It has begun

Scientists have been testing on lab rats to cure dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, and amnesia. With the help of a artificial chip in the brain they can now recover a memory with a touch of a button.

Nytimes.com states: "The rats were implanted with a tiny array of electrodes, which threaded from the top of the head down into two neighboring pieces of the hippocampus, a structure that is crucial for forming these new memories, in rats as in humans. The two slivers of tissue, called CA1 and CA3, communicate with each other as the brain learns and stores new information. The device transmits these exchanges to a computer."

I have this strange feeling that they are going to succeed with humans. I have a question though: if technology gets advanced enough to make people remember with a touch of a button will they be able to make people forget at a touch of a button?

Yes, I sponsor

Yes, now I sponsor one website and also a blog.

The website is a nice small little forum called "it is written" where people can post their writing.

http://z15.invisionfree.com/It_Is_Written

Another is a writing blog.

bsmeyersauthor.wordpress.com

Now, I encourage anyone who bothers reading this blog to check these two websites out, especially if you are a writer.

Poor, poor, duckling

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpicturegalleries/8586845/Photographer-Paul-Hughess-images-of-a-grey-heron-feasting-on-ducklings.html

Thats nature, I guess. I would have never have guessed a heron would do that though.

Really, we are all mutants

Scientists have found that we have 60 different mutations in our DNA. Dailymail.co.uk states that:

"Findings by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge and two other institutes in the U.S. and Canada revealed each one of us receives up to 60 mutations in our genome from our parents.

It shows that human genomes (our genetic makeup carried on 23 pairs of chromosomes) are mutated in both sperm and egg cells, resulting in changes to our DNA seen in neither parent. 

The studies also confounded previous theories over whether most mutations came from the mother or father, with results showing that it varied dramatically in each individual."

So really, we are all truly mutants.

Shadow beings

You can see the beings in between the trees

One of the most famous pictures taken in 2005 by a paranormal taskforce in St. Louis, Missouri. In the 1950s this area was named "Zombie Road".  This is maybe the most interesting paranormal areas I have ever seen. Several EVP's have been recorded, but the real interesting thing is the spotted "Shadow beings" roaming the area as you can see in between the trees to the right. Most people say that the people who have died have been drowned and were mostly children. The river is called "The river of death" by many people in the area. You can also see the river in the picture to the right.

So, do you think those shadows in between the trees are the ghosts of the children who have been drowned? Do you think they prey on anyone who gets near the river and pulls them in?

Those questions may never be answered...

To find more about the investigation of the paranormal taskforce, you can go to this website.
http://www.paranormaltaskforce.com/ZombieI.html