How the coronavirus is driving new surveillance programs globally

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An Irminsul in Irmenseul


An Irminsul was a sacred pillar-like object attested as playing an important role in the Germanic paganism of the Saxons.


There is no doubt that Irminsul was a sacred symbol of the Saxons, an ancient Germanic tribe that occupied the region of modern Schleswig and along the Baltic coast.
According to the oldest accounts, Irminsul was a tree trunk erected in the open air.

Research on meditative Qigong practice demonstrates beneficial effects on health

As dynamic Qigong affords series of complex bodily movements, practitioners have to invest high effort and attention to learn the new movements. One benefit of that is that directing attention toward the movement execution and kinaesthetic sensations is intended to result in a centered state of internalized concentration. This mechanism plays a key role in mind-body therapies such as dynamic Qigong to draw the attention away from the everyday mind flow to reach an attentive state




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Blood and tears found miraculously flowing from Christ's body on Mount Athos today ☦

Futurism


Should humanity fear the singularity? Kurzweil doesn’t think so. In fact, he isn’t worried. What science fiction depicts as singularity — when AI enslaves humanity — is fiction, he says. “That’s not realistic,” Kurzweil said. He says singularity is an opportunity for humans to improve.


“We’re going to get more neo-cortex, we’re going to be funnier, we’re going to be better at music, we’re going to be sexier. We’re really going to exemplify all the things that we value in humans to a greater degree,” he said.



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Ever wished you could soar above your city? Lucid dreamers are able to control their time in the land of nod, and you could be able to, too.


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Fact or Fiction: Raw Veggies are Healthier than Cooked Ones


« Cooked carrots, spinach, mushrooms, asparagus, cabbage, peppers and many other vegetables supply more antioxidants, such as carotenoids and ferulic acid, to the body than they do when raw, Liu says. At least, that is, if they're boiled or steamed. »



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You are what you eat —
and how you cook it



« A growing plant produces a range of antimicrobial compounds to defend itself. When these plant foods are cooked, these compounds are largely inactivated,” Carmody said. “But when these plant foods are eaten raw, some of these antimicrobial compounds act against microbes in the gut — and some microbes are more susceptible than others. »




“As a human evolutionary biologist, I’ve reached the point where I’m not totally sure what a human is — where our biology ends and the environment begins.”

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What doctors on the front lines wish they’d known a month ago
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