To contact us Click HERE
Hey, a short entry today to plug my relatively new website where I'm blogging on a regular basis about getting older and all the trappings that come with it.
I named the site cleverly...
AgingBoomersBlog.com
Okay, so that's not so clever. But it was an available domain name that more-or-less reflected what it was going to be about.
Anyway, if you're an aging boomer, surf on over and bookmark my new site. Then spend some time there reading the many posts already up and then spending some more time commenting and moving the discussions forward.
I promise my AgingBoomersBlog.com will never be dull or boring or politically correct!
Chet "Aging Boomer" Day
Editor, The Natural Health Circus
http://chetday.com/blog
25 Şubat 2013 Pazartesi
24 Şubat 2013 Pazar
Green 'Space' Slime Baffles Nature Experts
To contact us Click HERE
Here we go again. My conjectureregarding a stratospheric slime mold balloon as unreal as it seemscontinues to bear fruit. Such a balloon would contain methane andrise at night from our swamps into the stratosphere. Very likelythey naturally refract the sun's light to produce high altitudelights which I have seen and has also been called Brown lights aroundmountains were the rising uplifts would jostle them around a lot.
When a meteor strikes, a sharp shockwave is produced and this likely disrupts a large number of suchcreatures that then fall to earth to appear as blobs of slime. Wehave seen that phenomena world wide and often associated with arecent meteor event.
Up there we would never even see thesecreatures unless we had special viewing hardware. To do so we needobservation balloons able to reach the stratosphere and some speciallighting to create contrast. That should work.
Alternatively, we need to captureimages of these forming up and rising out of swamps and that may bemuch easier although I suspect foam making conditions must existwhich we still do not understand. I do not expect to be lucky onthis hunt. However lighting should not affect such a search.
Setting up on the banks of the ponds discussed here would be ideal.
Green 'Space' SlimeBaffles Nature Experts
An unexplainedjelly-like substance which is said to occur during meteor showers hasbeen found on a wildlife park in Somerset.
18 February 2013
http://news.sky.com/story/1053694/green-space-slime-baffles-nature-experts
A "weird"green slime said in folklore to appear at the same time as meteorshit Earth has been found in a birdlife park in Somerset.
The RSPB has appealedfor help in identifying the slime, which is said to be scattered ongrass banks close to pools and lakes around Ham Wall Nature Reservenear Glastonbury.
The jelly-likesubstance could be bacteria, fungus or toad innards, wildlife expertssaid.
Some believe it couldbe a substance that has been written about for centuries called staror astral jelly, which is said to appear in the wake of meteorshowers.
Its appearance hascoincided with a meteor strike in Russia and the harmless fly-by ofan asteroid at a record distance from Earth last week.
Steve Hughes, the RSPBsite manager at Ham Wall, said: "This past week we've beenfinding piles of this translucent jelly dotted around the reserve.
"(It is) alwayson grass banks away from the water's edge. They are usually about10cm (4in) in diameter.
"We've askedexperts what it might be, but as yet no one is really sure. Whateverit is, it's very weird."
Tony Whitehead, anRSPB spokesman for the South West, added: "Although we don'tknow what it actually is, similar substances have been describedpreviously.
"In recordsdating back to the 14th Century it's known variously as star jelly,astral jelly or astromyxin."In folklore itis said to be deposited in the wake of meteor showers."
One of the morefavoured explanations is that it is a form of cyanobacteria calledNostoc.
Others suggest that itis the remains of the regurgitated innards of amphibians such asfrogs and toads, and of their spawn.
Alternatively, it maybe related to the intriguingly named crystal brain fungus.
Mr Whitehead added:"We've read a few articles now, and much speculation.
"One suggested itwas neither animal nor plant, and another that it didn't contain DNA,although it does give the appearance of something 'living'.
"Our reserve teamwill be looking out for the slime over the next few days, but ifanyone can offer any explanations we'd be glad to hear."
The public are beingwarned not to touch the mystery substance, and to inform naturereserve staff if they spot any.
Here we go again. My conjectureregarding a stratospheric slime mold balloon as unreal as it seemscontinues to bear fruit. Such a balloon would contain methane andrise at night from our swamps into the stratosphere. Very likelythey naturally refract the sun's light to produce high altitudelights which I have seen and has also been called Brown lights aroundmountains were the rising uplifts would jostle them around a lot.
When a meteor strikes, a sharp shockwave is produced and this likely disrupts a large number of suchcreatures that then fall to earth to appear as blobs of slime. Wehave seen that phenomena world wide and often associated with arecent meteor event.
Up there we would never even see thesecreatures unless we had special viewing hardware. To do so we needobservation balloons able to reach the stratosphere and some speciallighting to create contrast. That should work.
Alternatively, we need to captureimages of these forming up and rising out of swamps and that may bemuch easier although I suspect foam making conditions must existwhich we still do not understand. I do not expect to be lucky onthis hunt. However lighting should not affect such a search.
Setting up on the banks of the ponds discussed here would be ideal.
Green 'Space' SlimeBaffles Nature Experts
An unexplainedjelly-like substance which is said to occur during meteor showers hasbeen found on a wildlife park in Somerset.
18 February 2013
http://news.sky.com/story/1053694/green-space-slime-baffles-nature-experts
A "weird"green slime said in folklore to appear at the same time as meteorshit Earth has been found in a birdlife park in Somerset.
The RSPB has appealedfor help in identifying the slime, which is said to be scattered ongrass banks close to pools and lakes around Ham Wall Nature Reservenear Glastonbury.
The jelly-likesubstance could be bacteria, fungus or toad innards, wildlife expertssaid.
Some believe it couldbe a substance that has been written about for centuries called staror astral jelly, which is said to appear in the wake of meteorshowers.
Its appearance hascoincided with a meteor strike in Russia and the harmless fly-by ofan asteroid at a record distance from Earth last week.
Steve Hughes, the RSPBsite manager at Ham Wall, said: "This past week we've beenfinding piles of this translucent jelly dotted around the reserve.
"(It is) alwayson grass banks away from the water's edge. They are usually about10cm (4in) in diameter.
"We've askedexperts what it might be, but as yet no one is really sure. Whateverit is, it's very weird."
Tony Whitehead, anRSPB spokesman for the South West, added: "Although we don'tknow what it actually is, similar substances have been describedpreviously.
"In recordsdating back to the 14th Century it's known variously as star jelly,astral jelly or astromyxin."In folklore itis said to be deposited in the wake of meteor showers."
One of the morefavoured explanations is that it is a form of cyanobacteria calledNostoc.
Others suggest that itis the remains of the regurgitated innards of amphibians such asfrogs and toads, and of their spawn.
Alternatively, it maybe related to the intriguingly named crystal brain fungus.
Mr Whitehead added:"We've read a few articles now, and much speculation.
"One suggested itwas neither animal nor plant, and another that it didn't contain DNA,although it does give the appearance of something 'living'.
"Our reserve teamwill be looking out for the slime over the next few days, but ifanyone can offer any explanations we'd be glad to hear."
The public are beingwarned not to touch the mystery substance, and to inform naturereserve staff if they spot any.
Primal Evil's Physical Basis
To contact us Click HERE
There are two types of evil. The type this addresses is the worst kind and we will simply label it primal evil and it is strongly associated with a physical flaw in the brain itself. Evidence exists suggesting that Hitler suffered a war injury to the head and that effected his subsequent behavior. Other specific cases also typically are associated with brain flaw and this work polices the obvious science.
The other type of evil is derivative evil and it is learned and impressed through the social environment. This is both forgivable and also modifiable if not outright curable. That is not necessarily easy as the victim has a whole sense of self bound up in abhorrent behavior. Recall that it requires time and effort to bring a soldier back down into civilized behavior at best.
My own observations and readinghad come to the general conclusion that primal evil was expressing a physicalabnormality. This indicates that we havefound at least one such source. It mayeven be sufficient. Obviously the nextstep is to diagnose this whenever indicated and if this work is an indication,operate to remove the problem which may be as simple as scaring. An unlucky blow to the head can inducebleeding and derivative tissue damage and physical scaring. The same holds true for difficult births.
We now know these people can beidentified and are themselves victims in need of corrective surgery to makethem safe to society.
We should be so lucky as to have an equally simple solution for obsessive learned bad behavior. Pedophiles, kleptomaniacs and many other obsessives want to be cured. So far our only avenue open appears to be shamanism and their curious drug therapy.
What evil lurks in the brain? German neurologist says he's found a'dark patch'
By JeremyA. Kaplan
Published February 07, 2013
Read more:
After studying the brains of violent killers, rapists and robbers,German neurologist Gerhard Roth claims to have found a “dark patch” in thecenter of the brain -- he calls it the evil spot, a genetic source of violentbehavior.
Roth, a professor at the University of Bremen, toldGermany
"Whenever there were brutal and squalid scenes, the subjectsshowed no emotions. In the areas of the brain where we create compassion andsorrow, nothing happened,” Roth said.
BioEdge, a blog dedicated to bioethics news, translated Roth's Germaninto English: “This is definitely the region of the brain where evil is formedand where it lurks.”
Not so fast. Human behavior, affect and emotion is likely a far more intricate thing, explained Dr. Steven Galetta, chairman of the neurology department at the NYUSchool of Medicine
.
'It’s probably not as simple as X marks the spot for a particularbehavior.'NYU School
“People look at the blood flow to one area and they say, ‘aha, this is the evil patch.’ It’s probably a lot more complex than that,” Galetta told FoxNews.com.
“Certain areas are likely important for certain behaviors, certainattitudes. But it’s probably not as simple as X marks the spot for a particularbehavior.”
Roth’s study, according to Bild.de, was conducted for the Germangovernment on violent convicted offenders. He said the dark mass that he hasidentified appears in all CT scans of people with such records -- and takingit out ended their “evil” behavior.
Terre Constantine, executive director of the Brain Research Foundation andthe former director of the Jack Miller Center for Peripheral Neuropathy,expressed skepticism at the report, but agreed that brain abnormalities such astumors can affect behavior.
“It absolutely can affect the brain and your personality and how youcommunicate. And it can make you aggressive -- not all tumors, of course: itdepends where it is,”Constantine
Her foundation, which funds research into neuroscience seeking tounderstand the brain’s workings, has aided research similar to Roth's with moreadvanced imaging techniques.
One recent study from aUniversity of Chicago
“There’s clearly differences in the brain depending on what sort ofdisease or abnormality a person has,” she told FoxNews.com. And many things cancause abnormal behaviors. “They’re either wired differently or there might besome disease that’s causing the brain to atrophy.”
ButConstantine
“I would argue it’s probably not the only “evil” spot,” she said.“There are other areas in the brain, there are lots of … empathy areas orviolent areas or just social reaction areas within the brain.”
“This may be one of the spots, but I’d be surprised if it’s the spot.”
There are two types of evil. The type this addresses is the worst kind and we will simply label it primal evil and it is strongly associated with a physical flaw in the brain itself. Evidence exists suggesting that Hitler suffered a war injury to the head and that effected his subsequent behavior. Other specific cases also typically are associated with brain flaw and this work polices the obvious science.
The other type of evil is derivative evil and it is learned and impressed through the social environment. This is both forgivable and also modifiable if not outright curable. That is not necessarily easy as the victim has a whole sense of self bound up in abhorrent behavior. Recall that it requires time and effort to bring a soldier back down into civilized behavior at best.
My own observations and readinghad come to the general conclusion that primal evil was expressing a physicalabnormality. This indicates that we havefound at least one such source. It mayeven be sufficient. Obviously the nextstep is to diagnose this whenever indicated and if this work is an indication,operate to remove the problem which may be as simple as scaring. An unlucky blow to the head can inducebleeding and derivative tissue damage and physical scaring. The same holds true for difficult births.
We now know these people can beidentified and are themselves victims in need of corrective surgery to makethem safe to society.
We should be so lucky as to have an equally simple solution for obsessive learned bad behavior. Pedophiles, kleptomaniacs and many other obsessives want to be cured. So far our only avenue open appears to be shamanism and their curious drug therapy.
What evil lurks in the brain? German neurologist says he's found a'dark patch'
By JeremyA. Kaplan
Published February 07, 2013
Read more:
After studying the brains of violent killers, rapists and robbers,German neurologist Gerhard Roth claims to have found a “dark patch” in thecenter of the brain -- he calls it the evil spot, a genetic source of violentbehavior.
Roth, a professor at the University of Bremen, told
"Whenever there were brutal and squalid scenes, the subjectsshowed no emotions. In the areas of the brain where we create compassion andsorrow, nothing happened,” Roth said.
BioEdge, a blog dedicated to bioethics news, translated Roth's Germaninto English: “This is definitely the region of the brain where evil is formedand where it lurks.”
Not so fast. Human behavior, affect and emotion is likely a far more intricate thing, explained Dr. Steven Galetta, chairman of the neurology department at the NYUSchool of Medicine
.'It’s probably not as simple as X marks the spot for a particularbehavior.'
“People look at the blood flow to one area and they say, ‘aha, this is the evil patch.’ It’s probably a lot more complex than that,” Galetta told FoxNews.com.
“Certain areas are likely important for certain behaviors, certainattitudes. But it’s probably not as simple as X marks the spot for a particularbehavior.”
Roth’s study, according to Bild.de, was conducted for the Germangovernment on violent convicted offenders. He said the dark mass that he hasidentified appears in all CT scans of people with such records -- and takingit out ended their “evil” behavior.
Terre Constantine, executive director of the Brain Research Foundation andthe former director of the Jack Miller Center for Peripheral Neuropathy,expressed skepticism at the report, but agreed that brain abnormalities such astumors can affect behavior.
“It absolutely can affect the brain and your personality and how youcommunicate. And it can make you aggressive -- not all tumors, of course: itdepends where it is,”
Her foundation, which funds research into neuroscience seeking tounderstand the brain’s workings, has aided research similar to Roth's with moreadvanced imaging techniques.
One recent study from a
“There’s clearly differences in the brain depending on what sort ofdisease or abnormality a person has,” she told FoxNews.com. And many things cancause abnormal behaviors. “They’re either wired differently or there might besome disease that’s causing the brain to atrophy.”
But
“I would argue it’s probably not the only “evil” spot,” she said.“There are other areas in the brain, there are lots of … empathy areas orviolent areas or just social reaction areas within the brain.”
“This may be one of the spots, but I’d be surprised if it’s the spot.”
Aging Boomer's Blog
To contact us Click HERE
Hey, a short entry today to plug my relatively new website where I'm blogging on a regular basis about getting older and all the trappings that come with it.
I named the site cleverly...
AgingBoomersBlog.com
Okay, so that's not so clever. But it was an available domain name that more-or-less reflected what it was going to be about.
Anyway, if you're an aging boomer, surf on over and bookmark my new site. Then spend some time there reading the many posts already up and then spending some more time commenting and moving the discussions forward.
I promise my AgingBoomersBlog.com will never be dull or boring or politically correct!
Chet "Aging Boomer" Day
Editor, The Natural Health Circus
http://chetday.com/blog
I named the site cleverly...
AgingBoomersBlog.com
Okay, so that's not so clever. But it was an available domain name that more-or-less reflected what it was going to be about.
Anyway, if you're an aging boomer, surf on over and bookmark my new site. Then spend some time there reading the many posts already up and then spending some more time commenting and moving the discussions forward.
I promise my AgingBoomersBlog.com will never be dull or boring or politically correct!
Chet "Aging Boomer" Day
Editor, The Natural Health Circus
http://chetday.com/blog
23 Şubat 2013 Cumartesi
Green 'Space' Slime Baffles Nature Experts
To contact us Click HERE
Here we go again. My conjectureregarding a stratospheric slime mold balloon as unreal as it seemscontinues to bear fruit. Such a balloon would contain methane andrise at night from our swamps into the stratosphere. Very likelythey naturally refract the sun's light to produce high altitudelights which I have seen and has also been called Brown lights aroundmountains were the rising uplifts would jostle them around a lot.
When a meteor strikes, a sharp shockwave is produced and this likely disrupts a large number of suchcreatures that then fall to earth to appear as blobs of slime. Wehave seen that phenomena world wide and often associated with arecent meteor event.
Up there we would never even see thesecreatures unless we had special viewing hardware. To do so we needobservation balloons able to reach the stratosphere and some speciallighting to create contrast. That should work.
Alternatively, we need to captureimages of these forming up and rising out of swamps and that may bemuch easier although I suspect foam making conditions must existwhich we still do not understand. I do not expect to be lucky onthis hunt. However lighting should not affect such a search.
Setting up on the banks of the ponds discussed here would be ideal.
Green 'Space' SlimeBaffles Nature Experts
An unexplainedjelly-like substance which is said to occur during meteor showers hasbeen found on a wildlife park in Somerset.
18 February 2013
http://news.sky.com/story/1053694/green-space-slime-baffles-nature-experts
A "weird"green slime said in folklore to appear at the same time as meteorshit Earth has been found in a birdlife park in Somerset.
The RSPB has appealedfor help in identifying the slime, which is said to be scattered ongrass banks close to pools and lakes around Ham Wall Nature Reservenear Glastonbury.
The jelly-likesubstance could be bacteria, fungus or toad innards, wildlife expertssaid.
Some believe it couldbe a substance that has been written about for centuries called staror astral jelly, which is said to appear in the wake of meteorshowers.
Its appearance hascoincided with a meteor strike in Russia and the harmless fly-by ofan asteroid at a record distance from Earth last week.
Steve Hughes, the RSPBsite manager at Ham Wall, said: "This past week we've beenfinding piles of this translucent jelly dotted around the reserve.
"(It is) alwayson grass banks away from the water's edge. They are usually about10cm (4in) in diameter.
"We've askedexperts what it might be, but as yet no one is really sure. Whateverit is, it's very weird."
Tony Whitehead, anRSPB spokesman for the South West, added: "Although we don'tknow what it actually is, similar substances have been describedpreviously.
"In recordsdating back to the 14th Century it's known variously as star jelly,astral jelly or astromyxin."In folklore itis said to be deposited in the wake of meteor showers."
One of the morefavoured explanations is that it is a form of cyanobacteria calledNostoc.
Others suggest that itis the remains of the regurgitated innards of amphibians such asfrogs and toads, and of their spawn.
Alternatively, it maybe related to the intriguingly named crystal brain fungus.
Mr Whitehead added:"We've read a few articles now, and much speculation.
"One suggested itwas neither animal nor plant, and another that it didn't contain DNA,although it does give the appearance of something 'living'.
"Our reserve teamwill be looking out for the slime over the next few days, but ifanyone can offer any explanations we'd be glad to hear."
The public are beingwarned not to touch the mystery substance, and to inform naturereserve staff if they spot any.
Here we go again. My conjectureregarding a stratospheric slime mold balloon as unreal as it seemscontinues to bear fruit. Such a balloon would contain methane andrise at night from our swamps into the stratosphere. Very likelythey naturally refract the sun's light to produce high altitudelights which I have seen and has also been called Brown lights aroundmountains were the rising uplifts would jostle them around a lot.
When a meteor strikes, a sharp shockwave is produced and this likely disrupts a large number of suchcreatures that then fall to earth to appear as blobs of slime. Wehave seen that phenomena world wide and often associated with arecent meteor event.
Up there we would never even see thesecreatures unless we had special viewing hardware. To do so we needobservation balloons able to reach the stratosphere and some speciallighting to create contrast. That should work.
Alternatively, we need to captureimages of these forming up and rising out of swamps and that may bemuch easier although I suspect foam making conditions must existwhich we still do not understand. I do not expect to be lucky onthis hunt. However lighting should not affect such a search.
Setting up on the banks of the ponds discussed here would be ideal.
Green 'Space' SlimeBaffles Nature Experts
An unexplainedjelly-like substance which is said to occur during meteor showers hasbeen found on a wildlife park in Somerset.
18 February 2013
http://news.sky.com/story/1053694/green-space-slime-baffles-nature-experts
A "weird"green slime said in folklore to appear at the same time as meteorshit Earth has been found in a birdlife park in Somerset.
The RSPB has appealedfor help in identifying the slime, which is said to be scattered ongrass banks close to pools and lakes around Ham Wall Nature Reservenear Glastonbury.
The jelly-likesubstance could be bacteria, fungus or toad innards, wildlife expertssaid.
Some believe it couldbe a substance that has been written about for centuries called staror astral jelly, which is said to appear in the wake of meteorshowers.
Its appearance hascoincided with a meteor strike in Russia and the harmless fly-by ofan asteroid at a record distance from Earth last week.
Steve Hughes, the RSPBsite manager at Ham Wall, said: "This past week we've beenfinding piles of this translucent jelly dotted around the reserve.
"(It is) alwayson grass banks away from the water's edge. They are usually about10cm (4in) in diameter.
"We've askedexperts what it might be, but as yet no one is really sure. Whateverit is, it's very weird."
Tony Whitehead, anRSPB spokesman for the South West, added: "Although we don'tknow what it actually is, similar substances have been describedpreviously.
"In recordsdating back to the 14th Century it's known variously as star jelly,astral jelly or astromyxin."In folklore itis said to be deposited in the wake of meteor showers."
One of the morefavoured explanations is that it is a form of cyanobacteria calledNostoc.
Others suggest that itis the remains of the regurgitated innards of amphibians such asfrogs and toads, and of their spawn.
Alternatively, it maybe related to the intriguingly named crystal brain fungus.
Mr Whitehead added:"We've read a few articles now, and much speculation.
"One suggested itwas neither animal nor plant, and another that it didn't contain DNA,although it does give the appearance of something 'living'.
"Our reserve teamwill be looking out for the slime over the next few days, but ifanyone can offer any explanations we'd be glad to hear."
The public are beingwarned not to touch the mystery substance, and to inform naturereserve staff if they spot any.
Primal Evil's Physical Basis
To contact us Click HERE
There are two types of evil. The type this addresses is the worst kind and we will simply label it primal evil and it is strongly associated with a physical flaw in the brain itself. Evidence exists suggesting that Hitler suffered a war injury to the head and that effected his subsequent behavior. Other specific cases also typically are associated with brain flaw and this work polices the obvious science.
The other type of evil is derivative evil and it is learned and impressed through the social environment. This is both forgivable and also modifiable if not outright curable. That is not necessarily easy as the victim has a whole sense of self bound up in abhorrent behavior. Recall that it requires time and effort to bring a soldier back down into civilized behavior at best.
My own observations and readinghad come to the general conclusion that primal evil was expressing a physicalabnormality. This indicates that we havefound at least one such source. It mayeven be sufficient. Obviously the nextstep is to diagnose this whenever indicated and if this work is an indication,operate to remove the problem which may be as simple as scaring. An unlucky blow to the head can inducebleeding and derivative tissue damage and physical scaring. The same holds true for difficult births.
We now know these people can beidentified and are themselves victims in need of corrective surgery to makethem safe to society.
We should be so lucky as to have an equally simple solution for obsessive learned bad behavior. Pedophiles, kleptomaniacs and many other obsessives want to be cured. So far our only avenue open appears to be shamanism and their curious drug therapy.
What evil lurks in the brain? German neurologist says he's found a'dark patch'
By JeremyA. Kaplan
Published February 07, 2013
Read more:
After studying the brains of violent killers, rapists and robbers,German neurologist Gerhard Roth claims to have found a “dark patch” in thecenter of the brain -- he calls it the evil spot, a genetic source of violentbehavior.
Roth, a professor at the University of Bremen, toldGermany
"Whenever there were brutal and squalid scenes, the subjectsshowed no emotions. In the areas of the brain where we create compassion andsorrow, nothing happened,” Roth said.
BioEdge, a blog dedicated to bioethics news, translated Roth's Germaninto English: “This is definitely the region of the brain where evil is formedand where it lurks.”
Not so fast. Human behavior, affect and emotion is likely a far more intricate thing, explained Dr. Steven Galetta, chairman of the neurology department at the NYUSchool of Medicine.
'It’s probably not as simple as X marks the spot for a particularbehavior.'NYU School
“People look at the blood flow to one area and they say, ‘aha, this is the evil patch.’ It’s probably a lot more complex than that,” Galetta told FoxNews.com.
“Certain areas are likely important for certain behaviors, certainattitudes. But it’s probably not as simple as X marks the spot for a particularbehavior.”
Roth’s study, according to Bild.de, was conducted for the Germangovernment on violent convicted offenders. He said the dark mass that he hasidentified appears in all CT scans of people with such records -- and takingit out ended their “evil” behavior.
Terre Constantine, executive director of the Brain Research Foundation andthe former director of the Jack Miller Center for Peripheral Neuropathy,expressed skepticism at the report, but agreed that brain abnormalities such astumors can affect behavior.
“It absolutely can affect the brain and your personality and how youcommunicate. And it can make you aggressive -- not all tumors, of course: itdepends where it is,”Constantine
Her foundation, which funds research into neuroscience seeking tounderstand the brain’s workings, has aided research similar to Roth's with moreadvanced imaging techniques.
One recent study from aUniversity of Chicago
“There’s clearly differences in the brain depending on what sort ofdisease or abnormality a person has,” she told FoxNews.com. And many things cancause abnormal behaviors. “They’re either wired differently or there might besome disease that’s causing the brain to atrophy.”
ButConstantine
“I would argue it’s probably not the only “evil” spot,” she said.“There are other areas in the brain, there are lots of … empathy areas orviolent areas or just social reaction areas within the brain.”
“This may be one of the spots, but I’d be surprised if it’s the spot.”
There are two types of evil. The type this addresses is the worst kind and we will simply label it primal evil and it is strongly associated with a physical flaw in the brain itself. Evidence exists suggesting that Hitler suffered a war injury to the head and that effected his subsequent behavior. Other specific cases also typically are associated with brain flaw and this work polices the obvious science.
The other type of evil is derivative evil and it is learned and impressed through the social environment. This is both forgivable and also modifiable if not outright curable. That is not necessarily easy as the victim has a whole sense of self bound up in abhorrent behavior. Recall that it requires time and effort to bring a soldier back down into civilized behavior at best.
My own observations and readinghad come to the general conclusion that primal evil was expressing a physicalabnormality. This indicates that we havefound at least one such source. It mayeven be sufficient. Obviously the nextstep is to diagnose this whenever indicated and if this work is an indication,operate to remove the problem which may be as simple as scaring. An unlucky blow to the head can inducebleeding and derivative tissue damage and physical scaring. The same holds true for difficult births.
We now know these people can beidentified and are themselves victims in need of corrective surgery to makethem safe to society.
We should be so lucky as to have an equally simple solution for obsessive learned bad behavior. Pedophiles, kleptomaniacs and many other obsessives want to be cured. So far our only avenue open appears to be shamanism and their curious drug therapy.
What evil lurks in the brain? German neurologist says he's found a'dark patch'
By JeremyA. Kaplan
Published February 07, 2013
Read more:
After studying the brains of violent killers, rapists and robbers,German neurologist Gerhard Roth claims to have found a “dark patch” in thecenter of the brain -- he calls it the evil spot, a genetic source of violentbehavior.
Roth, a professor at the University of Bremen, told
"Whenever there were brutal and squalid scenes, the subjectsshowed no emotions. In the areas of the brain where we create compassion andsorrow, nothing happened,” Roth said.
BioEdge, a blog dedicated to bioethics news, translated Roth's Germaninto English: “This is definitely the region of the brain where evil is formedand where it lurks.”
Not so fast. Human behavior, affect and emotion is likely a far more intricate thing, explained Dr. Steven Galetta, chairman of the neurology department at the NYUSchool of Medicine
.'It’s probably not as simple as X marks the spot for a particularbehavior.'
“People look at the blood flow to one area and they say, ‘aha, this is the evil patch.’ It’s probably a lot more complex than that,” Galetta told FoxNews.com.
“Certain areas are likely important for certain behaviors, certainattitudes. But it’s probably not as simple as X marks the spot for a particularbehavior.”
Roth’s study, according to Bild.de, was conducted for the Germangovernment on violent convicted offenders. He said the dark mass that he hasidentified appears in all CT scans of people with such records -- and takingit out ended their “evil” behavior.
Terre Constantine, executive director of the Brain Research Foundation andthe former director of the Jack Miller Center for Peripheral Neuropathy,expressed skepticism at the report, but agreed that brain abnormalities such astumors can affect behavior.
“It absolutely can affect the brain and your personality and how youcommunicate. And it can make you aggressive -- not all tumors, of course: itdepends where it is,”
Her foundation, which funds research into neuroscience seeking tounderstand the brain’s workings, has aided research similar to Roth's with moreadvanced imaging techniques.
One recent study from a
“There’s clearly differences in the brain depending on what sort ofdisease or abnormality a person has,” she told FoxNews.com. And many things cancause abnormal behaviors. “They’re either wired differently or there might besome disease that’s causing the brain to atrophy.”
But
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Picasso Used Common House Paint
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It let him get the look he wanted and it was the age of high quality house paints. Thus it is no particular surprise. This merely improves analytic precision should we care.
Yet it allowed him to create a vastly more expansive style that shed the attention to the traditional stroke by stroke methodology of the past and approaches the styles of today were it is all computer assisted. He truly led the way and was recognized forit.
It made great art.
Picasso's Genius Revealed: He Used Common House Paint
Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience senior writer
http://www.livescience.com/26963-picasso-house-paint-x-rays.html
Pablo Picasso, famous for pushing the boundaries of art with cubism, also broke with convention when it came to paint, new research shows. X-ray analysis of some of the painter's masterworks solves a long-standing mystery about the type of paint the artist used on his canvases, revealing it to be basic house paint.
Art scholars had long suspected Picasso wasone of the first masterartists to employ house paint, rather than traditional artists' paint,to achieve a glossy style that hid brush marks. There was no absoluteconfirmation of this, however, until now.
Physicists at Argonne National Laboratory inLemont ,Ill. , trained their hard X-ray nanoprobe atPicasso's painting "The Red Armchair," completed in 1931, which theyborrowed from the Art Institute of Chicago
The analysis showed that Picasso used enamel paint that matches the precise chemical composition of the first brand of commercial house paint, called Ripolin. The researchers were able to compare the painting's pigment with those of paints available at the time by analyzing decades-old paint samples bought on eBay.
What's more, the detailed study, which usedX-rays to probe the painting'spigment down to the scale of 30 nanometers (a sheet of copier paper is100,000 nanometers thick), was able to pinpoint the manufacturing region wherethe paint was made by studying its particular impurities.
"The nanoprobe at the [Advanced Photon Source X-ray facility and the Center for Nanoscale Materials] allowed unprecedented visualization of information about chemical composition within a singe grain of paint pigment, significantly reducing doubt that Picasso used common house paint in some of his most famous works," one of the research leaders, Argonne's Volker Rose, said in a statement.
Art scholars think Picasso experimented with Ripolin to achieve a different effect than would've been possible with traditional oil paints, which dry slowly and can be heavily blended. In contrast, house paint dries quickly and leaves effects like marbling, muted edges, and even drips of paint. Still, experts couldn't be sure house paint was the key to Picasso's look without proof.
"Appearances can deceive, so this is where art can benefit from scientific research," said Francesca Casadio, senior conservator scientist at the Art Institute ofChicago
The scientists detailed their findings in a paper published last monthin the journal Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing.
It let him get the look he wanted and it was the age of high quality house paints. Thus it is no particular surprise. This merely improves analytic precision should we care.
Yet it allowed him to create a vastly more expansive style that shed the attention to the traditional stroke by stroke methodology of the past and approaches the styles of today were it is all computer assisted. He truly led the way and was recognized forit.
It made great art.
Picasso's Genius Revealed: He Used Common House Paint
Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience senior writer
http://www.livescience.com/26963-picasso-house-paint-x-rays.html
Pablo Picasso, famous for pushing the boundaries of art with cubism, also broke with convention when it came to paint, new research shows. X-ray analysis of some of the painter's masterworks solves a long-standing mystery about the type of paint the artist used on his canvases, revealing it to be basic house paint.
Art scholars had long suspected Picasso wasone of the first masterartists to employ house paint, rather than traditional artists' paint,to achieve a glossy style that hid brush marks. There was no absoluteconfirmation of this, however, until now.
Physicists at Argonne National Laboratory in
The analysis showed that Picasso used enamel paint that matches the precise chemical composition of the first brand of commercial house paint, called Ripolin. The researchers were able to compare the painting's pigment with those of paints available at the time by analyzing decades-old paint samples bought on eBay.
What's more, the detailed study, which usedX-rays to probe the painting'spigment down to the scale of 30 nanometers (a sheet of copier paper is100,000 nanometers thick), was able to pinpoint the manufacturing region wherethe paint was made by studying its particular impurities.
"The nanoprobe at the [Advanced Photon Source X-ray facility and the Center for Nanoscale Materials] allowed unprecedented visualization of information about chemical composition within a singe grain of paint pigment, significantly reducing doubt that Picasso used common house paint in some of his most famous works," one of the research leaders, Argonne's Volker Rose, said in a statement.
Art scholars think Picasso experimented with Ripolin to achieve a different effect than would've been possible with traditional oil paints, which dry slowly and can be heavily blended. In contrast, house paint dries quickly and leaves effects like marbling, muted edges, and even drips of paint. Still, experts couldn't be sure house paint was the key to Picasso's look without proof.
"Appearances can deceive, so this is where art can benefit from scientific research," said Francesca Casadio, senior conservator scientist at the Art Institute of
The scientists detailed their findings in a paper published last monthin the journal Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing.
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