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How do strong muscles keep your brain healthy?


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Sci, 2022-08-24, 10:16 PM

How do strong muscles keep your brain healthy?

Bonnie Tsui


Quote:There’s a robust molecular language being spoken between your muscles and your brain.



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We’ve often thought

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Listen to the sound of a black hole


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Ninshub, 2022-08-24, 01:43 AM

Courtesy of NASA.

(My cat just ran out of the room, as I started playing - no kidding!)

More on vice.com:

[url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3p3dv/nasa-has-captured-actual-sound-in-space-and-its-honestly-terrifying]

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Anti-depressant scandal


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Sci, 2022-08-23, 08:14 PM

[i]Note: I think it's important to remember that anti-depressants do seem to work for some percentage of the population and apparently can be life-saving for at least some people and this is not necessarily easily predictable - certainly not across screens by lay persons!

All to say an internet

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The tip of the iceberg of fine tuning


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    2 Replies

nbtruthman, 2022-08-23, 09:54 AM

At https://mindmatters.ai/2022/08/has-a-sup...s-physics/.

Fine tuning is real, and astrophysicist Sir Fred Hoyle (who started as an atheist) had to think again when he discovered the most significant aspect or parameter of fine tuning, the nucleosynthesis of ca

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Bigelow Grants for Survival of Consciousness Research


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Sci, 2022-08-22, 05:25 PM

Just a reminder that this presentation will be happening a few days from now:



[quote]In 2020, aerospace entrepreneur Robert T. Bigelow founded the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (BICS). BICS's mission includes "to

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Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    19 Replies

RViewer88, 2022-08-22, 06:55 AM

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Life on Proxima B?


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Brian, 2022-08-21, 03:36 PM




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Did the Big Bang actually not happen? New Webb telescope images.


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nbtruthman, 2022-08-19, 02:02 AM

The latest James Webb Space Telescope deep sky images are panicing many cosmologists and astrophysicists because the images show a vast and unexpected and unpredicted number of early galaxies. This is wrong according to Big Bang theory. The problem of the new images is even causing doubts about the

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Garry Nolan: analyzing UFO-related materials


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Ninshub, 2022-08-18, 11:14 PM

He was mentioned in a recent thread, working with Vallée for some years and they've published articles together.

I thought this was a great interview from early this year and he comes across as most properly scientific in his attitude and approach. Recommended.

[video=youtube]https://www.youtu

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Mitch Horowitz: Bem's precognition data still holds up


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Ninshub, 2022-08-18, 02:58 PM

Is Precognition Real?
Mitch Horowitz    Aug 17, 2022

Boing Boing/MidJourney

Skeptics Eviscerated a Cornell Psychologist Whose Published Evidence Said Yes. A Decade Later, His Data Has Stood Up.

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Mo

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