The U.S. defense and intelligence agencies examining the potential impact of global warming have concluded that if they materialize, global alliances will shift and the need for massive relief efforts will increase as will our military entanglements in conflicts worldwide. At current increas rate of carbon dioxide the average world temperatures at the end of […]

I’ve done some thinking about time not just in terms of travel or physics, but in relation to how long things last—things like the Berlin Wall or Broadway plays or the human species. In 1993, I published a paper in Nature that applied one of the most famous postulates in science, the Copernican principle, to […]

It may be that we shall, by a process of sublime irony, have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation. ~ Winston Churchill, on the hydrogen bomb, 1955

A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and […]

Video conferencing may finally have founds its place in global business and medicine and studies indicate business and personal usage to escalate significantly. According to industry research, video-phones and video connections will be at everyone’s desk tops at very low cost. Of all the advancements in the workplace over the next 5 years, usable efficient […]

People who drink more than three cups of coffee per day have a 53% lower risk of liver disease progress than non coffee drinkers, according to a new National Cancer Institute Study conducted by Neil Freedman PhD MPH. It was published in the November issue of HEPATOLOGY.

New Harvest, a U.S. based company is developing a new way to grow meat in the laboratory using starter cells and a process of cell growth. The new system is expected to produce tasty meat of the same consistency and cellular basis as ordinary meat except you won’t have to raise and kill animals. This […]

There is new and reliable evidence from scientific studies which prove that our brains respond significantly to the daily foods we eat and that nutrients trigger neurotransmitters and hormones that directly alter our mental sharpness, memory and moods. This runs across the board from children to older adults and the timing of intake is also […]

Several new studies have concluded that playing video-games can enhance cognitive capabilities and performance including the development of the “working memory”; reasonaing capabilities; increasing attention span and the latest studies have shown that video game playing actually thickens parts of the cerebral cortex, the outer layer of the brain responsible for higher level functions. One […]

Forced stationary bicycle pedaling at high steady cadences has been shown to significantly reduce symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. In a paper presented in Paris on June 15, 2009, Dr. Jay Alberts of the Cleveland Clinic reported that Parkinson’s patients who were forced to pedal at a high steady rate (80-90 RPM) showed a 35% improvement […]