Earth's Innermost Core & is Marijuana Bad for You?
Added 2023-03-08 20:15:01 +0000 UTCA Nanosatellite From RNA
It doesn’t fly, but researchers from Aarhus University and Berkeley Laboratory have found a way to coax RNA molecules into custom shapes, and created a tiny satellite just to prove their point. Much of the advances in this technology come from improved imaging methods, such as Cryo-Electron Microscopy and X-ray scattering, and ways to quickly implement the feedback these imaging methods deliver. The researchers hope that their achievement will be useful for drug design. Press release here, paper here.
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New Measurements Confirm that Earth Has An Innermost Inner Core
Few of you will remember but about 20 years ago, a group of geophysicists suggested that earth’s inner core has an even more innermost core. Researchers from the Australian National University have recently published a new data analysis that supports this hypothesis. Earth’s inner core is solid, and probably made from iron and nickel. It seems to have a core that has a markedly higher density, probably a different crystal structure. Paper here, press release here.
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Hypnosis Better Than Prayer for Pain Management
A study at the University of Lisbon on more than 200 adults found that hypnosis and mindfulness meditation work better for pain management than Christian prayer. The new study was published in the Journal of Pain Research, not to be confused with the Journal of Pain, which in 2011 published the results of a seminal study showing that swearing helps against pain.
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"The researchers hope that their achievement will be useful for drug design." I have to ask, why always drugs? While drugs are useful and provide benefit, they generally are used to maintain unhealth rather than fix what's broken. The example is RNA, so the focus can be on repairing broken systems, at least to the point that function overwhelms dysfunction. For example, using a virus to deliver functional segments of DNA to replace dysfunctional segments. I have read that this line of research is happening, but the articles always mention 'drugs' and they are not a solution, they just buy time.
2023-03-09 16:12:17 +0000 UTCIn my opinion, prayer has a lot to do with patience and faith. If you expect immediate results, you likely are defeating the purpose. I think if a true believe is honest with themself, they would understand that we are so far removed from the people depicted in the bible that we should expect to endure lifetime of tribulation. The book of Job has more on this. Meditation, which is another GOD given gift from the bible, is our ability to exercise control over mind, body, and spirit. Results are more immediate because this ability is something we were born with. Even so, few will ever exercise it.
D Brown
2023-03-08 23:19:30 +0000 UTC
