/>9 out of 10 of the top grossing films were science fiction or fantasy. This may account for the coming spate of sci fi films and the interest in new literature written about the future of mankind. The top films included: 1) Lord of the Rings; 2)Star Wars III; 3)ET; 4)Shrek; 5) Dark Knight and […]

Micronutrients may be the best future treatments for mental disorders of various kinds and the latest worldwide research on the topic will be presented at a conference in San Francisco on Dec. 4 and 5, 2009. Studies now show that in many cases, micronutrients are better for the treatment of mental disorders than many medications, […]

In the 1950’s, when Ray Bradbury penned THE VELDT, about a futuristic play room where children interact with realistic videos, he envisioned that they could walk in and shout -River Nile! Pyramids! and they would appear, surrounding the player in full color, sound, smells, odors. Africa, hot sun, vultures. Lions. Bradbury’s prescience is evident today […]

Thomas Shea Phd. of the Center for Cellular Neurobiology at The University of Massachusetts has released a study on mice that suggests taking two glasses of apple juice each day may help to prevent the development of amyloid plaques, commonly found in those who suffer from Alzheimer’s. Mice receiving the equivilent of two glasses of […]

The Fallout, a film being made in eastern europe(I AM NOW INFORMED NOT based) on the video game, (WHICH SEEMS SURPRISING AS FALLOUT WAS TRADEMARKED IN APRIL FOR FILMS CREATION) will soon start shooting. The post-apocalyptic thriller deals with the psychological conflicts of people striving to stay alive after the next nuclear war. The film […]

A video game coming out next month called “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2” apparently allows players to be able to shoot innocent civilians in an airport in a realistic rendering of a terrorist attack. This was revealed in footage leaked from the video-game a few days ago. The game shows a face off against […]

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 […]