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Practicing Science With The Quantum Mind

In Eccles’ Trialism, the human conscious is aware of three worlds. We as people can define physical objects and there properties, various states of consciousness, and knowledge in an objective sense. In 1973, when this theory was postulated, it was the product of the emergence of quantum field theory and the conscience’s difficulty in understanding the concepts. Since then, several ideas have come to fruition on what limits the human experience from interacting and understanding the macro/micro paradox of quantum mechanics. The discussion in and of itself is an outline of the mind’s desire to settle disagreements. The ego and transience of our awareness deliberately searches for answers. 

Often times in the field of sciences, perseverance through paradigm’s has helped solve massive problems. One such instance recently solved the “Grandfather Paradox”, the scenario in which a time traveller returning into the past to kill his grandfather would theoretically no longer exist. In recent mathematical models regarding CTC’s (closed timelike curve), which are loops in time. In this experiment, they were able to fire a photon and from a pair of polarized photons that would travel the curve and resemble the same polarized photon once it had interacted with paired photon. The experiment is only a simulation for how time travel could look at bends in the space-time continuum. What is interesting about this is that it doesn’t refute the Heisenberg principle, even though the polarized photons are able to be measured twice. No one is sure whether the interaction is the same as the one that happened originally or if it was a new interference triggered by the same interaction at the start. Basically, we don’t know if Marty McFly was supposed to meet his mother or if meeting his mother couldn’t have changed anything. It could be either or even both. 

In the realm of science, there are often problems that are posed to try and determine the how and why of things. We are able to rationally assemble our thought in a logical sequence, yet the mysteries of the quantum realm tell us that some answers don’t have unified theories. This goes against the current framework of the scientific approach and has thus created the idea of the quantum mind or conscious. Thomas Kuhn has often said that "scientific revolutions are inaugurated by a growing sense that an existing paradigm has ceased to function adequately in the exploration of an aspect of nature." The quantum mind suggests a state of awareness that is able to reason contradictory ideas as conclusive answers. In this school of thought, the paradigm is the answer. 

While physics is beginning to broach the confusing and intrepid world of contradictions, we should be careful in the foray of other sciences to remain ignorant to the possibilities of incongruence.

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Physicists suggest a new way to look for dark matter: They believe that dark matter particles annihilate into so-called dark radiation when they collide. If true, then we should be able to detect the signals from this radiation. The majority of the mass in the universe remains unknown.

We see you bigfoot...

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Cancer Researchers Publish Landmark "Basket Study"

Researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) have announced results from the first published basket study, a new form of clinical trial design that explores responses to drugs based on the specific mutations in patients' tumors rather than where their cancer originated.

This is as dope as a basket of kittens

Take that Cancer

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FDA Issues Warning Over Kim Kardashian's Drug Promotions

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian is no stranger to criticism, having spent the better part of the last decade in the public eye. But she's probably never faced negative publicity like this before: The Food and Drug Administration says Kardashian's social media posts violate federal drug-promotion rules.

Getting those followerssss. Let me know what you guys think about the FDA regulations currently in place. Team Kim or Team FDA?

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Floating in zero gravity, NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui raised their red romaine lettuce leaves like drinking glasses. “Cheers,” they said before becoming the first people to ingest food grown in space.

“It can also sense the presence of plant tissue and only power nearby LEDs. Overall, it uses about 60% less energy than traditional plant lighting systems.”

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Communicating Via Thought Waves Alone: Q&A With Miguel Nicolelis

Bioscience Technology talks to Dr. Nicolelis recently about two new papers on brain-brain interfaces, or “organic computers,” in which animals whose brains were wired together were able to mentally exchange sensory and motor information to solve problems together—often better than they could alone.

“After many years of being paralyzed, your brain literally forgets how to move paralyzed limbs. The concept of having legs, or moving legs, disappears from your mind. So to start training this patient, you would say, “Imagine moving your legs,” but the patient doesn’t even know what to do. He may try to imagine but nothing happens. The same is true for someone who got a stroke and cannot speak anymore. Because the part of the brain related to language is totally destroyed. You need to train the other hemisphere of the brain to start talking. Well imagine the guy cannot talk, but he has two physical therapists who can talk normally, who could produce brain activity that is related to vocalization normally. We could now combine the brain activity of these therapists with the patient’s brain, so that the brain of the patient brain is trained to learn again how to speak.”

Wow

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Buried Report: Air Controllers Suffer from Chronic Fatigue

Air traffic controllers' work schedules often lead to chronic fatigue, making them less alert and endangering the safety of the national air traffic system, according to a study the government has kept secret for nearly four years.

YOU’RE MAKING MAVERICK UPSET, DO NOT DO THIS. DO WE NEED TO REMIND YOU WHAT HAPPENED TO GOOSE??

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Common Class of ‘Channel Blocking’ Drugs May Find a Role in Cancer Therapy

Drugs called ion channel blockers, which are commonly used to treat cardiac, neurological, and psychiatric disorders, might prove useful in cancer therapy, according to research findings in fruit flies and mice by UC San Francisco scientists that led to unconventional treatment of a case of metastatic brain cancer.

This is important because of the teamwork that went into this. Multiple scientist of different specialities brought their skills together to complete a task that easily could have taken 7 or 8 years instead of 5. Streamlining this process is going to be vital as we race the clock of various challenges in this world.

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The secret ingredient, a naturally occurring protein, could make the sweet treat melt-resistant. Continue reading →

Scientists from the Universities of Dundee and Edinburgh say they’ve formulated a new recipe for ice cream that doesn’t melt in warm temperatures — or at least, lasts a lot longer before it begins to drip.

The key is a new ingredient: a naturally occurring protein, known as BsIA, that binds together the air, fat and water in ice cream to make it melt-resistant. The researchers discovered a way to produce this protein, which already occurs naturally in some foods, in friendly bacteria. The protein sticks to fat droplets and air bubbles to make them more stable in a recipe.

“We’re excited by the potential this new ingredient has for improving ice cream, both for consumers and for manufacturers,” Professor Cait MacPhee, an experimental biomolecular physicist at the University of Edinburgh, told The Telegraph.

The shift could be particularly beneficial to manufacturers, since it would allow ice cream to remain frozen for longer, reducing the need to deep freeze the sweet treat.

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Why the hell did Scotland need to invent this?? Isn’t it cold already??

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Did you know there’s a “green” 3D printer? Project PrintGREEN designed one that produces living prints: the “ink” in the machine is a combination of soil, seeds, and water which can be designed to print in any shape. So many possibilities! After drying, the muddy mixture holds its form and begins to sprout grass from the organic material. The project was created at the University of Maribor in Slovenia and you can follow the project’s progress on their Facebook page.

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Would You Bleed to See Your Favorite Band?

Romania is tapping into the Dracula legend, offering concert-goers free tickets in exchange for their blood. The campaign is part of a push to increase blood donations in a country where only 1.7 percent of the people donate blood.

throwback

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A months-long cyberattack on the University of California, Los Angeles hospital system put at risk the personal information for up to 4.5 million people, officials said Friday.

Why the hospital??!?

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N.Y. Court Denies ‘Personhood’ Argument for Chimps

A New York Supreme Court Justice has rejected a group’s attempt to get “legal personhood” status for two chimps used in a research laboratory. However, the decision against the Nonhuman Rights Project might leave the door open for future arguments to extend rights to the primates.

This is why you can’t handle the responsibility of personhood. Trust me, it’s overrated anyways.

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First 3-D-printed Drug Approved by FDA

An epilepsy drug that is manufactured with 3-D printing was approved by the FDA, the drugmaker announced. Spritam, an epilepsy drug which is produced with the technology to make a porous formulation that disintegrates quickly with a sip of liquid.

Yeah, the red pill was 3D printed and melts in your mouth. Try being 10 and having to swallow the blue one...

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An estimated 250 people are filing suits against the company alleging they downplayed the safety risks of the antidepressant.

We can’t be having these kinds of problems in mental health. C’mob Lilly...

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A Video Game That Teaches You How To Code

“I think everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer because it teaches you how to think,” Steve Jobs said in a lost interview from 1995.

But for a beginner, learning to code from scratch can be intimidating.

Enter CodeSpells. UC San Diego computer scientists developed this video game to teach people how to code. The story line is simple: you’re a wizard that uses spells (i.e. code) to navigate through the world, fight off foes, and solve problems.

While experienced coders can delve deep into the programming to create some truly devastating spells, newbies can easily experiment with the simple drag-and-drop coding interface.

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Gene Therapy Makes Deaf Mice Hear

For the first time, gene therapy partially restored hearing to young mice who were born stone-deaf due to a human deafness gene mutation.

Welcome to the world of hearing little friends.