But the Lord came down to see. .. the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, ''Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do;. .. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.''. .. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all th...

When not performing a task, we are usually engaged in a variety of thoughts, for instance about current problems, opportunities, our self-image, our relationships, about past experiences, and about plans for the future. Such mind wandering was found to occupy almost half of our time spent awake (Killingsworth and Gilbert, 2010). Mind wandering may have had the evolutionary advantage of better a...

Human T-lymphotrophic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is a retrovirus that is thought to infect approximately 10-20 million people worldwide. The majority of infected individuals remain asymptomatic carriers lifelong. HTLV-1 is thought to cause both local and systemic inflammatory diseases. The most common inflammatory condition associated with HTLV-1 is HTLV-1 associated myelopathy/Tropical spastic para...

Some critics of invasion biology have argued the ecosystems by nonindigenous species can create more valuable ecosystems. They consider invaded communities as because they potentially produce ecosystem services. To establish that introduction creates ecosystems, defend value is provisioned These services are derived from productivity, production and cycling resources. Ecosystem productivity a r...

This article is a philosopher's expanded review of two recent books on neurophysiology: Rodolfo Llinás's I of the Vortex and György Buszáki's Rhythms of the Brain. Researchers such as these are converging on a view of consciousness as originating in motility and as inherently temporal due to the brainwave oscillations that underlay it. Most current discussions of consciousness include implicit ...