Found : Rapid acceleration in human evolution described | Health | Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Human evolution has been moving at breakneck speed in the past several thousand years, far from plodding along as some scientists had thought, researchers said […]
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Science Fiction and Gnosticism
Found : Science Fiction and Gnosticism The gnostic religion, which flourished in the first through third centuries A.D., provides an excellent paradigm for the understanding of the type of religious awareness that much SF favors. The gnostics, regarded as heretics […]
Male and Female brains, empathy and systematization
Found : Male and Female brains, empathy and systematization According to this theory, a person (whether male or female) has a particular "brain type". There are three common brain types: for some individuals, empathising is stronger than systemising. This is […]
Why I am Not a Postmodernist
Found : Why I am Not a Postmodernist Postmodernists complain that science is a cultural prejudice, and/or a tool invented by the current elite to maintain power, and/or only one "way of knowing" among many, with no special privilege. For […]
Perspectives on the structure of the superverse and implications for its transit
Found : Perspectives on the structure of the superverse and implications for its transit and other means of exploitation In early 2003 space appears to possibly be infinite in its depth and distance, even if mankind can only ‘see’ with […]
Predators 'drove human evolution'
Found : Predators ‘drove human evolution’ The popular view of our ancient ancestors as hunters who conquered all in their way is wrong, researchers have told a major US science conference. Instead, they argue, early humans were on the menu […]
Special K could be used to treat depression
Found : Special K could be used to treat depression LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists have unraveled how a horse tranquilizer and hallucinogenic night club drug known as "Special K" can ease depression, researchers said on Friday. Ketamine, which can also […]
Erotic and Violent Images Cloud Vision, Study Finds
Found : Erotic and Violent Images Cloud Vision, Study Finds When people see violent or erotic images, they fail to process whatever they see next, according to new research. Scientists are calling the effect "attentional rubbernecking." “We observed that people […]