Tima Vlasto

Though astrology hasn’t been considered a science for thousands of years, on Thursday, February 4th, 2011, the Bombay High Court in India reaffirmed that it is indeed a “science” when it dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) that challenged astrology as science. - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

Though astrology hasn’t been considered a science for thousands of years, on Thursday, February 4th, 2011, the Bombay High Court in India reaffirmed that it is indeed a “science” when it dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) that challenged astrology as science. Continue reading on Examiner.com: Astrology is a time-tested science: High Court rules - National Holistic Science & Spirit | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/holisti... Though astrology hasn’t been considered a science for thousands of years, on Thursday, February 4th, 2011, the Bombay High Court in India reaffirmed that it is indeed a “science” when it dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) that challenged astrology as science. Continue reading on Examiner.com: Astrology is a time-tested science: High Court rules - National Holistic Science & Spirit | Examiner.com... more... - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

A recent study in Nature Neuroscience, by German researchers at the University of Lubeck, proved that the brain stores recent memories better during sleep than during wakefulness. - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

“All that happened this week was that some online news editors learned about him, incorrectly thought he was new and turned him into a viral phenomenon. As often happens on Twitter, the first, inaccurate take — "hey, there's a new Zodiac!" — took off, snowballing into an avalanche that buried all attempts to correct it. This is the Twitter Snowball Effect." Continue reading on Examiner.com: A Twitter scandal: Why your zodiac sign has NOT changed - National Holistic Science & Spirit | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/holisti... - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

A little known fact discovered in 2006 when King’s library was sold at Sotheby’s to Morehouse College in Atlanta, was an interesting inscription on the opening page of his copy of Emerson’s, A Modern Anthology. King wrote: “Swedenborg enables us to understand why we were created, why we are alive and what happens to us after our bodies die. Swedenborg enables us to have the best possible understanding of God's message as it exists in those Bible Books which constitute God's Word.” - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

Have magnetic pole shifts ever happened in the past? According to NASA and an ancient passage from Herodotus' historical documentation of ancient Egypt...it has. - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

Are your “hurt feelings”, “broken hearts” or the pain of social rejection triggered by the festivities of this holiday season, making you feel actual physical pain? - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

Within the dark void of this eclipsed Moon, on the darkest day of year, echoes a cacophony of voices from Christmas past, present and future; making this the longest and most intolerable dark night of the soul in hundreds of years. The full moon should promise fulfillment of what was seeded, in this case, three years ago. However, the airy quality of the signs this event takes place in doesn’t lend to creating those rock hard physical events we can count on but instead, flings us without mercy into our deeper thought processes and souls which is probably a much harder environment to deal with. - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

So, we are hardwired to smile, a real smile can’t be faked and it is contagious because our brains have mirror neurons that make us “simulate” within ourselves the states of others around us. - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

What it comes down to is: If we were exposed to the “dirty bugs” from an early age, our immune systems would be trained by now to recognize what is an important battle to fight and what isn’t. - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

We consider the computer an invention particular to our modern day world, but it appears the anicents had their computers as well. - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

Otherwise, one can gather from this study, that if left unattended, our minds will wander to the dark side. - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

Conquer our fears, heal our wounds, erase racism and know what it feels like to be the opposite sex... a pretty amazing achievement based on a technology that started out as science fiction, an art form and gaming platform. - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

There is a garment that might know you better than you do and that will try and soothe you during times of despair. It appears the future is being fashioned through a new fashion. - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

"A new bill was introduced on March 5, 2010 by State Assemblyman Felix Ortiz that will ban the use of salt in New York restaurants. The bill A10129 states: “No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food for consumption by customers of such restaurant, including food to be consumed on the premises of such restaurant or off of such premises.”" - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

"A recent Telegraph (March 2010) article, Rare Buddhist flower found under nun's washing machine reported the appearance of the rare “Udumbara” flower, which according to Buddhist scripture blossoms every 3000 years before the coming of the next Buddha or Tathagata (which by the way can also mean the essential Buddha nature found in everyone.)" - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

So there is some flat screen (holographic plate, film etc.) somewhere and some source of pure Light (like a laser beam) is shining through it and that is creating this world in which we exist. - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

""You have to take the plunge to expose your true self. If you're true to yourself, you'll turn someone on." - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg, two research scientists at IBM’s Visual Communication Lab, have not only invented a new way for people to think and talk about data but have taken the masses of information stored in the Google Suggest tool to reveal the hidden truths that reside in our collective souls with their new project called Web Seer. - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

According to science author Hank Hyena’s article, Sexbots Will Give Us Longevity Orgasm in H+ magazine (December 2009), human-robot interaction researcher, Dr. Henrik I. Christensen, of the College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology and director of the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines predicts fully-functioning sex robots by 2011. - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

Thanks to over 27 year’s research at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Laboratory and the company Psyleron, we can now own a lamp that reads our minds. - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

According to a recent study by UCLA psychologists, looking at a photo, holding the hand or even just thinking of a loved one will reduce pain. The study which appeared in the November 2009 issue of the Journal Psychological Science, involved 25 women who received a moderately painful heat stimulus on their forearms while they looked at either a photo of their loved one, a stranger or a chair - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

Silver bullets aren’t only the Lone Ranger’s calling card, “a symbol of justice, law and order,” and an effective way to kill a vampire, but according to a recent press release by The University of New Hampshire: a powerful antimicrobial. A November 9th 2009, press release, Antimicrobials: Silver (and copper) bullets to kill bacteria, reports Dana Filoti’s thin films of silver and copper she developed that combine silver and copper ions in a hard ceramic structure: “The combination of silver and copper work synergistically to better kill bacteria.” - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

There are dozens of fascinating references in both the ancient and modern Western and Eastern texts. Before running out for the next Botox injection or for plastic surgery, take a look at the books in the resource section and remember that those laugh lines are actually auspicious and predict a long life and that large nose an indicator of wealth. - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

"The Harry Houdini Museum originally held these séances in New York City in Houdini’s official home town as an adult. The séances are held by Walter B. Gibson, Houdini’s ghostwriter and confidant, Dorothy Dietrich, an accomplished magician on the Board of Directors of the museum and John Bravo, well know magician, editor and publisher of Hocus Pocus Magazine. These séances are held as a tribute to the artist. Though séances, both professional and amateur are conducted all over the world on October 31st, there is also one other live internet séance being held by The James Randi Educational Foundation and WeirdThings.com. Prominent skeptics and magicians will attempt to make contact with the spirit of Harry Houdini in front of a live internet audience on October 31st, 2009 at 9:00 pm EST." - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

"How did the custom of carving pumpkins with frightening faces become a part of our Halloween festivities? For centuries, stories of the mysterious Jack-o'-lantern are recorded in folkloric anecdotes from dozens of cultures around the world: Stories of mysterious lights that drift about at night and scare travelers until they are lost; stories of a soul denied entry into both heaven and hell, doomed to roam the earth carrying a lighted wisp of straw and the famous ignis fatuus or the spooky Will-o’-the-wisp, even mentioned by Sir Isaac Newton in his 1704 opus Opticks and Shakespeare in Henry IV Part I, Act III." - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

With the hype surrounding the upcoming movie release of 2012 and hundreds of books recently flooding the market about the December 12th or 21st, 2012 end-of-the-world as we know it predictions; it’s sobering to find articles by a NASA scientist and an interview with a Mayan elder in the news - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

"The career of Batman Returns' director, Tim Burton is the focus of a new retrospective gallery exhibition and film series at MoMA (The Museum of Modern Art) this fall." - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet

According to Ewen Callaway’s article, Mona Lisa’s Smile a Mystery No More, in October’s New Scientist, neuroscientists have solved the mystery as to why some people see Mona Lisa’s smile and some don’t. Is she smiling or not? Neuroscientists at the Institute of Neuroscience in Alicante, Spain say Leonardo Da Vinci’s, Mona Lisa is both smiling and not smiling, depending on what cells in the retina pick up the image and what channel the image is transmitted through in the brain." - Tima Vlasto from Bookmarklet