Social Rank linked to Immunity

Exciting article below showing once again the link between behaviour and the neuroendocrineimmune system. A study of 10 social groups of macaque females showed that the activity level of an individual's immune genes was an accurate predictor of her social rank."A study...

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Stillness and Presence

Here's some of my favourite extracts from Eckhart Tolle's Stillness Speaks:  Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are being perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would...

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Swedenborg's Brain Motion

Someone gave me an amazing article the other day (thanks Greg) by David Fuller DO describing Swedenborg's research and theory into subtle body motion back in the 18th century - two hundred years before Sutherland! Swedenborg was a scientist and philosopher from...

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'That which does not kill us makes us stronger'

'Ginsberg (1974) immobilized chicks, and then allowed one group to recover spontaneously, and one to recover, but with prodding and stimuli to terminate the freeze. These groups, along with a third group of chicks that had not been immobilized, were then tested...

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The Atlas of an Elephant

The above picture was taken on a recent trip to a game park near Victoria Falls. This atlas (first cervical vertebra) of an elephant is so big you could stick your head through the central hole. What struck me looking at the bone...

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