Huh, I've been doing some more reading. Abstract In 1954 and 1960 Koenig and his colleagues described the remarkable similarities of spectral power density profiles and patterns between the earth-ionosphere resonance and human brain activity which also share magnitudes for both electric field (mV/m) and magnetic field (pT) components. In 2006 Pobachenko and colleagues reported real time coherence between variations in the Schumann and brain activity spectra within the 6–16 Hz band for a small sample. We examined the ratios of the average potential differences (~3 μV) obtained by whole brain quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG) between rostral-caudal and left-right (hemispheric) comparisons of 238 measurements from 184 individuals over a 3.5 year period. Spectral densities for the rostral-caudal axis revealed a powerful peak at 10.25 Hz while the left-right peak was 1.95 Hz with beat-differences of ~7.5 to 8 Hz. When global cerebral measures were employed, the first (7–8 Hz), second (13–14 Hz) and third (19–20 Hz) harmonics of the Schumann resonances were discernable in averaged QEEG profiles in some but not all participants. The intensity of the endogenous Schumann resonance was related to the ‘best-of-fitness’ of the traditional 4-class microstate model. Additional measurements demonstrated real-time coherence for durations approximating microstates in spectral power density variations between Schumann frequencies measured in Sudbury, Canada and Cumiana, Italy with the QEEGs of local subjects. Our results confirm the measurements reported by earlier researchers that demonstrated unexpected similarities in the spectral patterns and strengths of electromagnetic fields generated by the human brain and the earth-ionospheric cavity. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4718669/ In other words, they claim to have documented a real-time relationship between the EEGs of participants, and the Schumann Resonance. Frankly, it is hard to believe. Schumann field strengths are miniscule. But it is interesting and they claim to have experimental evidence. I've been studying these resonances for work but this is interesting.
Peanut Butter Jelly Time on Family Guy! Was because the Family Guy! creators bar they went to had a karaoke machine, and whenever somebody wasn't singing, it would play and the only way to shut it up was to do karaoke.
Poetry is mightier than the sword As your assailant comes down upon you, instead of resisting with force, you confuse them by reciting ambiguous poetry such as Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman. While they are scratching their heads and trying to figure out the general theme and underlying morals of the poem, you'd make your getaway This is quite a well established fact. It's the very reason that the war-cry was invented. The first mention of a war cry was by Homer, in his Illiad. As the greeks charged the Trojan lines, the Trojan war poets began to recite their verses, but unexpectedly, all the greeks let loose with a collective cry of "Λα Λα Λα δεν μπορεί να σας ακούσει!", which translates roughly as "La la la, can't hear you!" The poets were slaughtered, and the Trojans forced to retreat behind the city walls.
In 1860 Giovanni Caselli patented a "Pantelegraph" in France which eventually became the first commercial fax machine. A fax service was established between Paris and Lyon and was used from 1865 to 1870. Reportedly the service transmitted over 5000 faxes per year. http://www.faxpipe.com/fax-history.html
The first time machine was likely first designed in 1493. It is unclear if it was ever built. The first verified construction of a working time machine was in 1817. Anyone care to guess the other name by which these were known - a word in common use today and these are still being built?
Did you know all young clown fish are male. If the large breeding female is removed, her mate changes from a male to a female.
No guesses? We have real time machines all around us. And I mean machines that cause us to travel in time, not clocks.
Perhaps, the first time machine. When you ride a bicycle, time slows down. This is true any time you are in motion. Since the bicycle is the first machine that enabled motion, it qualifies as the first time machine. If you could ride your bicycle at about 186,000 miles per second, your clocks would almost stop compared to someone not in motion. If you rode your bike at that speed for a few seconds by your clocks, when you stop, you could be thousands or millions of years in the future.
There is a natural unit of time that emerges from the physical constants, called the Planck second. One Planck second = 5.39 × 10−44 seconds, or 0.000...43 zeros... 539 seconds. It may well be that time is not smooth as we perceive. It may tick along in Planck seconds like frames of a movie. This would mean that motion is not continuous. So when objects move, they jump some distance from one frame to the next, with nothing in between.
This is true. "Arms" and "legs" were referred to as "Limbs" to guide the mind away from possibly stimulating images. Tables, chairs, sofas all were adorned with modesty skirts. Even pianos were skirted. Ironically, at the same time women cinched in their waists and wore skirts bustled in the back - often adorned with a big bow on the bottom. More trivia - women actually did faint often, as depicted in old melodramas. That was due to corsets cinched so tight they couldn't breathe.
Screaming "fire!" in a theater was a crime because there actually were many instances where the theater caught on fire and burned all within. Footlights were flames - and actors had sweeping garb that sometimes ignited as they moved across the stage. Fabrics - curtains - were natural fibers and everything just went poof! It was so quick that people had little time to leave the theater, and they trampled one another to get out. So, screaming "Fire!" had very real implications -- and that's why it is used as a caveat to this day.
