, we can't seem to grow enough trees to naturally convert carbon dioxide into life-sustaining air -- the process of photosynthesis -- until now.
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Are you a candidate for mind control? Take the test!
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Extraterrestrial Bacteria Find Debunked
>> Sunday, March 06, 2011
Looks like the so-called evidence is found wanting. That didn't take long. (By PZ Myers)
Did scientists discover bacteria in meteorites?
No.
No, no, no. No no no no no no no no.
No, no.
No.
Fox News broke the story, which ought to make one immediately suspicious — it's not an organization noted for scientific acumen. But even worse, the paper claiming the discovery of bacteria fossils in carbonaceous chondrites was published in … the Journal of Cosmology. I've mentioned Cosmology before — it isn't a real science journal at all, but is the ginned-up website of a small group of crank academics obsessed with the idea of Hoyle and Wickramasinghe that life originated in outer space and simply rained down on Earth. It doesn't exist in print, consists entirely of a crude and ugly website that looks like it was sucked through a wormhole from the 1990s, and publishes lots of empty noise with no substantial editorial restraint. For a while, it seemed to be entirely the domain of a crackpot named Rhawn Joseph who called himself the emeritus professor of something mysteriously called the Brain Research Laboratory, based in the general neighborhood of Northern California (seriously, that was the address: "Northern California"), and self-published all of his pseudo-scientific "publications" on this web site.
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Another Claim for Alien Bacteria
>> Saturday, March 05, 2011
Think this one will amount to anything? We'll see.
FoxNews - 3.5.11 by Garrett Tenney
A photograph taken through a scanning electron microscope of a CI1 meteorite is similar in size and overall structure to the giant bacterium Titanospirillum velox, an organism found here on planet Earth, a NASA scientist said.
We are not alone in the universe -- and alien life forms may have a lot more in common with life on Earth than we had previously thought.
That's the stunning conclusion one NASA scientist has come to, releasing his groundbreaking revelations in a new study in the March edition of the Journal of Cosmology.
Dr. Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, has traveled to remote areas in Antarctica, Siberia, and Alaska, amongst others, for over ten years now, collecting and studying meteorites. He gave FoxNews.com early access to the out-of-this-world research, published late Friday evening in the March edition of the Journal of Cosmology. In it, Hoover describes the latest findings in his study of an extremely rare class of meteorites, called CI1 carbonaceous chondrites -- only nine such meteorites are known to exist on Earth.
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