On:

There is a coupon in the Unknowncountry.com subscriber section offering $10.00 off the physical edition of Whitley Strieber’s beautiful Tarot book, the Path. This takes the price down to just 95 cents.

The Path is unique in the world. There is no other Tarot book like it, and no other way of using the Tarot that brings such insight into life. The Path is the only place where the hidden wisdom of the Tarot is revealed as it was intended to be understood when the cards were first created.

Readers love the Path:
read more

On:

The order in which colors are named worldwide appears to be due to how eyes work. Researchers have found that colors familiar to one culture might not even have names in another, suggesting that different cultures indeed have different ways of seeing–and understanding–the world.

Color names always seem to appear in a specific order of importance across cultures: black, white, red, green, yellow and blue. In LiveScience, Charles Choi quotes physicist Francesca Tria as saying, "If a population has a name for red, it also has a name for black and for white–or, if it has a name for green, it also has a name for red." But if a population has a name for black and white, that doesn’t necessarily mean they have a name for red.
read more

On:

Of all the millions of animals on Earth, only humans get Alzheimer’s disease, which is caused by the formation of metallic "plaques" in the brain, particularly iron ones.

This may be because this dreaded disease somehow facilitated human evolution. But scientists have discovered a new way to stave it off: EXERCISE.

In PhysOrg.com, Alvin Powell quotes neurologist Bruce Yankner as saying, "Something has occurred in evolution that makes our brain susceptible to age-related change." Was that "something" the same thing that makes humans so SMART?
read more