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And DNA is telepathic! – On the Discovery Channel website, Luke Mckinney reports that all DNA strands are built out of a set of 20 amino acids and scientists now think that the first 10 may occur throughout the universe, meaning they could have arrived on earth on asteroids from deep space for from other planets. And strands of DNA seem to have a form of telepathy, since they have been able to “find” other strands at a distance with no known form of communication between them.
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The Stargate Conference during the weekend of October 16- 18 was a time of incredible synchronicity for me, and some of it was downright funny.

It started on Friday afternoon, when I rubbed the belly of a fat, golden Buddha statue on the grounds. I had heard that, in Buddhism, rubbing the fat Buddha’s belly is supposed to bring good luck, but then absolutely everything started to go wrong!

First, most of our speakers were delayed in arriving, leaving us to talk to the attendees all alone, up on an empty stage, on Friday evening. It was so awkward that Whitley and I felt like maybe we should tell some jokes or belt out a song, or something.
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We wouldn’t need to build artificial brains if we could improve the ones we already have. Complex physical manipulations such as juggling produce major changes in white matter (basic structure) of our brains. Neurologists discovered this when they gave fMRI scans to people who were taught to juggle before and after their 6 week course.

BBC News quotes researcher Heidi Johansen-Berg as saying, “Of course, this doesn’t mean that everyone should go out and start juggling to improve their brains. We chose juggling purely as a complex new skill for people to learn.”
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In order to avoid the flu, we should all wash our hands often. Birds do the equivalent of this by adding material to their nests that repels germs.

In LiveScience.com., Stephan Reebs reports that some birds add bits of strong-smelling plants, such as lavender or mint, to their nests. These may act as pesticides that protect the hatchlings from fleas and other insects.

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