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Evolution’s great mystery - Michael Corballis In the 1980s a bonobo named kanji learned to communicate with humans to an unprecedented extent, not through speech or gestures but using a keyboard of abstract symbols representing objects and actions by pointing to several of these in the order he created sequences to make requests answer verbal questions from human researchers and refer to objects that weren't physically present  kansi's exploits ignited immediate controversy over one question had kanzi learned language what we call language is something more specific than communication language is about sharing what's in our minds stories opinions questions the past or future imagined times or places ideas it is fundamentally open-ended and can be used to say an unlimited number of things many researchers are convinced that only humans have language that the calls and gestures other species use to communicate are not language each of these calls and gestures generally corres...

How Can We Overcome Negative Thoughts? Sadhguru Answers We have some feelings, some reactions, and some thoughts that we don’t like So how many thoughts do you have like this per day? There is lots of other stuff which is worthwhile. Let's focus on that. We as individuals sometimes have some feelings, some reactions, and some thoughts that we don’t like and we think that they are not proper. What do we do with that? How can we clean our self quicker because the time is short? We need to do it quicker.  Sadhguru Answers : That reminds me of the Kodi Swami. So this was almost maybe eighteen, twenty years ago – may be little more than 20 years ago, more than 20 years ago. Must have been in 80s…87 or 88, I was just new in Tamil Nadu. I was doing a program in Tiruppur town. Then people told me there is one Kodi Swami. I said, “Why is he Kodi Swami?” Kodi means ten million, okay, it's a number. It's just that the man keeps saying Kodi, Kodi, Kodi. So people believe that they will...

 10 Forbidden Places On Earth I DARE YOU To Visit The world is your oyster and you can travel pretty much anywhere right well not exactly there are some forbidden places on earth which you cannot go to if you did travel into any of these places you would put your freedom health and even life at risk so let's take a look at these amazing yet scary places. i dare you to visit doomsday vault Norway when we think of a doomsday world we imagine politicians and billionaires hiding out after a nuclear blast but there's no living people allowed in the Svalbard global seed vault if there was ever a nuclear explosion on earth then many seeds would be wiped out this could mean that certain plants and foods would never grow again causing massive issues that's why in2008 the global seed vault was officially opened it's said to be one of the most guarded and secure places on earth inside is over four hundred thousand types of seeds ninety thousand of which are food crops the reason w...

 The Mystery of Queen Nefertiti | Lost Treasures of Egypt | Mysterious Blog NARRATOR :  Nestling on the Eastbank of the Nile, Nefertiti's capital city covered over 3,000 acres, and was home to up to 50,000 people. What is now the barren landscape was once one of the greatest cities in the ancient world. And from these palaces and temples, the royal couple ruled over all of Egypt. She doesn't appear to be buried here, but does this place hold clues to the fate of the missing queen? Nefertiti is famous today because of this iconic bust of her. She has one of the most well-known faces in all of ancient Egypt. This is about the spot that the bust was actually found. We're in the house and the workshop of a sculptor who was probably called Thutmose, This is where the Nefertiti bust was originally created. It's one version of Nefertiti's official portrait. She may herself have signed off on this image. But really, we have no idea what she looked like in real life. NARRATO...

 Scientist Solves the Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle The date is December 5th, 1945, and five AmericanAvenger fighter-bombers take off from an airstrip in the Naval Air Station of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The weather is crystal clear, and blue skies greet the pilots as they rise to cruise height. Below them the tropical Atlantic is a light blue and calm- it is a picture-perfect day. Scientist Solves the Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle. The five aviators have experienced combat veterans and have hundreds of hours of combat flight hours under their belt each. The Avenger aircraft they fly are fresh off the production line, equipped with all the latest flight gear that the US arms industry can afford. The planes plot a course east, flying for fifty-six miles to execute a few practice bombing runs at the Hens and Chicken Shoals-a naval proving ground. Then the planes will fly east for sixty-seven more miles to reach the Bahamas, before flying north for seventy-three miles and then tu...

Most Venomous Sea Snakes In The World  Sea snakes are an abundant and highly dispersed group of venomous reptiles They are widely distributed throughout the Indian and Pacific oceans, especially around Australia and New Guinea. Here are the list of some dangerous sea snakes in the world  Dubois sea snake Dubois sea snake also known as the reef shallows sea snake, is one of the top three most venomous snakes in the world This species of sea snakes carry highly potent venom that can kill humans in a very short span of time However, they are moderately aggressive and will bite only when threatened These snake have a range that extends from New Guinea to the west coast of Australia and live at depths of up to 80 meters They feed on moray eels and various fish that live on the seafloor  The Beaked Sea Snake The Beaked Sea Snake is one of the most venomous snakes either on land or in the sea In fact, scientists have estimated its venom to be 4 to 8 times more lethal than that o...

 Pin-pricks in the celestial sphere, through which shines the light of heaven? Or gods and heroes looking down from their constellations? Or lights kindled above middle earth by Varda Elbereth and brightened with the dew of the trees of Valin or? Science has long pondered the mysteries of the stars. And this is how we finally figured them out. The first thing you learn in astronomy is that the sun and the other stars are giant balls of fiery hydrogen and helium, powered by raging nuclear furnaces in their cores. But this knowledge is surprisingly recent. A hundred years ago, we were starting to plumb the deepest mysteries of the universe with Einstein’s relativity and with quantum theory. But we had no idea what that giant bright thing in the sky was. We didn’t know what stars were made of nor where their energy came from. On the other hand, it’s impressive that we figured it out at all - after all, we’ve never been to a star, never sampled its stuff to put under a microscope. And ...

Stop Trying to be Happy [ Do THIS instead ]  When the pandemic first started, I figure doubt what would make me happy and get me through it... having a car. And then I got the car and as I drove home,sat in traffic, searched for parking, my happiness faded…fast. The car didn’t actually make me as I'd expected,because the greener grass came with parking problems, toll booth tags, and car insurance. Sure, I was getting more freedom to get out safely, but at what cost? I think I wanted a car because I thought it would allow me to have a lot more fun? To do cooler things, to see places, just to get out. It would be better for my mental health, and it would make me happier. I thought it would make me happier. This got me thinking about our collective pursuit of happiness and all the books and movies that ask us: What Makes Us Happy? How many want to know what the secret to happiness? But what if we’re asking the wrong question?  What if the pursuit of happiness is a road that leads...

 Krishnamurti - Is meditation a practice?  Is meditation a practice? To come upon this: If there is anything sacred which thought has not invented, meditation is necessary. India, unfortunately, has brought this word into this western world recently. The Christian world had its own contemplative order, contemplative state of mind. But the gurus and other shave brought this idea of meditation . And these people have invented or brought their old tradition from Tibet, from Zen in Japan, from Burma, from India, the mischief began in India first: that meditation means you must practice something, practice a method, practice to be silent, practice to be aware, practice the moment,which is the present and so on, so on – practice. When you are practiecng something,you are being repetitive. If you are playing the pianoand you are practicing, you may be practicing the wrong note. But here you think it is necessary to practice day after day, take a vow, being a monk, you know the whole ...