Fearless!
We can become fearless!
So say researchers from the University of California, Riverside, Woong Bin Kim and Jun-Hyeong Cho, in “Encoding of Discriminative Fear Memory by Input-Specific LTP in the Amygdala,” published recently in Neuron.
Cho and Kim used genetically modified mice to study parts of the brain processing sounds and those dealing with emotional memories, the amygdala.
More and more studies seem to indicate that memories can be rewritten, modifying, or even
Waiting!
Waiting in line consumes 15% of one’s lifetime. [I made that up. If it isn’t true, it certainly sounds true.] Between waiting in line and sleeping, no wonder I don’t have any time left for anything else.
Some places in the world, no one lines up. It’s a free-for-all. The survival of the fittest. So much so, leading up to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, the People’s Republic undertook a vigorous program to train their citizens to queue. They even instituted a “Queueing
Stress!
An ongoing University of Wisconsin Study (the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention: WRAP) has shown that stress “ages” the brain. Findings presented recently at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in London pointed to the negative impact on brain function of even one stressful experience in life. Cognitive decline was significantly affected, said the scholars, after studying 1,320 subjects who were asked about stress in their lives as
Preaching @ Stonebriar Community Church
Quick note …
I am preaching at Stonebriar Community Church, north of Dallas, in Frisco, on August 6 and 13 (9:00 am and 10:45 am).
[For other speaking events, see here.]
Super!
Hollywood did pretty well at the US box office till July 2017, shoveling in about $6 billion. But things have not looked that good since. Receipts went down 7.7% between May and the end of June, another summer slump, like the one of last year.
Declared one media analyst, Paul Dergarabedian:
We’re down—but versus a summer of 2016 that was not exactly impressive in terms of the number of sequels that failed.”
So that means this year, things are really down. Disappointments
Beauty?
All kinds of stuff is applied to one’s face these days. In an attempt to make oneself beautiful.
Even snail slime. Yup, you read that right. Snail slime. As long as you can overcome the “ickiness” of it, you, too, ostensibly, can look beautiful.
This is part of a whole category of K-beauty products. (The “K” standing for “Korean.”)
Sarah Chung, head of Landing International Inc., that partners with Ulta’s Korean collection said:
People used to talk about French
Eternal?
Some life forms are indestructible, they say.
David Sloan, Rafael Batista, and Abraham Loeb, from the University of Oxford and Harvard, said so in “The Resilience of Life to Astrophysical Events,” a scientific report recently published in the respected journal Nature.
They concluded:
Events which could lead to life being completely eradicated are rare.”
Because those tardigrades will have survived even those disasters!
Also known as “water bears,” these tiny things
Abe Kuruvilla is the Carl E. Bates Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY), and a dermatologist in private practice. His passion is to explore, explain, and exemplify preaching.