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POPSArdi Oldest Human Ancestor n it's Female :D Nicknamed Ardi, the 4.4 millionyear-old female partial skeleton, Ardipithecus ramidus,was discovered in the Ethiopia in 1994. It took a team of 47 international scientists approximately 15 years to piece together her fragile remains in order to reveal her significance. Some of the questions answered by studying Ardi include how hominids became bipedal (walk on two feet) and revealing the first evolutionary steps taken by our ancestors after humans diverged from a common ancestor we once shared with chimpanzees http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/ardipithecus/ardipithecus.html
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POPSStates Of Consciousness The third state of consciousness is being awake. This is the state most of us are in most of the time. Measurable brain activity during the waking state of consciousness is quite different when compared with brain activity during both sleep and dreaming. The fourth state of consciousness occurs when we actually glimpse the soul, when we transcend, when we become, even for a fraction of a moment, absolutely still and quiet and become aware of the observer inside us. This state of consciousness occurs during meditation, when we experience the gap, that quiet moment between our thoughts. The fifth state is called cosmic consciousness, the sixth state divine consciousness, and the seventh state unity consciousness. Adapted from The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire, by Deepak Chopra (Three Rivers Press).
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POPS35 years behind bars for having bushy sideburns
These are the kind of stories that demonstration how broken and totally unfair our justice system is. Anyone with a couple of "thinking" brain cells would realize that when it comes to human existence, right vs. wrong is not an exact science. Human emotion always trumps common sense if laws aren't there to intervene. This is a good reason why the DEATH PENALTY should be abolished. Many western societies who have advanced so beyond the mentality of the USA in sophistication have long understood this. I love my country but too many Americans who also profess love for this country will at the drop of a hat bark, HANG EM or OFF WITH HIS HEAD, and follow through if they could because of an naive notion that ONE SIZE FITS ALL. In other words, if you don't look like them, act like them, "think" (I use that term loosely) like them, they will refer to your ubiquity as alien and not deserving the rights they enjoy. Ignorance is not bliss! http://www.thethinkingblue.com/family/BOSTONLEGAL.html
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POPSWhy antidepressants don't work for so many people More: The biochemical events that ultimately result in depression actually start in the development and functioning of neurons. "The medications have been focusing on the effect, not the cause," she said. "That's why it takes so long for them to work and why they aren't effective for so many people." Her animal model of depression did not show dramatic differences in the levels of genes controlling neurotransmitters functions. "If depression was related to neurotransmitter activity, we would have seen that," she said. Her findings in depressed rats, she said, are very likely applicable to humans. "The similarities between these regions of the human and rodent brain are remarkable," Redei explained. "The hippocampus and amygdala are part of the so-called ancient lizard brain that controls survival and are the same in even primitive organisms."
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POPSWhiskerology - Rodents don't see too well, but they have amazing navigation abilities through their very sensitive whiskers.
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POPSIsn't This An Oxymoron? Evolving - Shrinking, Evolving- Shrinking..? Hmmm... Gives a new meaning to "if you don't use it- you'll lose it."
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POPSStudy backs theory Hobbit was distinct species While some scientists have argued the hobbit's head was unusually small because she suffered from a disease, Dr Jungers and Dr Baab found no resemblance between her brain shape and that of modern humans with abnormally small heads.
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POPSAre you clever? Are your rational? The human being is supposed to be an animal capable of rational thinking, however this kind of thinking seems more rare than a priori expected. That's why people with high IQs may act foolishly. IQ tests may measure the brain capacity of thought, but not the use of it people do. The key is not how much can you think, but how rational are your thoughts, how much are you getting from your brain. This is highly related with fallacies and so many things that I'm not going to enumerate them all but let you draw your own conclusions. I can foresee I will be referring to this article for years in debates.
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POPSPart ONE: Whats WRONG with AMERICA
H is for Health insurance (or lack thereof) – Just another financial scam to enslave Americans in a medical police state while denying them access to real health services. I is for Intellectual Property laws – Corporations already own patents on 20% of the human genome, including your genes. J is for Junk food – Is it junk? Or is it food? It looks like food, but nourishes like junk. Let’s all eat some more… K is for Krispy Kreme doughnuts – Because as long as we’re all gonna be clinically obese, we might as well die with a smile on our faces and donut powder on our lips. L is for corporate Lies – Just when you thought they ran out of ‘em, they miraculously come up with new ones. (http://www.naturalnews.com/027483_S…) M is for Mainstream Media and Mammograms – The Mainstream Media pushes mammograms, a brilliant technology for causing breast cancer and heart damage. N is for National debt – It’ll never be paid off, but it’s fun to watch it expand. I wonder what happens
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POPSMemento Memory is often thought to be formed by modifications in neural connections in our brain. However, evidence suggests that there are three types of memory: long term memory, short term memory and working memory. It is hard that structural changes may occur for the formation of short term memory and it is completely impossible for working memory. Speculation: working memory is probably due to neural excitation, and if I recall correctly the number of items that memory may contain is the 'magical' 7 2.
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POPSMaster numbers and the 11:11
this was a post from EL on Messengers of Spirit.ning.com (a wonderful network of spiritual peeps!) Master numbers and the 11:11 Everything on earth is defined by a numerical configuration. All life can be reduced and explained by numbers. The currents of these numerical sequences bring into alignment a series of new understandings that will help to adjust and balance every human. The numbers on all levels align the body so it will be able to handle the higher definitions of photon light that is making its self known. Each number infusion is personalized to fit the needs of each individual. Allowing them the necessary ratio of light particles to numerical particles. As the brain adjusts to these new energies a lifting occurs allowing the individual to exit the human/animal ratio and be lifted into the human/light equation Numbers and humans go hand in hand. From the beginning of time known we have been defined by a numerical equation whether age, birth date, weight, or the number