211. Yerküre

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212. Can psychics be good for your health?

Three months ago, Twitter hosted its first scientific experiment and invited users to help demonstrate the existence of psychic powers. Professor Richard Wiseman, of the University of Hertfordshire, recruited 7,000 volunteers via the social messaging service to investigate "remote viewing" (RV). A remote viewer is a gifted individual who claims to be able to "see" events in the past, present and future, and identifying distant locations. The psychology professor, famed for his mass-participation experiments, which explore the curious science of everyday life, travelled to a mystery site in the UK, whereupon he sent a Tweet. Participants were asked to pinpoint his location by selecting it from a line-up of five photographs. As only 15 per cent of people correctly predicted Prof Wiseman's location – despite a 20 per cent probability – he pronounced RV to be a hoax.

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213. Surprising Discovery: Skin Communicates With Liver

Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark have discovered that the skin is capable of communicating with the liver. The discovery has surprised the scientists, and they say that it may help our understanding of how skin diseases can affect the rest of the body.   Professor Susanne Mandrup and her research group in collaboration with Nils Færgeman's research group at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Southern Denmark was actually studying something completely different when they made the groundbreaking discovery: That the skin, which is the body's largest organ, can "talk" to the liver. "We have showed that the skin affects the metabolism in the liver, and that is quite a surprise," say Susanne Mandrup and Ditte Neess, a former student in the Mandrup research group and now laboratory manager in Professor Nils Færgeman's group. The phenomenon was observed in the researcher's laboratory mice. The Mandrup and Færgeman groups work with so-called knock-out mice, in which a specific fat binding protein called acyl CoA binding protein has been removed (knocked out). Some knock-out mice produced by the researchers had a strange greasy fur, and they had difficulties being weaned from their mother. In the weaning period they gained less weight and showed a failure to thrive. Analyses also showed that the mice accumulated fat in the liver at weaning. "At first we thought that the fat accumulation in the liver was linked with the fact that the gene was missing in the liver of the knock-out mice. But this was ruled out by a series of studies, and we had to find another explanation," says Ditte Neess. She and her colleagues took another look at the rumpled and weak knock-out mice. Their fur was greasy, and they had a leaky skin from which they lost more water than normal mice. "When they lose water, they also lose heat. We therefore asked ourselves whether this water and heat loss could be the reason why the mice accumulated fat in the liver and became weak when weaned from their mother," says Ditte Neess. To clarify this, the researchers made some mice that lacked the fat binding protein only in the skin. Similar to the full knockouts these mice had difficulties after weaning and accumulated fat in the liver. So this showed that the lack of the fat-binding protein in the skin was sufficient to induce accumulation of fat in the liver. To get to the bottom of how a defect in the skin "talks" to the liver, the researchers decided to cover the mice with Vaseline. This would prevent water evaporating from the skin and thus stopping the heat loss. As a result the fat accumulation in the liver disappeared. But as Vaseline contains fat, that could theoretically be absorbed by the skin or ingested by the mice, the researchers were a little unsure if there were side effects from the Vaseline. A student proposed to cover the mice with liquid latex, which she found in a local sex shop. Having covered the mice in blue latex the researchers saw that fat accumulation in the liver again disappeared. "We believe that the leaking of water from the skin makes the mice feel cold, and that this leads to breaking down of fat in their adipose (fat) tissue. The broken down fat is then moved to the liver. The mice move energy from the tissues to the liver," Susanne Mandrup and Ditte Neess explain.

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214. Zeliha K.-2

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215. Testimonies of precognition and encounters with psychiatry in letters to J. B. Priestley.

Stud Hist Philos Biol Biomed Sci. 2014 Aug 27. pii: S1369-8486(14)00086-7. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2014.07.006. [Epub ahead of print] Testimonies of precognition and encounters with psychiatry in letters to J. B. Priestley. Price K. Author information: Queen Mary University, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK. Electronic address: k.price@qmul.ac.uk. Abstract Using letters sent to British playwright J. B. Priestley in 1963, this paper explores the intersection between patient-focused history of psychiatry and the history of parapsychology in everyday life. Priestley's study of precognition lay outside the main currents of parapsychology, and his status as a storyteller encouraged confidences about anomalous temporal experience and mental illness. Drawing on virtue epistemology, I explore the regulation of subjectivity operated by Priestley in establishing the credibility of his correspondents in relation to their gender and mental health, and investigate the possibility of testimonial justice for these witnesses. Priestley's ambivalent approach to madness in relation to visions of the future is related to the longer history of prophecy and madness. Letters from the television audience reveal a variety of attitudes towards the compatibility of precognition with modern theories of the mind, show the flexibility of precognition in relation to mental distress, and record a range of responses from medical and therapeutic practitioners. Testimonial justice for those whose experience of precognition intersects with psychiatric care entails a full acknowledgement of the tensions and complicities between these two domains as they are experienced by the witness, and an explicit statement of the hearer's orientation to those domains. Copyright © 2014. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

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216. Nurten P.

   

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217. Zeka=Beyin+Çevre ve Öjeni, Arı Irk Yaratma Çabası

Zekanın tanımı veya ölçümü için geliştirilen yöntemler her ne tipte olursa olsun, kesin olan bir şey var, o da zekanın beynin bir ürünü olduğudur. Genler bilginin bir kuşaktan diğerine geçişini sağlarlar. Ancak beyin yapısı genetik programlamanın çok ötesindedir. Genetik etkilerin beyin gelişimi ve değişimi üzerinde etkisinin çok az olduğu son yıllarda yapılan çalışmalarla gösterilmiştir. Öjeniklar bugünkü sinirbilimi bilgilerinden haberdar olsalardı yaptıklarının yanlış olduğunu kabul ederlerdi. Onların ki bilgisizlikten kaynaklanan aptal cesaretiydi! Şimdiki öjeniklerin cesaretini ise siyasi ve ideolojik amaçlardan almaktadırlar.

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218. Güngör R.

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219. Ayşin

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220. İki gün önceden öngörülen Elazığ tren kazası

4 Ocak 2013 tarihinde sitemize, makinist hatasından kaynaklanan bir tren kazasının Ocak ayı içinde, yakın bir zamanda gerçekleşeceği yönünde öngörü algısı kaydedilmişti. 6 Ocak 2013 tarihinde, yani kayıttan 2 gün sonra, Elazığda iki tren çarpışması gerçekleşti. Elazığ'da tren istasyonuna giriş yapan yolcu treni ile manevra yapan yük treninin çarpışması sonucu 2'si makinist, 8 kişi yaralandı.  Alınan bilgiye göre, Adana'dan yola çıkan yolcu treni Fırat Ekpresi, Elazığ'a 25 kilometre mesafede Yolçatı tren istasyonu girişinde manevra yapan bir yük treniyle çarpıştı. 

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