Buddha Buddy - the mascot of sattvahwellness.com
Buddha Buddy - the mascot of sattvahwellness.com
Inner Smile
Scientists discover how humans develop larger brains than other apes (phys.org)
A new study is the first to identify how human brains grow much larger, with three times as many neurons, compared with chimpanzee and gorilla brains. The study identified a key molecular switch that can make ape brain organoids grow more like human organoids, and vice versa.
Photosynthesis could be as old as life itself (imperial)
Researchers find the earliest bacteria had the tools to perform a crucial step in photosynthesis, showing the process previously thought to take billions of years to evolve could be as old as life itself, and suggesting other planets may have evolved complex life much earlier than previously thought
50% of Americans saying markets are rigged (Axios)
Nearly 50% of Americans now say the stock market is "rigged against individual investors," a new survey from Bankrate.com and YouGov shows, and surprisingly a solid majority of those investing in the stock market (56%) believe the market is rigged as well.
"In my world, Nature is with me and she is listening" - Davi Yanomami
A shaman of the Yanomami indigenous people of Brazil
"One day 45 years ago Master Huang said he will tell us all a secret... I was 15 at time and was really excited as the master would be imparting to us with the secret of Tai Chi.... All he said was Funk Sung.... Relax."
Master Huang Xingxiang - Five Loosening Exercises
Grandmaster Chen Zheng Lei - Taoist Qigong Opening Exercises
Nancy - by Olivia Jaimes - for May 4, 2018 (United Feature Syndicate)
"Information means reduction of uncertainty" - From "The Audio Revolution" - by Alex Danco
My alt version - switching focus from things ("info") to actions ("relax"):
Vlad the Impaler Discovers Entomology
"As crazy as it sounds, brace yourself for the drop... 'cause you know it's coming."
Mario Draghi, the unelected Prime Minister of Italy and "ex" Goldman Sachs Manager, threatens to make the Covid vaccines compulsory after a poll shows half of Italians refuse the vaccine.
Iran concerned UN, WHO biased in favor of inadequately-tested US technology (presstv)
A senior Iranian health official says the Islamic Republic is concerned that world bodies such as the United Nations and the World Health Organization are biased in favor of inadequately-tested US technology and this is why they are trying to pressure countries into using US vaccines whose effects and side effects have not been established in a scientific way yet.
Meanwhile in the land of the free, home of the brave, capital of comedy: