Wheelchairs may soon move at the speed of thought! Severely disabled people who cannot operate a motorised wheelchair may one day get their independence, thanks to a system that lets them steer a wheelchair using only their thoughts.... posted on Jul 29 2003, 1,071 reads

Allan Snyder seems to be able to turn on a person's inner "Rain Man", and then turn it off again, with the flick of a switch. All it takes is a strange set of electrodes; and a radical new theory of autism, genius and the human brain. He asked a NY Times columnist to draw a picture of a cat four times, each time with different doses of these magnetic impulses. The results were stunning. Check t... posted on Jun 28 2003, 2,912 reads

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Research by Paul Ekman, at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, suggests that meditation and mindfulness can tame the amygdala, an area of the brain which is the hub of fear memory.... posted on May 30 2003, 1,159 reads

Dean Emeritus of the School of Engineering at Princeton, Professor Jahn, after 12 years of experiments involving more than 100 subjects in thousands of trials, has uncovered astonishing evidence that electronic devices can be controlled by thought. The human subjects proved capable of altering the output of the devices so much that the chances of getting such a bias by fluke alone is calculated to... posted on May 21 2003, 1,065 reads

Pushing One's Limits
The Shaolin monks stand on their fingers, bend their legs over their shoulders and balance their belly's on top of a spike -- and that's just for starters. The monks are part of a 1500 year old tradition of meditation.... posted on May 17 2003, 1,208 reads

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Meditation is fast appearing in unexpected places throughout modern culture. Secretaries do it as part of their daily noon yoga classes. Preadolescent teenagers dropped off at the YMCA by their mothers on a Saturday morning are learning it as part of their karate training. Truck drivers and housewives in the Stress Reduction Programs use it to control hypertension. Prisoners engage in 10 days o... posted on Apr 26 2003, 2,541 reads

Before the caterpillar turns into a butterfly, biologists note that there is a huge occurence of 'imaginal cells'. At first, they aren't recognized by the immune system so the caterpillar's immune system wipes them out as they pop up. It isn't until they begin to link forces and join up with each other that they get stronger and are able to resist the onslaught of the immune system, until the imm... posted on Apr 16 2003, 1,734 reads

Halfway around the world, American Sufi Muslims join in. Fundamentalist Christians add their prayers, as do Orthodox Jews at Jersualem's Western Wall. "Jimmy P," a heart patient at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina, is part of a global scientific experiment trying to find out: Does prayer heal? Yes, is the answer of more and more experiment in this arena.... posted on Apr 05 2003, 1,100 reads