Riddles of man 2024, November

Many believe that the territory of happiness is where we experience feelings and love. Somewhere at the level of the heart. And in order to feel happiness, you need to learn to feel. I would agree if I had not met people on the way who have a more developed mind and, sometimes, to a very small extent - feelings

Our ancestors believed that hair carries great power to the human body, and to the head - the wisdom of the great Gods. Long hair from time immemorial was necessarily considered a part of the image of a beauty, and the ancestors understood beauty as, first of all, the harmony of body and soul

Think, it really was like that in childhood - the summer holidays seemed to have no end, and we had to wait forever for the New Year holidays. So why, over the years, it seems that time is picking up speed: weeks, or even months, pass unnoticed, and the seasons change at such a dizzying speed?

James M. Broadway and Brittiney Sandoval of the University of California answered this question for Scientific American.The fewer the memories, the faster the lived life flies by before the inner gaze.- Salik.bizMan perceives time in two ways

Studying the bowels of the Earth and deep space, mankind still knows little about how the brain functions, its capabilities and features

According to the President of the American Association of Ayurvedic Medicine, Dr. Dale Chopra, our body has something like an internal pharmacy, which contains all the necessary medicines

Old-old fairy tales in a modern interpretation would begin like this: “… and he had three sons: two smart ones, and the third one with a low IQ

Three natives of Chechnya claim the title of the oldest inhabitant of the planet - those who have survived several wars, hunger and deprivation. Specialists characterize hunger as a "diet" that prolongs life, and, of course, do not forget about the healing properties of mountain air

Archaeologists have repeatedly found skulls with neat round holes (or even more than one) in the layers of the Neolithic period. The overgrown edges indicated that the person continued to live after the operation

Yura graduated from a construction technical school and worked all his life at a construction site, Sasha, too, after the orphanage moved to the builders. They both got married at the same time, and gave birth to children in the same year. "Only now our spouses are completely different in character, - Litvinov admits

In a state of clinical death, 22-year-old Lyuda Chernykh became a mother. The cry of the baby brought her back from the other world, making her heart beat again. 22-year-old Lyudmila Chernykh was hit by a car at a pedestrian crossing

Scientists have discovered that the mysterious phenomenon of the transmission of thoughts at a distance has even SMS analogues and e-mail versions. This has probably happened to everyone. You reach for the telephone receiver. And suddenly - a call! Who's there

Scientists believe that the phenomenon of psychography, or automatic writing, is a way of communicating with one's own subconscious. This happened on the fortieth day after the death of her husband, writes Klavdia Gulyaeva from Mytishchi. - I wrote a letter to my brother in Vologda

Stanislav Smirnov, a senior researcher at the Research Institute of Precision Instruments, a member of the Russian Geographical Society, believes: there is nothing mystical about the incinerating "hellfire". - The phenomenon is called pyrokinesis, - says Stanislav Nikolaevich

Increasingly, articles by leading scientists of the world appear in the media, where they complain about the crisis in science

When you turn 40, this is a very exciting moment. The fourth decade is already behind you, you are not young … There is something rather sad when you say that you are already over forty

Sleepwalking is a disease that can be fatal to others. Because a person who falls into oblivion sometimes commits crimes

At the end of last week, the Iranian clinic Payambaran in Tehran performed the country's second caesarean section, in which only hypnosis was used instead of the usual traditional anesthesia, the Iranian newspaper Payvand reported

The famous American cyberneticist John von Neumann made a sensational discovery in the middle of the last century: he calculated that the human brain can contain about 1020 "files" of any information - more than all the collections of the Russian National Bible

In the photo: Ufologists shamelessly pass off some alcoholized freaks as the corpses of aliens, using their external similarity. This particular one is kept in one of the English museums. "The little man" itself is small, about a meter twenty

The human brain is capable of performing 10 to 16 power operations per second. This means that its power is still higher than the power of any computer in existence today. But this does not mean at all that there are no limits to the capabilities of our brain

In the process of evolution, homo sapiens has lost so many useful abilities that it has become vulnerable to nature INVISIBLE COMPETITORS Only in recent years have scientists all over the world begun to seriously doubt the omnipotence of the most intelligent inhabitant of the Earth

In 1928, on the southern coast of Peru, in the Paracas desert, archaeologist Julio Tello made a startling find

Anthropologists at the University of Tennessee conducted an original study and found that the shape of the head of Americans is changing

Monsters, monsters, ruthless beasts without regret and moral principles - this is all that we use to frighten our neighbors. In childhood, we are afraid of bloodthirsty monsters, as teenagers we ourselves frighten children with monsters, but as we grow up we start to be afraid of people

An interview with biologist Vadim Gladyshev on the causes of aging and the prospects for prolonging lifeThe Laboratory for Systems Biology of Aging was opened at the N.N. Belozersk Moscow State University in 2017 funded by a grant from the government of the Russian Federation

The Association of American Psychologists has released a 36-page white paper describing how traditional standards of masculinity go against the trends of modern Western civilization

The life process as such is the receipt by living beings of new information and energy as a result of their constant contact with the outside world

Many have heard the phrase "blue blood". In the lexicon of Europeans, it appeared relatively recently, just a few centuries ago. It is believed that it appeared in Castile

Galen Winsor - nuclear physicist who has been involved in the design, construction and operation of nuclear power plants in the United States for many years, has more than a dozen projects in his track record

Business cardPlastic surgery has long been considered something out of the ordinary. Moreover, they have ceased to be ashamed. When Tom Cruise straightened his buttocks, the whole world was talking about it, and the actor's rating jumped as if he had received an Oscar

When Thomas Jennings attempted to flee the scene of a murder in 1910, he was “lucky” to become the first person in history to be caught by leaving fingerprints on a drying railing near his home. Since then, fingerprinting, which is a way of identifying a person due to a unique pattern on the skin, has actively continued to appear as the most important evidence in judicial investigations. But

"The masses call the truth the information that is most familiar," wrote Joseph Goebbels. “Ordinary people are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Therefore, propaganda, in essence, should always be simple and repetitive without end. U

About ten years ago, evolutionary psychologists suggested that humans actually have not one but two immune systems. In addition to the well-known - the one that is responsible for the internal defense of the body against pathogens, there is also an external

Trepanators - volunteers-experimenters who make themselves a small drilling of the skull (trepanation) in order, in their opinion, to improve their extrasensory abilities or to improve the hypothetical "thought connection with space" and psychic

Or why affirmations don't work.Indeed, why?- Salik.bizRemember, in the Soviet film "The Most Charming and Attractive" Susanna taught Nadya Klyueva female charms?So, the affirmations worked, but … not quite the way we would like. Why?nMy guess is that Nadia initially had low self-esteem. S

Practical experiments have shown that most eyewitnesses to death believe that a deceased person smells of freshly cut grass before his body begins to decompose, said biologists speaking at the British Science Festival in Bradford

Scientists are trying to create the brain of humans and other animals as close as possible to the present. This is important for experimentation, organ transplantation, disease research

The thought of the imminent cessation of existence frightens any person. The frightening processes associated with the gradual decomposition of body tissues of a still very recently living organism cannot but cause the natural desire of mankind to find the very panacea that would be able to save us from such a terrible fate

In an interview, the popular writer spoke for the first time about his own experience of going beyond consciousness, about Marilyn Monroe, about Greta Thunberg and why it is better not to talk to the dead.The favorite of our public, science fiction writer Bernard Werber, came to Moscow for four days