Salk institute, La Jolla, California

“Likely entry points into buildings are broken or missing airbricks, gaps around
pipework, gaps under exterior and garage doors and faulty drains. Older properties
with cast iron soil vent pipes should have a wire balloon fitted to the top of the soil
stack. If your foul drain has an intercepted manhole you should ensure the
interceptor cap is in place.”

http://www.threerivers.gov.uk/GetResource.aspx?file=EnvHealth_PestFactsheet_Rats.pdf

More than 2,000 years ago Hippocrates wrote that a mother carrying a female baby had a pale face, while one carrying a male baby had a healthy skin tone.

Now a study published in The Lancet - 1999(?) has found that mothers of girls are more likely to suffer morning sickness than those carrying boys.

Dr Thomas Asking of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, who led the study, said that using sickness as a pre- birth gender indicator would be “not much better than tossing a coin”.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19991210/ai_n14261544

Spirulina - nutrient packed algae - used by aztec messengers to help them run long distances

Faster: The Acceleration of Just about Everything (Paperback)
by James Gleick (Author)

Type A personalities - press the button in the lift to close the door - placebo?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_A_personality

Charles Dudley Warner, 1884, “The chopping up of time into rigid periods is an invasion of freedom”

Plautus: “The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish hours!”

Technology was to provide the fabled leisure society* - but we’ve just had to keep up with the machines. We deal with one item of work faster - but then another arrives faster.

Technology = not more lesiure or productivity - but more hours spent looking busy?

Ankore tribe (Uganda?) - doing nothing is not “wasting time”, but “creating time”. By being alive.

*A kind of leisure society for some? In UK - state benefits? etc?

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See also: The end of time - Julian Barbour

Time does not exist. Everything happens all at once. Parallel worlds etc.

We perceive an overlapping set of instants wrote John Gribbon of Barbour’s theory, which gives us an illusion of time moving.

The film strip! Feck.

How do we enter the next frame? Probability? Genes? Who’s lining up the frames?

Neuro scientist - San Diego. Treated phantom limbs with mirrors - brain training (tinnitis?)

Artist Alexa Wright

Connection between brain and body is flexible and trainable?

Valentin Dikul also seems to believe this - he trains people with spinal injuries to reroute nerve impulses to healthy muscles - so that people can walk again - takes a long time - very gruelling.

Canary brains can be regrown - 1999.

Prof Jeffrey Macklis, Harvard Uni

The importance of the B vitamins - in meat, cheese - zinc required too

Started a worldwide yoga movement.

Apparently in 2000 or so David Bowie’s wife Iman followed an “ancient African custom” and held another woman’s baby for a day - to aid her chances of getting pregnant.

Take one magic mushroom…

A chance finding by a young chemistry student has electrified both the scientific and medical worlds. Will highly toxic fungi prove to be a cure for cancer?

By Sanjida O’Connell
Friday, 17 March 2000

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/take-one-magic-mushroom-723916.html

Obituary: Terence McKenna
Independent, The (London), Apr 15, 2000 by Alix Sharkey

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20000415/ai_n14300579

McKenna claimed that human self-awareness is the result of psychedelic serendipity. His 1992 book Food of the Gods argues that the accidental ingestion of psilocybin mushrooms triggered sentience in foraging, omnivorous apes and led them - us - to put rockets on the moon in the evolutionary wink of an eye.

However the nature of his death - suddenly, relatively young, and from glioblastoma multiforma, a rare form of cerebral cancer - will hardly further his cause.

Crow links three topics: laterality of the brain, language, and the Y chromosome. That our brain is asymmetrical is clear from the fact that 90 per cent of the population is right handed and that the centre for language is on the left side of the brain

Parasite - makes rats less timid - so that cats can eat them.

Toxoplasma gondii lives in brain of rats - can only breed in cats.

Also in one human briton in five.

Left hemisphere constructs stories, the right checks them against reality.

The right side of face is more controlled - left is instinctive. If you lie your face will be imbalanced?