61. Charles Sherrington

Scherrington (1857-1952), Doğasındaki İnsan (1938) adlı kitabında, aklın canlılıktan da farklı bir şey olduğunu şöyle ifade eder: “...Bir akıl sorunu olduğu zaman, sinir kendisini yadsınamaz bir hücre üzerine merkezleştirmekle tamamlayamaz. O, daha çok, büyük bir özenle, her birimi bir hücre olan milyon katlı bir demokrasi oluşturur... Ama yine de akla döndüğümüz zaman bunların hiçbiri yoktur. Tek bir sinir hücresi asla minyatür bir beyin değildir. Bedenin hücresel yapısı onun akıldan bir ipucu olmasını gerektirmez. Madde ve enerji, taneli yapıda ve böylece yaşam yapıcı gibi görünüyor ama akıl öyle değil.” diyerek[1] bedensel canlılıkla aklın farklı etmenlere bağlı olduğunu öne sürer. [1] Sherrington C. Man on his Nature. Cambridge University Press, 1940.

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62. Children Of Bipolar Parents Score Higher On Creativity Test, Stanford Study Finds

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown for the first time that a sample of children who either have or are at high risk for bipolar disorder score higher on a creativity index than healthy children. The findings add to existing evidence that a link exists between mood disorders and creativity.

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63. Çiğdem Başal

ben sadece bakınca gemiye benzettim çiğdem başal   

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64. City workers turn to psychics for advice

Bankers and accountants who used to put their faith in spreadsheets and complex formulas are now turning to clairvoyants for guidance. Many have even started taking in job offers and contracts to be analysed. The British Astrological and Psychic Society (BAPS) said it had witnessed a dramatic increase in the demand for readings in the last year – particularly in the last three months. Websites such as thepsychicsociety.co.uk and psychics.co.uk, which also offer psychic readings over the phone, have also reported a significant increase in enquiries. "I've definitely noticed a new trend," said Jayne Wallace, a clairvoyant who works in the Selfridges department store, in central London. "We're getting lots of city workers – particularly men coming in for readings. 

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65. Çizimlerde Ortaya Çıkan Hatalar

Çizim için paranormal ya da doğaüstü yetenek olması ya da bunu bilmek şart değildir. Ama bunun yapılabildiğine inanmak başarıyı önemli oranda arttırır. Bir çok kişi durugörüye inanır ama kendini bu konuda yeteneksiz kabul eder. Ama bazen beklenmedik, çizimler çıkar amatörler arasından. Çocuk ve gençlerde, gelişmiş durucular kadar yetenek vardır. Sezgileri olduğunu düşünen bir çok kişide aslında durugörü - duyu dışı algılama – uzaktangörü yeteneği vardır. Toplumun %10’undan fazlasında bu yetenek çeşitli derecelerde vardır.

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66. Clever Hans and his effects. Karl Krall and the origins of experimental parapsychology in Germany

Stud Hist Philos Biol Biomed Sci. 2014 Aug 28. pii: S1369-8486(14)00085-5. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2014.07.005. [Epub ahead of print] Clever Hans and his effects. Karl Krall and the origins of experimental parapsychology in Germany. De Sio F1, Marazia C2. Author information: 1Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany. Electronic address: Fabio.Sio@uni-duesseldorf.de. 2Département d'histoire des sciences de la vie et de la santé, Université de Strasbourg, France. Abstract Shortly before the outbreak of World War I, the so-called Elberfeld horses, the counting and speaking animals, were among the most debated subjects of the newborn comparative psychology. Yet, they have left little trace in the historiography of this discipline, mostly as an appendix of the more famous Clever Hans. Their story is generally told as the prelude to the triumph of reductionistic experimental psychology. By paying a more scrupulous attention than has so far being done to the second life of Hans, and to the endeavours of his second master, Karl Krall, this article explores the story of the Elberfeld horses as an important, if so far neglected, chapter in the history of experimental parapsychology.

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67. Coffee or Beer? The Choice Could Affect Your Genome

Now Prof. Martin Kupiec and his team at Tel Aviv University's Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology have discovered that the beverages may also have opposite effects on your genome. Working with a kind of yeast that shares many important genetic similarities with humans, the researchers found that caffeine shortens and alcohol lengthens telomeres -- the end points of chromosomal DNA, implicated in aging and cancer. "For the first time we've identified a few environmental factors that alter telomere length, and we've shown how they do it," said Prof. Kupiec. "What we learned may one day contribute to the prevention and treatment of human diseases." Researchers from TAU's Blavatnik School of Computer Science and Columbia University's Department of Biological Sciences collaborated on the research, published in PLOS Genetics. Between death and immortality Telomeres, made of DNA and proteins, mark the ends of the strands of DNA in our chromosomes. They are essential to ensuring that the DNA strands are repaired and copied correctly. Every time a cell duplicates, the chromosomes are copied into the new cell with slightly shorter telomeres. Eventually, the telomeres become too short, and the cell dies. Only fetal and cancer cells have mechanisms to avoid this fate; they go on reproducing forever. The researchers set out to expand on a 2004 study by Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Prof. Elizabeth Blackburn, which suggested that emotional stress causes the shortening of the telomeres characteristic of aging, presumably by generating free radicals in the cells. The researchers grew yeast cells in conditions that generate free radicals to test the effect on telomere length. They were surprised to find that the length did not change. They went on to expose the yeast cells to 12 other environmental stressors. Most of the stressors -- from temperature and pH changes to various drugs and chemicals -- had no effect on telomere length. But a low concentration of caffeine, similar to the amount found in a shot of espresso, shortened telomeres, and exposure to a 5-to-7 percent ethanol solution lengthened telomeres. From yeasts to you To understand these changes, the TAU researchers scanned 6,000 strains of the yeast, each with a different gene deactivated. They then conducted genetic tests on the strains with the longest and shortest telomeres, revealing that two genes, Rap1 and Rif1, are the main players mediating environmental stressors and telomere length. In total, some 400 genes interact to maintain telomere length, the TAU researchers note, underscoring the importance of this gene network in maintaining the stability of the genome. Strikingly, most of these yeast genes are also present in the human genome. "This is the first time anyone has analyzed a complex system in which all of the genes affecting it are known," said Prof. Kupiec. "It turns out that telomere length is something that's very exact, which suggests that precision is critical and should be protected from environmental effects." More laboratory work is needed to prove a causal relationship, not a mere correlation, between telomere length and aging or cancer, the researchers say. Only then will they know whether human telomeres respond to the same signals as yeast, potentially leading to medical treatments and dietary guidelines. For now, Prof. Kupiec suggests, "Try to relax and drink a little coffee and a little beer."

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68. Correcting the past: failures to replicate ψ

J Pers Soc Psychol. 2012 Dec;103(6):933-48. doi: 10.1037/a0029709. Epub 2012 Aug 27. Correcting the past: failures to replicate ψ. Galak J, Leboeuf RA, Nelson LD, Simmons JP. Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Office 381-D, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. jgalak@cmu.edu Abstract Across 7 experiments (N = 3,289), we replicate the procedure of Experiments 8 and 9 from Bem (2011), which had originally demonstrated retroactive facilitation of recall. We failed to replicate that finding. We further conduct a meta-analysis of all replication attempts of these experiments and find that the average effect size (d = 0.04) is no different from 0. We discuss some reasons for differences between the results in this article and those presented in Bem (2011).

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69. Could there be proof to the theory that we're ALL psychic?

'Up to 85 per cent of people may be clairvoyant' says a researcher. Dr Chris Roe places a pair of enormous fluffy earphones over the head of a blonde 20-year-old woman. He carefully slices a ping-pong ball in half and tapes each piece over her eyes. Then he switches on a red light that bathes the woman in an eerie glow, and leaves the room. After a few moments, a low hum begins to fill the laboratory and the woman begins smiling sweetly to herself as images of distant locations start to pass through her mind.

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70. Crisis as deferred closure - clairvoyant counselling in contemporary Danish society.

Anthropol Med. 2013 Aug;20(2):190-202. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2013.800806. Crisis as deferred closure - clairvoyant counselling in contemporary Danish society. Steffen V. a Department of Anthropology , University of Copenhagen , Denmark. Abstract Clairvoyance, spiritualism and healing are popular ways of seeking guidance and personal development in contemporary Danish society. Although few Danes are self-declared spiritualists, many believe in the existence of ghosts and the ability of clairvoyants to communicate with the departed, and the market of alternative therapies offers a number of mediumistic activities. In anthropological writings, such activities are often associated with crisis and the re-establishment of order. The concept of crisis refers to a time of great difficulty or danger or when an important decision must be made. Looking at the people who seek guidance from the spiritual world, however, both the implication of a limited time span, the idea of great difficulty, and the indication of decision-making may be challenged. In some cases, spirit consultations initiate processes of new definitions and classifications of problems, but in others they just seem to confirm old problems in an ongoing effort to cope with the difficulties of everyday situations. The aim of this paper is to explore the diversity of outcomes from clairvoyance and spiritualist consultations. Focusing on the particularity of specific cases, the author wants to demonstrate the analytical implications of seeing these activities through the lens of crisis. Instead of pushing the framework of crisis, meaning and order, the author suggests a rethinking of spiritual healing as an integrated rather than extraordinary way of dealing with the challenges of everyday life, and of crisis as a context for the deferred closure of insecurity.

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