Riddles of man 2024, May

As we get older, there is a sense of the transience of time, every second runs faster. The acceleration is noticeable every week, the month is getting shorter, and even the outgoing year has flashed in one fell swoop.Obviously, time doesn't run out faster

Most people have very similar ideas about attractiveness: correct waist-to-hip ratio, symmetrical facial features, good health, calm and kind disposition. However, in reality, the choice of a partner is often far from this ideal. Moreover, we step on the same rake over and over again, entering into relationships with those who, like two drops of water, resemble our exes

If you consider yourself a mentally healthy member of society, then you may be wrong. Almost everyone has mental problems, regardless of age, race or class, and the degree of their obviousness increases every day.Here are 10 little-known facts about mental health and overall well-being

Life is full of ups and downs, and we don't always know how to deal with problems. In our daily life, fear and ignorance are very powerful enemies. Being strong emotionally as well as mentally can be very helpful in overcoming obstacles that arise without warning

Some kind of amazing information, either by its delusional or by its uniqueness. The source is of course so-so, but still. The perfectly harmless parasite is said to be a secret source of business acumen that makes people more risk averse

Psychoneuroimmunologist Daisy Fancourt on the impact of cultural life on our well-being, the correlation between reading fiction and a healthy lifestyle, and how art helps to cure chronic painFor centuries, people have debated whether art has autonomous value

Quite a popular topic on the Internet: two twins from Britain, bloggers Ross Turner and Hugo, decided to experience the effects of a vegan diet and compare it with a meat one. This experiment was followed by scientists. Let's look at the results of the experiment, and then I'll explain why they are

When the main character of the film falls into the abyss, we know that there will be a twig on the slope, which he will have time to grab onto at the last moment. It turns out that this happens not only in the movies

The salts of this alkali metal affect people's mood.Lithium is traditionally used in psychiatry with a proven ability to stabilize mood. It is used to treat mental illnesses: manic and hypomanic states, for the prevention of affective bipolar and schizoaffective disorders

A resident of Australia survived in the wilderness for 12 days and waited for help. It is reported by ABC.Tamra McBeath-Riley, 52, took her dog Raya with two companions, Claire Hockridge and Phu Tran, on a road trip in mid-November to the remote reaches of the Northern Territory

There are people who get out alive from 100% fatal situations. Not only old folk legends tell about those who were spoken from death. There are very few of them, but they live among us.Let's leave alone medieval European legends and Russian epics

In 2008, an amazing and mysterious incident attracted the attention of the whole world. A woman named Noor Saida, 40, who was born in Sangatta, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, went to doctors complaining that she had metallic hair growing on her chest and abdomen

You watch TV, so you might think that we are surrounded by people with continuous supernormal abilities: someone magnetizes spoons, someone does not breathe under water for a long time, and someone does eat the Sun at all!- Salik.bizWho are the sun-eatersThese people claim to be able to live longer without food or water and still feel great

In the dark basement of our brain, which is called the unconscious, is stored everything that we have ever seen, heard, smelled.The kitchen of our brain is designed in such a way that everything that we have ever seen, heard, smelled, and so on is stored in its dark basement, which is called the unconscious

Approximately two to three million years ago, the first primate moved from the forest to the savannah. He has grown longer legs, bigger muscles and wider feet. Then he developed sweat glands, which allowed him to cool off under the scorching African sun

American scientists have discovered a mutated gene ADRB1, thanks to which its carriers get enough sleep not in eight, but in six hours. Further study of the characteristics of this gene may lead to the creation of new types of drugs for the prevention of sleep disorders, experts say

This is a mutant. Moreover, these mutants appeared only 6,000 years ago. Don't believe me? Now I'll tell you everything If you trace the history of mankind, it is not difficult to find that blue eyes were especially valued at all times

Homo sapiens is endowed with a harmonious set of feelings to adequately perceive and explore the world around him, and skillful hands to transform reality around him

Economists are talking about the next wave of the financial crisis, and the people are already panicking: and so the pockets are empty - what will happen next ?! And they don't realize that almost 100% of our financial well-being depends solely on us

According to the American Association for Anxiety Disorders and Depression (imagine there is one), about 18 percent of US citizens have anxiety disorders, and about 80 percent of them do not seek medical attention.Many people deny that they have depression, especially if they cannot think of a specific reason that could make them feel depressed

Depression is sweeping the world like the plague and smallpox marched centuries ago, as cholera and the "Spanish flu" did. What is the nature of this victory march? Where is the trigger that sets in motion the social springs and gears that create this phenomenon?

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has presented a report on the creation of a new type of therapy based on the use of psychoactive fungi in the treatment of patients with clinical depression. For the second time in a year, psilocybin therapy has proven effective in treating mental illness and depressive disorder, according to experts

Positive attitude - one of the best drugs in the fight against cancer. A recent study found that the death rate among anxious and depressed cancer patients is higher than among more positive-minded patients

Brazilian scientists have shown for the first time that the hallucinogenic drink ayahuasca can improve depressive symptoms. Ayahuasca, or liana of the dead, is a herbal decoction used by the tribes of the Amazon basin for ritual purposes

Transcendental meditation can cut your risk of heart attack in half. So say researchers from the Medical College of Wisconsin (USA). And proved their statement on experiments

It would seem that human anatomy has been very well studied for many hundreds of years. Yes, you can argue and study some of the processes in the human body, but is it difficult to answer a simple technical question - How many bones are in a person?

If one Son of God is good, then three is probably three times better? It may seem that this is exactly what the man thought when he decided to bring together three men, each of whom considered himself Jesus Christ. And thus, and not some complete namesake

Brick, as you know, will never fall on anyone's head for no reason. Mystics are piously convinced of the validity of Bulgakov's Woland statement

"Who is he, the one for whom they take me?" Nautil.us columnist Bruce Watson examines the impostor syndrome from different points of view, which occurs much more often than one might think, and understands how all kinds of crooks and "great combinators" attract and fascinate us, as it is related to the plurality of our "I", why from time to time it seems to us that we are also pretending to do something, where this feeling comes from and how all this is explained by philosophy

The structure of the human body is such that one cannot function without the other, which means that all systems must be created simultaneously. However, this does not fit the evolutionary theory, when the organism changes gradually …Surgeon Joseph Kuhn of the University of Baylor Medical Center, Texas, published a work called "Dissecting Darwinism" 8 years ago, and this work is still controversial

American researchers have proposed a method for detecting genes of other hominid species in the DNA of modern people, for which you do not need to know the genome of the "invader", according to Science Advances. This makes it possible to search for traces of hybridization of Homo sapiens with those species whose genome has not yet been deciphered, and even with those whose material evidence of life (bones, tools) has not yet been found

It is possible that the history of evolution of modern humans will have to be rewritten due to the well-preserved skull, called Skull-5, which is about 1.8 million years old. According to Swiss scientists, the remains of an ancient human ancestor found in Dmanisi (Georgia) are evidence that there was no division of the Homo genus into species

For more than a decade, a group of research scientists have been working on the study of the human genome, the completion of the work was marked by a shocking scientific recognition: the very 97 percent of non-coding sequences in human DNA are the genetic code introduced to us by aliens

In the eighties of the last century, American neurologists, studying the capabilities of the brain and human consciousness, came to an unexpected conclusion - a person is completely deprived of free will and makes decisions based on a ready-made algorithm

The concept of absurdity as a fundamental characteristic of human existence was introduced into philosophy by Albert Camus, succinctly summing up in it the results of the quests of non-classical philosophy and the explosions of existential crises from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche to Dostoevsky and Tolstoy

Scientists for the first time captured on camera the process of decomposition of a corpse over a year and a half. What they saw can shock impressionable people: all this time the dead man made movements.A common human reaction to a corpse is intense disgust

Alison Wilson, a pathologist in Australia, after studying and photographing the movements of the corpse for 17 months, told AFP on Friday that she found that people have been unable to rest in peace lately.In one of her examples, the arms of the corpse, which from the moment of death were extended along the body, for some unknown reason were eventually pulled apart

For many years we were taught that back in the 19th century at the age of 30, a person was considered an old man, and life expectancy was almost two times less than today. Modern research has shown that this is a delusion and is caused by misinterpretation of statistics

Geographic location has a significant impact on your likelihood of reaching 100 years of age, according to a study by an international team of scientists based on mortality data. Of course, good genes play a role in life expectancy, but many environmental factors are known to affect their work

Gerontologist Alexei Moskalev told about the factors that affect the life expectancy of people.“She was not young, she was just 20 years old …”. Remember Pushkin? And what about the old Kirsanovs from the novel "Fathers and Sons", who, it turns out, are in their early 40s? Such