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"Turn off your mind, relax, and float down stream..." Maybe John Lennon was onto something when he wrote those words for the Beatles' song "Tomorrow Never Knows." It turns out that that reality and imagination flow in different directions in the brain, researchers say. The visual information from real events that the eyes see flows "up" from the brain's occipital lobe to the parietal lobe, but imagined images flow "down" from the parietal to the occipital. "There seems to be a lot in our brains and animal brains that is directional — that neural signals move in a particular direction, then stop, and start somewhere else," said Dr. Giulio Tononi, a psychiatry professor and neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the study's co-authors. "I think this is really a new theme that had not been explored." Optical Illusions: Your Brain Is Way Ahead of You The finding, published in the November issue of the journal NeuroImage, may lead to a better understanding of how the brain processes short-term memories and how memory is connected to imagination, the researchers said. By "flow," the scientists are referring to the general direction of electrical signaling of neurons in the brain. This direction is oriented against the various lobes of the brain. [Inside the Brain: A Photo Journey Through Time] The occipital lobe sits in the lower, back part of the brain. Containing the visual cortex, this lobe's primary function is to process visual information. The parietal lobe lies above the occipital lobe, and its primary function is to integrate sensory information, such as vision, but also touch and sound. In doing so, the parietal lobe assembles elementary building bricks from so-called "lower-order" brain regions to create concepts, said Daniela Dentico, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lead author on the report. This is Your Brain on Video Games (Infographic) A leading theory in image processing "posits that our visual mental images are not stored somewhere in the brain, but get actively reconstructed," Dentico told Live Science. The brain does this, she said, by reversing the order it uses for visual perception. She described this as the "top-down" direction, which starts from the big concept and moves back toward the smaller elements. "Our study represents the first direct measure of the prevalence of top-down signal flow during imagery," Dentico added. To determine the flow of neural firing, the Madison researchers, along with scientists at University of Liege in Belgium, asked study participants who were hooked up to an electroencephalography (EEG) machine to watch videos or to imagine fantastical scenes, such as traveling on a magic bicycle. EEG is an established technique that uses sensors on the scalp to measure underlying electrical activity. The Brain: Now in Ultra High-Res 3D But because the brain isn't "quiet," EEGs tend to reveal the cacophony of brain activity, said Barry Van Veen, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Madison and senior author on the report. So, to zero in on the flow of reality and imagination, the researchers created complex statistical modeling requiring high-throughput computing. From this, they could determine, for the first time, the average directional flow of neural firing during the tasks of seeing and imagining. The researchers could not determine, however, whether imagination originates in the parietal lobe. It may instead flow through the parietal lobe from the frontal lobe, the brain region most associated with human intelligence. This is a topic for further investigation, the researchers said. More from Live Science Top 10 Mysteries of the Mind 6 Foods That Are Good for Your Brain5 Mind-Bending Facts About Dreams Copyright 2014 LiveScience, a TechMediaNetwork company. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Originally published on LiveScience.com. http://news.discovery.com/human/imagination-reality-look-different-in-the-brain-141214.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1

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If you're a fan of epic ultra high definition time-lapse videos from space -- and really who isn't — then you'll be happy to know that Christmas arrived early and Hannukah is right on time. The European Space Agency has stiched together more than five months of astronaut Alexander Gerst's time-lapse photography from the International Space Station (ISS) and made it into a six-minute video.  Photos: When Earth Wows Gerst spent 166 days in orbit starting in late May on the ISS as one of five flight engineers, all part of the European Space Agency's aptly named mission, Blue Dot. Luckily for us mere mortals, he also had an excellent photographic eye and captured some pretty spectacular views as the ISS hurtled around the planet at 17,200 mph, making more than 15 laps each day. Lightning from space looks like daubs of electric paint atop of clouds. Large-scale weather patterns including spinning areas of low pressure look just like they do on weather maps. The aurora takes on the appearance of a shimmering green curtain draped around the high latitudes of Earth. And day and night on the horizon of Gerst and his fellow astronaut's view, the crystaline strip of the atmosphere -- the one we're filling with greenhouse gases -- is clearly visible, separating those of us back on planet Earth from the rest of the universe. But lest you think it's all eye candy and fodder for philosophical musings, there are also a few hidden insights into how the various apparati that ensure the ISS can sustain the astronauts that call it home. Solar panels rotate to catch the most sun and keep all systems up and running. At the 1:35 mark, a robotic arm extends to pluck a Cygnus spacecraft -- one of the commercial spacecraft that help supply the ISS -- out of, well, space. After collecting its payload, the same arm releases it on its homeward journey at the 4:50 mark. It truly looks like science fiction. So go ahead, ratchet the video up to ultra high definition and enjoy each one of the 12,500 images it took to create it. And let it not go unnoted that the European Space Agency also found some pretty futuristic background music for the video. Hope you're taking notes, NASA. More From Climate Central: Dreaming of a White Christmas? Check This MapClues in Coral Hint at Looming Temperature SpikeNY Fracking Ban Divides Experts on Climate Impacts This article originally appeared on Climate Central, all rights reserved. http://news.discovery.com/earth/see-five-months-of-earth-from-space-141224.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1

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Chances are, you probably champagne with living the high life. But uncorking a bottle of the bubbly stuff is also provides an illustration of a phenomenon that Japanese researchers say could be used to make electrical-generating plants more efficient. When you open a bottle of champagne, the pressure upon the liquid is abruptly removed, which causes bubbles to form in it. Those bubbles, in turn, quickly begin a process called Ostwald ripening, named after the scientist who discovered it back in 1896. Bigger bubbles, which are more energetic than the smaller ones, attract molecules from them and grow even larger. It’s a phenomenon that’s not only seen in champagne, but in foams and metallic alloys as well, and even in ice cream. NEWS: Giant Bubbles Found in Space And most important, Ostwald ripening happens on a much larger scale in power plants, when bubbles form in heated water that’s being converted to steam to drive the blades of electrical turbines — a factor that can reduce the efficiency of the process. But up to this point, scientists haven’t been able to figure exactly how that works inside the superheated environment of a power plant, and they’ve been unable to accurately calculate the rate at which bubbles form there. But now, according to a just-published study in the Journal of Chemical Physics, researchers from the University of Tokyo, Kyusyu University and RIKEN, a private research institution in Tokyo, have made a breakthrough in understanding Ostwald ripening. By using RIKEN’s computer network, the most powerful one in Japan, they’ve managed to simulate the formation of bubbles. VIDEO: Is It Possible to Power Jets with Water? “A huge number of molecules, however, are necessary to simulate bubbles — on the order of 10,000 are required to express a bubble,” researcher Hiroshi Watanabe explained in a press release. “So we needed at least this many to investigate hundreds of millions of molecules — a feat not possible on a single computer.” The team eventually simulated an astonishing 700 million particles, following their collective motions through a million time steps — a feat they accomplished by performing massively parallel simulations using 4,000 processors. Eventually, the research may yield knowledge that enables engineers to design more efficient turbines. http://news.discovery.com/earth/bubbles-could-provide-energy-breakthrough-141219.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1

Entrepreneur Elon Musk, co-founder of Paypal, founder of Tesla Motors, CEO of SpaceX, doesn’t have time for Hyperloop, his envisioned subsonic mass transit system that would whisk people between Los Angeles and San Francisco at 800 miles per hour. Yes, he put about a dozen of his engineers on the project for nine months and then dropped a white paper on us in 2013 describing the technology. But like he said, his hands are full. Hyperloop Vs. High-Speed Rail But a new crowd-sourcing platform said it does have the time and they think they could have a working version up in ten years. JumpStartFund, which leverages crowd-funded money to finance crowd-funded ideas, launched in 2013, around the time that Musk was talking about Hyperloop. It seemed like the perfect idea to tackle, and so the company’s CEO Dirk Ahlborn reached out to Musk, proposed the idea for JumpStartFund and created the company Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, to devote resources to. The crowd of folks currently working on Hyperloop are either students at UCLA or have day jobs at companies such as Boeing, NASA, Yahoo!, Airbus and SpaceX. But in their free time, they are contributing ideas and solutions related to design, route planning and cost analysis in exchange for stock options. Elon Musk’s ‘Hyperloop’: More Details Revealed Alex Davies from Wired reports that so far, the team has made progress in three main areas: the capsules, the stations, and the route. Here’s a summary. The route: Instead of Musk’s proposed route of L.A. to San Francisco, the team is currently looking at different routes for the beta run — ones that would be flatter and would avoid some of the regulatory hurdles. That means the first Hyperloop might not be built in the United States. The capsules: The subsonic tube-like passenger cars need doors that let people on and off, but doors could compromise the low-pressure environment required for the tube to move fast. The engineers decided that the capsule that people ride inside would slip into a shell built to handle the ride. The stations: The team wants to streamline security and efficiency using robots who would check luggage and moving sidewalks that would pass through security. Keep it moving, people. Hyperloop Simulation Shows It Could Work The team is currently looking at the best mode for propulsion too. It could be a vacuum tube as Musk has proposed, but it could also use magnetic levitation, which several high-speed trains in China already use. And, Davies points out, “At some point, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies will likely have to shift from this work-when-you-can-but-don’t-expect-money model to something a bit more conventional with, you know, employees. But for now, it’s a fitting approach.” Credit: Hyperloop Transportation Technologies and JumpStartFund via Wired http://news.discovery.com/autos/transportation-infrastructure/hyperloop-transit-could-be-running-in-10-years-141222.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1

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When Americans sit down to their Thanksgiving feast, many will take a moment to focus on what they are grateful for. But psychologists, religious leaders and scientists have said that this practice should be more than a once-a-year tradition. In fact, many think that gratitude is the key to happiness. “Grateful attention is the key to joy,” said Br. David Steindl-Rast, co-founder of A Network for Grateful Living. Top 20 Happiest Countries in The World Gratefulness encompasses more than thankfulness. Definitions vary, but most include the idea of being present in the moment. A Network for Grateful Living describes it as “the full response to a given moment and all it contains.” Gratitude is one of the few concepts that is highly regarded in most religions -- and also by psychologists and scientists. It’s been linked with everything from better school performance to lower cardiovascular risk and joy, according to Emiliana Simon-Thomas, who is teaching a class called "The Science of Happiness." Gratitude is the “feeling of joy with the knowledge that another person has instrumentally benefitted yourself,” said Simon-Thomas, science director of the University of California, Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. Does $36,000 Buy Happiness? The center launched a program called Expanding the Science and Practice of Gratitude three years ago, and has supported 29 research projects on the science of gratitude. Preliminary research into how gratitude is processed in the brain has linked it to reward systems that signal pleasure and joy, Simon-Thomas said. The science of gratitude is a trifecta, she said. The first part is called savoring: “You’re committing neural resources perceiving and feeling the goodness about something,” she said. “The second piece is that you’re linking goodness to something outside yourself. And, third, gratitude involves focusing on the goodness in another person.” http://news.discovery.com/human/psychology/does-gratitude-bring-happiness-141127.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1

Smithsonian.com: An Ancient Egyptian Spellbook Has Been Translated.

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Researchers have deciphered an ancient Egyptian handbook, revealing a series of invocations and spells. Among other things, the "Handbook of Ritual Power," as researchers call the book, tells readers how to cast love spells, exorcise evil spirits and treat "black jaundice," a bacterial infection that is still around today and can be fatal. The book is about 1,300 years old, and is written in Coptic, an Egyptian language. It is made of bound pages of parchment — a type of book that researchers call a codex. Weird Facts About King Tut and His Mummy "It is a complete 20-page parchment codex, containing the handbook of a ritual practitioner," write Malcolm Choat and Iain Gardner, who are professors in Australia at Macquarie University and the University of Sydney, respectively, in their book, "A Coptic Handbook of Ritual Power" (Brepols, 2014). The ancient book "starts with a lengthy series of invocations that culminate with drawings and words of power," they write. "These are followed by a number of prescriptions or spells to cure possession by spirits and various ailments, or to bring success in love and business." For instance, to subjugate someone, the codex says you have to say a magical formula over two nails, and then "drive them into his doorpost, one on the right side (and) one on the left." The Sethians Researchers believe that the codex may date to the 7th or 8th century. During this time, many Egyptians were Christian and the codex contains a number of invocations referencing Jesus. However, some of the invocations seem more associated with a group that is sometimes called "Sethians." This group flourished in Egypt during the early centuries of Christianity and held Seth, the third son of Adam and Eve, in high regard. One invocation in the newly deciphered codex calls "Seth, Seth, the living Christ." [The Holy Land: 7 Amazing Archaeological Finds] The opening of the codex refers to a divine figure named "Baktiotha" whose identity is a mystery, researchers say. The lines read, "I give thanks to you and I call upon you, the Baktiotha: The great one, who is very trustworthy; the one who is lord over the forty and the nine kinds of serpents," according to the translation. Mummy-Making Began Long Before Pharaohs "The Baktiotha is an ambivalent figure. He is a great power and a ruler of forces in the material realm," Choat and Gardner said at a conference, before their book on the codex was published. Historical records indicate that church leaders regarded the Sethians as heretics and by the 7th century, the Sethians were either extinct or dying out. This codex, with its mix of Sethian and Orthodox Christian invocations, may in fact be a transitional document, written before all Sethian invocations were purged from magical texts, the researchers said. They noted that there are other texts that are similar to the newly deciphered codex, but which contain more Orthodox Christian and fewer Sethian features. The researchers believe that the invocations were originally separate from 27 of the spells in the codex, but later, the invocations and these spells were combined, to form a "single instrument of ritual power," Choat told Live Science in an email. Who would have used it? The identity of the person who used this codex is a mystery. The user of the codex would not necessarily have been a priest or monk. "It is my sense that there were ritual practitioners outside the ranks of the clergy and monks, but exactly who they were is shielded from us by the fact that people didn't really want to be labeled as a "magician,'" Choat said. Some of the language used in the codex suggests that it was written with a male user in mind, however, that "wouldn't have stopped a female ritual practitioner from using the text, of course," he said. Origin The origin of the codex is also a mystery. Macquarie University acquired it in late 1981 from Michael Fackelmann, an antiquities dealer based in Vienna. In "the 70s and early 80s, Macquarie University (like many collections around the world) purchased papyri from Michael Fackelmann," Choat said in the email. But where Fackelmann got the codex from is unknown. The style of writing suggests that the codex originally came from Upper Egypt. "The dialect suggests an origin in Upper Egypt, perhaps in the vicinity of Ashmunein/Hermopolis," which was an ancient city, Choat and Gardner write in their book. The codex is now housed in the Museum of Ancient Cultures at Macquarie University in Sydney. Originally published on Live Science. 8 Grisly Archaeological Discoveries8 Rulers of Ancient Egypt: Most Precise Timeline RevealedThe 7 Most Mysterious Archaeological Finds on Earth Copyright 2014 LiveScience, a TechMediaNetwork company. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-egypt/ancient-egyptian-handbook-of-spells-deciphered-141124.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1

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Roughly 9,000 years ago, humans had mastered farming to the point where food was plentiful. Populations boomed, and people began moving into large settlements full of thousands of people. And then, abruptly, these proto-cities were abandoned for millennia. It's one of the greatest mysteries of early human civilization. The dawn of the age of agriculture falls during the "Neolithic," also known as the late stone age. At that time, about 12,000 years ago, people had already developed incredibly sophisticated stone tools, weapons, and clay vessels for cooking and storage. And when they found seeds that grew into particularly delicious plants, they took them along on their treks, planting them in river valleys on their route, so that they would have a tasty harvest the following year. Earth Shots: Must-See Planet Pics Once these informal farms had gotten a little bigger, it started to seem less advantageous to keep roaming when there was so much food in one place. In the Levant area along the eastern Mediterranean, nomadic groups who had once lived by hunting and gathering began settling down in small villages for part of the year. The Rise and Fall of the Mega-Village As people accumulated more food stores, women began giving birth to more children. Nomadic groups of 20 or 30 people became villages of 200. And some of those villages, like Çatalhöyük in the region today known as central Turkey, grew to a few thousand people. It's hard to say what, exactly, Çatalhöyük was. Was it a city or just some kind of bizarre, outsized village? We know it lasted for millennia, with thousands of people living there continuously from about 7500 BCE to 5700 BCE. Perhaps we might say that was the closest thing to a city in the Neolithic, since hundreds more people lived there than in typical villages nearby. But it had none of the features we associate with the grand, walled cities that emerged thousands of years later in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. There were no palaces, no massive ziggurats or pyramids dedicated to the gods, and no signs of class distinction. Every family had a small, slightly rectangular one-room home with a hearth. Each home was roughly the same size. Streets didn't exist in Çatalhöyük — homes were erected next to each other, honeycomb-style, and people just walked over each other's roofs to get home through doors in their ceilings. Though there was art, there was no writing. And there was little in the way of specialized labor. Unlike in ancient Uruk or Mohenjo-Daro, there were no cottage industries in bead-making or weapons production. Families lived by hunting, but mostly by keeping farms and small herds of animals like goats in the nearby hills. PHOTOS: Gourmet Astronauts: Favorite Space Food Maybe Çatalhöyük didn't look much like cities as we know them, but it and other mega-sites were the most developed forms of settlement anywhere in the world at that time. They were the urban developments of their age, sheltering huge populations and fostering technological progress like cooking with dairy and making fired pottery (both were major high tech inventions in the Neolithic). Here's where things get weird. In the mid-5000s BCE, Çatalhöyük was suddenly abandoned. The same thing happened to several other outsized village-cities in the Levant. Their populations drained away, and people returned to small village life for thousands of years. Below, you can see a graph showing how the size of settlements dropped dramatically about 7,000 years ago (5000 BCE). Even more mysterious is the fact that we see a similar pattern — intensification of farming, booming population, growing settlements, and abandonment — elsewhere in the world. Farming came later to Western Europe and England, so we see this cycle starting roughly 5,000 years ago (around 3,000 BCE) in many European regions and in England. What happened? http://news.discovery.com/human/life/how-farming-almost-destroyed-ancient-human-civilization-141118.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1

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Roughly 9,000 years ago, humans had mastered farming to the point where food was plentiful. Populations boomed, and people began moving into large settlements full of thousands of people. And then, abruptly, these proto-cities were abandoned for millennia. It's one of the greatest mysteries of early human civilization. The dawn of the age of agriculture falls during the "Neolithic," also known as the late stone age. At that time, about 12,000 years ago, people had already developed incredibly sophisticated stone tools, weapons, and clay vessels for cooking and storage. And when they found seeds that grew into particularly delicious plants, they took them along on their treks, planting them in river valleys on their route, so that they would have a tasty harvest the following year. Earth Shots: Must-See Planet Pics Once these informal farms had gotten a little bigger, it started to seem less advantageous to keep roaming when there was so much food in one place. In the Levant area along the eastern Mediterranean, nomadic groups who had once lived by hunting and gathering began settling down in small villages for part of the year. The Rise and Fall of the Mega-Village As people accumulated more food stores, women began giving birth to more children. Nomadic groups of 20 or 30 people became villages of 200. And some of those villages, like Çatalhöyük in the region today known as central Turkey, grew to a few thousand people. It's hard to say what, exactly, Çatalhöyük was. Was it a city or just some kind of bizarre, outsized village? We know it lasted for millennia, with thousands of people living there continuously from about 7500 BCE to 5700 BCE. Perhaps we might say that was the closest thing to a city in the Neolithic, since hundreds more people lived there than in typical villages nearby. But it had none of the features we associate with the grand, walled cities that emerged thousands of years later in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. There were no palaces, no massive ziggurats or pyramids dedicated to the gods, and no signs of class distinction. Every family had a small, slightly rectangular one-room home with a hearth. Each home was roughly the same size. Streets didn't exist in Çatalhöyük — homes were erected next to each other, honeycomb-style, and people just walked over each other's roofs to get home through doors in their ceilings. Though there was art, there was no writing. And there was little in the way of specialized labor. Unlike in ancient Uruk or Mohenjo-Daro, there were no cottage industries in bead-making or weapons production. Families lived by hunting, but mostly by keeping farms and small herds of animals like goats in the nearby hills. PHOTOS: Gourmet Astronauts: Favorite Space Food Maybe Çatalhöyük didn't look much like cities as we know them, but it and other mega-sites were the most developed forms of settlement anywhere in the world at that time. They were the urban developments of their age, sheltering huge populations and fostering technological progress like cooking with dairy and making fired pottery (both were major high tech inventions in the Neolithic). Here's where things get weird. In the mid-5000s BCE, Çatalhöyük was suddenly abandoned. The same thing happened to several other outsized village-cities in the Levant. Their populations drained away, and people returned to small village life for thousands of years. Below, you can see a graph showing how the size of settlements dropped dramatically about 7,000 years ago (5000 BCE). Even more mysterious is the fact that we see a similar pattern — intensification of farming, booming population, growing settlements, and abandonment — elsewhere in the world. Farming came later to Western Europe and England, so we see this cycle starting roughly 5,000 years ago (around 3,000 BCE) in many European regions and in England. What happened? http://news.discovery.com/human/life/how-farming-almost-destroyed-ancient-human-civilization-141118.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1

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Researchers have just sequenced the genomes of 17 “supercentarians” -- people over 110 years of age -- and conclude that these long-lived individuals likely have genes that promote longevity, but the fountain of youth component remains elusive so far. The good news, or bad, depending on how you look at it, is that lifestyle choices don’t seem to matter much for those hoping to reach such advanced ages, according to the study, which is published in the latest issue of PLOS ONE. The Oldest Living Things in the World: Photos “Lifestyle choices in terms of smoking, alcohol consumption, exercise, or diet do not appear to differ between centenarians and controls,” wrote Hinco Gierman and colleagues. “Controls” in this case refers to younger people who served as comparisons. That aspect isn’t too surprising, given all of the interviews with people aged 100+ who say they still enjoy a glass of wine, a cigar or other indulgence, although most indicate that they do such things in moderation. Gierman, of the Stanford University Departments of Developmental Biology and Genetics, and his team limited the majority of their analysis to 13 genomes from Caucasian females, just to avoid other major differences that might exist between various genomes. The researchers suspect that super old people may be “enriched for a rare protein-altering variant” or variants that confer extreme longevity. A possibility for the fountain-of-youth source is a gene called TSHZ3. “From our gene-based analysis, the gene showing the most enrichment for protein-altering variants in supercentenarians compared to controls was the TSHZ3 transcription-factor gene,” the researchers wrote. “Because it was the top hit,” they added, “we pursued this gene further in a study consisting of 99 genomes from subjects aged 98–105 years old. We found that TSHZ3 carried protein-altering variants in more of the long-lived subjects than the controls.” The effect wasn’t incredibly strong, though. Instead, the researchers now suspect that multiple genes somehow come into play. An interesting finding is that one of the supercentarians had a disease-associated genetic variant associated with a terrible heart condition. Some people with this pathogenic allele keel over from sudden cardiac death. Clearly that didn’t happen to this woman, who reached a ripe old age. Oldest Human Ancestor Found in Lake Sludge Cancer risk also seems to be lessened for supercentarians. The researchers report that there is a 19 percent lifetime incidence of cancer in the world’s oldest people compared to 49 percent in normal population. The scientists have made their new data available on Google Genomics, so anyone researching longevity can have a go at finding the key, or keys, to a long life. They concluded, “Supercentarians are extremely rare and their genomes could hold secrets for the genetic basis of extreme longevity.” Photo: A 95-year-old Chilean man smiling. Credit: Diego Grez, Flickr http://news.discovery.com/human/genetics/worlds-oldest-people-are-genetically-superior-141112.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1

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Huge stone circles in the Middle East have been imaged from above, revealing details of structures that have been shrouded in mystery for decades. Archaeologists in Jordan have taken high-resolution aerial images of 11 ancient "Big Circles," all but one of which are around 400 meters (1,312 feet) in diameter. Why they are so similar is unknown but the similarity seems "too close to be a coincidence" said researcher David Kennedy. The Big Circles (as archaeologists call them) were built with low stone walls that are no more than a few feet high. The circles originally contained no openings, and people would have had to hop over the walls in order to get inside. [See Aerial Images of the Mysterious Big Circles in the Mideast] Labyrinth Lies Within Mysterious Desert Drawing Their purpose is unknown, and archaeologists are unsure when these structures were built. Analysis of the photographs, as well as artifacts found on the ground, suggest the circles date back at least 2,000 years, but they may be much older. They could even have been constructed in prehistoric times, before writing was invented, scientists say. Though the Big Circles were first spotted by aircraft in the 1920s, little research has focused on these structures, and many scientists are not even aware of their existence, something these archaeologists hope the new aerial images will help to change. The "most important contribution is simply to collect and make known a large group of rather remarkable sites," writes Kennedy, a professor at the University of Western Australia, in an article published recently in the journal Zeitschrift für Orient Archäologie. Top 10 Animal Myths and Mysteries Explained In addition to the 11 photographed circles, researchers have identified another similar circle in Jordan, which appears to have been only partially completed, Kennedy noted. Old satellite imagery also reveals two circles, one in Jordan and another in Syria, which have both been destroyed. The circle in Syria was destroyed within the last decade and the one in Jordan a few decades ago. A separate research team, from Durham University, investigated the Syria circle before it was completely gone. While there are many smaller stone circles in the Middle East, what makes these 11 Big Circles stand out is their large size and ancient age, Kennedy said. Kennedy has been leading the Aerial Archaeology in Jordan Project (AAJ) since 1997 and also co-directs the Aerial Photographic Archive for Archaeology in the Middle East (APAAME). http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/ancient-stone-circles-in-mideast-baffle-archaeologists-141031.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1

A fragment of Amelia Earhart's lost aircraft has been identified to a high degree of certainty for the first time ever since her plane vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937, in a record attempt to fly around the world at the equator. New research strongly suggests that a piece of aluminum aircraft debris recovered in 1991 from Nikumaroro, an uninhabited atoll in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati, does belong to Earhart’s twin-engined Lockheed Electra. According to researchers at The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), which has long been investigating the last, fateful flight taken by Earhart 77 years ago, the aluminum sheet is a patch of metal installed on the Electra during the aviator’s eight-day stay in Miami, which was the fourth stop on her attempt to circumnavigate the globe. PHOTOS: Sonar Possibly Reveals Earhart's Plane The patch replaced a navigational window: A Miami Herald photo shows the Electra departing for San Juan, Puerto Rico on the morning of Tuesday, June 1, 1937 with a shiny patch of metal where the window had been. “The Miami Patch was an expedient field repair," Ric Gillespie, executive director of TIGHAR, told Discovery News. "Its complex fingerprint of dimensions, proportions, materials and rivet patterns was as unique to Earhart’s Electra as a fingerprint is to an individual." TIGHAR researchers went to Wichita Air Services in Newton, Kans., and compared the dimensions and features of the Artifact 2-2-V-1, as the metal sheet found on Nikumaroro was called, with the structural components of a Lockheed Electra being restored to airworthy condition. The rivet pattern and other features on the 19-inch-wide by 23-inch-long Nikumaroro artifact matched the patch and lined up with the structural components of the Lockheed Electra. TIGHAR detailed the finding in a report on its website. BLOG: Amelia Earhart's Disappearance: The Answer in Photos? “This is the first time an artifact found on Nikumaroro has been shown to have a direct link to Amelia Earhart,” Gillespie said. The breakthrough would prove that, contrary to what was generally believed, Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, did not crash in the Pacific Ocean, running out of fuel somewhere near their target destination of Howland Island. Instead, they made a forced landing on Nikumaroro' smooth, flat coral reef. The two became castaways and eventually died on the atoll, which is some 350 miles southeast of Howland Island. http://news.discovery.com/history/us-history/aluminum-fragment-appears-to-belong-to-earharts-plane-141028.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1

Hidden in ice for more than 100 years, the photography notebook of a British explorer on Captain Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition to Antarctica has been found. The book belonged to George Murray Levick, a surgeon, zoologist and photographer on Scott's 1910-1913 voyage. Levick might be best remembered for his observations of Cape Adare's Adélie penguins (and his scandalized descriptions of the birds' "depraved" sex lives). The newly discovered book also shows he kept fastidious notes, scrawled in pencil, about the photographs he took at Cape Adare. Levick's "Wellcome Photographic Exposure Record and Dairy 1910" had been left behind at Captain Scott's last expedition base at Cape Evans. Conservationists discovered the notebook outside the hut during last year's summer melt. [See Photos of the Lost Antarctic Notebook] PHOTOS: 100-Year-Old Negatives Recovered From Antarctica "It's an exciting find," Nigel Watson, executive director of the New Zealand-based Antarctic Heritage Trust, said in a statement. "The notebook is a missing part of the official expedition record. After spending seven years conserving Scott's last expedition building and collection, we are delighted to still be finding new artifacts." The book has notes detailing the date, subjects and exposure details from his photographs. In his notes, Levick refers to a self-portrait he took while shaving in a hut at Cape Adare and shots he took of his fellow crewmembers as they set up theodolites (instruments for surveying) and fish traps and sat in kayaks. PHOTOS: Forgotten Discoveries of Scott's Antarctica Levick was one of six men in Scott's Northern Party, who summered (1911-1912) at Cape Adare and survived the winter of 1912 in a snow cave when their ship was unable to reach them. Levick was not part of the team that accompanied Scott on his doomed quest to be the first to reach the South Pole. After an arduous two-and-a-half month trek, Scott and his crew did make it to the South Pole on Jan. 17, 1912. But they discovered that the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had beat them to it. Scott and his team died on the way back to their base, faced with a blizzard and dwindling supplies. One hundred years of damage from ice and water dissolved the notebook's binding. The pages were separated and digitized before the book was put back together again with new binding and sent back to Antarctica, where the Antarctic Heritage Trust maintains 11,000 artifacts at Cape Evans. Earlier this year, conservationists with the group developed century-old photo negatives left in Scott's base by members of Ernest Shackleton's last Antarctic Expedition. More From LiveScience: Race to the South Pole in Images Image Gallery: Sex Habits of PenguinsScott's Last Expedition: Images From His Doomed South Pole Trek Original article on Live Science. Copyright 2014 LiveScience, a TechMediaNetwork company. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. http://news.discovery.com/history/century-old-notebook-from-antarctic-expedition-found-141024.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1

Tutankhamun’s beautiful golden mask, the embodiment of a man secure in his power, has been flattering the pharaoh for many centuries, according to the most detailed image yet of the teenage king’s face and body. In the flesh, King Tut had a club foot, a pronounced overbite and girlish hips, says a “virtual autopsy” built using more than 2,000 computerized tomography (CT) scans of the pharaoh’s body. Built for the BBC documentary, “Tutankhamun: the Truth Uncovered,” the shocking 3-D computer model could shed new light on the death of the boy pharaoh at the age of 19. King Tut Felled by Malaria, Bone Disease Previous theories suggested King Tut may have died as a result of a chariot accident, but the virtual reconstruction showed a different scenario. “It was important to look at his ability to ride on a chariot and we concluded it would not be possible for him, especially with his partially clubbed foot, as he was unable to stand unaided,” Albert Zink, head of the Institute for Mummies and Icemen in Italy, told the U.K. daily The Independent. According to Ashraf Selim, an Egyptian radiologist, King Tut “also developed Kohler’s disease or death of the bones, during adolescence, which would have been incredibly painful.” King Tut Wore Orthopedic Sandals Indeed, about 130 walking sticks found in King Tut’s treasure-packed tomb would support the theory that the boy pharaoh had to rely on canes to get around. Zink believes the pharaoh’s early death was most likely caused from his weakened state — a result of genetic impairments inherited from his parents, who were siblings. Indeed, in 2010 an international genetic study produced a five-generation pedigree of Tutankhamun’s immediate lineage. In the study, the mummy known as KV55 — most likely the “heretic” Akhenaten — and KV35YL, also known as the Younger Lady, were identified as siblings, as well as King Tut’s parents. King Tut Death by Chariot? Not So Fast The study confirmed the frail king was afflicted by malaria and suffered a badly broken leg, above his knee, just before he died. “It is difficult to say whether malaria may have been a serious factor in the cause of death,” Zink said. The boy pharaoh has been puzzling scientists ever since his mummy and treasure-packed tomb were discovered on Nov. 22, 1922, in the Valley of the Kings by British archaeologist Howard Carter. Weird Facts About King Tut and His Mummy Only a few facts about his life are known. Tut.ankh.Amun, “the living image of Amun,” ascended the throne in 1332 B.C., at the age of 9, and reigned until his death at 19. As the last male in the family, his death ended the 18th dynasty — probably the greatest of the Egyptian royal families — and gave way to military rulers. http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/king-tut-re-creation-presents-a-shocking-image-141020.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1

A 6,000-year-old temple holding human-like figurines and sacrificed animal remains has been discovered within a massive prehistoric settlement in Ukraine. Built before writing was invented, the temple is about 60 by 20 meters (197 by 66 feet) in size. It was a "two-story building made of wood and clay surrounded by a galleried courtyard," the upper floor divided into five rooms, write archaeologists Nataliya Burdo and Mykhailo Videiko in a copy of a presentation they gave recently at the European Association of Archaeologists' annual meeting in Istanbul, Turkey. Photos: The Hunt for Lost Cities Inside the temple, archaeologists found the remains of eight clay platforms, which may have been used as altars, the finds suggested. A platform on the upper floor contains "numerous burnt bones of lamb, associated with sacrifice," write Burdo and Videiko, of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The floors and walls of all five rooms on the upper floor were "decorated by red paint, which created ceremonial atmosphere." [See Photos of the Prehistoric Temple & Animal Remains] The ground floor contains seven additional platforms and a courtyard riddled with animal bones and pottery fragments, the researchers found. Massive settlement The temple, which was first detected in 2009, is located in a prehistoric settlement near modern-day Nebelivka. Recent research using geophysical survey indicates the prehistoric settlement is 238 hectares (588 acres), almost twice the size of the modern-day National Mall in Washington, D.C. It contained more than 1,200 buildings and nearly 50 streets. Skulls From Sacrificial Rituals Found in Temple A number of other prehistoric sites, of similar size, have been found in Ukraine and other parts of Eastern Europe. These sites are sometimes referred to as belonging to the "Trypillian" culture, a modern-day name. The name is derived from the village of Trypillia in Ukraine, where artifacts of this ancient culture were first discovered. Archaeologists found that when this prehistoric settlement was abandoned, its structures, including the newly discovered temple, were burnt down, something that commonly occurred at other Trypillian culture sites. http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/6000-year-old-temple-with-possible-sacrificial-altars-found-141021.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1

The Milky Way may be home to some 3,000 extraterrestrial civilizations

The Milky Way may be home to some 3,000 extraterrestrial civilizations but the vast distances between our galactic cousins will make contact extremely rare, a new study concludes. Data collected by NASA’s Kepler space telescope and other observatories scouting for planets beyond the solar system indicate Earth is one of some 40 billion potentially habitable worlds in the galaxy, with about one new life-friendly planet forming every year, astronomer Michael Garrett, head of the Dutch astronomy research foundation ASTRON, said at the International Astronomical Congress in Toronto. 13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Aliens Sounds promising, until you consider the sheer size of the Milky Way, which spans more than 100,000 light-years in diameter. Light travels at about 186,000 miles per second, but a signal will still take more than 4 years to reach neighboring system Alpha Centauri and 100,000 years to travel from one end of the galaxy to the other. “On average, you’d expect the civilizations to be separated by at least 1,000 light-years in the Milky Way. That’s a large distance, and for communication purposes you need to allow for twice the travel distance, so you’re talking about civilizations that have to be around for at least a few thousand years in order to have the opportunity to talk to each other,” Garrett said. “We don’t really know the time scales in which civilizations persist,” he added. PHOTOS: How Aliens Can Find Us (and Vice Versa) The one example available -- Earth -- indicates that life essentially developed as soon as the conditions were right, but intelligent life arose comparatively late. “It’s really just essentially in the last few minutes of the overall evolution of life on the planet," Garrett said. "I don’t want to be too negative about this, but ... my basic conclusion is that SETI signals will be rare in the Milky Way." That doesn’t mean astronomers shouldn’t look, he added. Quite the contrary, given the huge technological leaps in radio astronomy and in data processing techniques compared to what was available for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, programs 60 years ago. NEWS: Alien Life Discovery Could Happen Within 20 Years SETI also is benefitting from sister radio astronomy projects, such as the ongoing quest to find the source of mysterious transient radio bursts. “SETI is not easy, but it’s a pursuit that is well worth doing. The question is so important,” Garrett said. “Everyone is interested, not just scientists and space enthusiasts. People in the street are interested to know what else is out there.” http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/aliens-may-be-out-there-but-too-distant-for-contact-141002.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1

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What do you do when you're fishing and bring up a creature that looks like a Greek mythology nightmare or a giant clump of onion wrings writhing indepently of each other? This being the Internet age, you make a video. VIDEO: Real Life Sea Monsters That's what Ong Han Boon, fishing in Singapore off the island of Sentosa, did. (Not to fear, mystery-creature lovers; he released it back into the water.) The fisherman posted the footage on social media, hoping someone would know what he'd caught. Over time, its identity emerged. Sad to say, it was not a new species or something left here by aliens centuries ago. Instead, it turned out to be a basket star -- a group of brittle relatives of the starfish. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), basket stars are multi-armed invertebrates that can grow up to 3 feet long. Their favorite meal is a helping of zooplankton, and they know how to regenerate limbs that have broken off or been sacrificed in a fight with a predator. NOAA features another up close and personal of this twisty, gnarly creature here. Hat tip New York Post, NOAA, USA Today http://news.discovery.com/animals/mystery-mini-kraken-hauled-in-from-the-deep-141016.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1

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Time capsule found in lion head at Boston's Old State House

From USA TODAY Time capsule found in lion head at Boston's Old State House What treasures could be inside? The Bostonian Society, which operates a museum at the Old State House, said sometime next week it hopes to open a time capsule from 1901 placed in the head of a copper statue of a lion that has stood atop the building. It's planning to replace what's inside the capsule with something new. The society confirmed this week the long-standing rumor that there was a time capsule inside the iconic lion. The lion and a unicorn have been perched above Washington Street in Boston for more than a hundred years. The lion was recently taken down from the rooftop for maintenance. Sculptor Robert Shure of Skylight Studios, who is in charge of restoring the statues, found the time capsule Monday, according to Heather Leet, spokeswoman for the society, the Boston Globe reports. http://usat.ly/1stkOAY Get USA TODAY on your mobile device: http://www.usatoday.com/mobile-apps

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Sir John Franklin’s Doomed Ship Just Turned Up in the Arctic After 170 Years.

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From USA TODAY Solar storm heading for Earth A solar flare that launched off the sun Wednesday afternoon could wreak havoc with communications systems and power systems on the Earth, as well as with satellites in orbit, in coming days. Forecasters with NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center said the flare already "caused impacts to high-frequency radio communications on Earth today," according to NOAA. "A coronal mass ejection (CME) associated with this event is likely, but further analysis is necessary to determine whether it will produce geomagnetic storming on Earth." A coronal mass ejection contains billions of tons of energetic hydrogen and helium ions as well as protons and electrons ejected from the sun's surface. http://usat.ly/1rX5vjJ Get USA TODAY on your mobile device: http://www.usatoday.com/mobile-apps

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New 'massive' dinosaur skeleton discovered

From USA TODAY New 'massive' dinosaur skeleton discovered It stood two stories high at the shoulder. Its tail was almost as long as a city bus. And it tipped the scales at some 65 tons – heavier than a fully loaded semi-truck. Meet Dreadnoughtus schrani, a newly discovered dinosaur and one of the most massive land animals of all time. And it's not just a heavyweight. Never before has anyone found so many representative pieces of a super-large dinosaur. Other enormous dinosaurs are known from a few fragments of bone, but the recently unearthed remains of Dreadnoughtus are so complete and so beautifully preserved that they will provide unprecedented insight into how giant dinosaurs were related to each other, how fast they grew and how something so heavy lugged itself around. http://usat.ly/1rOb5Fb Get USA TODAY on your mobile device: http://www.usatoday.com/mobile-apps

Scientists Send Messages Directly From One Brain To Another.

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Neanderthal Carvings in a Gibraltar Cave Reveal Some of Europe's Oldest Known Artwork.

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Smithsonian.com: Ghostly Neutrinos Created in the Heart of the Sun Are Finally Detected.

Smithsonian.com: Ghostly Neutrinos Created in the Heart of the Sun Are Finally Detected. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwr4D1sx8

How To Rewire Your Brain For Greater Happiness.

Fast Company: How To Rewire Your Brain For Greater Happiness. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwionByRo

Is Genius Born Or Bred?

Fast Company: Is Genius Born Or Bred? Khan Academy Weighs In. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwr76dyRo

Why An Anti To-Do List Might Be The Secret To Productivity.

Fast Company: Why An Anti To-Do List Might Be The Secret To Productivity. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwsfWOyRo

3 Reasons You Should Let Yourself Get Distracted.

Fast Company: 3 Reasons You Should Let Yourself Get Distracted. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw556Dsx8

School shouldn’t start so early in the morning!

Salon: Doctors agree: School shouldn’t start so early in the morning! http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwyqr2rR8

The Psychology of Writing and the Cognitive Science of the Perfect Daily Routine.

Brain Pickings: The Psychology of Writing and the Cognitive Science of the Perfect Daily Routine. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw3O7VyBo

Your Guide to the Three Weeks of 1814 That We Today Call the War of 1812

Smithsonian.com: Your Guide to the Three Weeks of 1814 That We Today Call the War of 1812. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwlt67sh8

9-strangest-sights-on-google

http://a8.ahfunny.com/stories/science/9-strangest-sights-on-google-maps?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=referral

'Thigh bone' on Mars? NASA explains an unusual find.

CNET: 'Thigh bone' on Mars? NASA explains an unusual find. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwl6PErR8

The Big Picture: Neptune's largest moon, Triton.

Engadget: The Big Picture: Neptune's largest moon, Triton. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwkuDyxxo

Is it a plane? No, it's a hoverbike

From USA TODAY Is it a plane? No, it's a hoverbike U.K.-based Malloy Aeronautics is preparing to test a manned quadcopter capable of out-maneuvering a helicopter and presenting a new paradigm for aerial vehicles. A 1/3-sized scale model is already gaining popularity with drone enthusiasts. Watch the video to see how it works. http://usat.ly/1oZsKYf Get USA TODAY on your mobile device: http://www.usatoday.com/mobile-apps

Dunkin' Donuts And Starbucks: A Tale Of Two Coffee Marketing Giants.

Fast Company: Dunkin' Donuts And Starbucks: A Tale Of Two Coffee Marketing Giants. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw-KvXsh8

10 truly bizarre Victorian deaths

http://m.bbc.com/news/magazine-25340525

Newly-Discovered Pea-Sized Part of Your Brain May Play a Big Role in Depression.

NOVA: Newly-Discovered Pea-Sized Part of Your Brain May Play a Big Role in Depression. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwjPiEwho

Seals May Have Given Ancient Peruvians Tuberculosis Long Before European Contact.

NOVA: Seals May Have Given Ancient Peruvians Tuberculosis Long Before European Contact. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwqdW9sh8

The Invention of the “Snapshot” Changed the Way We Viewed the World.

Smithsonian.com: The Invention of the “Snapshot” Changed the Way We Viewed the World. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwgP6_sh8

What Lies Beneath Stonehenge?

Smithsonian.com: What Lies Beneath Stonehenge? http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwgf6_sh8

How Turning My To-Dos Into a Story Boosted My Memory and Motivation

Lifehacker: How Turning My To-Dos Into a Story Boosted My Memory and Motivation. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw952DyBo

As governments invade privacy, tools for encryption grow more popular

PBS: As governments invade privacy, tools for encryption grow more popular. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwvbD4xxo

Jellyfish-like creatures washing up on West Coast

From USA TODAY Jellyfish-like creatures washing up on West Coast Ocean-goers up and down the West Coast have spent weeks photographing thousands of mysterious sea creatures washing up on seashores from Washington to California, reports CNN. Called Velella velella, or "by-the-wind sailors," the silver-purple sea creatures that vaguely resemble jellyfish are typically found well out in the ocean, but experts say not to worry, unusually strong winds are the likely culprit, the Los Angeles Times reported in an earlier story. "I'm very excited to see how interested people have been with it," one expert tells the New York Daily News. "It's a great example of the fact that the ocean is 95% unexplored." The first sightings this summer were up in Washington and Oregon, but now that they're appearing on more populated shores in California, they're also making quite a splash on Twitter, reports the Latino Post. http://usat.ly/VLaQeT Get USA TODAY on your mobile device: http://www.usatoday.com/mobile-apps

pure-genius-how-dean-kamens-invention-could-bring-clean-water-millions

http://www.popsci.com/article/science/pure-genius-how-dean-kamens-invention-could-bring-clean-water-millions?src=related&con=outbrain&obref=obinsite

nasa-sponsored-study-warns-possible-collapse-civilization

http://www.popsci.com/article/science/nasa-sponsored-study-warns-possible-collapse-civilization?src=related&con=outbrain&obref=obinsite

5-phenomena-science-has-yet-fully-explain?s

http://www.popsci.com/article/science/5-phenomena-science-has-yet-fully-explain?src=related&con=outbrain&obref=obinsite

Popular Science: The Rise of Crypto Technology.

Popular Science: The Rise of Crypto Technology. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwu-jgsB8

Google Can Now Delete Your Past -- But How Much Should Be Erased?

Popular Science: Google Can Now Delete Your Past -- But How Much Should Be Erased? http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw9vjwsR8

Extreme Drought Is Causing Land In The Western U.S. To Rise Upward.

Popular Science: Extreme Drought Is Causing Land In The Western U.S. To Rise Upward. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwie7Rxxo

The World Is A Horrible Place So Let's Go To The Most Remote Locations On Earth.

BuzzFeed: The World Is A Horrible Place So Let's Go To The Most Remote Locations On Earth. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw4uiosh8

Superhero Science: Marvel Comics Gets Inside the Heads of the Avengers.

Scientific American Reader: Superhero Science: Marvel Comics Gets Inside the Heads of the Avengers. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwuYy2xxo

Sharks Were Once Called Sea Dogs,

Smithsonian.com: Sharks Were Once Called Sea Dogs, And Other Little-Known Facts. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwxILVqx8

Smithsonian.com: Which General Was Better? Ulysses S. Grant or Robert E. Lee?

Smithsonian.com: Which General Was Better? Ulysses S. Grant or Robert E. Lee? http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw0vD9xRo

Smithsonian.com: 200-Year-Old Alcohol Found in Shipwreck Is Still Drinkable.

Smithsonian.com: 200-Year-Old Alcohol Found in Shipwreck Is Still Drinkable. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwrIfhrB8

Inspire Me Today: Treat all others as if the entire world were watching your actions.

Inspire Me Today: Treat all others as if the entire world were watching your actions. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw5PSZrR8

Popular Science: How The Panama Canal Changed The Shape Of War.

Popular Science: How The Panama Canal Changed The Shape Of War. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwuoidxxo

Lifehacker: Relabel Your Negative Emotions to Better Handle Pressure.

Lifehacker: Relabel Your Negative Emotions to Better Handle Pressure. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwotL0xho

Lifehacker: Switch Recommends a Coding Career for You and Matches You to Courses

Lifehacker: Switch Recommends a Coding Career for You and Matches You to Courses. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwgK-Jsh8

The Science of Depression

The Science of Depression: http://youtu.be/GOK1tKFFIQI

NOVA: There Is No Now.

NOVA: There Is No Now. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw2tS0uRo

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/04/hunter-s-thomspon-letters-of-note-advice/

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/04/hunter-s-thomspon-letters-of-note-advice/

Gizmodo: The Panama Canal Is 100 Years Old, Just In Time for Its Makeover.

Gizmodo: The Panama Canal Is 100 Years Old, Just In Time for Its Makeover. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwktq5sR8

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http://www.popsci.com/gallery/science/pushing-our-limits?image=1&dom=PSC&loc=recent&lnk=1&con=next

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http://www.therichest.com/expensive-lifestyle/entertainment/8-banned-horror-movies-thatll-give-you-nightmares/?utm_source=OTM-US-CA&utm_medium=Content-Distribution&utm_campaign=OTM-US-CA

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http://www.sengifted.org/archives/articles/how-to-charm-gifted-adults-into-admitting-giftedness-their-own-and-somebody-else%E2%80%99s

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http://m.newser.com/story/192383/greeks-unearth-biggest-ancient-tomb.html

From USA TODAY Why are people left-handed?

From USA TODAY Why are people left-handed? There's no right answer Raise your hand if you're a lefty! Aug. 13 marks the 22nd annual International Left-Handers Day, an event that celebrates the uniqueness of left-handed people. Why are people left-handed? Roughly 10% of the population primarily use their left hand. This happens because the brain is divided into two hemispheres. The right side of the brain controls movement on the left side of the body and vice versa. But why humans develop "handedness," or a preference for one side over the other, is still somewhat a mystery. Because left-handedness tends to run in families, scientists believed for years that handedness was linked to a gene, but could not identify the exact one, according to The New York Times. http://usat.ly/1ouf7Ab Get USA TODAY on your mobile device: http://www.usatoday.com/mobile-apps

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http://geektyrant.com/news/13-fun-facts-about-army-of-darkness

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the-7-most-terrifying-archaeological-discoveries

http://www.cracked.com/article_19837_the-7-most-terrifying-archaeological-discoveries.html

Forbes Now: Thousands Of People Oblivious To Fact That Anyone On The Internet Can Access Their Computers.

Forbes Now: Thousands Of People Oblivious To Fact That Anyone On The Internet Can Access Their Computers. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwj_P9qx8

Men's Health: The 5-Second Pushup That Boosts Upper-Body Strength.

Men's Health: The 5-Second Pushup That Boosts Upper-Body Strength. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwxcn4qx8

Hack scratch tickets? Yeah, someone did exactly that.....

http://www.wired.com/2011/01/ff_lottery/all/1

Mental Floss: 11 Historical Artifacts You Can Own...For A Price.

Mental Floss: 11 Historical Artifacts You Can Own...For A Price. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwo8qcxRo

Mental Floss: 4 Photos of the Aftermath of a Nevada A-Bomb Test.

Mental Floss: 4 Photos of the Aftermath of a Nevada A-Bomb Test. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwiN7rsB8

Brain Pickings: A Guide for the Perplexed: Mapping the Meaning of Life and the Four Levels of Being.

Brain Pickings: A Guide for the Perplexed: Mapping the Meaning of Life and the Four Levels of Being. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwp9i7qh8

Engadget: NASA says lunar caves could provide living spaces for future astronauts.

Engadget: NASA says lunar caves could provide living spaces for future astronauts. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwuO_0vho

Engadget: Watch the Rosetta spacecraft rendezvous with a comet at 4:00AM ET.

Engadget: Watch the Rosetta spacecraft rendezvous with a comet at 4:00AM ET. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwocDMqh8

robots-retinas-9-amazing-origami-applications

http://www.popsci.com/article/science/robots-retinas-9-amazing-origami-applications?cmpid=currents

Smithsonian.com: The Secret Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln Before the Civil War.

Smithsonian.com: The Secret Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln Before the Civil War. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwh4anwBo

Smithsonian.com: The Big Mystery Behind the Great Train Robbery May Finally Have Been Solved.

Smithsonian.com: The Big Mystery Behind the Great Train Robbery May Finally Have Been Solved. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw2-vEox8

Smithsonian.com: Evidence Shows Neanderthals Ate Birds.

Smithsonian.com: Evidence Shows Neanderthals Ate Birds. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw06eWpx8

Watch Video From NASA’s "Flying Saucer" Test.

Smithsonian.com: Watch Video From NASA’s "Flying Saucer" Test. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwkI3FsB8

BuzzFeed: This Is What The Internet Looks Like Without Facebook.

BuzzFeed: This Is What The Internet Looks Like Without Facebook. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw84Gaph8

Lifehacker: ​Set Yourself Absurdly Low Goals to Kickstart a Project.

Lifehacker: ​Set Yourself Absurdly Low Goals to Kickstart a Project. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwvObGxBo

Lifehacker: How (and Why) to Develop Your Mental Toughness.

Lifehacker: How (and Why) to Develop Your Mental Toughness. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwkfiVxRo

Lifehacker: ​Design Your Ideal Schedule to Take Control Of Your Time.

Lifehacker: ​Design Your Ideal Schedule to Take Control Of Your Time. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw3PK9qx8

5 Bar Tricks You Can Do With Science.

Popular Science: 5 Bar Tricks You Can Do With Science. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwr7GcnRo

Why-your-brain-is-hooked-on-being-right-and-what-you-can-do-about-it

http://lifehacker.com/5989656/why-your-brain-is-hooked-on-being-right-and-what-you-can-do-about-it

Galapagos Scientists May Have Witnessed The Birth Of A New Species.

Popular Science: Galapagos Scientists May Have Witnessed The Birth Of A New Species. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwjqq8ph8

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http://io9.com/5896262/the-last-mammoths-died-out-just-3600-years-agobut-they-should-have-survived

Sounds of the universe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MmWeZHsQzs

Popular Science: The 10 Best Things From August 2014

Popular Science: The 10 Best Things From August 2014. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw2eaoqh8

Mental Floss: Where Did The Ampersand Symbol Come From?

Mental Floss: Where Did The Ampersand Symbol Come From? http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwmoHDqh8

Scientific American Reader: How Can Galaxies Move Faster than the Speed of Light?

Scientific American Reader: How Can Galaxies Move Faster than the Speed of Light? http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw1e6Grxo

Things I learned as a child that are helping me now........

Things I learned as a child that are helping me now........

1. Making friends is sometimes as easy as walking up to them and asking them to play.
2. Sticking a knife in the toaster is never a good idea.....seriously.....
3. Even the funnest things are almost always better with a friend.
4. Peanut butter and jelly is always a good lunch.
5. When you have a birthday, always invite bunches of friends and have cake.
6. Playing outside can always be an adventure if you let it.
7. When you fall and hurt yourself (metaphorically or literally) a kiss or a kind word from someone that you love always makes it feel better.
8. Eating candy corns until you feel sick is a yearly Halloween tradition and that's okay.  If not, you would want to eat them all year...... especially the pumpkin shaped ones......
9. Always be wary of strangers offering free things.  
10. Saying "please" and "thank you" is always a good thing.

25 Incredible Optical Illusions

25 Incredible Optical Illusions
http://www.stumbleupon.com/to/s/9CcM5X

Smithsonian.com: Why the Dinosaurs Could Have Had a Chance of Surviving the Asteroid Strike

Smithsonian.com: Why the Dinosaurs Could Have Had a Chance of Surviving the Asteroid Strike. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwmcLWwRo

AOL Article - Nasa reveals Earth came close to catastrophe after massive solar flare

http://m.article.aol.co.uk/article/2014/07/24/nasa-reveals-earth-came-close-to-sun-catastrophe/20936509/

21 Jokes So Clever You Probably Won't Understand Them

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10-Terrifying-True-Stories-Deserve-Horror-Movie-Adaptations

http://www.cinemablend.com/m/new/10-Terrifying-True-Stories-Deserve-Horror-Movie-Adaptations-40046-p4.html

http://swaring.co/2014/05/20/38-maps-didnt-teach-school/

My Angel's Gone To Hell Ron Forbis: http://youtu.be/umR29YZPD20

24 Statements That Get More True The Longer You Think About Them

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67 Important Lessons “Seinfeld” Taught You About Life http://bzfd.it/SraLf4

18 Ingenious Internet Tricks You Didn't Know Existed http://bzfd.it/1uJIf7t

33 Amazingly Useful Websites You Never Knew Existed

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicaprobus/33-amazingly-useful-websites-you-never-knew-existed?s=mobile

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IMDb The 13th Warrior (1999) - Quotes - IMDb

IMDb The 13th Warrior (1999) - Quotes - IMDb

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120657/quotes?qt=qt0291589

Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: How can you sleep at a time like this?
Herger the Joyous: The All-Father wove the skein of your life a long time ago. Go and hide in a hole if you wish, but you won't live one instant longer. Your fate is fixed. Fear profits a man nothing.

Dr. Jeremy Lovely

7 Unsolved Murder Mysteries To Keep You Up At Night

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These Intriguing Photos From The 1860s Show A Paris That No Longer Exists http://bzfd.it/1fIImoH

38 Pictures Of Benedict Cumberbatch Photobombing Things

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Good food

5 Cheap And Delicious Dinners To Make This Week http://bzfd.it/1eGQudF

http://gakuran.com/ama-the-pearl-diving-mermaids-of-japan/#!

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Want to Help Make Other People Feel Smart? A Menu of Options

Check this out:
Want to Help Make Other People Feel Smart? A Menu of Options

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140228115720-6526187-how-want-to-help-make-other-people-feel-smart-a-menu-of-options
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33 Times Jake The Dog Was Your Spirit Animal

33 Times Jake The Dog Was Your Spirit Animal http://bzfd.it/1emyfKi

Dr. Jeremy Lovely

Richard Feynman on the Meaning of Life | Brain Pickings

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/08/08/richard-feynman-on-the-meaning-of-life/

Dr. Jeremy Lovely

Amazing upcycled products!!!

http://www.viralnova.com/upcycled-products/

Interesting

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4734678/

4 Steps For Building A Great LinkedIn Profile | CAREEREALISM

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4 Steps For Building A Great LinkedIn Profile | CAREEREALISM

http://ow.ly/tHvJA
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A Pixar Artist Drew Classic R-Rated Film Scenes And Turned Them Into A "Children's" Book

A Pixar Artist Drew Classic R-Rated Film Scenes And Turned Them Into A "Children's" Book http://bzfd.it/1jurndW

Earliest Human Footprints Outside Africa Found in Britain : Discovery News

http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/earliest-human-footprints-outside-africa-found-in-britain-140207.htm?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=DNews&utm_campaign=DNewsSocial

"Jack-of-all-Trades" Needs A Little Career Luck From AOL

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"Jack-of-all-Trades" Needs A Little Career Luck From AOL

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The Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale - Stress Management from MindTools.com

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTCS_82.htm

Dr. Jeremy Lovely

The Ego and the Universe: Alan Watts on Becoming Who You Really Are | Brain Pickings

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/01/27/alan-watts-taboo/

Dr. Jeremy Lovely

Cover Letter No-No's (What Kills the Chances of Yours Getting Read)

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Cover Letter No-No's (What Kills the Chances of Yours Getting Read)

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5 Facts Everyone Gets Wrong About Depression | Cracked.com

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-facts-everyone-gets-wrong-about-depression/

Dr. Jeremy Lovely

10 Ab Exercises

http://askmen.com/top_10/fitness/10-ab-exercises.html

Dr. Jeremy Lovely

How Bill Gates Learned To Stop Worrying About Corruption | BuzzFeed

http://www.buzzfeed.com/regajha/how-bill-gates-learned-to-stop-worrying-about-corruption

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Benjamin Franklin Thought Everyone Should Possess These 13 Virtues

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Benjamin Franklin Thought Everyone Should Possess These 13 Virtues

http://www.businessinsider.com/benjamin-franklin-13-virtues-of-success-2014-1
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Find Unadvertised Job Openings with a Clever Google Search

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