“Look at the bible as a pastiche, a collection of mutually and often internally inconsistent fragments slapped together for crude reasons of politics and art and priestly self-promotion and sometimes beauty and a lot of chest-thumping tribalism, and through that lens, it makes a lot of sense. It does tell us something important... about us, not ( Read more... )

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Despite the huge influence that astrology has on today's modern society, it has long been discarded as pseudoscience. It never made much sense to me, imagining that the relative position of planets to the sun and to other stars had an influence on the life of someone being born... That is quite imaginative, nothing more than magical thinking, when ( Read more... )

Recently I've been interested in neuroscience, and I keep seing this guy being mentioned. Saw him in some documentaries, and now I found this talk he gave this year at TED ( Read more... )

One of the most interesting theories in modern physics today is related with the M-Theory, a wrap-up of the 5 String Theories of the nineties. While the String Theory imagined a universe (or multiverse) of 9 dimensions, there were some inconsistencies in the math that were only solved by the introduction of a 10th dimension; thus the M-Theory is ( Read more... )

With new method to peer into the body and brain, researchers are discovering more psysiological details of how each emotion prepares the body for a very different kind of response:

-With anger blood flows to the hands, making it easier to grasp a weapon or strike at a foe; heart rate increases, and a rush of hormones such as adrenaline generates a ( Read more... )

Yes, it's true! Chocolate protects you from cancer, LSD helps recovering alcoholics, and sex is (as we all know) the most healthy activity that exists! There's even something good to be said about beer ( Read more... )