The 6 Most Fascinating Studies on Consciousness

Measuring things like love, intuition, and consciousness has always been a controversial subject in science.

However, it hasn’t stopped people from trying. We spoke to Christie Marie Sheldon, one of the world’s leading energy healers, about how far science has gone towards understanding the nature of human consciousness.

Nikola Tesla
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”

“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong.
What we have called matter is energy,
whose vibration has been so lowered
as to be perceptible to the senses.
There is no matter.”
- Quote attributed to Albert Einstein

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A link between physics, maths and the Mayans Prof Werner Nahm’s work in blending a rigorous mathematical discipline with theories about how the universe formed has had an international impact, and he is also an authority on Mayan texts

Renaissance man” seems a fair enough description for someone who can readBabylonian cuneiform writing, speak Mandarin Chinese, translate texts from the Mayan civilisation and also manage to be an expert on mathematical physics.

Prof Werner Nahm of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies has managed all of these feats. Like any great scientist, his driving force him is curiosity.

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Lopsided ice on the moon points to past shift in poles

THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS—What little ice remains on Mercury and Mars is mostly confined to the planets’ poles, as one would expect, because the sun shines the least in those regions. Not so on the moon. Much of the moon’s ice, which lurks beneath the surface, is found in an area 5.5° away from the north pole and in a matching region 5.5° from the south pole, scientists announced here this week at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. The data suggest that in the past, the moon’s axis of rotation—and hence its poles—shifted.
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World’s Largest Single Marine Reserve Created in Pacific

British Prime Minister David Cameron's government announced the creation of the world’s largest contiguous ocean reserve on Wednesday, setting aside 322,000 square miles (830,000 square kilometers) around the remote Pitcairn Islands in the South Pacific for special protection
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NSF unveils plan to make scientific papers free

The National Science Foundation (NSF) released a long-anticipated policy that will require its grantees to make their peer-reviewed research papers freely available within 12 months of publication in a journal. The agency is not creating its own public archive of full-text papers, but instead will send those searching for papers to publishers’ own websites.
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Help find 52-Hertz, dubbed the loneliest whale in the world

VANCOUVER – The story of 52-Hertz, named the “loneliest whale in the world”, has captivated people everywhere.

Believed to be a hybrid whale, a cross between a blue and a fin whale, 52-Hertz is named due to the unusual frequency of his voice. Most whales communicate with each other at lower frequencies, but 52-Hertz is on a frequency all his own.

Scientists believe he has been swimming in the ocean alone for decades, calling out for other whales to answer him, and getting no response.

Badgers like to steer clear of cattle, satellite tracking shows

Not even badgers are safe from the prying eyes of Big Brother.

Zoologists from Trinity College Dublin are using GPS tracking technology in Co Wicklow to follow the animals’ night time activities.

The monitoring has discovered they travel long distances and appear to avoid contact with cattle where possible.

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