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Lessons From the Tropics

Perceived as an oasis, lush with green vegetation, relaxing beaches, cool waterfalls, and ample time to relax, the stereotype which drives so many to the tropics is actually quite correct. However,...

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The Overview Effect

First described by author Frank White in 1987, it is an experience that transforms astronauts’ perspective of the planet and mankind’s place upon it. Common features of the experience are a feeling of...

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Scientists Discover ‘New’ Area of Brain

North star is changing. Earth’s poles are shifting. Is there a cosmic connection between the three? ‘A new brain region that appears to help humans identify whether they have made bad decisions has...

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Just How Conscious are We?

Our Brains Are Actively Fooling Us half of the time Philosopher Dan Dennett makes a compelling argument that we don’t understand our own consciousness… video Being PRESENT in the NOW ‘Reflections on...

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A Perfect Case of ‘Let sleeping dogs lie’

Digging up the past could ruin your life Couple’s search for each long lost mother yields shocking discovery – they’re siblings ‘Both of them were abandoned when they were still babies. They also know...

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The Push Cart High School Philippines Growing Successful

There are very few things that makes me proud being a Filipino. One of them is our world-class teachers. ‘Efren Penaflorida started this Kariton School in 2009 and won the Hero of the Year award by CNN...

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Newly Discovered Miracles of Nature

Female Ferns Can Turn Their Neighbors Male They communicate with one another to decide gender ‘A combined team of researchers from Nagoya University and the University of Tokyo has discovered that a...

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What the people of the Amazon know that you don’t

‘…Let’s move to the western Amazon, which is really the epicenter of isolated peoples. Each of these dots represents a small, uncontacted tribe, and the big reveal today is we believe there are 14 or...

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A Leaderless Flock is Prone to Mass Death [Video]

Sheep are always a leaderless flock and just follow one another. So when the one in front jumps off a cliff, all the others follow ‘Turkish shepherds watched in horror as hundreds of their sheep...

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Your Brain Peforms Better While It Slows Down

This verifies yoga meditation again. In scientific term, I’d like to call it biorhythm pacing ‘Best-selling author Steven Kotler recently visited Big Think to discuss the optimization of consciousness...

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