For more than half a century, mankind has been consuming vitamins in shock doses. But it has not yet become immortal. Also, the number of handkerchiefs that it plagues annually during colds and flu has not decreased. It's time to figure it out: why?
On the one hand, the phenomenon of raw food is presented as something good, trying to free people from the shackles of universal consumer slavery, and is the basis of the foundation of this liberation. Having switched to "proper nutrition", over time, a person will begin to think about his role here, about his actions and deeds
Sometimes our illness carries us this or that symbolic message - you just need to learn to understand the language in which it speaks to us through its symptoms. Moreover, it's not so difficult
How can you make banks for milk rivers from liquid jelly? What is the connection between the words "sour" and "jelly"? How many jelly was in Russia and what does the seventh water have to do with it? Answers to these questions will not only cause an obsessive "I'll go, eat", but will also help you remember, and, if you wish, embody a varied and rich Russian cuisine yourself
Do you like rutabaga dishes? Or have you never tasted it, or perhaps never even heard of it? But just 200 years ago, more than 300,000 tons of this uncomplicated vegetable, a relative of turnip and cabbage, were grown in Russia. Both the fruits and the tops of the swede were eaten. They ate it fresh, baked, boiled and stewed. Used for medicinal purposes for various diseases. But at present, this hybrid of turnip and cabbage, for some unknown reason, has almost completely disappeared from agricultural
Biologists call the selfless behavior of animals altruism. Altruism is quite common in nature. As an example, scientists cite meerkats. When a group of meerkats is in search of food, one selfless animal takes an observation position to warn its relatives about the danger in case of approaching predators. At the same time, the meerkat itself remains without food
The world, which seems so clear and simple to us, is in fact fraught with many unsolved mysteries and mysteries. He shares some of them very reluctantly. For example, in such a seemingly well-researched country like Vietnam, a cave was discovered relatively recently, which has no equal on the entire planet
Why didn't humanity tame the zebra just like a horse and use it to move and transport objects?
The scientist who revealed to mankind the secret of mirror neurons, told how to improve mutual understanding between people, as well as about new approaches to the treatment of stroke and autism
Today the call for early development is heard from everywhere. Still, after three it's too late! And it is better to do mathematics right in the cradle, so as not to work all your life as a janitor
You may have also heard that octopuses are some of the smartest creatures in the world. Some people even dare to assume that these creatures came to us from distant planets. Nobody knows for sure, but their developed intelligence is a proven fact. But how did octopuses prove to have developed intelligence?
Hundreds of years ago, electricity, radiation and radio waves were unknown, and if they were described, they would not be believed. Today, the idea of the influence of mind on matter, that consciousness and the power of the mind can have a direct impact on objects or people, is confirmed by scientists
You may argue that you would like to die one day, completely forgetting about the life you lived. But we know very well: if you had the opportunity to live forever, you would use it. We will tell you about several technologies that in the near future will allow us, if not to achieve immortality, then come close to it
In the old days, when the methods of combating crime had not yet settled down, amazing adaptations, sometimes worthy of the best traditions of Bond, entered the armament of police officers from different countries
Sometimes, in order to come up with something new, you need to be not only inventive, but also risky. And, despite the potential danger, the creators themselves test the work of their offspring. Unfortunately, sometimes this is the last thing they did in their life. To your attention 10 inventions, tests of which ended tragically for their authors
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova reminded US Permanent Representative to the UN Nikki Haley about the volume of America's public debt and unpaid contributions to the UN budget. According to RT, in this way the Russian diplomat commented on the complaints of her American counterpart about Washington's lack of support in the UN
Let's take a look at 7 unique discoveries that were hidden from ordinary people. What would our world be like if it were not for the eternal struggle of official science against human ingenuity?
In the strictest sense, a vacuum is a region of space in which matter is completely absent. This term represents an absolute emptiness, and its main problem is that it describes an ideal state that cannot exist in the real world
If you think that the military has a little imagination, then you are greatly mistaken. The Yankees have wild ideas up to their armpits, and, moreover, many of them brave military personnel in all seriousness tested and were going to use on the battlefield. We present to your attention the seven partly cool, partly insane and completely failed experiments of the US armed forces
In 1900, the Feodosia forester Fyodor Ivanovich Zibold, during the leveling of the Tepe-Oba mountain slopes in order to establish water-collecting and irrigation canals, "should ensure the success of afforestation", discovered fragments of an ancient hydraulic system
Historical and archaeological sites constitute the treasury of the heritage of mankind, which keep traces of its past. They are carefully guarded at the state and even world level. However, practice shows that sometimes ignorance, wars and simple indifference to what was created earlier becomes the reason for the destruction of unique relics. To your attention 7 historical monuments that were irretrievably lost
Are we ready to at least sympathize with them, or will we soon finally destroy animals, the history of which goes back hundreds of millions of years?
When a person is attacked, sensory cells transmit a signal through our nervous system, which secretes the neurotransmitter glutamate. Glutamate stimulates the amygdala and hypothalamus in our brain. This triggers the stress hormone adrenaline, which puts our bodies in a fight-or-flight mode
Biologists knew that some migratory animals, from birds to sea turtles, were able to sense Earth's magnetic fields. Now, a new study has shown that people can also feel changes in these areas
Man has always been interested in what happened before him. Historians today enthusiastically take up the study of times that are already distant for us. And all because no matter how long and carefully we investigated the events of hoary antiquity, they continue to keep in themselves many blank spots and so far undisclosed secrets. To your attention "ten" amazing technologies of the past, whose secrets are still unsolved
Imagine that you are dead. And where will your soul go now? It's up to you to decide. Choose one of the underworlds created by the inhabitants of the Old and New Worlds, who lived in antiquity or in the Middle Ages. And we will tell you what kind of reception awaited the dead there
Anything new is usually frightening and alarming, therefore, pioneers in science often have a difficult, thorny path. Jiang Kanzhen, a scientist from China who, by the will of fate, found himself in the USSR, was no exception. But neither in the Celestial Empire, nor in Khabarovsk, in the new homeland, far from everyone welcomed Dr. Jiang's experiments in the field of so-called wave genetics
Destroying stereotypes, we will reveal to you one secret: nature is so arranged that intuition, our inner wisdom, is better developed not in women
Wilhelm Wundt is one of the founders of Western European psychology
Hundreds of things and processes that take place in your body and which you do not pay attention to - breathing, digestion, raising or lowering blood pressure, growth of new cells, cleansing of toxins, etc. can be taken under your control
If you have the patience, watch the entire article and video with an analysis of energy storage methods from different people and psychics
Sometimes you walk in the woods, explore the beauty of the reserved island, walk past an old building - and suddenly you feel something strange. This "something" can manifest itself in different ways: someone experiences an unprecedented surge of strength and vivacity, while someone becomes physically ill
How to learn to live consciously: stay in the present moment, take responsibility for everything that happens in life, take good care of the living world, observe yourself from the outside and look at everything from the heart
Shortly before death, the same dreams begin to come to people. Scientists call this phenomenon the harbingers of imminent death. "Unian" writes about this. A study by American doctors for 10 years shows that even three weeks before death, people begin to have strange visions - the same dreams
The leading designer of OKB "Impulse" Vladimir Efremov was, as they say, "in the next world" for 8 minutes. How is it different from ours? How does a prominent scientist describe the world in which people find themselves after death?
Is there life after death, and what is it? This question has been of interest to people for many generations. At different times and among different peoples, their own religious ideas were drawn up about what happens to a person after his soul leaves the body
The question of Karma is very complicated, but it is vital to know about Karma, therefore we will try to analyze some of the main aspects of this fundamental Law of Cosmic Justice
Why does it happen so often - you strive to correct a state of affairs that you do not like, but you only get a short-term respite, and then the familiar overtakes you again. Fools, deceivers, losers. No money, no happiness, no love. Everything is disgustingly bad or insanely sad
It is well known that negative emotions negatively affect the immune system. 1976 autobiographical book by Norman Cousins, Anatomy of a Disease
From what age we are able to remember ourselves, and why exactly from him - this question was probably of interest to everyone. It is not surprising that many scientists have been looking for the answer. Among them are the neurologist Sigmund Freud and the psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus. Physicist Robert Wood had his own theory of memory. But it was Freud who coined the term "infantile / infant amnesia"