Why cancer screening should scare you more than the cancer itself Cancer screening is detecting cancer through various tests, before the disease manifests itself through tell-tale symptoms. As early detection typically implies a better prognosis, cancer screening is part of nearly all periodic...

Faith in God An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem that science has with God, The Almighty. He asks one of his new students to stand and ….. Prof: So you believe in God? Student: Absolutely, sir. Prof: Is God good? Student: Sure. Prof: Is God all-powerful? Student:...

Autopilot system is not just for aircraft. We, humans come equipped with an advanced AutoPilot system as well; far better than any modern aircraft might have. This system takes control of us before our birth and remains in-charge till the end of life. Known as Autonomic nervous system(ANS), this AutoPilot...

At age 9, Demi-Lee Brennan, of Kiama, Australia got seriously sick. So sick, that her liver got severely damaged and she needed a liver transplant to survive.  Doctors treating her are not yet certain what caused her liver to fail during this illness but believe it to be the handiwork of an unidentified...

Does thinking, just thinking about a funny event make us feel better? It does! A study at Loma Linda university confirmed. Dr. Lee Berk, the team’s lead researcher divided 16 healthy volunteers in two groups. Experiment group was told that they would be watching a funny movie. The other group was...

A young woodcutter asked for a job with the foreman of a logging crew and got it. The salary and work conditions were very good. So, woodcutter was determined to do his best. Boss gave him an axe and asked to start Monday. On Monday, the woodcutter fell 18 trees. Boss was very happy and appreciated woodcutter’s...

Peter Vidmar and Tim Daggett, members of American gymnastics team at 1984 olympics shared a dream: A dream to win gymnastics gold medal for their team. But there were issues to be addressed. For starters, in recently concluded world artistic gymnastics championships, American team’s performance...

A newborn child can ‘feel’ hunger, thirst, joy, fear and ‘knows’ appropriate responses to these basic impulses but it is now known that babies come to this world with musical preferences too. In fact, babies react to music while still in womb and by age of 4 months they may coo...

During late 1970s professor Robert Jahn of Princeton University was working with an interesting machine. It was called Random Event Generator (REG) as it generated either a 0 or 1, randomly, 200 times every second. REG was essentially an electronic coin flipper. Statistics and common sense suggest that...

In 1950, a study to measure the effect of thoughts on drug results was conducted. Many pregnant women suffering from severe morning sickness, nausea and vomiting were subjects for this study. All they wanted was an effective and powerful cure for their symptoms, which, doctors gave them. But there was...