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Nervous system [of nematodes] can transmit messages to future generations


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Sci, 2019-06-10, 01:22 AM

Nervous system can transmit messages to future generations


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Researchers found a mechanism exh

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Borjigin's latest rat study and another period of hyperconnectivity within 1h of CA


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Max_B, 2019-06-09, 09:07 PM

Borjigin's done it again... :-)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30625009

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Interestingly, CCoh in SHRSP rats exhibited a dramatic surge (hyperconnectivity) within one hour of cardiac arrest, indicating that the brain is interna

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The Tyranny of Simple Explanations


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Sci, 2019-06-09, 07:22 PM

The Tyranny of Simple Explanations: The history of science has been distorted by a longstanding conviction that correct theories about nature are always the most elegant ones.

Philip Ball



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Superunification of physics - how long if ever?


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nbtruthman, 2019-06-09, 05:44 PM

A little off-topic for this forum, but I think this new relatively brief and uniquely lucid exposition/summary of the situation now confronting modern physics deserves a little attention: "[url=https://www.space.com/theory-of-everything-millennia-away.html]Einstein's Quest to 'Know God's Thoughts' C

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Just Eat More Fiber


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Sci, 2019-06-09, 05:16 PM

Just Eat More Fiber

Olga Khazan

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[b]“We found that those who had the highest intake of fiber or total fiber actually had an almost 80 percent greater likelihood of living a long and healthy life

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NDEs and epileptic seizures


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Raf999, 2019-06-09, 01:29 PM

Administrator note: This discussion has been moved to this subforum.

[b] Raf, I'll remind you that arguing that an entire category of paranormal phenomena is illusory or materialistic in nature, rather than a specific individual case, has to be done in this sub-forum, and not in the Extend

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Members Pics


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Stan Woolley, 2019-06-08, 05:09 PM

Decided to put a pic of myself up.

   


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Online recreation of Whately Carington's telepathy experiment


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Chris, 2019-06-08, 08:58 AM

Cat Ward is going to carry out a fairly close replication of Whately Carington's 1939 experiment, in which participants tried to reproduce a series of pictures with randomly selected themes which were displayed in Carington's study (curtained and guarded) in Cambridge. Of course, one difference is t

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Our beloved friend Doug has passed on


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Ninshub, 2019-06-08, 03:57 AM

Hi everyone,
 
Unfortunately I’ve got some very sad news to share with all of you. Thanks to Laird reaching out to a neighbor of his because we had not been getting any news for several weeks, we’ve learned today that our beloved friend and long-time forum colleague Doug has passed away. Apparentl

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Bruce Damer


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Larry, 2019-06-06, 07:09 PM

I recently listened to a couple of interviews with Dr Bruce Damer. After the first interview on the origins of life I was a bit perplexed in that his theory seemed to transend the modern synthesis yet he still did not seem open to any kind of field factor like morphic resonance  or consciousness bei

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