NASA scientists, the energy centers of the Earth

Scientists are one of the units identified NASA places on earth that have the greatest impact on human energy. In Ukraine - Koktebel. A topped the list of the American Grand Canyon and Yellowstone International Biosphere Reserve.
"The light of positive" as the Old Town in Prague, the Montmartre hill in Paris and the area around St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, says TSN.
"It is remarkable that in the list of the most favorable places entered our territory - the famous arboretum" Sofiyivka "Synevir Lake and Reserve" Askania Nova. "But the real power center in Ukraine, according to the Americans, is the settlement Koktebel in the Crimea. It literally glows in satellite images - and the reason is that the extinct volcano Karadag, which was built at the foot of the village, has a strong positive energy "- the newspaper notes.
For millennia, Koktebel attracted settlers here lived the Scythians, Sarmatians, Greeks, Romans, Slavs and Tatars. In ancient sources mention Afineon village, which was in the area of ​​modern Koktebel. And during the early Middle Ages, there existed an ancient city and Possidima Kallitra.
It is no accident supporters esoteric teachings of various countries consider Koktebel pilgrimage. Here come the yoga, Buddhist Qigong fans who have long felt that this is where you can get a powerful boost of energy.
"The energy of the volcano affects not only people, but also to plants. Around the reserve Karadag found more than 300 species of plants, some of them do not grow anywhere else in the world. Koktebel A grape has its own unique color and flavor unique to this region. Remains amphorae show that wine in Koktebel did the ancient Greeks, "- says the publication.

?Is there life in the stratosphere

And if so, what kind? How to cope with the low temperatures and cosmic radiation? Who lives on the edge of space? That is - who else, except for pilots and divers rare in the sky? To this question and prepared to answer one of the employees of NASA.
If we try to imagine the conditions suitable for life, the stratosphere comes to mind is not right: high, dry, cold. This atmospheric layer lies over the site where the weather is formed, that is, at an altitude of 10-50 km above the Earth. Average temperature in the lower part of -56 ˚ C, and the jet stream blowing at a speed of 160 km / h Atmospheric density at least 10% of that at sea level. Oxygen is in the form of ozone, which covers everything below it, UV space, but above it (ie, above 32 km) there is no defense.
The perfect place to search for living organisms, is not it? Yes, I'm sure biologist David Smith of the University of Washington (USA), where you can find germs almost all domains.The moon through the upper atmosphere. The picture was taken in December 2003 from the International Space Station.
Mr. Smith engaged in the project Space Center. Kennedy "Microorganisms in the Stratosphere» (Microorganisms in the Stratosphere, MIST), which aims to census living at an altitude of several thousand feet above the Earth. With tall meteosharov and samples taken at the volcano observatory Batchelor (Oregon), researchers are going to make it clear where is the border of the biosphere. Reports that microorganisms are able to survive at altitudes up to 77 km, comes from the 1930's, but Mr. Smith does not meet the reliability of the old data. Perhaps microbes were recorded at high altitude by scientific equipment. "The articles of that time says nothing about sterilization" - emphasizes the expert. Some researchers suggest that the observed life forms were recorded from space, but Mr. Smith is sure of their earthly origin. Most of them - bacterial spores that is extremely resistant organisms with a protective coating that is able to move and low temperature, and dry, and high levels of radiation. Most likely, they go throw dust storms and hurricanes, and then they fly around the world. Going down and finding the right conditions, the debate alive.
Information on who and how to live in the stratosphere, will shed light on the ability of organisms to survive in a monstrously difficult conditions on other planets, especially Mars. It will be interesting to look at and what changes and genetic mutations may have germs on high altitude, especially on the other side of the ozone layer.

Future technologies - energy caus

For modern humanity is time that should be completely new technologies and methods of production of electrical energy. Not giving prospects, fuel energy should disappear. To make a qualitative leap in the field of energy, it is necessary to give up many misconceptions that abides by modern science.
Our long shots can cause an ironic smile at professionals physicists. Such skepticism, however, does not diminish our confidence in the correctness of the chosen path. Development of new technologies for extracting energy is, in fact, a revival of the lost knowledge of ancient civilization. Embracing vision helps to notice the effect of one of the law everywhere. Unfortunately, such a vision is not in the scientific community as well as an extension of the revolutionary ideas that are contrary to "fundamental" principles of science, has implications for their authors. Modern scholars are in heavy dependence on funding for fear of losing prestige and privilege, and being branded insane. Modern science behind the service of the government and military industry itself has practically exhausted. It is not able to invent a technology that would change humanity for the better. This is the opinion of many people, made a discovery outside academia. It is under the hood of special state and military, as well as secret societies, pursuing their own nefarious purposes. All discoveries instantly become their property and traded greedy patent holders, which creates conditions for stagnation.
The new technology of energy should be available to everyone. Development until it in the bud. Created a background that will be useful to many inventors, able to embody it. So we decided to put their suspicions in the public domain on the Internet. So it would be impossible to accurately locate the information. Such a move would allow a huge number of free researchers to join the work.
Huge interest are appearing daily in the fields in different parts of the planet giant circles and images. Drawings occur not only in the fields, but also in the snow. They are also found in the Nazca desert. So far there is no official version of their origin and semantic content. We're pretty pessimistic of all kinds of mysticism, the search're solely out of vital practical utility of things.
We believe that the circles are of practical value. They contain important information for the people. Technology application of such figures is full of mysteries and suggestive of an extraterrestrial origin of them.
Recently became available many certificates paleocontacts distant past and the technologies that once existed on Earth. Most unexplained science artifacts hidden in the archives of museums and waiting in the wings. Findings seem inexplicable only in terms of conventional science. Unitalogiya also allows them to see details of machines and mechanisms, production of electricity from the air.
Drawings in the margins can be classified into groups.A significant part belongs to the graphics of algebraic functions. For example, in the figure above ("Koch snowflake") - is a fractal, which is described by a mathematical expression. This group may include images of plane curves: hypocycloid epicycloid epitrohoid, including Lissajous figures, and surface features. For mathematicians and amateur programmers "fractal fun" is not difficult to decipher easily the group circles. In our opinion, they all have a precise picture of wave propagation in spherical objects that examines unitalogiya. The universe is filled entirely with such objects. The authors show us your drawings of knowledge not only in mathematics, but in the sphere of knowledge of the wave nature of the universe, as it is the basis for their technology. Wave physics - is the main motive of all drawings.
Everything points to the great importance they attach to the waves and resonance. If we pay attention to it, we will open the secret of their technologies, which are used even in the way of image. According to him it is clear that the authors in their lives apply knowledge of electromagnetic induction interference formation of caustics, the Doppler effect and other phenomena associated with the wave and resonance.
Many images are fractals. If they found a place among the other pictures, you need to believe that the fractal geometry defines the worldview of representatives of extraterrestrial race. This is a demonstration of the level of the mind and its relationship to life, involves a deep understanding of the origins and development of matter. Images of fractals emphasizes the significance of this area of ​​knowledge and is directly related to the technology of fractal algorithms to the principle of creating an environment of man. We point to the "live" way of getting electricity, where the charge increases with the evolution of the fractal. We believe that this is just the most important secret lies highly civilized technologies. This technology would enable us not only to unlimited electricity, but also harmonized to human environment, a streamlined flow of energy. In the future, it would be beneficial impact on the health and life expectancy. It would open unprecedented prospects for humanity to create the perfect environment, eliminating dissonance race of people with other forms of life on Earth and in the universe. When we are with these technologies, the authors of "community" can get in contact with us and open up new horizons of knowledge of the universe.
Another group of drawings contains images of insects and sea creatures. Perhaps we should pay attention to the structure of their bodies, as the material forms to implement the movement in space. So, for example bug or dragonfly wings have a structure in the form of structures that transform sound waves, which they broadcast (hum), the electromagnetic. For insects, it is necessary that the body was created around the discharged area, the same as that of levitating vehicles (UFOs), which helps to maneuver and to continually replenish energy reserves.
Do jellyfish also exists a need for a depleted region, because they have to overcome a lot of pressure of water. It is also important body shape, composition and location of living tissue organs.
We were surprised by the fact that modern science is very similar to creating a new type of energy. Just lightly change the vector of attention to the long-studied physical phenomena and combine this knowledge with the new vision of the nature of electricity, which permeates the living matter. It will also require the synthesis of mathematics and other sciences, including biology and cosmology.
The new model of the atom and the structure of the universe allowed us to take a fresh look at the function of plane curves. In them we see manifestations of vibrations. One immediately came to mind that this is arranged atoms and planets and other solar systems. It is impossible not to notice the connection between these algebraic curves with the power values: the moment arm and the force vector. In our opinion it would be best to connect with Cymatics branch of mathematics that studies the function curves. Cymatics research area should be expanded to cover all types of waves, not only on the sound. Flat curves - this is actually the projection of electromagnetic waves are not distributed in the coordinate plane, and Euclidean (three-dimensional) space.
To create a model of the generator current becomes spherical knowledge of spatial functions of curved surfaces, which will take the form of virtual holographic maps created in special computer programs. Determining the exact geometric dimensions will calculate harmonic waves, as this object. The day will come when science will be able to build a holographic map of the charged flows in the body and accurately calculate the voltage in any part thereof, for the purpose of correction and healing. All this will be possible only with the concept of the atom positions as resonating spherical object, changing perceptions of human gravity.
Based on the foregoing, we have reason to believe that many "circles" in the fields contain information about the structure of atoms of the chemical elements. They may represent a caustic map, on which to determine at exactly which item we suggest "messengers." Rather, it is this element that will reveal to us the way to the creation of a new type of generator, in which these materials will work with maximum efficiency. Maybe - a hint at the man-made materials, such as those of which have created some of the megalithic structures at Giza? So far, no evidence that the granite there is a really natural, not artificially created "granite." Especially because it was made of the cell walls. Earlier we wrote about the pyramids as power plants.
Caustic card atoms can be explained by natural processes that occur due to the fractal evolution, for example the formation of snowflakes - water crystals. The joints are strictly defined by the location of the atoms of caustics and their hosts. Computer modeling of caustic maps would create designs of crystal lattices of artificial materials and their continuation in the form of a fractal of the larger spatial structure should be the unit of energy generator of electricity, according to the principle of similarity. So there will be new power generators. Increasing the voltage and current in the circuit can be reached fractal structures from the nanoscale. In other words, the generators will be the energy fractals. And this energy will be called caustic. New knowledge will greatly increase efficiency of solar cells, which would find their footing in the global energy sector. Photocells will be a continuation of the fractal structure of the crystal material from which they are made.
At present, in our opinion, placing the electrodes in solar cells plates used the wrong approach, resulting in huge energy loss and overheating of parts of the solar panels. The electrodes should be placed on lines of caustics, dramatically increasing their productivity. It is known that most of today's solar cells have an efficiency of up to 15-25%. Besides the big problem is the placing batteries on large areas, whereas they could be spatial, like crystals, becoming also a decoration of buildings, areas and entire cities. Even the architectural objects could represent the crystals and beautiful fractals. Someday all man will have its own local electricity generator, even monuments. Energy crystals are probably already existed, as evidenced by the legends and myths of the past, which are known to scratch does not arise.
To create a generator is necessary to study the evolution of traffic flows of charge in the tissues and organisms living matter, as well as its form, the conditions for the occurrence of resonance and flow of electrical energy from the air. In vivo nature to this mechanism. In order for humanity to exist in harmony with the Earth, it is necessary to extend this principle in their environment. Instruments and mechanisms would have to have their own generators and at the same time be a part of their body.
Fractal unit all living matter has a geometric shape, and is a monosaccharide. Various forms of polysaccharides set the angle of rotation of the fractal structure. Fractal makes evolution in accordance with a certain algorithm, which is also to be investigated. This is necessary in order to achieve maximum efficiency, to create mechanisms and instruments, as well as the architectural environment of man.
Initially, the thickness of the ocean penetrated the electromagnetic waves that created the environment - the spatial structure of the caustics. Atoms joined in a material things because of the charges, and in accordance with the location of caustics within them and in the environment, like sand on a metal plate that receives the sound wave. Monosaccharide - is a record of the "chemical" Symphony of electromagnetic waves.
Technologies for safer would be to use an already existing and generated in the course of evolution of life on Earth, the wave spectrum as other waves can destroy the natural environment. Technology of the future must not violate the harmony of nature. In this range, above all, is the sunlight and the vibration of the earth. The mechanisms of the future, regardless of the size will be almost silent, no louder than the sound of breathing or heartbeat. Having mastered the wave nature of matter, mankind will open the possibility of creating new life. He will be able to digitize the biological processes that occur in cells, calculate its charge, find the beginning of its fractal and create your own, relying on the principle, which is the basis of life. Such a body would definitely be viable. It is possible that many beautiful animals that way and created vysokorazumnymi civilizations. This knowledge will provide a great base for science inexhaustible creativity. Humanity would be a true creator in the highest sense of the word.
Understand the nature of formation of caustics at different levels of matter, humanity will get rid of one more error on the structure of the Earth. We believe that it has a structure in which there are the wave antinodes and nodes. This means that it is not one big core, and several small ones. In a different light must be considered volcanoes and tectonic faults, which are located just in the field of caustics Earth. In volcanic areas concentrated energy of the Earth. Someday mankind will learn to extract electrical energy from them and monitor their activity.
We previously suggested that the caustic power once existed on Earth, as preserved on this evidence. This is indicated by the artifacts found in the strata of rocks, lying well below the layers, the expected period of origin of life on Earth. They include metal and stone balls of various sizes. Information about them can be obtained from many sources, including the Internet. We were able to lift the veil of secrecy, they are working elements energy producing structures. In addition to them of caustic energy show, including, megaliths (dolmens), pyramids and megalithic complexes were flooded as a result of terrestrial cataclysms.
As they did, we can only assume, because all the metal parts were lost, unable to stand the test of time. But we assume that the form of the dolmen permitted to call a sound wave. Close to some of the dolmens were found Schara, who are part of it. They helped tie all the balls previously found in different parts of the Earth. Most likely, the dolmens were created to convert sound into electricity. For this to have been ponabitsya metal parts. They are most likely located inside the cavity is a metal spatial structures composed of rods and balls.
Giant stone balls found in Costa Rica and elsewhere, must have been covered by the structures on the outside, as the shells. Themselves balls were placed in accordance with the maps of caustics of the place. Each area has a completely unique harmonic vibrations. The balls, which are located near the waterfall, can be configured for the noise near the coastline - the sound of the surf. Caves and fractures in the Earth's crust caused by Schumann resonance vibration. For each area, thus the way of electricity production was different, unique and matched her tone.
Found balls were different: the hollow containing a spongy white substance, blind and multi-layer, while the U.S. was even found the ball within which the balls are smaller. It is interesting because it proved to be "alive". There is evidence that during his studies he "came to life" several times. The ball started to vibrate and rotate on an axis, and once he even moved in an arc, so to react to a certain spectrum of waves.On some "circles", as we believe, shows the ball chain gaps, which are the resonators. Sequential discharge balls in such circuits would allow to increase the voltage. The tension in the arc discharge is many times the tension caused by this bit in the chain. This was made known by experience, but it is not known. Now this is called samorazgonom electrons. We would have given it a different name, since see in it a resonance phenomenon, such as in an atom, and in any spherical object. Unitalogiya provides a comprehensive explanation of the phenomenon. In the area of ​​the discharge arc occurs discharged region (neutral), and which seeks to charge the air, it creates a "surplus." Increase the voltage in the circuit will depend on the voltage in the ball gap and distance between them.
On the basis of this phenomenon will be created levitating devices. Neutral region, resulting discharges will overcome the force of gravity.
UFOs are able to develop high speed and dramatically change the trajectory. This suggests the use of mobility to move the vacuum of space. If we created levitating apparatus, we first of all, to create a body with built-in ball-chain gaps, what would solve two problems at once: 1) to overcome the force of gravity, 2) supplied to the apparatus the energy needed for its smooth operation.

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Fear of abandonment

What is abandoholism?
You've heard of food-oholism, work-oholism, shop-oholism and, of course, alcoholism. Now here comes another, most insidious, addictive pattern - aband-oholism. Abandoholism is one of Outer Child's most insidious patterns.
Abandoholism is a tendency to become attracted to unavailable partners. Many abandonment survivors are caught up in this painful pattern.
Abandoholism is similar to the other 'oholisms, but instead of being addicted to a substance, you're addicted to the emotional drama of heartbreak. You pursue hard-to-get partners to keep the romantic intensity going, and to keep your body's love-chemicals and stress hormones flowing.
What makes someone an abandoholic?
Abandoholism sets in when you've been hurt so many times that you've come to equate insecurity with love. Unless you're pursuing someone you're insecure about, you don't feel in love.
Conversely, when someone comes along who wants to be with you, that person's availability fails to arouse the required level of insecurity. If you can't feel those yearning, lovesick feelings, then you don't feel attracted, so you keep pursuing unavailable partners.
You become psychobiologically addicted to the high stakes drama of an emotional challenge and the love-chemicals that go with it.
Abandoholism is driven by both fear of abandonment and fear of engulfment.
When you're attracted to someone, it arouses a fear of losing that person. This fear causes you to become clingy and needy. You try to hide your insecurity, but your desperation shows through, causing your partners to lose romantic interest in you. They sense your emotional suction cups aiming straight toward them and it scares them away.
Fear of engulfment is at the opposite end of the spectrum. It occurs when someone is pursuing you and now you're the one pulling back. You feel engulfed by that person's desire to be with you. When fear of engulfment kicks in, you panic. Your feelings shut down. You no longer feel the connection. The panic is about your fear of being engulfed by the other person's emotional expectations of you. You fear that the other person's feelings will pressure you to abandon your own romantic needs.
Fear of engulfment is one of the most common causes for the demise of new relationships, but it is carefully disguised in excuses like: "He just doesn't turn me on." Or "I don't feel any chemistry." Or " She's too nice to hold my interest. "Or" I need more of a challenge. "
Abandoholics tend to swing back and forth between fear of abandonment and fear of engulfment. You're either pursuing hard-to-get-lovers, or you're feeling turned off by someone who IS interested in you.
What is Abando-phobism?
Abandophobics are so afraid of rejection that they avoid relationships altogether.
Abandophobics act out their fear of abandonment by remaining socially isolated, or by appearing to search for someone, when in fact they are pursuing people who are unattainable, all to avoid the risk of getting attached to a real prospect - someone who might abandon them sooner or later.
There is a little abandophobism in every abandoholic.
For both abandoholics and abandophobics, a negative attraction is more compelling than a positive one.
You only feel attracted when you're in pursuit. You wouldn't join any club who would have you as a member, so you're always reaching for someone out of reach.
How do abandoholism and abandophobism set in?
These patterns may have been cast in childhood. You struggled to get more attention from your parents but you were left feeling unfulfilled, which caused you to doubt your self-worth. Over time, you internalized this craving for approval and you learned to idealize others at your own expense. This became a pattern in your love-relationships.
Now as an adult, you recreate this scenario by giving your love-partners all of your power, elevating them above yourself, recreating those old familiar yearnings you grew accustomed to as a child. Feeling emotionally deprived and "less-than" is what you've come to expect.
Why does the insecurity linger?
Recent scientific research shows that rather than dissipate, fear tends to incubate, gaining intensity over time. Insecurity increases with each romantic rejection, causing you to look to others for something you've become too powerless to give yourself: esteem. When you seek acceptance from a withholding partner, you place yourself in a one-down position, recreating the unequal dynamics you had with your parents or peers. You choreograph this scenario over and over.
Conversely, you are unable to feel anything when someone freely admires or appreciates you.
This abandonment compulsion is insidious. You did not know it was developing. Until now you didn't have a name for it: Abandoholism is a new concept.
Insecurity is an aphrodisiac.
If you are a hard-core abandoholic, you're drawn to a kind of love that is highly combustible. The hottest sex is when you're trying to seduce a hard-to-get lover. Insecurity becomes your favorite aphrodisiac. These intoxicated states are produced when you sense emotional danger - the danger of your lover's propensity to abandon you the minute you get attached.
At the other end of the seesaw, you turn off and shut down when you happen to successfully win someone's love. If your lover succumbs to your charms - heaven forbid - you suddenly feel too comfortable, too sure of him to stay interested. There's not enough challenge to sustain your sexual energy. You interpret your turn-off as his not being right for you.
How about following your gut?
If you're an abandoholic, following your gut is probably what got you into these patterns in the first place. Your gut gets you to pursue someone who makes your heart go pitter pat, not because he's the right one, but because he arouses fear of abandonment. And your gut gets you to avoid someone who is truly trustworthy, because he doesn't press the right insecurity buttons.
Enrich your mind. Follow your wisdom. But until you overcome your abandonment compulsion, don't follow your gut - it will only get you into trouble - because your gut tells you that unavailable people are attractive

Fear distorts the space

Snake crawling on the person can be more than he seems. Fear can distort the perception of approaching objects, making the distance to underestimate the threat. These are the findings of a study published in the journal Current Biology.
"Our results suggest that emotions and perception is not completely separable in the mind - says psychologist at Emory University (Ga.), co-author of the study. - Fear can affect the very basis of how we perceive the world around us. These results are important for understanding the clinical phobias. "
Lorenzo led the research with Matthew Longo, a psychologist from Birkbeck College (University of London).
Usually a person is well developed as understanding when approaching the object will be selected him closely, and the reaction in the form of evasion or block object if necessary. The researchers conducted an experiment to test the effect of fear on the accuracy of these skills.
Participants in the study assessed the time to "touch" them the images on a computer screen. Pictures increased in size during the second, simulating the approach of an object. Each subject had to press a button at a time when it seemed the object could "encounter" with him.
Participants were more likely to underestimate the time to approach frightening objects, such as a snake or a spider. If scary objects, such as the approach of a rabbit or a butterfly, an underestimation was not.
"We have shown that the type of the object affects the perception of his approach. If we fear something, we believe that it will get to us soon" - says Longo.
"The most amazing thing is - adds Lorenzo - that we can predict how the subject closer contact time opredeyaya the level of fear of the object. The more a person is afraid, for example, spiders, the more it" moves "time approach."
While we can not say exactly what the cause of this underestimation. We may think that the terrible object is moving faster than it really is. Perhaps the fear of increasing the size of the "personal space", "which is usually limited to a length of an arm.
"We plan to determine the true cause for further research. This will allow us to shed light on the mechanics of the basic aspects of spatial perception and the processes that underlie specific phobias" - said Lorenzo.

?Where the people disappear

Every three minutes on Earth disappears one person. Among the reasons - domestic, criminal, and the like - a special group in the sad statistics settled mysterious disappearances, mysterious, unexplained. On them will be discussed in this collection.In December 2011, the United States and two children almost the same age and at the same time lost their homes.In the state of South Carolina disappeared 21 months Jason Barton, last time the boy's mother saw him in the evening, before going to take a shower in the bathroom. When she came out of the shower, the baby was not there already.Assuming that the boy went into the street, she runs around all around, alerted the police and neighbors. More than 200 people took part in the search for the child. A day later, on a rainy cold weather finally found the baby. He was sleeping ... 5.5 mile from the house by the river, much to the astonished rescuers and police.According to the sheriff, the child of that age can hardly go somewhere further than a mile. More so in the evening when it's dark.Jason immediately taken to the hospital and examined. Doctors found he had no abnormalities and damage.Meanwhile, in Maine, the 20-month-old girl Ayla Reynolds vanished from her bedroom during the same time in which the missing boy from South Carolina. Police and parents find it difficult to tell the exact time of the disappearance of the child, since the last time they saw the girl when it was put to sleep at night in her room. Morning at 8:00 am, they found an empty bed in the bedroom. There were no traces of tampering or traces of strangers. Around the left, that kid went out of the house.Police searched the entire neighborhood. There is not as deep and dense forest, so they can skip the child, but no one to be found. At the moment, the search for the girl continued.In the history of mankind's many cases of disappearances. One of the oldest was registered in XVII century in Novgorod Chronicle. Kirilov Monastery monk disappeared during the meal. Chronicler also wrote about a controversial tradeswoman Monkey Kozlihe, which in the eyes of the people in the market day was gone, right on the square of Suzdal, what the people were saying that it, they say, "the devil took away."In more recent times, the most famous victim of disappearance was Lucien Buse, a neighbor of Dr. Bonneville. It was in 1867 in Paris. Lucien evening came to a doctor, so he looked at it and to consult about weakness. Bonneville to conduct examination, the patient told to undress and lie down on the couch. And he went to get a stethoscope lying on a table. Then, going to the couch, the patient was not found. Only the clothes on the chair remained Buse. Immediately, the doctor decided that he had gone to his home, and he went to the patient, but no one answered. Bonneville said to the police, but the search yielded nothing, a man with no clothes missing.Another mysterious disappearance case occurred in 1880 in America. Local farmer David Lang and his wife and children sat in the yard. Seeing close to home the crew of his friend, David hastened to meet him, and suddenly disappeared in front of the family. Wife and neighbors carefully examined the place where literally vanished Mr Lang, but did not find anything but the spot is not known from what yellowed grass. Ironically, since the day pets, living on a farm, avoided a mysterious place party.December 12, 1910 25-year-old niece, a judge of the U.S. Supreme Court and a prominent social worker Dorothy Arnold at 11 am out of her luxurious mansion on East 79th Street in New York City to buy a formal dress. About two o'clock in the afternoon, she met her friend on Fifth Avenue - Gladys Keith, girls chatted and parted. In parting, Dorothy Arnold cheerfully waved - and it is no longer seen.Similar stories are relatively often in different countries, on land, at sea and in the air, in homes, on the streets, forests, fields, in transport. 14 people witnessed the disappearance in the bus, which was traveling from Albany to Bennington December 1, 1949. People saw a soldier James Thetford took his place, and after the bus drove off, immediately fell asleep. On the way, the bus never stopped, and when he arrived in Bennington, on the site of James was a crumpled newspaper and bag. The police investigation was inconclusive. As, however, and 26 years later, when in 1975 the young women went missing and Martha Wright. Jackson Wright and his wife Martha was driving his car in New Jersey in the center of New York, in Manhattan. Was heavy snow, and they hid from the weather in the Lincoln Tunnel. Wright came to clear the snow from the car. March wiped back with dripping, and her husband - the wind. Upon completion of the work of Jackson Wright looked up and saw his wife.If the loss of one person can try to give at least a more or less logical explanation, with the mass extinction and it is even more mysterious.B 1915, during the First World War, when the British were fighting in the Balkans, 145 well-trained soldiers Norfolk battalion moved toward the enemy. Stayed on as comrades-in-arms have testified if 'battalion was suddenly enveloped in a dense fog. When the fog cleared, there was not a soldier. People simply disappeared.A year later, thousands of miles from this place, near the French village of Amiens, lost company of German soldiers. The English attacked the German positions, were surprised when the opponent did not make a single shot response. When the English department was included in Amiens, it turned out that the German soldiers somehow left the trenches. In this charged guns are still in place, the fire was drying clothes and shoes, in kettles bubbling soup.There have been cases where entire communities disappeared. In 1930, Joe Labelle miner decided to visit one of the Eskimo villages in northern Canada. He once worked in these places. So Joe went into the village, but sleep was empty, no one has ever been, everywhere silence. One gets the impression as if the villagers had disappeared instantly, without having completed his business in the house. There was a fire, pots filled with food. Thus all things, including rifles, without which the Eskimos never went far from the village, remained in place. In the huts lay nedoshitaya clothes, it had been inserted needles. Thinking that perhaps people have gone down the river, Labelle sent to the pier. Kayaks were also in place. But the most surprising was that the Eskimos somehow left in the village dogs, animals were carefully tied, and, judging by the fact that huskies were not hungry, people disappeared recently. Labelle notified police about the strange case. During the week, the area around the village carefully combed, but no trace of the missing people have not found.In 1935, the population of the island mysteriously disappeared Elmolo in Kenya. To find missing people Elmolo, was called a plane. But the search proved fruitless.March 5, 1991 at 4 pm Venezuelan jet "DC-9" took off from the international airport of Maracaibo (350 miles from Caracas). It was an ordinary flight. After 35 minutes the plane was due to arrive in another major center of the oil industry in western Venezuela, Santa Barbara. However, after 25 minutes of the flight was lost radio contact with the ground, although air traffic management has not received any distress calls. News Agency published hacks with 38 missing people, including a child, and five crew members. Day on the same course flying search plane, then a helicopter, but they did not see any signs at the bottom of the crash.24-year-old Rebecca Koriam disappeared in March from aboard a luxury ocean liner whom the Disney Wonder, commits a cruise trip from the U.S. to Mexico. The vessel had 2,400 passengers and 945 crew members. She worked on the ship for youth animator. One morning she did not come to work. Rebecca's cabin was empty. No trace of the girl was found. And after a few months of searching, which may have failed, it was concluded that she had committed suicide by jumping overboard. But her parents, Mike and Ann Koriam, conducted his own investigation and found that last year alone during sea cruises lost 11 people. And since 1995, the number of missing persons is 165! And never managed to track down these people.Unfortunately, Rebecca's parents have not been able to bring the investigation to the end. According to Mike Koriama, he and his wife faced enormous opposition: cruise companies have spent millions of dollars to not detail what was done, and the true cause of disappearance remains a mystery.In 2004, with the ship "Mercury", floating toward Alaska, disappeared 40 years Marian Carver. All things in the passenger cabin remained in place. Father Kendall Carver woman hired private investigators, but the search proved fruitless.That same year, the ship "Silver Cloud Silversea" missing 48-year-old citizen of Switzerland Rama Forman. This occurred in the Arabian Sea. Lack passenger noticed during the approach to the port of Mumbai. Cabin Mrs. Foreman was locked from the inside, but the woman was not there. Relatives do not believe in suicide, as shortly before Rama called his sister and discussed her plans for a family celebration.Last year, from the ship "Thomson Ship Spirit", cruises on the Red Sea, lost 63, John Helfort. Eve of extinction John called his wife. According to her, he was in a good mood.In October 1944, members of the U.S. Coast Guard boarded the Cuban vessel "Rubicon." They were met by a half-dead dog. More on board was empty. Personal belongings of the crew were in the cabins. Ship itself was fine, but he was cut off towing rope and missing all the lifeboats. was completely unclear what made the crew to abandon ship.In 2003, the Coast Guard plane Australia discovered Indonesian schooner "Hi Em 6?, Which holds were full of caught mackerel. Where are the 14 sailors - a mystery. In the same area, but in 2006 there was absolutely deserted tanker" Yang Seung. " In the same year found no people, Coast Guard Italy have detained two-masted sailing ship "Bel Amica" off the coast of Sardinia.In January 2008, the press service of the Russian Transport Ministry reported a loss of connection with the Russian vessel "Kapitan Uskov" move from Hong Kong Finds No freighter or 17 members of its crew were never found. Was only in February of that year, Japan's coast guard found deserted Rescue Motorboat with a missing ship.Similar incidents have always been, but the answer to the question about their reasons no one has so far. One version appeared in 1937. While passing on the Kara Sea hydrographic vessel "Taimyr" one of the experts pointed out that when he approaches the ear sounding balloon, filled with hydrogen, felt a sharp pain in the eardrum. When he moved the ball, the pain goes away. Located on the "Taimyr" Hydrophysics Vladimir Shuleikin interested in this strange effect, calling it "the voice of the sea." According to him, the wind in a storm creates not audible to our ears, but harmful to human LF infrasonic vibrations. At frequencies below 15 Hz exposure increases, there is disorder of brain centers, such as vision, and at a frequency of less than seven hertz people may even die.Modern research has confirmed that the application of infrasound animals and people experience anxiety and irrational fear. But a storm is generated infrasound at a frequency of about six hertz. If the intensity of vibration is less lethal, on the crew of the breaking waves of unfounded fear, terror and panic. This condition is enhanced even more if the ship itself, with all its equipment is in resonance and becomes a secondary source of infrasound, under whose influence distraught people throwing everything, run the ship.The case of the American William nave baffles anyone who undertakes to explain (or "expose"), the mysterious disappearances ...During his speech, the magician Nave accidentally discovered his unique gift ... Once in front of the shocked public, he disappeared into thin air and become invisible.Speaking at the scene, the illusionist magically made to disappear any items up to a couple of live leopards, but hardly anyone could match William nave, made in the 60's sensational trick his disappearance.For the first time it happened during a performance in Chicago.The second time - when the nave was at home, and suddenly, without warning (as he put it, "accidentally"), disappeared into thin air, and then appeared again to his wife, the reaction is hardly enthusiastic.The third such incident occurred during a performance at the theater Nef "Paramount" in New York. Among the spectators was accidentally radioreporter Knebel. Such a witness could only dream of, because everyone knew about his active opposition to the supernatural.Later in his book, "The path beyond the universe" Knebel shared personal experiences. According to him, the figure began to lose Nef visible outlines - until it became completely transparent. But what is most surprising - his voice has not undergone the slightest change, and yet the audience holds its breath, listened to every word.But as Knebel describes it, "return": "Gradually tread vague outline - like sloppy pencil sketch."Ironically nave no idea about his unique gift and did not even notice that it becomes invisible. Not to mention the fact that they manage, and to tell the world about another open secret ...

Stress of Poverty leave traces on DNA

University of British Columbia and the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, in a joint study showed that child poverty and stress, along with demographic characteristics - age, gender and ethnicity - leave an imprint in human genes. This track may play a role in our immune response.
The study was published in a special issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, it is investigated how the experience gained at birth and in the first years of life, can influence the course of human life.
Study of changes in genes, also known as epigenetics, examines the process of DNA methylation, which are added to the DNA chemical molecules, "including" or "turn off" certain genes. The study found that experiences play a role in shaping the patterns of DNA methylation.
The scientists found that the socio-economic status of adult influence on heredity has not. But child poverty interferes with the methylation and imprinted genes.
"We found traces of biological life in a poor childhood - said Michael Kobori, Associate Professor of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia. - This is clear evidence that the influence of the environment really is correlated with epigenetic models."
Amount of stress hormones produced by adults, is also associated with changes in the DNA. Kobori said it is a matter that was before - the chicken or the egg. It is not known whether the reserves in adults increased stress signs in the DNA or, on the contrary, DNA determines how much stress hormones will be released.
Kobori and his colleagues also found that methylation may help in the prediction of future immune responses, and therefore, the first experience of life sometime in the future will have an impact on the response to disease in adulthood.

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Total observation turns people into psychopaths

Scientists study demonstrated the negative consequences of the invasion of "big brother" in people's personal lives.
In the experiment, researchers at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology studied the effect of ubiquitous surveillance systems in a building. In order to study the effect of continuous monitoring, the researchers placed in the homes of ten Finnish families video cameras, microphones, software for recording the use of personal computers, wireless networks, smartphones, TVs and DVD-players.
Twelve participants completed monthly special forms and prepare a report on their psychological well-being, and they were questioned by scientists at 6 and 12 months of total home control.
As a result, scientists have observed a number of serious adverse changes in the behavior and well-being experimental. For all participants, except one, the monitoring system was a source of irritation, restlessness, anxiety, and even anger.
However, the observation does not cause mental health problems, comparable in severity with depression or alcoholism. However, one family refused to take further part in the experiment after 6 months, stating that a violation of privacy and anonymity has become intolerable.
It should be noted that significant negative changes in well-being and behavior of people came after 3 months of the experiment, which differs from the generally accepted notions like "it was hard at first, but then got used." After 3 months, the majority of test began trying to hide their activities from sensors, finding hiding places in the house. However, some have moved their usual business of the house wall.
Interestingly, the easiest people have adapted to video surveillance, eliminating concerns about their own nakedness and possible negative evaluation of their appearance. In this case, the surveillance of communication and work on the computer a lot more people perceived negatively. Thus, the loss of anonymity in using the computer for the people is more important than the possible public nudity. Scientists believe that this is due to the huge role of computer technology in modern life - a big part of our social activities mediated by computers today.
Finnish researchers emphasize that the experiment involved volunteers who themselves have expressed such a desire. But even they have a total observation caused a lot of stress, which other people can be much more powerful.

Under the power of artificial intelligence

Where is humanity? What lies ahead? These issues have always been concerned people. Most modern futurologists looks at the future with optimism. They predicted that in the near future we can expect an abundance of material and personal immortality ...
Earth will turn into a single supercomputer
In the predictions of futurists has an important place universal computerization. In the near future, computers take over virtually the entire life of people, including cooking, health surveillance, driving transport, financial transactions,
education, entertainment and more. Dates of the "computer paradise" in different forecasters vary too much. Most agree in the opinion that in the "golden billion" it will come around 2030.
Also predicted that in 40 years, thanks to advances in nanotechnology will cure all diseases. A famous American futurist Raymond Kurzweil said that in 2035, doctors will begin to grow in the human body, the body of the new exhaust, and repair "barahlyaschie" organs and tissues. Repairs will be carried out by microscopic nanobots embedded in the circulatory system. They will be expected to move through the arteries and capillaries and clear the body of cancer cells, bacteria and cholesterol deposits.
All computerized processes on the planet, including human, eventually boil down together. All of the "economy" of human civilization, including the people themselves, which in the brain implanted electronic microchips will eventually be monitored and controlled single supercomputer superpower possessing artificial intelligence.
In particular, this system will be to monitor the health of all people in the world. Each inhabitant of the Earth will undergo periodic medical examinations, the results of which will determine the supercomputer, what kind of operation requires that particular person. The operations will be easy and painless, they will hold all the same nanobots.
Kurzweil believes that the gradual transformation of the Earth's supercomputer will begin from the middle of the twenty-first century.
Immortal people were born
Some futurists believe that the organs of the human body's exhaust will not be grown and changed to artificial.
Already the leading laboratories in the world there are reports of promising attempts to create electronic eyes, nose, ears. As for the brain, as it is aging in the human head are implanted tiny computer devices. Together, they will form an artificial brain, artificial intelligence, the identical intelligence of the person, with full preservation of his memory. This implanted computer and become a new brain. It is necessary, however, to debug the system decode the signals to it from other artificial organs, but implanted computer can easily cope with this problem.
The upshot was that all people would consist of artificial organs. Become something like an android. It will happen, according to forecasts, by the end of the twenty-first century.
Technology of the future will not only suspend, but completely negate the aging, in other words - will make people immortal. Live for 30-40 years before the era when there were artificial organs and healing nanobots are quite capable of many of the people currently living. That is already born people who in the future will become immortal. And 40 years later, most of humanity will become immortal.
Everything will be done out of the mud
Forecasts are based on counting the futurists accelerate the pace of world scientific and technological progress. Moore is the law, or the law of doubling, which states that the speed of computer processors will double every 18 months. If this law for several more decades, there would be computers in processing power far surpassing the human brain.
In 2007, the U.S. has been demonstrated the world's first quantum computer. Experts believe that in the near future he will make a revolution in technology. A quantum computer, in contrast to the current silicon based on a fundamentally different principle. The distance between the quantum and silicon computers - as between a laptop and accounts. This is due to the fact that the photon - the carrier of information in a quantum computer - is both a particle and a wave. Many experts in the field of computer technology argue that by 2035, a quantum computer will be able to process more data streams than the particles in space. A quantum computer - a direct route to the creation of artificial intelligence. And not too long.
Of others may note the appearance in 2040 of technology for the production of molecular substances and copies of any items. Of the total, though from street dirt will do (with the help of computers, of course), food, cars, houses, clothes, artificial human organs, gold, diamonds, those same computers. Agriculture and industry become meaningless. People will sciences, arts and entertainment.
Nanotechnology will make people smarter, say futurists. So, each of us after a simple procedure clearing the capillaries of the brain for a few hours could write a novel.
Modern Sex "obsolete." After all, if you look, give us pleasure not mechanical manipulation, and the signals that affect certain areas of the cerebral cortex. Already in 25-30 years people will be able to receive sexual pleasure when to target these areas of the same nanobots. The impact will be made by a person at any time, and at the same time, he will be born in the brain is quite visible and almost physically tangible erotic pictures that make fun of such "artificial" sex is much sharper than usual. The presence of a partner in this, of course, optional. As for children, they will "beget" in test tubes.
In 2050 the mass start freezing those who want to go to far into the future in a cryogenic sleep, the target computer. Frozen for a journey through time to last for a few moments.
Chipizatsiya general population
Kurzweil and other "futurists-technicians" present us heaven on earth. And yet, you can look at the future from a different perspective.
As already mentioned, for the connection between man and supercomputer in the brain of every person on Earth is a special microchip implanted, equipped with a miniature transmitter. Because of this microchip global supercomputer will be able to read directly from the brain any information until the person's thoughts. In other words, the actions of all the people living on Earth will be constant monitoring. Not only tracking, but also management by sending the right signals to the brain.
Of course, the first of this "chipizatsii" people will get some benefits. Here and control over health (disease detection at an early stage), and the rapid acceleration of the learning process, and combat crime in the bud and terrorist attacks, and control of the finances, expenses, gains and other things.
However, total control over the people supercomputer is fraught with many dangers. Artificial intelligence, as well as natural, human, capable of self-improvement, that is, at some point people could lose control of it. It will become a lot smarter than people and, therefore, not only to escape them, and seize power over them. Most likely, people will give it to him in the "hand" for the sake of comfort, health and well-being. And how he will dispose of this power - we can only guess. It is possible that it will create the world a social order in which they brainwashed people will deal exclusively with only his service.
Home Trap
Another, even more, the danger lies in the "alien" factor that most futurists for some reason does not take into account.
The aliens have a long and close eye on what is happening on Earth. There is quite good evidence that the governments of the leading countries in the world with kosmitami regular contact. In early 2009, the British magazine "Inkaunters" published an article ufologist Richard Laynhema the links aliens with U.S. authorities. According to his information, it was from the aliens in the twentieth century, Americans have some of their breakthrough technologies, such as computers. The aliens have a crucial aid in the implementation of the "moon program." All this suggests that the progress of our civilization, "push", and in the direction required by our "brothers in intellect."
Computerization, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all parts of a single plan, which aims to ensure that people will have painted themselves under the control of an alien intelligence. A global supercomputer, which they say Kurzweil and other futurists - is, apparently, the main trap prepared for earthlings.
When the system will be created and humanity in the pursuit of comfort and immortality, voluntarily give themselves under his tutelage, kosmity bring into it its own program. After that, with the development of human civilization will be finished.
There are some signs that are observed today (bleeding cattle, kidnapping, etc.), we can say that the earth will turn into a kind of farm for generating the required aliens genetic material.
Computer or a shower?
Newcomers play inherent in the people animal fear of death, the desire for personal immortality. This fear leads to a dead end human civilization.
Under the direction of the global supercomputer controlled extraterrestrial intelligence, devoid of any morality was, people will inevitably turn into a zombie. Perhaps, in the immortal zombie. And most likely, in artificially propagated zombies intended for pumping blood plasma and sadistic experiments on the production of mutants.
Stubborn people's desire for immortality through technological progress overshadows them understand that they are already immortal. Immortal without computers and nanotechnology. People have with what surely deprived aliens - an immortal soul.
Of course, the study of man is in this direction, but there are too many unknown, unknown, not obeying the laws of logic and science. The study of the spiritual basis of human lags far behind the rapidly developing advances in computing, nanotechnology, etc.
Recently among UFO researchers and experts on anomalous phenomena is growing awareness that the work on the study of telekinesis, telepathy, hypnosis, out of the body, and other super-powers of the human body are inhibited intentionally. Someone really does not want to intrude inquisitive human mind in an area that could yield far more people than all of nanotechnology and computers combined. Rather, the obstacles placed by aliens. For them, of course, it is better for people to zombie herd grazing in the care of artificial intelligence than captured its spiritual essence and becoming truly immortal and free, escaped in their "thin" bodies in space and in parallel worlds.
It is hoped that at the very last moment, when the world begins: universal chipizatsiya and transfer of population under the control of a supercomputer, people will think, afraid and say "no" to your own zombie. And the quantum sverhmozg and behind it "back" aliens will strongly resisted.
Abnormal News 23.2012

Scientists made ​​the drop to "dance" to the music

Which genes cause the level of intelligence

Genes - is one of the key factors affecting the development of the person. Scientists have found that IQ is inherited, and if one of the parents of a high IQ, is a descendant of a high probability it will also be high.
Identical twins identical IQ greater than that of fraternal. And, of course, more than cousins, it is similar in siblings. As we can see IQ is inherited as well as height and eye color, hence, there is a gene responsible for the transfer.
Over the past 10 years, scientists have proposed several options on which genes are associated with IQ. Among the candidates were some options ApoE - gene, which is related to Alzheimer's disease, cathepsin D (CTSD) - a gene associated with schizophrenia, single nucleotide polymorphisms of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and cholinergic receptor CHRM2.
As a result, over the years, researchers have made a statement that IQ correlates with more than a dozen different single nucleotide polymorphisms.
But the results of the analysis of a statistically significant sample in the study, which was conducted under the direction of David Leybsona and Chris Chabris (psychologist from Union College), did not confirm connection with the degree of intelligence to any of these genes. Largely unexpected disappointment was that none of the results of those studies have not been confirmed, although the scientists used data from three independent samples, which were obtained from the thousands of participants in the experiment.
Chris Chabris focuses on the fact that the results of his work, does not mean that the previous studies were not conducted properly. This is most likely on the intellect as well as growth depends on a whole set of genes (the height of a man due to the action of the cumulative effect of hundreds of genes).
Search for genes of intelligence, according to Chabris and promising areas of science, which can help to find relevant molecular pathways and neural circuits. Chabris said that he believes the search for genes end in itself, but as soon as something becomes aware of this gene, scientists can more closely relate psychological and biological concepts of intelligence. Answering the question of which gene is responsible for the transfer of intellectual abilities, scientists will be able to formulate a clearer and closer to answering the more important questions such as: "What kind of anatomical systems, these genes are involved?", "Where in the brain to produce proteins of these genes?" And "What is their evolutionary history?". The answers to these and other questions will give scientists a new key to understanding the mind.
For the study of intelligence at the genetic level scientists lack the aggregate statistics. According to Chabris sample should be 100 000 or more items to obtain objective data on this issue, because the psychological properties can not be determined by a single gene, such as Huntington's disease.
Scientists recognize that the work will be very time consuming, because one person had not the strength to grasp the understanding of the role of thousands of genes on a single process, but the level of science can make such a discovery at this stage.

Dangerous food colors

Alternately whether food dyes? Of course. All these bright soda and candy, intended primarily for children, do not bring anything but harm. It is widely known.
But food companies persist in chemistry add a rainbow of colors in food, and nothing anybody can do about it. In the report, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (USA) emphasized the danger of these additives, and sounds to take action to stop their use.
According to data published in this report, the producers of food each year to its customers fed about 15 million pounds (more than 33 thousand tons, approx. Mixednews.ru) artificial colors. Since 1955, this figure had increased by five times. Also add them not only in drinks or candy, number of products, tinted chemistry - is enormous.
Consumption of dyes related to the occurrence of children diseases such as allergies, hyperactivity and even cancer. Office of the Food and Drug Administration (USA) found that some of these substances are carcinogenic, that does not prevent them to remain on the market.
Association of producers and sellers of food products has been acting with the confidence that dyes are safe, claiming that the relationship between the consumption of dyes and the development of children's hyperactivity is not proven. But many who have children with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), and without any scientific research can tell us how colorful the food affects the behavior of their children.
In 1950 and 1976, the Office of the Food forbidden to use certain dyes after scandals involving mass poisoning of children.
According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, most popular dyes contain chemicals which cause cancer.
Obviously, in the Office of the Food know that dyes are not safe. At least, they do not allow companies to proudly declare that their products "to be consistent with all safety standards" and is required for each separate examination of the dye.
In recent years, as consumers have become much more careful about what they eat, some producers switched to natural dyes made, for example, from beets.
But most of the market continues to prefer a cheap chemistry.

Sacred Geometry

You are the unexpected magical element-the creative alchemist, mixing geometries, palettes and sound with the surprising and ever revealing artistry of your own consciousness. By trusting the "hidden reserves" of your own mind, emotions and soul to creatively guide your experience here, you will receive that which is uniquely appropriate for you at any given time.

Vision for the blind

The two scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, who published their findings in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, have also deciphered the retinal neural code of monkeys - which is essentially identical to that of humans.
"It's an exciting time," said computational neuroscientist Sheila Nirenberg, in a statement from the college. "We can make blind mouse retinas see, and we're moving as fast as we can to do the same in humans."
Novel prosthetic vision system
The novel prosthetic vision system consists of two parts: an 'encoder' and a 'transducer'. The encoder mimics the role of the retina by converting light patterns into streams of electrical pulses using the same 'code' by which a healthy retina communicates to the brain. The transducer, or 'stimulator' - a light-sensitive protein - then 'fires' the appropriate retinal neuron cells, called ganglion cells, as specified by the code.
"What these findings show is that the critical ingredients for building a highly-effective retinal prosthetic - the retina's code and a high-resolution stimulating method - are now, to a large extent, in place," said Nirenberg.
At present, most bionic vision systems use a camera that converts visual input into electrical signals communicated via electrodes implanted either on the retina or the brain. This usually results in simple light dots and outlines with very low resolution that assist the user with basic navigation.
Blind can discern facial features, movement and landscape
The neural code behind this latest system is so accurate, the researchers say, that it can allow facial features, movement and landscapes to be discerned.
"The reason [other bionic vision researchers] have not reached their goal is not just because of a resolution problem," the authors wrote in the paper, "but also because of a coding problem."
Wai Ho Li, a lead researcher at the Monash Vision Group in Melbourne, who is working towards a direct-to-brain bionic vision system, said this new research is "an important step towards better visual prostheses".
"The research demonstrates a new approach for improving the quality of bionic vision generated using retinal optogenetics," he said. "Instead of increasing the visual resolution of bionic vision, they argue that encoding information for the visual system so that it doesn't get 'lost in translation' is just as important."

?Really a window to the soul

As the cheesy pickup line suggests, your eyes may really be the window to your soul. According to a new study by Yale University psychologists, most people intuitively feel as if their "self" - otherwise known as their soul, or ego - exists in or near their eyes.
In three experiments, the researchers probed preschoolers 'and adults' intuitions about the precise location of the self in the body. The participants were shown pictures of cartoon characters, and in each picture a small object (a buzzing fly or snowflake) was positioned near a different section of the character's body (face or torso or feet, etc.), Always at the same distance away .
The study participants were then asked which pictures showed the object closest to the body, the hypothesis being that people would interpret the object as closest when it was near what they intuitively believed to be the soul's location.

As reported earlier this month in the journal Cognition, the vast majority of the 4-year-olds and adults in the study thought the object was closest to the character when it was near the character's eyes. This was true even when the cartoon character was a green-skinned alien whose eyes were on its chest rather than in its head - suggesting that it was the eyes, rather than the brain, that seemed most closely tied to the soul.
According to lead researcher Christina Starmans of the Mind and Development Lab at Yale, she and study co-author Paul Bloom designed their experiment after a conversation in which they discussed intuitively feeling as if their consciousnesses were "located" near their eyes, and that objects seemed closest to them when near their eyes. "We set out to test whether this was a universally shared intuition," Starmans told Life's Little Mysteries.
As it turned out, it was - even among young children.
"The indirect nature of our method, and the fact that these judgments are shared by adults and preschoolers, suggests that our results do not reflect a culturally learned understanding ... but might instead be rooted in a more intuitive or phenomenological sense of where in our bodies we reside, "the authors concluded.
However, experts disagreed about the implications of the research. Neurologist Robert Burton, author of numerous books and articles on themind-body connection, thinks the results don't rule out the possibility that Westerners' sense that we exist in our eyes is culturally indoctrinated.
Burton, former chief of the division of neurology at University of California, San Francisco-Mount Zion Hospital, said the most interesting result of the study seems to have been brushed under the rug by the researchers: It is that the 4-year-olds and adults didn't actually give the same responses during the experiment with the alien cartoon character. Almost as many children thought the buzzing fly was closest to the alien when it was near his eyeless head than when it was near his eye-bearing chest. Meanwhile, the adults almost unanimously selected the chest-eyes. "This suggests that something has transpired during the time between age 4 and adulthood that affects our understanding of the identity of other people," Burton said.
In other words, it seems we learn to associate identity with eyes, rather than doing it innately from birth. Perhaps, for example, eyes take on more importance as we develop awareness of the social cues that other people convey with their eyes. Or, perhaps it's because adults have learned that it's good etiquette to make eye-contact.
Furthermore, the study participants may not have interpreted the idea of ​​the buzzing fly and snowflake being "closer" to a cartoon characters as meaning that they were closer to its soul or self. Objects look bigger when they are nearer one's eyes, and this may have confused the participants into labeling them as "closer." [Gallery: The Most Amazing Optical Illusions]
Georg Northoff, a neuropsychiatrist at the University of Ottawa, agrees that the authors' interpretation of their experimental results is "far-fetched." The issues with this particular study aside, Northoff said a large body of evidence suggests most people do have a sense of self that physically manifests itself in their bodies. "We always have the tendency to locate something and materialize it in the body as mind or as soul," he wrote in an email. "That seems to be predisposed by the way our brain works, though the mechanisms remain unclear."
It is also worth noting that the part of the brain in which self-awareness is thought to arise, called the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, happens to be located behind the eyes. It is possible, Burton said, that we may "feel" as if we are physically located near our eyes because our identity emerges in the neurons.

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