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If one wants to get the most out of their body, timing is crucial. Molecular clocks that are made out of proteins control our biorhythm and they need about a day (or more) to round down their cycle. Just like with the tide the concentration and activity of these proteins goes up and down. The regulator of the molecular clocks is located in the brain and is heavily dependent on the presence and absence of light. Scientists discovered a protein that can accelerate and slow the activities of genes rhythmically. A very interesting insight with relevant future impact.

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More and more scientific insight is made. In the long term, this insight with ensure that health, food and taxation will be tailored to the individual. Currently science is still very focused on averages. Because that’s currently the only way to explain the workings of medicine. With the individual approach we get (automated) advice on how we can stay as healthy as possible, to be as happy as possible and to get as old as possible. This type of insight, which by the by, match up with the insights we have before the golden days of western science, fit seamlessly into this.

It's now possible to locate brain tumors and monitor their growth as well as tracking nerve-wracking diseases like multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's by studying the eyes (very carefully).

"Our brains are connected to both eyes through optic nerve cells, so damage of the brain can lead to damage of the optic tract and retina," says Helen Danesh-Meyer, eye surgeon and 'neuro-ophthalmologist' of the University of Auckland Medical School in New Zealand.

Facial loss is often one of the first symptoms of people with a nerve condition. Proof of the connection between degeneration of the optical tracts and diseases like Alzheimer have been known since the eighties, but now there are also instruments that can measure it through the iris. An example is the laser-camera technique retina tomography (HRT), and a laser technique (GDx) which are both used to measure the form and thickness of the nerves behind the eye.

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It’s said iridology has been known for the ancient Greeks, the Egyptians and the Chinese. It still exists, but because it’s scientifically very little explained, there’s still a lot of scepticism (Dutch). Now that we’re slowly measuring on very detailed levels, we can also show things we couldn’t before and thus put aside as ‘scientifically unproven’. Now we can measure, better and better, we can get new insights, develop diagnoses to eventually let humans on earth live longer.

Singing and talking are treated differently by our brains. That's shown by new experiments. You need all sorts of brain functions for talking: you need to think of what you want to say, then you need to formulate it in words and then you need to use the muscles in your mouth and throat to make the sounds. It's possible to disable a selected area of the brain using magnets so that you can, for example, still formulate worlds, but no longer pronounce them. It's also possible to turn of certain sections that allows you to sing just fine, but when the same words have to be spoken you no longer can.

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If we can turn off certain areas of the brain, will we start to concentrate more on the areas that are still being used? That might speed up the learning process considerably.

It turns out the computer can understand the barking of dogs better than humans, and it can be used to better understand the language of these animals. During a study in the barking of dogs scientists have recorded 6,000 barking sounds of 14 Hungarian Mudi's (a kind of sheep dog). Six different 'barks' were recorded: barking to strangers, barking during a fight, barking 'to take a pee', barking for their ball, barking during playing and barking when it's left behind. After analyzing the digital versions of these 'barks', the computer program connected the right bark to the right action in 43% of the cases. This is almost identical to the score of humans (49%). The computer had a better score with 'walking' and 'ball', while humans scored higher on 'playing' and 'being left alone'. Furthermore the computer could better distinguish which bark belonged to which dog (52%). Earlier, the scientists had determined that humans were practically unable to make this difference.

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Computers will understand the world better than we do. Currently they get dogs just about equally, soon much better. Then personal environment brands, brands that in future use this kind of advanced forms of this type of technology, to help us understand the world better by saying, for example ‘your dog wants to take a walk’ or ‘this dog wants to greet you and isn’t angry’. Or, in stranger environments, ‘this snake won’t hurt you now. It’s just eaten and is on its way to its lair.’ This kind of insight, this kind of technology, means that we’ll be able to walk a little freer in the world.

Eight-year-old children learn best when you reward them positively ('well done'). They're barely sensitive to negative feedback ('too bad, not good'). Twelve-year-olds react in the opposite manner. They're more sensitive to people pointing out mistakes.

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Small children often react intuitively, very close to nature, very strongly in the here and now. At a certain age, they’ll start to think, something that developed countries stimulate strongly. ‘Thinking’ is valued much more highly than ‘feeling’. If you feel good, you don’t want to be slowed down, but be stimulated. Doesn’t that go for everyone? But we simply can’t do everything we want to do. You can’t just eat an apple in a supermarket, walk into someone’s house or touch people. This perhaps almost automatic behavior that children still have is something we need to block with our minds. They’re the norms and values, collective thoughts that we need to feel safe in a society.

People are only limitedly able to raise children. They throw everything into it, but still they’re unsure. That’s especially the case because people today only have a few children, not even helped to raise their brothers or sisters or have had a lot of experience with previous children. These kinds of insight will lead to personal child brands to help us raise our children. They’ll literally (!) listen along to what’s happening in a dialogue with our child, in an incident for example. Facial expressions, body stance and body language will be measured through all kinds of sensors. To discuss the incident with us later, at night when the little one’s asleep. Completely automated. Before this is common practice, however, we’re talking about 2050, the time of the pamper planet.

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A robot that can think using rat's brains has been developed at the University of Reading. The robot can avoid objects without the use of additional support from humans or technology. The brains aren't physically located in the robot, but are kept in a food-rich environment. They communicate with the robot using Bluetooth.

Our human brains appear to appreciate a monetary reward just as much as a social reward. Money and status are handled by the same spots in our brains. That explains, for example, why people are willing to pay more for a Toyota Prius: the appreciation of the people surrounding them makes up for the cost. The social function of brands proven, so to speak. There's more information at NeuroMarketing.

Psychologist Savid Moxon has researched the effect that so-called 'Sound Snacks' have on the physical and mental wellness of men and women. 'Sound Snacking' is the listening to short pieces of music and/or parts of records, something that a grand total of 93% of the young (Dutch) music fans (18-24 years old) do regularly. The research, in which a good 200 adolescents participated, shows that men are far more able to judge which musical genres influence them and how different sounds will make them feel than women.

Researchers have discovered that monkeys can control an extra robot arm along with their own arms. Brains are apparently so flexible that they can connect additional 'devices'. That offers plenty of opportunities for the future to let the world around us be controlled by robots that do as we think. Below is a summary of the complete text:

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With this we won’t be able to control just prosthetics, but also robots or cars. But what happens when we can invent an interface that links people and copies concepts? Now we’ve developed speech, but there’s a lot of interference there. Or we can start to observe things we couldn’t before, like infrared, magnetic pull, warmth, vibrations, high and low tones, etc… That could turn us into a very special species. Those are the insights that are coming to life here.

In this video Derren Brown rapidly administers medicines to a group of students. They're in a specific state of mind in which he can puncture the skin of their hands with a needle without them feeling it.

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We still don’t understand what we can do with our brains at all. This knowledge of our powers is spreading rapidly, but it will take a new generation that’s entirely open to this. When we’re past the physical era (until approx 2035) the primordial energy will be given complete attention again.

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In this video Derren Brown, known for playing with our brains, demonstrates how a random passerby can stop other people from dozens of metres away. Impressive. But the question here is: what are we seeing? Are we making contact with the quantum field in which all life on earth is connected or is it just a trick and everything is acted? Whoever has had telepathic experiences will lean towards the former, which is extremely interesting – what would we be able to do with it in the future? – and revealing the trick would be a shame then. Let me know what you think!

In this movie, Dr Quantum explains the difference between matter and waves. We all know that there's a connection between mass and waves through Einstein's famous formula. (E = mc²; energy = mass times the speed of light (3,00 x 100.000.000 meter per second) squared, and that mass and energy are directly related. That means simply that every element in the universe, every planet, every piece of life, every plant, every animal, and so also mankind exists solely out of energy. Einstein already showed that mass is a slowed form of energy, like a traffic jam on a high way.

If energy in its turn exists exclusively out of waves, we deal with a permanent change. With as a consequence that our human body is far from static, but the result of a group of waves that chances constantly and is entwined for 80 years like a coil of many strands of ropes. Strands that come out of our body and continuously make invisible contact with others. Then the waves unbraid, carry on and a human disappears like there never was anything at all.

Many may know this psychological test, but it's finally online. Watch first, then read on.

Research by Marcel Zeelenberg at Tilburg University in the Netherlands shows that most people are sorry for things they haven't done more than for things they have done. It also shows that our curiosity is stronger than our aversion of the negative 'sorry' feeling. In the world to come, developing over the next decades, we can do everything, experience everything, learn everything. From the very first moment in our lives. We can easily fill our lives, satisfy our curiosity, only the question is: does it make us happier? Then a certain wisdom is needed: what choices do yo have to make? How do you psychologically handle the things you don't do? How do you accept our own life. These are spiritual questions: questions to be answered at a higher level, but still through technology. We are then talking bout 2050 though. We are talking about the world of Pamper Planet.

In China the way to potty-train children is completely different from western customs. The average age for a child to be potty-trained in China is between 12 and 15 months. Western babies are generally potty-trained between 18-30 months. Chinese people have a different vision of 'learning', which will soon inspire the western world.