Prominent psychiatrists are joining forces in protestation at the all too common prescriptions written for antidepressants, particularly as the severity of the side effects are becoming fully documented. These range from dry mouth, dizziness, reduced concentration, heart palpitation, confusion, hallucinations and many others, to utter desperation and in the extreme, suicidal tendencies..
Virgin Galactic is preparing for mass space flight.
It is planning a space flight terminal in New Mexico with a design that has the impression of science-fiction designed by the architect Norman Foster and due to be completed by the end of 2011.
Free Will is an exciting human faculty. It allows us to determine choices and how we wish to enjoy and spend our lifetime and in what direction of creativity we wish to exercise our skills.
Free Will is an exciting human faculty. It allows us to determine choices and how we wish to enjoy and spend our lifetime and in what direction of creativity we wish to exercise our skills..
NASA has a satellite that was blitzed by a gamma-ray burst of what is believed to have been the largest star explosion seen in space. It was overwhelming in its power. It was sufficient to shut down the project’s data software.
To know of our smallness and dependence gives us little concern. To know that what seems to us a giant sized, is in reality only a fraction of the size and light output of other suns in the cosmos probably has not concerned us greatly either. But to know that these invisible great emitters of power and light of immense proportions are now observed and identified by astronomers jolts us into adjusting our perspective.
It is difficult to conceive of sunlight 10 times brighter than our wondrous light-giver in the sky. But 10 million times greater!
It would seem that the fundamentals of the science are the control of matter on an atomic and molecular scale that far exceeds what we know as ‘micro’ science. We know that the latter is being applied constructively in surgical skills and computer science. What will be the field of application of nanotechnology?
Culture means refinement, appreciation of beauty, truth, knowledge, wisdom and is reflected in an individual’s intelligent expression of these qualities and in society’s advancement in living standards and opportunities for all.
We have a serious medical concern in western countries where the increase in mental depression is so great as to have been suggested as an ‘epidemic’ without a cure.
Depression is now one of the major symptoms for which doctors prescribe medical drugs in spite of serious known side effects that are sometimes worse than the original symptom .
