Animals

Animals:

Animals Slideshow:

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  During a shamanic journey guided by Raif (Zephyr) Greco, reiki master and drummer extraordinaire, this octopus taught and guided me as we danced in the sea.

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  When people are stressed and depressed about their jobs, home lives and general lack of freedom and leisure, they can sometimes seem to be living partial deaths. Future beings could evolve into more humane societies that foster joy, meaningful contribution, arts, and personal development.

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  Mike reentered his math class to find that during his absence the other students and teacher had decorated the classroom with pictures of the white bird, which had long disturbed him.

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  Here’s a vision I saw once inside my eyelids.

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  We’re sentient beings; to nurture our sentience is an important part of life.

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  In deep, dreamless delta sleep we’re completely unconscious of any feelings, thoughts or emotions, or of our surroundings. This calm time away from body and mind, while mentally and emotionally protective, also renders us most physically unguarded and vulnerable.

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  A fleeting vision

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  Chemical processes can create patterns similar to the spots on leopards, the patchwork on giraffes, the stripes on zebras. More complex patterns could be created if chemistry could be programmed.

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  Some scientists believe that free-range, pre-life organic molecules spontaneously joined together to make the first organisms. Joining and scission can be seen in the laboratory when scientists create self-assembling nanotubes known as `living polymers.’

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  Exposure at a young age to the joy of discovery can cause serious imprinting and make a life-long impression upon one’s curiosity factor.

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  To power nanomachines, a molecular fuel must store energy in a stable form – stable until it’s released.

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  With the right insight and careful touch, DNA can Be programmed to assemble itself into incredibly complex nanoscale objects called ‘DNA origami’.

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  Occasionally someone’s life story may seem scripted or contrived to the point of being impossible – a series of extraordinary events, coincidences, great hardships and crucial choices leading to that person’s unique work and expertise, as if by recipe.

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  Squeezed light (photons whose vibrations are constrained relative to normal light) can be manufactured in the laboratory.

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  All material objects are made of just one thing: atoms. If you could separate the atoms in one object, and put them back together again with extreme precision, you could make another object.

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  Synthetic biology is the engineering and construction of molecular devices that work inside cells. The construction materials are restriction enzymes to cut DNA, polymerases to copy DNA and RNA, ribosomes to translate RNA into protein, and myriad chemical tricks for finishing touches.

People:

People Slideshow:

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  Everything must eventually become something else. As life ends in death, so does death bring new life.

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  He killed her, then died because there was no one to take care of him.

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  Creativity and imagination generally occur in the right side of the brain, which controls the left side of the body. Artist, poets, dreamers and other right-brain-dominant people can easily feel stranded and unsupported in our left-brain-dominant culture.

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  An injury to anyone taints the injurer.

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  Our aqueous bodies respond to exterior forces, such as the moon’s pull, and electrical currents. When we lead diverse lives, attending to different inputs and energies, we lose vibrational community. Though we share physical space, our humours diverge.

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  Ever since Pythagorus and likely before, mathematicians have seen the world as being composed of numbers, which has led to great insights.

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  In the exploration of unknown frontiers, you never know what surprises will come up next. With persistent curiosity and careful thinking, clearly defined facts emerge from the chaos of multiple variables and experimental uncertainty.

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  When listening to music, neurons in your ears encode the sounds into a sequence of electrical signals, called spike trains, that record the rhythm, tones, and texture of what you’re hearing. The spike trains are sent to your cortex, where the sounds are perceived, enjoyed, and interpreted.

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  Organisms and their parts somehow ‘know’ when to stop growing. As computers count in an algorithmic, logarithmic or binary way, so does biology ‘count’ in its own biochemical way.

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  Machines can learn, at least a little. With scientific advances they will continue to become smarter, and eventually may discover and perceive the world in their own way.

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