In this video, Sara Lazar, a neuroscientist, explains with scientific evidence & brain scans how meditation actually changes the size of key regions of our brain, improving our memory and making us more empathetic, compassionate, and resilient under stress. Full details of the study here – Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness For the current study, MR...
This is a golden chance for all of you who always wanted an education at the world-renowned Stanford University. Stanford University is offering free online courses under many streams for all now. From Mathematical thinking to Entrepreneurship and Cryptography, there are some awesome subjects to learn from the best team at Stanford. The courses started back in August and runs through to January...
Found this beautiful infographic that shows the differences between animals and human beings. Click on the picture for the hi-res version.
Scientists are funny. They contradict themselves all the time. Probably part of their evolution process but this time they have done it again. Scientists now say that they might have found the cure for ageing in humans. Scientists have recently succeeded in rejuvenating cells from elderly donors (aged over 100). These old cells were reprogrammed in vitro to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC)...
In one of Michael Wood’s documentaries titled “The Story of India”, he mentions the Vedic knowledge in Kerala, which was transferred from generations across to the current pedigree. The chants have no words or lipi but is just a sequential pattern of sounds which are chanted with a particular synchronous pattern. These Vedic chants, are the truest form of human communication that has been...
Joe Cohen, a GlaxoSmithKline research scientist has spent 24 years trying to create the world’s first malaria vaccine, “Mosquirix”. His team has been partially successful at it so far but recent developments tells that the Malarial vaccine might actually be a reality. Final stage clinical trial data on RTS,S, also known as Mosquirix, showed it halved the risk of African children getting...
For years, scientists have been studying the human eye, no how it functions. The human eye’s movement is one of the most interesting areas of scientific study. Doctors have been successful in deciphering the codes partially, but the eye remain still a mystery. Amidst all this, YouTube user SaintJimmey has contributed to this in some bizzare way by recording his eye movements in super slow motion...