Solar flare induced insanity

News Mash: A strong solar flares day, means…A Bad day for psychiatric hospital in Kenya?

Science…

For the most part?

Still blind as to the extent of how solar flares affect us.

[via MyFoxyNY]Sun unleashes strong solar flares ~By MYFOX NEW YORK STAFF

The sun has unleashed four potent solar flares over the past few days, according to NASA.

One of the flares on Sunday was the strongest solar eruption this year and created a solar radiation storm on Wednesday.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of the X1.2 class solar flare on May 14, 2013.(NASA/SDO)

The flare erupted on the side of the sun that was not facing earth but it did cause a strong radio blackout.  The flare was categorized as an R3 on the NOAA’s space weather scales from R1 to R5.

Experimental NASA research models show that the latest flare left the sun at around 745 miles per second.

NASA says radiation from the latest flare may stream toward two of its spacecraft, including the Spitzer Space Telescope. Engineers have the option to switch them in safe mode to protect instruments.

The side of the sun where Sunday’s eruption occurred will rotate into Earth’s view soon, allowing scientists to study the active region.

Experts say that a rise in solar activity is common right now because of the phase it is in currently in its 11-year activity cycle.  More strong solar flares could be coming in the days ahead.

The flares can temporarily disrupt GPS signals and communications satellites, but most people will not notice any impacts from the flares.

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And, yes…

Believe it or not, Science?

They freaking affect us!

I quote:

“…but most people will not notice any impacts from the flares.”

Seriously, you big goobers?

Jeez, make out a post-it note…

Please:

[via Carlini Institute]How Recent Solar Flares Are Affecting Humans ~by Heather Carlini

A solar flare is a magnetic storm on the Sun which appears to be a very bright spot and a gaseous surface eruption such as in the above photograph.  Solar flares release huge amounts of high-energy particles and gases that are tremendously hot.  They are ejected thousands of miles from the surface of the Sun.

There appears to be a direct connection between the Sun’s solar storms and human biological effect especially after an “M” class solar flare.  The conduit which facilitates the charged particles from the Sun to human disturbance is the very same conduit which steers Earth’s weather through the Magnetic Field on Earth, and also through the magnetic fields around humans.

  Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, tornadoes, and wind storms appear to happen after strong solar activity on the sun.

Geomagnetic Activity on the Sun Influences our Thoughts

Solar flare induced insanity [Source]

I have noticed in my own research that solar activity is known to influence human consciousness.  Solar flares affect the Central Nervous System (stomach lining), all brain activity (including equilibrium), along with human behaviour and all psycho-physiological (mental-emotional-physical) response.  Solar flares can cause us to be nervous, anxiousness, worrisome, jittery, dizzy, shaky, irritable, lethargic, exhausted, have short term memory problems and heart palpitations, feel nauseous, queasy, and to have prolonged head pressure and headaches.

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As someone who actually works in law enforcement…

And actually SEES firsthand the effects of solar flares via the antics of the general populous?

Let me reassure you?

People going nuts on high solar flare activity days?

Real. Thing.

[via Iquisitr]40 Patients Escape Psychiatric Hospital, 30 Still On The Run ~By Todd Rigney

Of the 40 patients who escaped from a psychiatric hospital in Kenya, only 10 have returned to the facility.

Dozens of people reportedly fled the Mathari Mental Hospital in Nairobi on Sunday morning. Security officers prevented an additional 35 from escaping. It’s believed the patients overpowered the guards before managing to force open the door to their ward.

“Many scaled over the wall and went through Mathare area and a few confident ones used the main gate. When they are traced they should be brought back for their medication,” Police Chief Samuel Anampiu explained.

He added, “They must have strategized. It is not possible that, without proper planning, 75 people can break two doors and more than half of them run away.”

It’s currently believed that 30 patients are still unaccounted for at the psychiatric hospital in Kenya. Anampiu is concerned about these individuals getting the medication they need in order to treat their illnesses.

“We are now talking of 30 mental patients who are not back. Some have come back on their own volition while some were captured and brought back by their relatives,” the police chief said.

Two of the patients who escaped from the hospital later returned on their own free will. Eight of the escapees were brought back to the facility by their families. This mean that 30 of the 40 patients who escaped the psychiatric hospital are still on the loose.

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What am I saying?

Simply this…

When it comes to solar flares?

People go nuts!

Especially, um, let me just call them HIGHLY SENSITIVE people, who seem to be more susceptible than others.

Science…

You should really watch such stupid quotes as “…but most people will not notice any impacts from the flares” because, oh?

You could really not be MORE wrong.

Watch yourself.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.

News Mash: Science and religion cannot be reconciled…But religion and relationships can!

When it comes to Religion?

Science is seldom willing to be very accommodating…

Especially when it comes to a reconciliation of the two:

[via io9] Can Science and Religion be Reconciled? ~Robert T. Gonzalez

Physicist Sean Carroll and @YourTitleSucks agree. The answer is “No.”

Slate has republished a thought-provoking essay by author, blogger and physicist Sean Carroll about why he won’t take money from the John Templeton Foundation, “a philanthropic organization that supports research into the ‘Big Questions of human purpose and ultimate reality,’ encourages ‘dialogue among scientists, philosophers, and theologians,’ and seeks to use science to acquire ‘new spiritual information.’” In other words: the JTF seeks to unify science and religion.

Carroll’s essay is ultimately about two brands of centrism: the first ontological, the second professional. The former, he asserts, is impossible. He refuses to work directly with or accept funding from the JTF, because he believes their mission undermines the role of scientists to be as “clear and direct and loud” about the nature of reality as possible, and that “collaborating with organizations like Templeton inevitably dilutes that message.”

The latter, however, is doable – at least in Carroll’s eyes. While he will not accept funding from JTP directly, he readily acknowledges that he will work with people who do take money from JTF, “money that is appropriately laundered, if you will,” if he believes them to be worth “collaborating with in their own right.” This places him in a bit of a situation:

This means that approximately nobody agrees with me; the Templeton-friendly folks think I’m too uptight and priggish, while the anti-Templeton faction finds me sadly lacking in conviction. So be it. These are issues without easy answers, and I don’t mind taking a judicious middle ground.

I worry that Carroll’s piece will strike some people as hypocritical, for at least two reasons that I can think of.

1. There’s the obvious one: Carroll’s “twice-removed” policy of handling JTF money and his “lack of conviction” to the naturalist/atheist cause. He mentions this himself in his piece, and it’s something he has effectively asked us to :: sunglasses:: Deal With, as is his right.

2. Carroll’s assertion that professional quandaries such as where do I get my funding? are “issues without easy answers,” whereas conundrums like is there a higher power? aren’t really conundrums at all.

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Which?

In the grand scheme of things…

How fair is that?

[via Faux FoxNews]Atheism is a religion, too ~By Johnnie Moore

For a theist there’s nothing quite like watching an atheist get an intellectual walloping from a preacher. There’s just something apocalyptic about it, and it most easily occurs when the atheist tries to chop up religion to irrelevancy without realizing that he is himself awfully religious.

It happened again recently at the Cambridge Union debating society when former Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams took on the best known name in contemporary atheism, Richard Dawkins. They were debating whether religion has a role in the 21st century.

Dawkins said it didn’t.

Williams said it did.

In the end, Williams was handed a decidedly strong victory with more than two times as many votes from the audience as the infamous atheist, Dawkins. It was a triumphant day for the faithful and a shameful one for the irreligious.

But actually no one really is irreligious.

This world beats to the rhythm of religion in a thousand ways, and absolutely everyone is religious — including atheists.

Religion certainly includes an idea of a God under whom man is inherently subservient, but religion also governs the belief system undergirding the way people think about, and live, their lives.

It tells them who their authority is and it informs their values and behavior. It gives them their sense of morality and goodwill, and it guides them in the way they treat themselves and others. Religion does nothing less than construct one’s view of the world.

Atheists are, in fact, some of the most religious people.

First, they have a functioning God under whom they are subservient (normally it’s science or rationality, but mainly themselves), and that idea of God informs the way they live and interpret their lives. It informs their biases and determines their values, and governs any sense of morality or ethics they adhere too, or ignore.

Once that’s all settled all that’s left is the preaching.

And they preach all the time.

This new breed of atheists is obsessed with the idea of God. They write books, deliver speeches, comment-bomb the evangelical blogosphere and generally rant on ad nauseam about the ills of believing in God.

Honestly – comically – some atheists must type the word “God” on the Internet five times more often than most Christians I know and they do it with the fury of a fire-and-brimstone zealot!

Maybe no one invokes the name of “God” more than they, and they are doing so in more and more virulent ways such as the shocking moment when Dr. Dawkins recently told Al-Jazeera television that he believed being raised Catholic was in itself even more psychologically damaging than being abused by a priest!

Instead of just ignoring God, or the idea of God, atheist preachers feel somehow compelled to rid the Earth of him; so they argue endlessly that theists can’t prove God exists without confessing that they can’t prove he doesn’t either.

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Because?

Despite Science’s lack of belief that Religion does anything EXCEPT complicate the “discussion”…

Religion DOES indeed have direct benefits applicable for our day-to-day lives.

The big benefit being?

How the application thereof reflects in our relationships:

[via The Blaze]Prayer Can Allegedly Do This to Your Relationships With Significant Others and Friends~ by Billy Hallowell

A new study is giving a boost to the actions of many religious people, as it found that praying for partners and close friends may actually have some beneficial outcomes. Among them, people purportedly become more forgiving and cooperative, the Christian Post reports.

A report, recently released by Florida State University, provides intriguing details of the five studies that were conducted. Collectively, the information found that those who pray are essentially less vengeful and tend to cooperate more with others around them. WCTV-TV has more about the fascinating results:

The findings are significant because they are the first in which the partners who are the subject of the prayers reported a positive change in the behavior of the person who prayed, said Frank D. Fincham, eminent scholar and director of the Florida State University Family Institute.

“My previous research had shown that those who prayed for their partner reported more prosocial behavior toward their partner, but self-reports are subject to potential biased reporting,” Fincham said. “This set of studies is the very first to use objective indicators to show that prayer changed actual behavior, and that this behavior was apparent to the other partner, the subject of the prayer.”

In addition, objective observers found those who engaged in partner-focused prayer exhibited more positive behavior toward their partners compared to those who did not pray for their partner.

The results were published in a recent edition of the journal Personal Relationships in an article entitled, “Shifting Toward Cooperative Tendencies and Forgiveness: How Partner-Focused Prayer Transforms Motivation.” Increased prayer helped alleviate vengeance aimed at a partner, led to more forgiveness and it led to quicker action to fix an issue when prayer was used on the day a conflict emerged (versus when it was not).

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Just as with Science…

Though I am sure Scientists DESPAIR in understanding it?

Religion will ALWAYS have a place in our lives.

And because it will?

One would think a bunch of Science-smarties would figure out the benefits of ALL…

And the wonders even a little bit of reconciliation would do.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. [Source]

'Sup

News Mash: Science says that we all need a little “Awwwww!” from time to time. Listen to Science!

The next time your boss DARES to tell you?

That you have been decidedly LESS productive at work…

Show them THIS (below):

[via DailyMail]Cuddles with mother: Adorable endangered orangutan is the first to be born in Devon zoo for 18 years ~By Motherly love: The baby girl snoozes in her mother's arms at Paignton Zoo in DevonSam Webb

A newborn orangutan cuddles up and nestles in its mother’s arms as it enjoys a nice snooze in the sunshine.

The little ape, less than a month old, appears to content in its mothers strong arms.

The 18-year-old mother, Mali, poses for the camera with her baby at her home at Devon’s Paignton Zoo.

It was the first birth at the zoo for 18 years and workers are confident that the baby ape is a girl.

Phil Knowling, a spokesperson for the zoo, said that the pair are doing well after the birth. He said: ‘We are pretty sure it’s a girl. Keepers are 99.9 per cent sure that the baby, now a month old, is female.

‘Mali and the baby are doing well. They have the largest of the orangutan islands and even have an off show den to themselves.

…[Read More]

No…

Seriously!

The newest scientific research is IN:

Looking at pictures of cute, gotta-have-em, baby animals can increase work performance:

[via Live Science]I Can Haz Productivity? Why You Should Look at Cute Animals at Work ~by Megan Gannon

Here’s a defense for when your boss catches you watching kitten videos on the job: New research shows looking at cute images of baby animals may actually improve your work performance, inspiring more fine-tuned attention and careful behavior.

Perhaps unsurprisingly this new study comes from researchers in Japan, where kawaii (Japanese for “cute”) reigns. From the characters of “Hello Kitty” and “Pokémon’s” Pikachu, cute creatures stir positive feelings, researchers say, because they resemble babies with their big eyes and large heads.

Seeing baby faces is known to trigger care-giving impulses in humans, and some research has even suggested cute images may encourage friendliness. In the new study out of Hiroshima University, published online this week in the journal PLoS ONE, researchers show that these impulses can transfer outside of baby care and social situations to tasks that require narrow focus and concentration.

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Take THAT, mean & grumpy boss-man.

Looking at baby animals?

Very therapeutic…

And given the crappy world we live in, and often find ourselves faced with?

Yeah…

We all need a little “Awwwww!” from time to time.

'Sup

Score

News Mash: Adventure shapes the individual, but to what end?

Homebodies, take note…

Adventure IS important!

After all…

It helps shape who you ARE as an individual:

[via France24]Study shows that adventure shapes the individual

AFP – The act of exploring helps shape the brain and adventuring is what makes each individual different, according to a study out Thursday by researchers in Germany.

The findings published in the US journal Science may offer new paths to treating psychiatric diseases, scientists said.

Researchers sought to pin down why identical twins are not perfect replicas of each other, even when they have been raised in the same environment, and studied the matter using 40 genetically identical mice.

The mice were kept in an elaborate, five-level cage connected by glass chutes and filled with toys, scaffolds, wooden flower pots, nesting places and more. The space available to explore spanned about five square meters (yards).

“This environment was so rich that each mouse gathered its own individual experiences in it,” said principal investigator Gerd Kempermann of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Even though the mice were genetically the same, and the environment they were kept in was also the same, they showed individually different levels of activity. Some explored a lot, some did not.

And by fitting them with a special micro-chip that emitted electromagnetic signals, scientists could track how much the mice moved around and quantify their exploratory behavior.

“Over time, the animals therefore increasingly differed in their realm of experience and behavior,” said Kempermann. Over the course of three months, they developed very different personalities.

Researchers found that the brains of the most explorative mice were building more new neurons — a process known as neurogenesis — in the hippocampus, the center for learning and memory, than the animals that were more passive.

Control mice kept in a less enriching environment showed less brain growth.

Kempermann and colleagues said they have shown for the first time how personal experiences and ensuing behavior contribute to individualization, and that neither genetics nor environment alone could cause this personal growth.

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And given exactly WHERE your adventure leads you?

Could result?

Hmmm…

In some very deadly, by-product interactions:

[via The Adrenalist]Poisonous Animal Bite Survival Guide ~by Luke Kelly-Clyne

No matter how big, athletic, or well-conditioned you are, a deadly, poisonous animal could claim you as a victim. Just picture it: you’re walking along a beach or in a field or even your back yard and, all of a sudden, you’re debilitated by the most severe pain you’ve ever experienced and you’ve got minutes left to live.

Because we Adrenalists frequently travel far and wide to quench our thirst for adventure, it’s important that we’re intimately aware of the foreign species that pack the most ferocious, life-threatening bites and stings and, more importantly, that we’re well-versed on how to deal with said attacks should they occur.

Here’s how to survive the deadliest animal bites on the planet:

Funnel Web Spider

Native to the Southeastern region of Australia, near Sydney, funnel web spiders are small in size and known to dwell in cool shaded places. They often hide out in shoes or clothing left outside. Male venom is more potent than female, but a bite from either will usually take effect within 10-15 minutes, first causing numbness or tingling in the lips and soon resulting in any number of more advanced symptoms, from rapid heart rate to nausea to collapse to convulsions and coma. Funnel web bites must never be treated at home and any affected patient should be transported to the emergency room as soon as possible. While a victim is en route to the hospital, it’s a good idea to place a tightly wrapped bandage over the bite to halt the spread of venom. Once in the hospital, victims may need to receive treatments including breathing support, IV and antivenin medication.

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Which, I suppose?

Definitely a good argument…

For NOT taking part in any adventures?

And BEING a total homebody.

Score

The research suggests

News Mash: KIm Jong Un, is a little fish in a big pond & the fact that he is? Might be bad for us!

North Korean’s “Great Leader”…

Definitely has that little man syndrome thing going for him.

And to the rest of the world’s detriment.

Should we be worried?

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Oh…

We should definitely be worried for more reasons than you think.

Because sometimes…

Especially in nature?

It’s the little guy IS capable of defeating the bigger one.

[via LiveScience]In Fish Fights, The Little Guy May Have Best Odds ~by Denise ChowSmall fish big pond

When fish fight over food, don’t count the little guy out.

In hostile situations, a fish’s personality — including how aggressive it acts — may matter more than size, according to new research.

The researchers from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom and Texas A&M University in College Station studied how small fish managed relative to their larger peers when it came time for feeding. They found that small fish that exhibited aggressive behavior fared well in the feeding contests, regardless of their smaller stature.

“We wondered if we were witnessing a form of Napoleon, or small man, syndrome,” Alastair Wilson, an evolutionary ecologist in the department of biosciences at the University of Exeter, said in a statement.

The findings, published in the April 2013 issue of the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, indicate that the strength of a fish’s personality may be crucial when food is scarce.

“Certainly our study indicates that small fish with an aggressive personality are capable of defeating their larger, more passive counterparts when it comes to fights over food,” Wilson said. “The research suggests that personality can have far-reaching implications for life and survival.”

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Some to think about & consider, World…

When it comes to North Korea.

Follow your instincts…

Casually dismissing Kim Jong Un as “harmless” would be n extremely dangerous move.

Because?

The research suggests

The dude, Alastair has a point…

We’re not just talking fish here, and you know it.

Trust your instincts

News Mash: Trust your instincts? Or risk your self-destruction!

Have you ever second-guessed yourself?

Everybody has.

Ever wonder why you do it?

Thanks to io9, you no longer have to wonder:

[via io9]Do you self-destructively second guess yourself? This might be why. ~Esther Inglis-Arkell

All the way back when I was taking the SATs, I remember being given the advice that, if in doubt about a question, I should go with my first choice. I never did, but finally there’s an explanation for why I should have. If any other second-guessers are reading this – the explanation might help you before it’s too late!

The oft-repeated wisdom is that everyone should trust their instincts. Fair enough. My instincts seem to dictate that I second-guess every possible decision, taking another look at what the right response is. Generally that second look involves my talking (internally) my way through the chain of reasoning that should get me to a conclusion. As it turns out, that’s not a sound strategy.

It seems that your brain is a rather lazy organ. If it can’t find a reason why it likes something – and most people aren’t able to easily explain why they like great art – it just decides to like the thing it can explain. “That poster is funny,” “those politics are easy to justify,” or “that answer sounds more right because blah,” are explanations it can pounce on. It’s only after time and reflection that we can return to our real instincts.

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So…

It all comes down to a basic loss of intuitive instinct?

Makes sense.

And when in comes to instinctively knowing a dangerous situation?

Sadly, so many of us (just like the kids in the BELOW video short…

Ignore it:

And we ignore our instincts?

Often to our own peril.

What am I saying with this post?

Simply this.

Resist second-guessing yourself.

After all?

You brain instinctively knows what’s right…

Long before you consciously realize it.

Trust your instincts

Facebook Qualia

News Mash: Thanks to ‘qualia’, Facebook psychosis? Yeah, definitely an issue!

Upon an initial reading of the article below?

One can perhaps, all to easily, dismiss the claim…

That spatial distortion, via Facebook, can lead to psychosis by some of it’s users.

[via Cnet.com]Can Facebook lead to psychosis? One study says so ~facebook psychosis

 

Sometimes, normal humans take a liking to clinical terms and adopt them.

You go out on a date, and when your friends ask how it went you reply: “Oh, she’s psychotic.” Or perhaps: “He’s delusional.”

The justifications for such adjectives being used might be simple.

In the former case, the lady might have asked, just as the main course plates were cleared away, where the gentleman thought the relationship was going. This was after having described the details of her previous 17 relationships.

In the latter case, the gentleman might have talked about himself throughout the meal and offered mathematical details about his mental and physical prowess.

However, when these words are used in a clinical context, they have more precise definitions.

Which is why I have been moved to contemplation on hearing news of research from Israel. It declared that Facebook and its ilk can move the vulnerable (which might mean anyone) in the direction of psychosis and delusion.

Doctor Uri Nitzan of Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine and the Shalvata Mental Health Care Center decided, along with his colleagues, to look at his own patients in the context of their online relationships.

He wondered whether psychopathologies might be related to activities on Facebook and in chat rooms.

As the Daily Mail reports, the researchers discovered that the patients — who all were experiencing “loneliness or vulnerability due to the loss of or separation from a loved one” — suffered from further negative effects the more they “socialized” online.

The Mail quoted Dr. Nitzan as saying: “In each case, a connection was found between the gradual development and exacerbation of psychotic symptoms, including delusions, anxiety, confusion, and intensified use of computer communications.” (At the get-go, the patients in the study all had “relative inexperience with technology.”)

One patient even came to believe that the person she was in contact with online was constantly trying to touch her physically.

Some might argue that, by virtue of their initial loneliness, these people were more vulnerable to such delusions. However, none had apparently revealed any psychotic or delusional symptoms before beginning to Facebook away.

It seems to have been the sheer limitlessness of the Web that drove them toward psychological malaise.

As Dr. Nitzan said: “Some of the problematic features of the Internet relate to issues of geographical and spatial distortion, the absence of nonverbal cues, and the tendency to idealize the person with whom someone is communicating, becoming intimate without ever meeting face-to-face.”

It wouldn’t be hard to imagine that the minds of the apparently healthy also begin to experience something of this distortion.

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Sure.

It’s not something YOU experience.

But that’s just one of the tricks Mother Nature played on us humans.

You see?

We all suffer through qualia differently.

*taps chin*

“Just what is ‘qualia’?” You ask.

Oh…

I’m so glad you did!

[via ListVerse]Qualia ~by Mike Floorwalker

Facebook Qualia

Qualia are, simply, the objective experiences of another. It may seem simple to state that it’s impossible to know exactly what another person’s experience is, but the idea of qualia (that term, by the way, is plural; the singular is “quale”) goes quite a bit beyond the simplicity of that statement.

For example, what is hunger? We all know what being hungry feels like, right? But how do you know that your friend Joe’s experience of hunger is the same as yours? We can even describe it as “an empty, kind of rumbling feeling in your stomach”. Fine—but Joe’s feeling of “emptiness” could be completely different from yours as well. For that matter, consider “red”. Everyone knows what red looks like, but how would you describe it to a blind person? Even if we break it down and discuss how certain light frequencies produce a color we call “red”, we still have no way of knowing if Joe perceives the color red as the color you know to be, say, green.

Here’s where it gets very weird. A famous thought experiment on qualia concerns a woman who is raised in a black and white room, gaining all of her information about the world with black and white monitors. She studies and learns everything there is to know about the physical aspects of color and vision; wavelength frequencies, how the eyes perceive color, everything. She becomes an expert, and eventually knows literally all the factual information there is to know on these subjects.

Then, one day she is released from the room and gets to actually SEE colors for the first time. Doing so, she learns something about colors that she didn’t know before—but WHAT?

…[Read More - Read all '10 Brain-Breaking Scientific Concepts HERE!]

In other words…

“What’s mine is not definitely yours.”

Something to ponder while exploring your internet relationships…

And keep in mind.

It can, after all, only help both you and your Facebook “friends” in the long-run.

Just belive

News Mash: Belief in God, ever controversial with its discoveries, boosts treatment of mental illness!

Ironic.

Though those with a strong scientific foundation, often attribute the belief in God to “crazy people”

It has recently been proven (by Science) that the belief in God actually aids in the treatment of mental illness.

Funny how that works out, eh?

[via LiveScience]Belief in God May Boost Treatment of Mental Illness ~by Denise Chow

Patients who believe in God may experience better short-term treatment outcomes for psychiatric illness, according to a new study.

Individuals who described themselves as having strong faith reported having a better overall response to treatment, said David Rosmarin, a clinician and instructor in the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

“We found that patients who had higher levels of belief in God had better treatment outcomes — better well-being, less depression and less anxiety,” Rosmarin told LiveScience.

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Faith.

Belief in God?

One man’s idea of a higher power DOES NOT have to equate to the common status quo

For the fact is, when it comes to the absolute “truth”?

We might never know:

[via Dailymail] Does this mysterious Hebrew stone reveal a messiah BEFORE Jesus? Controversial ‘Gabriel stone’ tablet goes on show in Jerusalem ~By Mark Prigg

  • Ancient stone with mysterious Hebrew writing and featuring the archangel Gabriel
  • Researchers claim it references a messianic resurrection pre-dating Jesus

An ancient stone with mysterious Hebrew writing and featuring the archangel Gabriel is going on display in Jerusalem The stone inscription is one of the oldest passages featuring the archangelamid an ongoing row over whether it predicts a messiah before Jesus.

The so-called Gabriel Stone, said to have been found 13 years ago in Jordan, features an unknown prophetic text from the time of the Second Jewish Temple.

The tablet made a splash in 2008 when an Israeli scholar theorized the inscription would revolutionize the understanding of early Christianity, claiming it referenced a messianic resurrection pre-dating Jesus.

Scholars say it as a portal into the religious ideas circulating in the Holy Land in the era when was Jesus was born.

Its form is also unique – it is ink written on stone, not carved – and no other such religious text has been found in the region.

Curators at the Israel Museum, where the first exhibit dedicated to the stone opened today, say it is the most important document found in the area since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

‘The Gabriel Stone is in a way a Dead Sea Scroll written on stone,’ said James Snyder, director of the Israel Museum.

The writing dates to the same period, and uses the same tidy calligraphic Hebrew script, as some of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of documents that include the earliest known surviving manuscripts of Hebrew Bible texts.

The Gabriel Stone made a splash in 2008 when Israeli Bible scholar Israel Knohl offered a daring theory that the stone’s faded writing would revolutionize the understanding of early Christianity, claiming it included a concept of messianic resurrection that predated Jesus.

He based his theory on one hazy line, translating it as ‘in three days you shall live.’

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The trick is?

To faith…

In Something.

Your beliefs do not have to equate your neighbors.

Yet still believe?

There ARE physical, health benefits you will receive from it.

So never let it be said, from those who find it convenient to say otherwise, convince you otherwise.

Just belive

Why not…

Besides being fun and good for you?

The debate of faith never fails to fascinate and inspire, even with all of its continuous controversies.

shut up and kiss me

News Mash: We need stress in our lives, but just not too much…So kiss me!!!

Living a COMPLETELY stress free life!

As good as that sounds…

Truth is?

We ALL benefit from a little stress now and again:

[via LifeHacker] Why a Little Bit of Stress Can Actually Be Good for You ~Shana Lebowitz

There are times when I think I’d be much happier if I could spend the rest of my life lounging on the sands of the Mediterranean, having someone fan me with palm fronds while feeding me grapes. In other words, life would be better without any stress. Or would it?

According to new research from the University of California, Berkeley, a little stress may not be so bad for us after all. While chronic stress may be harmful, acute (short-term) stress may actually boost our cognitive function. The findings are supported by other research suggesting a little bit o’ stress may have beneficial effects for our brains and bodies. The key, of course, is knowing when we’re too harried for our own good.

What’s the Deal?

Before we get into the science, let’s be clear that most of the research in this area involves rats, not humans, so it’s not entirely clear that the findings apply to people. For a while now, researchers have suspected that the effect of stress on the (rat) brain is like an upside-down U: Up to a certain point, stress boosts cognitive function; after that, it starts to take a negative toll [1] [2].

In this latest study, researchers wanted to see if short-term stress really would turn regular old rats into geniuses. So they subjected rats to acute stress by confining them in their cages for a few hours. The stress caused the rats’ corticosterone (a stress hormone) levels to shoot up for a few hours, and also caused the growth of new cells in the hippocampus, an area of the brain associated with memory function.

Two days after the stressful event, the researchers tested rats’ memories, and found nothing had changed. But two weeks later, the rats’ memories had significantly improved. Then the researchers got super-techy and figured out that the cells produced after the stressful event were the same cells involved in learning during the second round of memory tests. In other words, the acute stress had made the rats smarter. The scientists concluded that acute stress has a beneficial effect on cognitive function.

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However?

If the stress becomes TOO much for you?

One of the best cures, best stress relievers…

Is also one of the most easy and enjoyable.

So consider KISSING…

A good viable options for relieving the worst of your stresses:

[via Gizmodo] Science Explains Why We Kiss ~by Casey Chan

The scientific effect of kissing has been revealed to burn 2-3 calories per minute and reduce bad cholesterol and stress. But it’s not like we knew that when we first swapped saliva! What we did know was that to feed babies more than just breast milk, mothers had to chew up the food to process it for their wee ones. Mouthfeeding. Watch the entire video to explore every nook about kissing. [Vsauce]

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Heck…

It’s fun!

So why not?

What do you have to lose?

Wanna be de-stressed a bit…

Give it a go!

Kissings curative powers MIGHT just surprise you.

shut up and kiss me

A slack hand

News Mash: Where has all the “true grit” and guts gone, in today’s youth?

JC hits the nail on the head with THIS (below) quote…

Cause living?

Is all about “guts”.

Something?

It seems a majority of youngsters today…

Lack.

[via Joseph Campbell, Facebook]“When I taught in a boy’s prep school, I used to talk to the boys who were trying to make up their minds as to what their careers were going to be. A boy would come to me and ask, ‘Do you think I can do this? Do you think I can do that? Do you think I can be a writer?’ ‘Oh,’ I would say, ‘I don’t know. Can you endure ten years of disappointment with nobody responding to you, or are you thinking that you are going to write a best seller the first crack? If you have the guts to stay with the thing you really want, no matter what happens, well, go ahead.’”

from Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, with Bill Moyers

…[Read More]

Call ‘em “guts”…

Or “true grit”.

Both apply.

Both?

In great demand…

And yet today?

Rarely seen.

[via DailyMail] Does true grit actually exist? Research suggests it may decide how much we achieve in life ~By Fiona Macrae

John Wayne had it; Jeff Bridges too. But far from being an intangible quality – scientists claim ‘true grit’ can be measured.

They say those with the trait show a ‘perseverance and passion for long-term goals’, and are tenacious, not easily distracted and not discouraged by setbacks.

And the scientists claim a simple test is enough to see whether a person possesses the dogged determination exhibited by Marshal Rooster Cogburn in the Hollywood Western  True Grit.

Those who take it have to rate how closely eight statements apply to them. These include ‘I finish whatever I begin’ and ‘Setbacks don’t discourage me’.

Wayne received an Oscar for his 1969 portrayal of the fearless American civil war veteran who helps a 14-year-old girl track down the man who had killed her father.

Bridges showed a similar single-mindedness in a recent remake.

And scientists say that if you too have true grit, you may do better in life.

Those with true grit show a ‘perseverance and passion for long-term goals’.

They are tenacious, not easily distracted and not discouraged by set-backs.  They also place importance in success.

…[Read More]

Why is this…
That which is so essential for one achieving any type of success?
Is seemingly a trait quickly one which is becoming extinct in the repertoire of man.

Where is it going?

Why are we killing it?

Is there any way for man to get it back, once it is lost?

Looking at the “lack lusters” we seem intent on breeding today… (The New Pizza Hut App That Helps Make Kids Even Lazier!!!)

It’s hard NOT to be haunted by the answers.

A slack hand

This is only the beginning

News Mash: Want a great relationship? Live apart! And today…That’s a lot easier than you might think!

No expert here…

But one would think, logically?

That if one wanted to maintain a healthy, committed adult relationship…

One would have to be in the same location TOGETHER in order to do it.

Apparently not:

[via DailyMail] Want to stay in love? Then DON’T live together ~By Deborah MoggachAccording to a recent survey, 23 per cent of couples - that's 2.2 million people - in a serious relationship live apart, whether by choice or circumstance, and this number is growing rapidly

Ten of the happiest years of my life were spent not living with the man I loved. A couple of times a week, I would cycle to his Soho bedsit, carrying my trusty sponge bag.

So keen was I to preserve my independence that I didn’t even leave a toothbrush there.

We would spend the evening together and in the morning eat breakfast at a nearby cafe, chatting to his friends.

Then I would bike back to my home in Camden, North London, and start my day’s work, writing. This carried on for a decade, unchanged and blissful, until he died 19 years ago.

We loved each other to bits, but I don’t think it even crossed our minds to move in together. We certainly never talked about it.

At the start, I was newly divorced with small children, and he — the cartoonist Mel Calman — was the veteran of two marriages. We bore the scars of prolonged co-habitation and had no desire to jump into domesticity again.

It soon became clear our unconventional arrangement worked for us and we had no desire to change it.

Mel had his own life — 18 years older than me, he never wanted to leave his beloved bachelor pad and move somewhere big enough for two, let alone a house with room for a family.

And it wasn’t all one-way. I had my life, which centred on my two children and writing novels.

I loved being a parent with them and a vamp with him; apart from the fact it was fun, keeping the two parts of my life separate avoided all sorts of tensions and problems.

I don’t think our relationship would have survived if we had moved in together: he would have got annoyed at my children’s mess and the way I brought them up. I think he thought me a slapdash and indulgent parent, though he was far too wise to tell me so.

Nor might we have survived my children’s hostility towards him as the cause of my divorce from their father, though this tension eased as the years passed. Besides, he’d already had a set of stepchildren and I didn’t want to inflict all that on him a second time.

While some of our friends thought our set-up was strange, it turns out we were trendsetters.

According to a recent survey, 23 per cent of couples — that’s 2.2 million people — in a serious relationship live apart, whether by choice or circumstance, and this number is growing rapidly.

Indeed, the number of men and women ‘living apart together’ has increased by 40 per cent in the past decade. Famously, they include the actress Helena Bonham Carter and her director husband Tim Burton, who live in adjacent London homes.

Research suggests young couples live apart because they don’t want to sacrifice their independence, while those who are older have accumulated too many possessions to fit in one property.

But I think there are myriad reasons why living apart appeals to so many. There are women who have worked hard and don’t want to risk losing their savings when an ill-judged cohabitation goes wrong, and men who value their independence — and vice versa.

I know several couples who live apart and prefer it that way. This especially applies to those who have got together later in life, when each person is more likely to be set in their ways and less willing to adapt.

They’re surrounded by their own stuff with no room for anyone else’s. Some have emerged from a long marriage and are scared to commit or just reluctant to return to domesticity. Others have grandchildren nearby and don’t want to uproot themselves.

They’ve done the marriage thing; falling in love again recaptures something of their carefree youth, so why not keep it carefree?

Having two homes is also an escape valve. One couple I know, who have been together for seven years, work from home and divide their time between her flat in London and his cottage in Hastings, East Sussex. Sometimes they go together, sometimes separately.

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Again, no expert here…

But having a relationship, but separately, makes NO sense to me.

Correction.

MADE no sense to me.

Because thanks to the advent of THIS (below) new bit of creepy technology?

Makes a little more sense.

We are, after all, working on negotiating any type of need for any actual HUMAN interaction out of the human experience.

And with that said, introducing?

Vibrating underwear!

Yeah…

You heard that right.

Soon to be known as?

Technology-you-should-be-ashamed-of-your-mother-ever-finding-out-it-exists:

[via Gizmodo] Uh, A Condom Company Just Made Vibrating Underwear Controlled by Your iPhone ~by Kyle Wagner

So obviously this was going to happen eventually, but that doesn’t mean we’re ready for it. Durex just announced what it’s calling “Fundawear“, which ostensibly stands for “fun underwear” but which Durex believes will eventually come to mean “article of clothing that is fun like once ever and until you realize what horror you’ve wreaked in your pants and never want to talk about it again.”

This is only the beginning

The undergarments are loaded with touch technology, and are controlled by a smartphone app—an iPhone in the demo videos—that knows what gender your partner is. The app has diagrams of your partner’s crotch, which you drag your finger across to stimulate their actual crotch from wherever you are in the world. Or the bra, since that apparently vibrates too. Newjack remote controlled vibrator gag that no one does in real life because sex things from movies are almost never practical in real life.

…[Read More]

Cause…

Seriously, dude?

You know how you have to explain all the newest technology to your mom.

Just think about having to have THIS conversation,a nd explaining how these underwear work?

*shakes head MADLY*

Thinking about my mother and vibrating underwear, in the same sentence…

[ARRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! *gag* Gak & spew!!!!!!!!!!!]

Much less having to talk to her about it?

NOT really something I am comfortable with, or want to contemplate without a readily available gas source and a torch lighter for Self-immolation purposes.

Just sain’

“So, jeez Mom…Quit askin’ me!”

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Texting

News Mash:Text overtaking talk as cellphone habits shift & because they are? You’re racist & shallow

No…

Seriously.

As far as studies go?

Usually I am all for them.

THIS (below) one however…

Makes me question myself.

[via CBSLocalCleveland]Study: People Who Text Frequently Tend To Be More Racist, Shallow

WINNIPEG (CBS Cleveland) - A new study indicates that people who engage in text messaging tend to be more racist and shallow than their less technologically savvy counterparts.

Researchers at the University of Winnipeg found that young people are specifically susceptible to the trend, according to the Edmonton Journal.

The study was conducted by observing 2,300 psychology students for three years, with observations beginning during their first years of college. Participants were asked to fill out online surveys during the course of the several-year study.

…[Read More]

Cause yes…

I am one of those people who if you call me on my cell, I will ignore the call, then almost immediately text you back, “Did you need something?”

Yeah, one of THOSE people.

Look, the only thing I can say in my defense is that in my real-life job? I have to answer the phone and talk to people 12 hours a day, I don’t have a choice. So, when I am off work, and I DO have a choice? Nope, not answering the phone.

“You want me? You text me.” It’s what I always say.

And apparently?

I am not the only one.

[via SFGate]Text Overtaking Talk as Cell Phone Habits Shift

Americans are finding out what Carriers have known for years, consumers are using their Verizon, Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile cell phones less and less for talking, but they’re not saying any less. A new study by the Pew Research Center found that people are using their cell phones for a lot more than making calls. The study found that 82 percent of cell phone users take pictures with their phone, 80 percent use it to send and receive text messages, 56 percent use it to access the Internet, and 50 percent use it for email correspondence.

Texting

The Pew study found that nearly all cell phone users ages 18-29 use cell phones for texting. Almost all other age demographics send text messages from their cell phones, except those 65 years old and over, who do not utilize texting as frequently. Furthermore, the amount of text messages that are sent every year is rapidly increasingly. The CTIA wireless industry association reports that the number of voice minutes used are falling. When people do use their cell phones for actual phone calls, the average amount of time they spend talking is also decreasing. Many Americans prefer communicating through the Internet or through text messages because it can be done at one’s convenience. Even though it may take longer to send a text message, people prefer this method because in general, it is less disruptive.

…[Read More]

But now thanks to the study in the first article in this post?

Yes, questioning myself big time.

Just because I prefer text, does that make me racist and shallow?

Or…

Does it just make me anti-social at times, and lazy.

Sorry Researchers at the University of Winnipeg…

Not buying your study at all.

It was cute and interesting and all, but I don’t think you can make the claims you are trying to make by observing 2,300 hundred college students (i.e. the very definition of racist and shallow, though, aren’t they?)…

Might need to broaden your pool just a little bit, if you wish to be truly accurate.

Just a suggestion.

Super

News Mash: Scientists, if you can see into my dreams? Please just ignore Henry Cavill. Thanks!

Don’t know about you, but me?

Not a fan of THIS (below) at all.

Sorry about this Science…

But you know what?

Somethings…

Just better left private.

[via PopSci]Scientists Can Pluck Images Out Of Your Dreams

With just an fMRI, an algorithm, and the internet, researchers from Kyoto, Japan predicted with 60 percent accuracy what a person was dreaming about, Smithsonian magazine reports. The idea, like the process, isn’t all that complicated: Our brains react measurably differently to different stimuli: looking at a book or a building doesn’t cause the same reaction. So the Kyoto team had three people sleep in an fMRI for three-hour stints over 10 days, and hooked them up to an EEG, which used electrical signals from the body to track which stage of sleep the were in were in.

Early on, just a few minutes after falling asleep, dreams started coming in bursts. The scientists woke the subjects up soon after and asked them what they saw. (For each participant, they actually did that 200 times, presumably turning them into the Grumpiest People In The Universe.) The researchers wrote down the 20 most common things the subjects saw: people, buildings, etc. They then found images on the internet that matched those common things, showed them to the subjects while they were awake but still in the fMRI, and took a reading. That information was fed into a learning algorithm. When the subjects slept again, the algorithm spit back this ’80s music video-like representation of what the sleepers saw.

…[Read More]

Especially considering…

A large portion of my dreams of late?

Have been very superhero-centric (see regarding whom, below).

[via Examiner]‘Fifty Shades of Grey’: Henry Cavill has ‘hottest’ body for Christian Grey role ~By Barbie KavetskySuper

Fans of “Fifty Shades of Grey” have made it clear that potential actors for the role of Christian Grey will need a hot body. As of April 5 a very fit Henry Cavill is winning Fashion and Style’s “Top 5 Hottest Bods for Christian Grey” poll with a healthy lead over favorite Ian Somerhalder. The competition also includes Ryan Gosling, Matt Bomer and Jensen Ackles. Surprisingly, Somerhalder and Bomer have each only garnered 18% of the votes. The buffer physiques, Cavill and Ackles, are in the top two spots. Fans are showing they want a more muscular Christian Grey.

Henry Cavill, 29, has been a long standing fan favorite that has flown under the radar during most “Fifty Shades of Grey” casting debates. The “Man of Steel” has the look, charisma and acting ability to handle the role of the riding crop wielding CEO. A top Henry Cavill fan site commented on his ability to adapt to new roles. “Henry would be willing and able to transform his body to become Christian Grey. He has changed his body to fit different roles, from lean and muscular in ‘Immortals’ to bulky and muscular in the ‘Man of Steel’.” The site administrator Jen went on to say, “Whoever plays Christian Grey has to be sexy and gorgeous. If you’ve seen pictures of Henry Cavill, I don’t think I need to explain that part.”

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So, Scientists…

If you decided to to take a peek into MY dreams?

Um, might wanna just ignore the goings on, as well as the music:

Bow chicka wow wow

All innocent…

Of course.

Yup…

I absolutely assure you.

sheer terror

News Mash: North Korea? Scary. NASA lasso’ing an asteroid? Scarier. A newly discover giant spider? Holy $#*%!!!

When it comes to fear…

It’s all about personal perspective, isn’t it?

And how it relates to the individual.

Take North Korea.

Scary bunch of freaky, bat-crap crazy dudes, for sure.

And their possible threat to nuke us all come April 10th?

Worrisome.

But lets face it…

Those psychos have always been whack-jobs.

So, on a personal level?

The chances of these coo-coo birds effecting any of us?

Pretty slim:

[via The Sun]North Korea tells Brit diplomats to get out — then sets chilling April 10 deadline ~By JACK LOSH

ROGUE state North Korea today sparked fears that it could trigger a nuclear strike as early as next WEDNESDAY.

Crackpot Kim Jong-un’s regime today issued a chilling threat to British diplomats warning them to get out of Pyongyang.

Alarmingly the North Korean government said it would not be able to guarantee the safety of embassies from April 10.

Russian diplomats have also been advised to evacuate.

Today the Foreign Office added that it is “considering next steps” after the threat.

It is still unclear why next Wednesday has been set as a deadline – but it is sure to spark fears despot Kim Jong-un will launch an attack after that date.

This week South Korean workers employed in factories in the North were also told to leave by April 10.

The dramatic development came as North Korea moved a second missile to its east coast in a further threat to Japan, South Korea and US Pacific bases.

The rogue state has already transported a Musudan missile with a range of 1,800 miles (3,000km) to the same area.

…[Read More]

So this new: ‘We are going to destroy the tyranny of the West!” hokum, is just that…

A load of bull.

Nothing to be REALLY concerned with.

However NASA scientists new “fantastic” idea to lasso an asteroid, in order to bring it CLOSER to us?

A tad more worrisome, and it should be for all of us.

And only because?

Even as much as I dearly love & adore scientists, they always only consider IF they could do something…

Not necessarily if they SHOULD.

Especially if one considers the dangerous ramifications should the asteroid (not much smaller than the rock that hit Russia with the force of an atomic bomb, cause it only takes a rock about 10 meters to do that) get out of their control and barrel towards Earth, impacting somewhere NOT just water.

So, yeah…

A tad more worrisome, and it should be:

[via YahooNews] Senator: NASA to lasso asteroid, bring it closer ~By SETH BORENSTEIN

WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA is planning for a robotic spaceship to lasso a small asteroid and park it near the moon for astronauts to explore, a top senator said Friday.

The ship would capture the 500-ton, 25-foot asteroid in 2019. Then using an Orion space capsule, a crew of about four astronauts would nuzzle up next to the rock in 2021 for spacewalking exploration, according to a government document obtained by The Associated Press.

Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., said the plan would speed up by four years the existing mission to land astronauts on an asteroid by bringing the space rock closer to Earth.

Nelson, who is chairman of the Senate science and space subcommittee, said Friday that President Barack Obama is putting $100 million in planning money for the accelerated asteroid mission in the 2014 budget that comes out next week. The money would be used to find the right small asteroid.

“It really is a clever concept,” Nelson said in a press conference in Orlando. “Go find your ideal candidate for an asteroid. Go get it robotically and bring it back.”

This would be the first time ever humanity has manipulated a space object in such a grand scale, like what it does on Earth, said Robert Braun, a Georgia Institute of Technology aerospace engineering professor who used to be NASA’s chief technology officer.

“It’s a great combination of our robotic and human capabilities to do the kind of thing that NASA should be doing in this century,” Braun said.

Last year, the Keck Institute for Space Studies proposed a similar mission for NASA with a price tag of $2.6 billion. There is no cost estimate for the space agency’s version. NASA’s plans were first reported by Aviation Week.

While there are thousands of asteroids around 25-feet, finding the right one that comes by Earth at just the right time to be captured will not be easy, said Donald Yeomans, who heads NASA’s Near Earth Object program that monitors close-by asteroids. He said once a suitable rock is found it would be captured with the space equivalent of “a baggie with a drawstring. You bag it. You attach the solar propulsion module to de-spin it and bring it back to where you want it.”

…[Read More]

There are fearsome things and events that exist in our world today, but from an individual, personal perspective the chances of them affecting us DIRECTLY?

Not likely.

However, with that said…

One thing, one oh-my-gawd-Mother-Nature-what-have-you-done thing, on a personal level we should ALL fear, and quite honestly have every right to, because darn-tootin’ it WILL affect us all?

And by saying ‘it will affect us all’, I mean it will eat your freakin’ FACE OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brace yourself…

A new venomous, giant spider has been discovered:

ARRGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

[via YahooNews] Newly Discovered Giant Spider is of the Nightmare-Inducing Variety ~By

Of all of the creepy and crawly things that you can think of, tarantulas probably are near the top of the list when it comes sheer terrorto scariness. Well, get ready to add another terrifying arachnid to your list, because a new type of tarantula has been discovered in northern Sri Lanka.

Ranil Nanayakkara, a local researcher, and his team found the tiger spider and named it Poecilotheria rajaei, after a local police investigator, Michael Rajakumar Purajah. Purajah helped the team of scientists navigate the remote area where the spider was found.

The genus Poecilotheria is known for being fast, colorful, and venomous. But why does this newly discovered species stand out from all the rest in its genus? It’s huge, for one thing. Its leg span is up to 8 inches across, about the length of your face. It also has distinctive markings on its underside and legs that are geometrically patterned and described as daffodil-yellow and gray.

So what do these spiders eat? They have a taste for small snakes, birds, and mice. Nanayakkara explained why they were able to find P. rajaei in an unusual place — an old doctor’s office. “They prefer well-established old trees, but due to deforestation, the number have dwindled and due to lack of suitable habitat, they enter old buildings.”

…[Read More]

And so, although the news of North Korea threatening to nuke us, barely made me blink?
The off-putting NASA plans caused me to look up at the stars in the sky and, regarding scientists, re-think?
Oh, but it was the newest spider discovery, which very well had for me a heart attack…On the brink!

Fears.

We all have them.

Some of them, however…

Far more personal than others.

Eek.

the root of the problem

News Mash: What is the actual root of the problem, guns or powerful psychotropic drugs?

Huh.

So…

The crazy, psychotic Aurora shooter, was on a dangerous mix of powerful psychotropic drugs.

Who would have saw this one coming?

[via LATimes]James Holmes’ psychiatrist warned he may pose threat ~By Jenny Deam

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — About a month before the Aurora movie theater rampage left 12 dead and at least 70 injured in July, James E. Holmes told a psychiatrist he was having homicidal thoughts and she concluded he could pose a danger to the public, according to documents released Thursday.

University of Colorado-Denver psychiatrist Dr. Lynne Fenton told a campus police officer about her concerns June 12, the day after she met with Holmes for their only session. Her fears were revealed Thursday when the new judge presiding over the case unsealed a host of search warrants and arrest documents.

Fenton also told Lynn Whitten, a campus police officer, that after she stopped seeing Holmes he “threatened and harassed her via email/text messages,” the documents said.

…Details about the case have been tightly sealed from the earliest days of the investigation. Yet on Thursday, District Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr. reversed previous rulings on public access and made public the arrest affidavit and 12 search warrants.

Samour took over from Chief Judge William Sylvester on Monday after Dist. Atty. George Brauchler of Colorado’s 18th Judicial District announced he would seek the death penalty.

Sylvester withdrew because of the time constraints that come with a capital punishment trial, which would leave him little time for administrative duties. Holmes’ trial, initially scheduled to begin Aug. 5, has been pushed back to February at the earliest.

Holmes’ attorneys are widely expected to use an insanity defense. They had offered a guilty plea in return for a life sentence without possibility of parole.

The newly unsealed documents give glimpses not only into the early hours of the investigation but into Holmes himself. A search warrant for his apartment — which had been booby-trapped, presumably to kill anyone who entered — revealed a student’s life that seemed at once mundane and bent on destruction.

Along with chemicals used for explosives, rounds of ammunition, pistol cases and paper targets, police seized movie posters, video games, apartment lease papers, numerous computers, 48 containers of beer and other liquor and stacks of school textbooks. They found prescription medication for sertraline, a generic version of Zoloft used to treat depression, panic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder; and Clonazepam, usually prescribed to treat anxiety and panic attacks.

…[Read More]

Oh, that’s right…

*snaps*

Everyone saw this coming, that is if by “everyone” I mean those who chose not to be distracted by mainstream media, screaming that its guns that are a problem…

AND NOT THE PSYCHOS WHO ARE USING THEM.

Cause lets just ignore THAT problem altogether.

After all, I am sure Big Pharma would greatly appreciate that:

(NaturalNews) The following is a republishing of an important article written by Dan Roberts from AmmoLand.com. It the root of the problemreveals the real truth about mass shootings that bureaucrats and lawmakers are choosing to sweep under the rug: psychiatric drugs. If you want to know the real reason why mass shootings are taking place, this is the “inconvenient truth” the media won’t cover.

As part of a collective grassroots effort to defend the Bill of Rights against usurpers and tyrants, Natural News is republishing this article without asking for permission first. When it comes to fighting tyrants and defending liberty, the unstated agreement across the entire liberty-loving grassroots community is, “Use our articles; help spread the word!” Every article I write here on Natural News, for example, may be reprinted with credit and a link back to the original source article on NaturalNews.com.

Here’s the full article by Dan Roberts:

(Ammoland.com) Nearly every mass shooting incident in the last twenty years, and multiple other instances of suicide and isolated shootings all share one thing in common, and its not the weapons used.

The overwhelming evidence points to the signal largest common factor in all of these incidents is the fact that all of the perpetrators were either actively taking powerful psychotropic drugs or had been at some point in the immediate past before they committed their crimes.

Multiple credible scientific studies going back more then a decade, as well as internal documents from certain pharmaceutical companies that suppressed the information show that SSRI drugs ( Selective Serotonin Re-Uptake Inhibitors ) have well known, but unreported side effects, including but not limited to suicide and other violent behavior. One need only Google relevant key words or phrases to see for themselves. www.ssristories.com is one popular site that has documented over 4500 ” Mainstream Media ” reported cases from around the World of aberrant or violent behavior by those taking these powerful drugs.

The following list of mass shooting perpetrators and the drugs they were taking or had been taking shortly before their horrific actions was compiled and published to Facebook by John Noveske, founder and owner of Noveske Rifleworks just days before he was mysteriously killed in a single car accident. Is there a link between Noveske’s death and his “outting” of information numerous disparate parties would prefer to suppress, for a variety of reasons?

I leave that to the individual readers to decide. But there is most certainly a documented history of people who “knew too much” or were considered a “threat” dying under extraordinarily suspicious circumstances.

From Katherine Smith, a Tennessee DMV worker who was somehow involved with several 9/11 hijackers obtaining Tennessee Drivers Licenses, and was later found burned to death in her car, to Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Gary Webb, who exposed a CIA Operation in the 80′s that resulted in the flooding of LA Streets with crack cocaine and was later found dead from two gunshot wounds to the head, but was officially ruled as a “suicide”, to Frank Olson, a senior research micro biologist who was working on the CIA’s mind control research program MKULTRA.

After Olson expressed his desire to leave the program, he was with a CIA agent in a New York hotel room, and is alleged to have committed “suicide” by throwing himself off the tenth floor balcony. In 1994, Olson’s sons were successful in their efforts to have their fathers body exhumed and re examined in a second autopsy by James Starrs, Professor of Law and Forensic science at the National Law Center at George Washington University. Starr’s team concluded that the blunt force trauma to the head and injury to the chest had not occurred during the fall but most likely in the room before the fall. The evidence was called “rankly and starkly suggestive of homicide.” Based on his findings, in 1996 the Manhattan District Attorney opened a homicide investigation into Olson’s death, but was unable to find enough evidence to bring charges.

As I said, I leave it to the individual readers to make up their own minds if Noveske suffered a similar fate. On to the list of mass shooters and the stark link to psychotropic drugs.

• Eric Harris age 17 (first on Zoloft then Luvox) and Dylan Klebold aged 18 (Columbine school shooting in Littleton, Colorado), killed 12 students and 1 teacher, and wounded 23 others, before killing themselves. Klebold’s medical records have never been made available to the public.

• Jeff Weise, age 16, had been prescribed 60 mg/day of Prozac (three times the average starting dose for adults!) when he shot his grandfather, his grandfather’s girlfriend and many fellow students at Red Lake, Minnesota. He then shot himself. 10 dead, 12 wounded.

• Cory Baadsgaard, age 16, Wahluke (Washington state) High School, was on Paxil (which caused him to have hallucinations) when he took a rifle to his high school and held 23 classmates hostage. He has no memory of the event.

• Chris Fetters, age 13, killed his favorite aunt while taking Prozac.

• Christopher Pittman, age 12, murdered both his grandparents while taking Zoloft.

• Mathew Miller, age 13, hung himself in his bedroom closet after taking Zoloft for 6 days.

• Kip Kinkel, age 15, (on Prozac and Ritalin) shot his parents while they slept then went to school and opened fire killing 2 classmates and injuring 22 shortly after beginning Prozac treatment.

• Luke Woodham, age 16 (Prozac) killed his mother and then killed two students, wounding six others.

• A boy in Pocatello, ID (Zoloft) in 1998 had a Zoloft-induced seizure that caused an armed stand off at his school.

• Michael Carneal (Ritalin), age 14, opened fire on students at a high school prayer meeting in West Paducah, Kentucky. Three teenagers were killed, five others were wounded..

• A young man in Huntsville, Alabama (Ritalin) went psychotic chopping up his parents with an ax and also killing one sibling and almost murdering another.

• Andrew Golden, age 11, (Ritalin) and Mitchell Johnson, aged 14, (Ritalin) shot 15 people, killing four students, one teacher, and wounding 10 others.

• TJ Solomon, age 15, (Ritalin) high school student in Conyers, Georgia opened fire on and wounded six of his class mates.

• Rod Mathews, age 14, (Ritalin) beat a classmate to death with a bat.

• James Wilson, age 19, (various psychiatric drugs) from Breenwood, South Carolina, took a .22 caliber revolver into an elementary school killing two young girls, and wounding seven other children and two teachers.

• Elizabeth Bush, age 13, (Paxil) was responsible for a school shooting in Pennsylvania

• Jason Hoffman (Effexor and Celexa) – school shooting in El Cajon, California

• Jarred Viktor, age 15, (Paxil), after five days on Paxil he stabbed his grandmother 61 times.

• Chris Shanahan, age 15 (Paxil) in Rigby, ID who out of the blue killed a woman.

• Jeff Franklin (Prozac and Ritalin), Huntsville, AL, killed his parents as they came home from work using a sledge hammer, hatchet, butcher knife and mechanic’s file, then attacked his younger brothers and sister.

• Neal Furrow (Prozac) in LA Jewish school shooting reported to have been court-ordered to be on Prozac along with several other medications.

• Kevin Rider, age 14, was withdrawing from Prozac when he died from a gunshot wound to his head. Initially it was ruled a suicide, but two years later, the investigation into his death was opened as a possible homicide. The prime suspect, also age 14, had been taking Zoloft and other SSRI antidepressants.

• Alex Kim, age 13, hung himself shortly after his Lexapro prescription had been doubled.

• Diane Routhier was prescribed Welbutrin for gallstone problems. Six days later, after suffering many adverse effects of the drug, she shot herself.

• Billy Willkomm, an accomplished wrestler and a University of Florida student, was prescribed Prozac at the age of 17. His family found him dead of suicide – hanging from a tall ladder at the family’s Gulf Shore Boulevard home in July 2002.

• Kara Jaye Anne Fuller-Otter, age 12, was on Paxil when she hung herself from a hook in her closet. Kara’s parents said “…. the damn doctor wouldn’t take her off it and I asked him to when we went in on the second visit. I told him I thought she was having some sort of reaction to Paxil…”)

• Gareth Christian, Vancouver, age 18, was on Paxil when he committed suicide in 2002, (Gareth’s father could not accept his son’s death and killed himself.)

• Julie Woodward, age 17, was on Zoloft when she hung herself in her family’s detached garage.

• Matthew Miller was 13 when he saw a psychiatrist because he was having difficulty at school. The psychiatrist gave him samples of Zoloft. Seven days later his mother found him dead, hanging by a belt from a laundry hook in his closet.

• Kurt Danysh, age 18, and on Prozac, killed his father with a shotgun. He is now behind prison bars, and writes letters, trying to warn the world that SSRI drugs can kill.

• Woody __, age 37, committed suicide while in his 5th week of taking Zoloft. Shortly before his death his physician suggested doubling the dose of the drug. He had seen his physician only for insomnia. He had never been depressed, nor did he have any history of any mental illness symptoms.

• A boy from Houston, age 10, shot and killed his father after his Prozac dosage was increased.

• Hammad Memon, age 15, shot and killed a fellow middle school student. He had been diagnosed with ADHD and depression and was taking Zoloft and “other drugs for the conditions.”

• Matti Saari, a 22-year-old culinary student, shot and killed 9 students and a teacher, and wounded another student, before killing himself. Saari was taking an SSRI and a benzodiazapine.

• Steven Kazmierczak, age 27, shot and killed five people and wounded 21 others before killing himself in a Northern Illinois University auditorium. According to his girlfriend, he had recently been taking Prozac, Xanax and Ambien. Toxicology results showed that he still had trace amounts of Xanax in his system.

• Finnish gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen, age 18, had been taking antidepressants before he killed eight people and wounded a dozen more at Jokela High School – then he committed suicide.

• Asa Coon from Cleveland, age 14, shot and wounded four before taking his own life. Court records show Coon was on Trazodone.

• Jon Romano, age 16, on medication for depression, fired a shotgun at a teacher in his New York high school.

Missing from list… 3 of 4 known to have taken these same meds….

• What drugs was Jared Lee Loughner on, age 21…… killed 6 people and injuring 14 others in Tuscon, Az?

• What drugs was James Eagan Holmes on, age 24….. killed 12 people and injuring 59 others in Aurora Colorado?

• What drugs was Jacob Tyler Roberts on, age 22, killed 2 injured 1, Clackamas Or?

• What drugs was Adam Peter Lanza on, age 20, Killed 26 and wounded 2 in Newtown Ct?

Those focusing on further firearms bans or magazine restrictions are clearly focusing on the wrong issue and asking the wrong questions, either as a deliberate attempt to hide these links, or out of complete and utter ignorance.

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And sadly?

There are far more who bask in, as well as showcase their ignorance, when it comes to their lack of gun knowledge, than there are those who do not suffer it’s ill effects.

A majority of whom?

Hold some of the highest ranking positions in our government.

Lucky for US however, there exist a few, a slim, knowledgeable few, who refuse to stand idle while their basic constitutional rights are under attack.

Thank goodness for these amazing, intelligent few!

No matter their age.

I stand in aw.

“Bravo, girl!”

*stands clapping*

Take your bow, you deserve it.

One can only hope, The Powers That Be?

They listen.