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Researchers from the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Brighton and Sussex Medical School investigated how fast, deep breathing performed rhythmically to music can affect both subjective experiences and brain physiology. The Study The study included 42 participants across three categories: 15 who practiced breathwork remotely, 8 in a laboratory setting, and 19 inside an MRI scanner. Each participant completed a 20- to 30-minute session of cyclic breathing with no pauses while listening to music. Afterward, they completed questionnaires about their emotional and psychological state. Results showed that HVB consistently induced ASCs, often described as “oceanic boundlessness” (OBN)—a term referring to...

If there's something you'd like to say to aliens, now's your chance. The Wow! signal, a mysterious radio transmission detected in 1977 that may or may not have come from extraterrestrials, is finally getting a response from humanity. Anyone can contribute his or her two cents — or 140 characters, to be exact — to the cosmic reply via Twitter. All tweets composed between 8 p.m. EDT Friday (June 29) and 3 a.m. EDT Saturday (June 30) tagged with the hashtag #ChasingUFOs will be rolled into a single message, according to the National Geographic Channel, which is timing the Twitter...

SETIÂ’s Colossus by Paul Gilster on May 31, 2013 For the most part, the focus of SETI since Project Ozma has been directed at intercepting signals deliberately sent our way. It doesnÂ’t have to be so, of course, because extraneous signals from a civilization going about its business would also be profoundly interesting, and even a civilization not much more advanced than ours might be throwing off powerful evidence of its existence through the planetary radars it uses to detect potential impactors in its own system. Whether or not the Ohio State WOW! signal was a SETI detection remains unresolved,...

Of the many "maybe’s" that SETI has turned up in its four-decade history, none is better known than the one that was discovered in August, 1977, in Columbus, Ohio. The famous Wow signal was found as part of a long-running sky survey conducted with Ohio State University’s "Big Ear" radio telescope. The Wow signal’s unusual nomenclature connotes both the surprise of the discovery and its sox-knocking strength (60 Janskys in a 10 KHz channel, which is more than 50 thousand times more incoming energy than the minimum signal that would register as a hit for today’s Project Phoenix.) But is...

In recent years, researchers led by Abel Méndez—lead author of the new study and director of the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico—have contributed significantly to that evidence through the AWOW project. In August 2024, Méndez and his colleagues published findings that suggest the Wow! Signal stemmed from the sudden brightening of a cold hydrogen cloud due to a transient source of radiation such as a magnetar. These neutron stars have magnetic fields strong enough to excite the atoms in hydrogen clouds and elicit a burst of brightness. Re-evaluating the Wow! Signal Now, Méndez’s team has meticulously...

In 1977, radio astronomer Jerry Ehman was looking through observation data from the Big Ear Radio Telescope....searching for evidence that alien civilizations might be trying to communicate using radio waves... ... The search generated...nothing but the background radio transmissions of the Universe. But then he saw a data signal so interesting and unique that he circled it and wrote “WOW” in a red pen... Ehman circled the characters “6EQUJ5”, distinguishing them from all the other 1s and 2s on the field of data. What does this code mean? ... Why does it start with a 6 and then end with...

Mysterious radio wave flashes from far outside the galaxy are proving tough for astronomers to explain. Is it pulsars? A spy satellite? Or an alien message? BURSTS of radio waves flashing across the sky seem to follow a mathematical pattern. If the pattern is real, either some strange celestial physics is going on, or the bursts are artificial, produced by human – or alien – technology. Telescopes have been picking up so-called fast radio bursts (FRBs) since 2001. They last just a few milliseconds and erupt with about as much energy as the sun releases in a month. Ten have...

After spending decades listening for radio signals, Optical SETI has made a remarkable discovery! Repeating optical signals have been detected coming, not from one star, but three! Natural explanations have come up blank, and Aliens are actually being discussed! SETI breakthrough! NASA scientist discovers three repeating ET signals coming from nearby stars! | 19:57 The Angry Astronaut | 195K subscribers | 11,074 views | June 24, 2025

Now that Republicans have narrow control of the House of Representatives, the GOP is investigating the Biden administration with gusto. Still, Republicans seem not to have noticed one major foreign policy scandal that's hiding in plain sight. As I recently reported , the rising scandal surrounding retired FBI senior official Charles McGonigal is perhaps the worst in the bureau’s history. Multiple sources have told me that McGonigal, while still serving with the FBI as head of counterintelligence in New York, shook down Balkan business people, most of them Albanian, in an audacious political corruption scheme worth many millions of dollars....

Ok, so, I have a serious question. Light is not infinitely fast, and it is the universe's speed limit. Things that have mass cannot travel at the speed of light. There are galaxies and objects over 93 billion light years away. But the age of the universe is 13.8 billion years. Even if Star A was travelling at the opposite direction of Star B, and even if it was traveling at the impossibly-fast speed of light, it could only be that the two stars are 26.6 billion light years apart. But we see objects 93 billion light years away. Please...

https://t.me/beholdisraelchannel/49397 US attorney general Pam Bondi announced that she will be pursuing U.S.-based individuals and entities that provide funding to Hamas

Mark this day in history as the day the adults are back in charge and the investments in Gaza as the future vacation Capitol of the WORLD starts today ! May God richly bless Israel and the relationship between the United States and Israel until He returns to take His People home for eternity!

Mark Zuckerberg stated on Joe Rogan’s podcast that the Biden administration demanded Meta censor memes: "All these different agencies and branches of government started coming after our company. It was brutal." https://t.me/beholdisraelchannel/47923 Mark Zuckerberg stated on Joe Rogan’s podcast that the Biden administration demanded Meta censor memes: "All these different agencies and branches of government started coming after our company. It was brutal."

Clear coordinated with Harris Campaign, election interference. Selzer was clearly paid off to deliberately inflate the Harris figures by a huge amount, which was promptly picked up and amplified by legacy news media. Great days.

WTH happened in South Korea yesterday or the day before and why is the story dead. It's dead like the Las Vegas Shooting several years ago. As far as I can figure out, I think there was a coup attempt by the lefty leaders of S Korean congress and then the Korean President called for martial law THEN the congress took a vote and cancelled it? That's at least how I understand it given the choppy reports I was able to read or watch. Having spent some time in the 2ID as a 96B in the HQ Company I know...

US stocks surged to record highs on Wednesday as investors digested Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election over Kamala Harris. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 3.5%, or about 1,500 points to close at a record and post its best day since 2022. The benchmark S&P 500 moved up roughly 2.5% to surpass the 5,900 level, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite rose about 2.9%, also clinching a new record. Outside of the presidential election, Republicans have also flipped the Senate. Control of the House of Representatives remains unclear (and likely will for days or weeks). Trump's policies had...

Aug 18, 2022TRANSCRIPT BEGINSReporter: ….ah but ut she’s had the flu for 14 days. Should she get a flu shot.Fauci: Well no, if she got the flu for 14 days she’s as protected as anybody can be, ‘cause the best vaccination is to get infected yourself.Reporter: And, if….Fauci: If she really has the flu, if she really has the flu, she definitely doesn’t need a flu vaccine. If she really has the flu.Reporter: She should not get it again…Fauci: No. She doesn’t need it, because the most potent vaccination is getting infected yourself.

Former first lady Melania Trump brought the crowd at Mar-a-Lago to its feet for a celebration of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, strutting in to greet spectators as “Pretty Woman” played overhead. The scene was captured by several audience members sharing candid shots online as well as in a video Orbán shared highlighting his visit on Friday to meet with Melania and former President Donald Trump. The two conservative leaders maintain a steadfast relationship even after Trump left the White House three years ago. Melania following President Trump to the front of the room, standing in front of the velvet...

DEVELOPING🚨: Ron DeSantis has asked Bob VanderPlaats, Steve Deace, and Kim Reynolds to go on the campaign trail with him in New Hampshire after results of a Monmouth University poll came out showing him in fifth place.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), originally perceived as the toughest Republican primary challenger to former President Donald Trump, is falling from grace in key battleground states such as New Hampshire, with more candidates ahead of him in the polls than just Trump. A new poll from 7News/Emerson College released on Wednesday found that 7% of voters would support DeSantis in the 2024 GOP primary, a significant decline from polling at 17% in March. Even former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has maintained relatively low polling numbers in most GOP battleground states, has surpassed DeSantis, with 9% of voters stating they...