In 2000, Professor Toshiyuki Nakagaki, a biologist and physicist at the Japanese University of Hokkaido, took a sample of a yellow mold and placed it at the entrance to a maze that is used to test the intelligence and memory of mice. At the other end of the maze, he placed a sugar cube. The mushroom not only found a path to sugar, but also used the shortest path for this
Hello, friends. With a small margin, we continue to look at the geographical features of the recent globalization of the world economy. Today we are talking about the United States. Nobody needs to represent this country, it never leaves the news pages. Currently, this country rightfully occupies a leading position in all industries, although many call it a decrepit predator, like Spain in the 18th century. But it will not be about politics, but more about the history of this country. More precisely, t
The destruction of free public power plants took place not only on the South American continent, but in particular in Brazil. In Africa, a similar process was also going on, which we will consider using the example of its southernmost geographical point, where the modern state of South Africa is now located
I first read about this extraordinary project more than half a century ago in "Entertaining Physics" by Ya.I. Perelman. The drawing to the text depicted a huge pipe, inside which a gabled wagon with a passenger lying inside was flying. “A car rushing without friction,” it was written under the drawing. - The road designed by Professor B.P. Weinberg "
Brazil is the largest and most developed country on the continent. And what do we know about it, besides the abundance of wild monkeys in it? Very little at all. Wikipedia does not say that it got its name from the fabulous island, which was present in the legends of Europeans and was located somewhere in the Atlantic. The sailors, seeing these lands, thought for a very long time that they had discovered exactly the same island, and they named these lands accordingly. Brazil was also Ostap Bender's dream, the country of football
This article is devoted to the nature-conformity of physical activity in human life, the role of physical training and education in the formation of human health
Many birds' eggs are sharpened at one end to prevent them from rolling out of nests located on uneven surfaces. This is the conclusion reached by biologists who observed the life of Arctic birds and published their findings in the Journal of Experimental Biology
Continuation of the article by Dmitry Mylnikov, in which the author examines the features of church architecture in Russia, and gives evidence of the total cleaning of old church books in the nineteenth century
Continuation of the most interesting article by Dmitry Mylnikov, in which the author continues to develop a version of the death of the Empire, erased from history textbooks. This part provides new data on the age of Siberian forests and soils, which, as usual, do not have a sound official explanation
Sometimes we feel desperate. It can be caused by intense grief, and it can also act as a defensive reaction against disappointment or heartache. This is not easy to deal with. Here are some deep thoughts from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to help calm your mind and heart in times of trouble
The human brain is made up of 10 billion nerve cells connected by several trillions of contacts. And the structure of connections between nerve cells begins to form exactly from the moment when the child opened his eyes and saw the world for the first time. Interesting, isn't it? It becomes doubly curious when you learn that the giant cloud, which is in each of us in the head, is capable of accepting a number of combinations exceeding the number of atoms in the known universe
High in the mountains of Pakistan on the border with Afghanistan, in the province of Nuristan, lives a unique and mysterious people - the Kalash. Their uniqueness lies in the fact that this Aryan people by origin managed to survive, despite the genocide by Muslims, almost in the very heart of the Islamic world
According to Bernard Werber, human life develops in seven-year cycles. Each cycle ends with a crisis that allows you to move to the next, higher level. Check the description of the levels and your own experience, how correct this theory is
Treatment with folk remedies has been famous for a long time as an effective method of restoring health to a person. Traditional medicine recipes can help you cure most common diseases. Herbal treatment has cured many diseases
I will not dissemble - this is the answer to the article "The secret of the word URA or what prevents to understand the truth?" The very impulse to understand the ancient concepts of the Rus can only be welcomed, but you still need to rely on knowledge and logic, and not contradict yourself
How is the phenomenon of the Age of Discovery connected with the recent global cataclysm? Why was Latin the ideal language for post-Flood property inventories? What is the purpose of introducing the Latin alphabet in the Slavic countries?
Once the word Taller meant a simple plate and was Slavic. In Slavic Bohemia, a new silver coin of an unprecedented size was called a "plate", by analogy with how they say about a large sheet of paper - a "sheet". Slavic history of Europe comes up even in the word "dollar"
Lidiya Vasilievna Kozmina, laboratory assistant at the clinic of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the city of Belgorod. People eat mushrooms. Such a terrible conclusion was made by a laboratory doctor with a university education, who for a quarter of a century examined the pathogens of all kinds of diseases in her many patients under a microscope
Now I will tell you three herbs that are excellent for almost all acute diseases. There is such an area - herbology, i.e. herbalism, which official medicine does not deal with, since this is exactly what the disease can be cured with. Grandmothers know this very well and use these herbs
Our life is cyclical, there is nothing continuous in it - everything appears, exists for a while, and then disappears. Something permanently, but something after a certain interval appears again
The following are excerpts from a speech by Mark Matson, Acting Director of the National Institute of Aging Neuroscience Laboratory
An author under the nickname RareMan on one of the forums made a deep analysis of some lines from the dedication to Pushkin's poem Ruslan and Lyudmila. The words that many remember from school by heart have a very deep meaning and are confirmed by many old cards
This slightly ominous picture is one of the biggest mysteries in the history of Western cartography. Usually it is simply called the "Fool's Cap Map" - and to this day no one knows why, when, where and by whom it was created
The internet is a great thing these days. Andrey "Kolymchanin" had a thought about cannons as a former super-weapon, but only one detail remained - to add up what we now know about progressive weapons and apply to what was used in not so distant "antiquity"
The labyrinth is both a puzzle and a symbol. Intricate paths leading either to an exit or to a dead end appeared thousands of years ago, both in the form of images and as structures. In our selection - 10 labyrinths that keep secrets to this day
All living beings have consciousness to one degree or another. British neuroscientist Susan Greenfield announced this on the air of the SophieCo program on RT. In an interview with Sofiko Shevardnadze, she said that for a full study of consciousness, the possibilities that modern science has are not enough
According to the principle of social proof, people, in order to decide what to believe and how to act in a given situation, are guided by what they believe and what other people do in a similar situation. The propensity to imitate is found in both children and adults
According to the British biologist, Nobel Prize-2012 winner in medicine John Gurdon, it will take no more than half a century to learn how to successfully clone a person. What is the cloning technology and how is the biomass of the clone related to the entity?
The Russian people are sharp on the tongue. For a word, as they say, it won't go into your pocket. However, once again getting the swear word out of the "lexical pocket", it will not be superfluous to learn about its original meaning. Why did it actually become abusive?
We all know from the history of the catastrophic flood of 1824 in St. Petersburg. But closer inspection reveals that perhaps the peak of the cosmic catastrophe occurred in mid-November. And it was she who caused much greater destruction throughout the earth than only destruction in St. Petersburg
It turns out that during the Great Patriotic War at the confectionery factory in Leningrad, chocolate and sweets, as well as other confectionery products, were made continuously throughout the blockade. Under the threat of execution, these products were forbidden to be taken outside
190 years ago, on November 19, 1824, the most destructive flood in the history of St. Petersburg occurred. The water rose 4.2 meters, half of the city was washed away, thousands of people died. This monstrous catastrophe is described in Pushkin's poem "The Bronze Horseman". However, in the distant past, our northern capital, most likely, experienced a much more terrible cataclysm
The author of the blog "Notes of a Kolymite" examines another megalithic complex of Angkor in Cambodia, which, according to the official version, is a monument of Khmer art, included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. But is it really so?
I receive many different letters on the net from people with a proposal to consider a topic that interests them. And they are all very worthy. But today my attention was attracted by information about some facts of the Olympic Park in Sochi. Friends, it is very interesting what I found for you. V
One of these days marks exactly 50 years of one of the most sensational "UFO invasions" in America. On November 9, 1965, after a bright silvery object appeared in the sky, for some unknown reason, a grandiose accident occurred in the American power grids
In the 70s, he headed the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow Region, was the head of the Criminal Investigation Department. During the day he caught bandits, and in the evenings he wrote music
There is such a terrible horror - mockery of the weak. Where did it come from that above the weak? And are they weak or the reason is different? Let's try to figure it out
Soviet fantastic cartoons for children and adults
William Vasilyevich Pokhlebkin is a scientist, historian, culinary specialist, almost every one of the 50 books and articles written by him can be safely placed in the favorites. You can throw away all the cookery books, leave only Pokhlebkin and not read anything else. Pokhlebkin is the author of the work about Stalin "The Great Pseudonym"
There are many ways to disinfect water. But our ancestors also used this way - with the help of red rowan