Are humans hard-wired for faith?

“I just know God is with me. I can feel Him always,” a young Haitian woman once told me.
“I’ve meditated and gone to another place I can’t describe. Hours felt like mere minutes. It was an indescribable feeling of peace,” recalled a CNN colleague.
“I’ve spoken in languages I’ve never learned. It was God speaking through [...]

77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better

If someone granted you one wish, what do you imagine you would want out of life that you haven’t gotten yet? For many people, it would be self-improvement and knowledge. New knowledge is the backbone of society’s progress. Great thinkers such as Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and others’ quests for [...]

No sleep means no new brain cells

Missing out on sleep may cause the brain to stop producing new cells, a study has suggested.
The work on rats, by a team from Princeton University found a lack of sleep affected the hippocampus, a brain region involved in forming memories.
The research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science showed a stress hormone causes [...]

Neurological disease far more common, new survey finds

Multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease and other neurological diseases may be far more common than most people had believed, according to new estimates published on Monday.
Nearly one out of 1,000 Americans has multiple sclerosis or MS and one out of 100 elderly Americans has Parkinson’s disease the survey found.
“Our estimate of MS prevalence is about 50 [...]

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