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Catching Waves and Turning Them Into Electricity
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Eight weeks to a better brain – Meditation study shows changes associated with awareness, stress
Participating in an eight-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress. In a study that appear in the Jan. 30 issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, a team led by Harvard-affiliated researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) reported the results of their study, the first to document meditation-produced changes over time in the brain’s gray matter.
Leading neuroscientists and Buddhists agree: “Consciousness is everywhere”
New theories in neuroscience suggest consciousness is an intrinsic property of everything, just like gravity. That development opens a world of opportunity for collaboration between Buddhists and neuroscientists.
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Terraforming Mars: Turning the Red Planet Green
Terraforming Mars: Turning the Red Planet Green
Here’s how scientists think we could turn Mars into Earth 2.0… Continue reading Terraforming Mars: Turning the Red Planet Green
This self-filling water bottle is the ultimate in vaporware
Austrian startup Fontus is developing a novel water bottle that is vaporware in just about every sense of the phrase. Not only does it not yet exist in the marketplace, but it is claimed to literally pull water vapor out of the air to fill itself.
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Man Invents Biodegradable Algae Water Bottles As A Green Alternative To Plastic
Know how long a plastic water bottle can take to decompose? Up to 1000 years. Know how many bottles of water America alone drinks in a single year? approximately 50 billion.