Riddles of man 2024, November

Mathematicians and biologists from the Russian startup Gero have created an algorithm that allows you to accurately estimate a person's biological age using a short questionnaire. Their findings were published in the electronic library bioRxiv

Many people had imaginary friends in childhood. And even if a child talking to someone invisible sometimes caused anxiety among others, over time they came to the conclusion that this is just one of the stages of growing up that most children go through

There is much more to a simple movement like a hug than it might seem at first glance. Thus, people show care, attention and love for a loved one. Hugs are needed for both children and adults. After all, if the child was hugged a little, then he will not learn to fully show his love for the people around him

Belief in witches affects social processes within the community, dictating to residents with whom to continue the family line and who to help and who to avoid

The name "cannibals" comes from the word "caniba" - so in pre-Columbian times the inhabitants of the Bahamas called the inhabitants of Haiti, the terrible cannibals

I am pleased to quote a selection by Pyotr Andreev about the underlying motive of many of today's affairs in medicine, education, politics, art, information matrices. Most of the current ethical norms of European civilization - only about 200 years old

A 66-year-old man's heart is on the right and his liver on the left.A man who was admitted to the hospital complaining of cough and chest pain was sent for an X-ray examination. It turned out that the patient's heart is mirrored relative to the norm, as are the abdominal organs

50-year-old Sharon Williamson's heart stopped right in front of her daughter's eyes. Doctors managed to resuscitate the woman, but warned that she could soon die again, and this time completely, if she did not undergo a heart transplant

Know yourself; love yourself; be honest with yourself. These old truths have been celebrated for years by artists, musicians and philosophers, from Jean-Paul Sartre to Bob Dylan. But how do you know yourself if you are constantly changing?

Leonardo da Vinci called the human body a perfect creation of nature, without a flaw, but doctors have debunked the theory of genius. They found 90 extra organs in it, proving that our ancestors are a hybrid of aliens and primates

Have you ever wondered how much the most ordinary person is worth? By the way, each of us - a real walking bank, whose capitalization is at a very good level

In order to cope with a problem, you need to face it face to face. Sometimes this "face" looks pretty creepy.The work of a psychotherapist is a conversation with the unconscious in its language, in the language of those "imaginary" images with which every person is familiar - they appear before your eyes when you remember something, invent or imagine something

Joe Metheny, starting the search for his wife who escaped with his son, began to kill all people who came to hand out of revenge. He did terrible things - dismembered bodies, mixed meat with animal flesh, and made burger patties for the customers of his cafe

Strongly drunk Z. met a 60-year-old woman. I asked what time it was. She looked at her watch and answered. And she made a remark to him: so young and you drink so much. This phrase turned out to be fatal for the lady

On November 3, 1884, in Exeter, Devonshire, England, the trial of three sailors who killed and ate their comrade began. The hall was full

Security forces of Papua New Guinea arrested 54 villagers on charges of cannibalism and participation in secret religious cults

It is believed that the main cause of cannibalism is hunger, however, the study of wild tribes that were engaged in cannibalism in the XX century, showed that this is not entirely true - or even not at all. THE MORE SKULLS, THE HIGHER THE RANK

The first part here The following types of causes of cannibalism as a phenomenon in general are currently known: 1

Our distant ancestors were definitely cannibals. This is evidenced by the numerous findings of scientists

In recent years, from time to time, the public has been shocked by reports of acts of cannibalism (cannibalism, anthropophagy)

American scientists conducted a rather unusual study, the purpose of which was to determine how cannibalism affects human health. It turned out that eating your own kind is bad not only from a moral, but also from a physiological point of view

Split or even upset personality - not such a rare occurrence. Each of us seems to have several people who sometimes argue among themselves

The more people talk about meditation - the less it becomes known about it. It got to the point where it was seen as a way to relax and relieve stress

Humans are divided into two categories. Some are masters and others are consumers.The latter are often very capricious. They have no idea how the product comes about. Its materialization is unknown to them and has never been the subject of their thoughts

Scientists from the USA and Great Britain have developed a method for determining the biological age of people by intestinal microflora

Initiated people know that there is a secret door in the human mind. Most people die without having discovered it. And that's not bad

British scientists from the University of Oxford say that vegetarianism negatively affects the work of the brain

Ryan Bolender, an American geneticist working at the University of Texas, managed to identify traces of deoxyribonucleic acid in a hominid unknown to science in the genome of a modern Melanesian

An international group of scientists from Great Britain and the USA completed a large-scale study of human chronotypes, which lasted 6.5 years, and came to the conclusion that people-"owls" risk dying before their biological term

Could good or bad habits, diets and sports affect children or grandchildren?

The connection between language and thought is far from simple. It is believed that the purpose of language is to transfer thought from one mind to another. And so it is. But this is not the only thing. Language conveys thought, but does it define thought?

Already in the 19th century, scientists knew that two areas in the left hemisphere of the human brain are responsible for speech. The first - for speech production, the second - busy recognizing her

Probably everyone is familiar with the wise saying - "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". However, recently scientists have come to the conclusion that literally everything is "in the eye of the beholder."

Even an adult can forget their native language. Many people who have been in a foreign language environment for a long time notice that it is gradually more and more difficult for them to remember the words that they have used all their lives

Patterns on the pads of the fingers are formed by about the sixth month of intrauterine development - and remain unchanged throughout life. Their function in the body is not precisely determined

Does the brain continue to live and perceive the world around it for a few minutes after the head instantly flies off its shoulders, as, for example, on the guillotine?

"Our daughter is cursed! When she is sick, various objects come out of her, including spoons and mobile phones!" - members of an unnamed family from a village near Konoin, Bomet County, Kenya lament in horror

I understand and feel them very well. Once I graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics, raved about psychology, and got a job as a manager. It seemed to me that psychology could not be my job (I don’t know anything, I don’t know how, there is no money in this area).I d

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