Pres. Barack Obama yesterday hosted 16 new Medal of Freedom recipients at the White House, honoring their lifelong contributions to the expansion of human understanding and the promotion of individual liberty and human dignity. Among the recipients were scientists and activists, soldiers and political leaders, preachers and athletes, native Americans, African Americans, Latin Americans, Africans and Asians. The 16 laureates exemplify not only rare talent and indomitable spirit, but also a devoti
Bruce Charlton, Professor of Theoretical Medicine at Buckingham and Editor in Chief of Medical Hypotheses, asks “Why are modern scientists so dull?” In a nutshell, I am suggesting that: Educational attainment depends on IQ × C [conscientiousness]; but IQ and C are not closely-correlated. Modern education has progressively raised the floor for C (by lengthening the educational process and by changes in educational evaluation methods). Educational attainment therefore nowadays increasingly re
Is Attention Span The Secret of Raising IQ? Speed Reading Rules Scientists calculate the amount of time we can concentrate on a task without being distracted, disrupted, or bored, as our Attention-Span. Research indicates excessive TV and Web activity reduces A-S. Children from ages 6 to 12 exhaust their Attention-Span within 5 minutes. Adults appears to maintain A-S up to 20 minutes. Our eyes tend to shift from concentrating focus exclusively on one goal within 5 minutes; inter
By CHARLES SIEBERT NY Times Published: July 8, 2009 On the afternoon of Sept. 25, 2002, a group of marine biologists vacationing on Isla San José, in Baja California Sur, Mexico, came upon a couple of whales stranded along the beach. A quick assessment indicated that they had died quite recently. The scientists radioed a passing vessel and sent a message to a colleague at a nearby marine-mammal laboratory, who came to the beach to do an examination. They were beaked whales, of which there a
Cymatics and The New Age of Miracles Including an interview with Sir Peter Guy Manners, M.D. Susan Barber / The Spirit of Maat A Re-Soundingly Successful Experiment Recently, in Germany, researchers took the DNA of a 17-year-old boy, recorded its sound frequencies, and saved them. The boy was accidentally killed, but the scientists still had his DNA frequency patterns. Later, the DNA frequencies of the 17-year-old were transmitted into the body of a man in his late t
