Wisdom of Ages

If you are looking for likely candidates to bring ruin to any relation, you have to look no further than words. I will always maintain a healthy respect for the power of the spoken word, but goodness knows. There is hardly a word still around you can trust for the sense people try to make when they share the idea. Its all a bit like way back when it was still fun to attempt your advice. Why I clearly remember a time when I did, convinced that my word had the holy conviction of all that is good in the world. Remember the times that you knew you were right? I guess there come a time in everybody's life to be found wanting when it matter the most. The funny thing is, were it not for hurt or shame or guilt or fear the odds are better than not you are right. If a common understanding exist and you share your conviction in honest and trust, the chance you are wrong will be slimmer to none. Unless of course, there is always the odd chance that maybe they thought... Maybe you should have t...

Unless you have been privileged to jump out of a plain or bungee off a bridge you cannot really say that you have experienced it, although there are a lot of ways that we try to imitate it. Take for instance circus flyers or loop-de-loop carnival rides, and I’m wondering why? For instance, did you know that our brain has the ability to make us feel as if we are free falling, even if were not? Scientists have recently discovered that our auditory system include a bulbous mass that start to vibrate if exposed the the right frequency of sound, and when it does you experience free falling. Right down to the loss of ability of just about everything you thought you had under control. I have never experienced it myself, but I think I have felt it while listening to an advertising media clip with enhanced sound. And still I don’t know why we would have such a trigger in sound? And why would evolution procreate such an obviously redundant ability? Why would it be found in other species even t...

You know how sometimes the answer to a question is right there under your nose? How sometimes the solution that will give resolution to a mystery that has vexed your mind for days, months or even years can sometimes be found in the very last place you look for it? Right in front of you? Then you know how it was that I met God. And true to the spirit of things I found He was there all the time! I suppose I could get away with the argument that I was blinded by divinity, but the truth is such that even a blind man could see it. Truth be told I guess the best advice I could give to any bold adventurer like me is to just approach it blindly. Research has shown that our brains are good at two things: One, it is very good at pattern recognition. So good in fact, that babies can differentiate between the identity of different sheep. Unfortunately this ability to remember a “face” in a flock is lost, along of a host of other abilities that cannot stand up to the harsh reality we often ...

How many of us still hold the view that the brain is an organ that doesn't change? Do you believe that we are born with what we have, and after that it is all pretty much downhill as our brain cells continue to die off as we get older? The good news is that this view is incorrect! According to a NewScientist Special Feature the brain is probably the organ that can expect the most changes during our lifetime as it constantly adapts to our changing environment. It starts to develop withing 5 weeks of gestation and continue to grow during the first two trimesters of pregnancy. After this period of construction it is ready to begin processing information it receives via sensory input. Perhaps surprisingly, learning, memory and language begin before we are even born. After birth the brain continues expanding its functional capacities, and at the age of approximately three months the cerebral cortex becomes active. The frontal cortex of the brain will ultimately govern such th...