After knocking on the door in vain, with guns drawn, a few policemen break into the house for a search and find no one. They spot a trap door that leads to the dirty waters of a nearby canal through a narrow tunnel.
Realising that Gnanam alias Thiruganam has escaped through the tunnel he has dug, policemen barge into another house of his in the same locality and find a similar trap door in the kitchen opening into another tunnel, also leading to the canal.
-ExpressBuzz.
“If an alien came down anytime prior to about 1.5 million years ago to communicate with the ‘brainiest’ animals on Earth, they would have tripped over our own ancestors and headed straight for the oceans to converse with the dolphins,” said Lori Marino.
Wired has an article that suggests whales are like people.
In case you are one of those who mess with sleep, you should read this:
When we ignore the call to sleep, even over one night, researchers have found that the signals trigger events that can damage blood vessels, organs, even our immune systems to the point that normally protective cells turn against us, as they do with rheumatoid arthritis.
-Daily Herald
Researchers at the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics of MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have shown that mice prevented from "replaying" their waking experiences while asleep do not remember them as well as mice who are able to perform this function.
- Imperial Valley News
Sleep is one thing, and Yoga another- but both are astonishing in their effects:
In 1985, the meditation team made a video of monks drying cold, wet sheets with body heat. They also documented monks spending a winter night on a rocky ledge 15,000 feet high in the Himalayas. The sleep-out took place in February on the night of the winter full moon when temperatures reached zero degrees F. Wearing only woolen or cotton shawls, the monks promptly fell asleep on the rocky ledge, They did not huddle together and the video shows no evidence of shivering. They slept until dawn then walked back to their monastery.
- Harvard Gazette
I saw the documentary on monks sleeping in the cold in the mountains. When it is cold your breath shortens; it is difficult to breathe. So if you can control your breathing then you can prolong life in adverse conditions.
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hmmm... n I have seen a Kirubananda Variyar's program on doordharshan once and he said that one's lifetime can be limited by the one's breathing cycles... So the lesser the frequency, the longer we live... he mainly told that our Thamizh is very a simple language which makes us breathe only little unlike other languages where sounds like dha, jha etc are used more...
ReplyDeleteI never thought such things were possible... There is more to life than what we know...
ReplyDeleteYup... the Average Human heart beat is 72 times per minute and an athlete's - long distance runner's heartbeat becomes around 60 per minute... - he lives longer and is obviously healthy!!!
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So exercises + less stress or YOGA! = Longer life...!!!
Yes, and i remember reading somewhere that Michael Phelps' heartbeat is astonishingly low... would check that..
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