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Series selection:
01. Bermuda Triangle (1991)
02. Earth's interior - Journey to the center of the Earth (1991)
03. Space (1973)
04. Fly, 2nd series (1973)
05. Einstein's World (1973)
06. Reflection (1977)
07. Psychology of scientific creativity (1978)
08. Reserve possibilities of a person (1978)
09. Retrospective for the 80th anniversary of S.P. Kapitsa (1988)
10. Today we are watching old movies - Space Flight (1983)
11. Secret. Tunguska meteorite (1979)
12. Man and computer (1997)
13. Energy processes in the body (1978)
14. Echo of the explosion - Chernobyl disaster (1991)

15. Bells
16. Mixing languages
17. Attention management

18. Time is space curled up into a ball
19. Mathematics is the science of life
20. Metamorphoses of Russian Art Nouveau
21. Science + TV. Competent opinion
22. Paradoxes of linguistics
23. Human psychology
24. Man in extreme conditions
25. Costume language

26. Archeology of iron mining
27. Human biofield through the eyes of a physicist
28. Will we live on Mars
29. Is human immortality possible?
30. Global warming - myth or reality
31. Dignity and responsibility
32. Artificial intelligence. New Frontiers
33. Crisis of modern civilization. Where is the exit
34. The population of Russia in 50 years
35. National question - who is to blame
36. Algebra Check Harmony
37. Radio astronomy
38. What gives us the decoding of the human genome
39. Ethical problems of medicine
40. The language and music of dolphins

41. Birch bark letters
42. Where did the ancient man live
43. Demographic problems in Russia
45. Egyptian Christians
45. Changeable appearance of the Earth. Rogue continents
46. ​​Yemen, land of the princess of Sheba
47. Leonardo da Vinci
48. Nanotechnology - theory and practice
49. Paradoxes of public consciousness
50. Problems of education of youth
51. Problems of educating the younger generation
52. Dark matter and dark energy of the Universe
53. What do we inhale
54. Experimental archeology
55. Eschatology of the 21st century
56. Language and Civilization

57. All about the brain
58. Graffiti on the rocks
59. The riddle of the holiday Heb-Sed
60. Crisis of human consciousness
61. Who will win the information revolution
62. Science and life
63. Fayum mummies. In Search of Immortality
64. Man and his sense of snow
65. Human evolution. look back
66. Epistemology of knowledge

67. Genealogy - a journey into the past
68. Do animals think
69. Why does a person need an "artificial" mind
70. Unknown shamanism
71. Mathematics - way of thinking or life?
72. Paradoxes of economic inequality
73. How Art Began
74. Three Secrets of the Moon
75. Climate control
76. Phenomenon of scientific school
77. Is there life on Mars. Science fiction or reality
78. The invisible world of nanotechnology
79. Scientific prediction of the future
80. Many faces of the universe
81. The world through the eyes of babies

82. Apologia for technology
83. Architecture of the future
84. Adult secrets of children's fairy tales
85. Unity of linguistics and genetics
86. Life without pain
87. Forgotten History
88. How to live happily ever after
89. James Watson DNA Code
90. The Constitution of Russia. Scientific challenge of the era
91. Identity crisis
92. Metamorphoses of the Russian language
93. Dreams and reality of a Nobel laureate
94. World of insects
95. Brain and consciousness
96. Man and woman. Aggression and reconciliation
97. Museums. From the past to the future
98. Science of being healthy
99. Science in a global world
100. Actions we choose
101. Bad weather forecast
102. Secrets of the ocean floor
103. Secrets of photosynthesis
104. Lessons from Pyotr Stolypin

105. 2008 - the year of the white Sun
106. Searching for the Higgs boson
107. Genetic revolution in the XXI century
108. Humanities in the 21st century
109. Demographics. 21st Century Perspectives
110. Life and fate of museum collections
111. Tasks of Vladimir Arnold
112. History of the cache of royal mummies in Egypt
113. How to overcome aging
114. How to keep the past
115. Crises in Russian history
116. Is it possible to manage memory
117. Science on earth and in space
118. Neurons, mind and consciousness
119. About the past and future of the Russian language
120. The ocean and the future of mankind
121. Politics is the art of the impossible
122. Why do people talk
123. Lessons from the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP
124. Philosophy. Lessons from the 20th century
125. The evolution of Darwinism
126. History of New Year holidays

127. Young science in modern Russia
128. Lessons from Byzantium

129. High technologies in space
130. Heroes of our time
131. Innovation according to Vernadsky
132. Mathematics in medicine
133. New materials and nanotechnologies
134. Education and value system
135. Russia facing demographic challenges
136. Modern geophysics. Tsunami and earthquake forecasting
137. Philosophy and challenges of the time
138. Man in the information society
139. Word Magic
140. Architecture is a mirror of life
141. Metamorphoses of the modern family
142. Dialogue with Space (Electromagnetic Space Exploration)
143. Art in the 21st century: evolution or crisis
144. Adult tasks for young scientists
145. Man and animal in the city
146. Mathematical studies
147. Culture in the modern world
148. Prospects for fundamental science
149. Convergence of sciences and technologies
150. Technology ecology
151. Russian Submarine Fleet: Fate and Prospects
152. Moral responsibility of scientists
153. New biotechnologies in medicine
154. Russian Diaspora and World Culture
155. Exploration of the Moon: Latest Technology
156. New hypothesis of the origin of man
157. What "matter" hides
158. Our contemporary Mikhailo Lomonosov
159. Science in Siberia: traditions and innovations
160. Fundamental science and fundamental education

161. Physics arms medicine
162. Energy: alternative sources and new technologies
163. From Neanderthal to Homo Sapiens: Mysteries of Brain Evolution
164. How nanotechnologies meet the challenges of the time
165. Fundamental science and innovative education
166. Scientific megaprojects and the future of Russia
167. Medicine: science and practice
168. What do we know about the brain?
169. Riddles of salt lakes
170. Can stress be managed?
171. Particle Physics: Prospects for Neutrino Research
172. Can history be objective?
173. Ways of development of Russian science
174. How to make science interesting for people

This book is about miracles. But not in the sense that here we will talk about phenomena that are impossible or completely inexplicable, but about phenomena that happen in our life, but do not find interpretation from the standpoint of our knowledge. That is, a miracle is not a violation of the laws of nature, but our ignorance of these laws.

It is known that science is based on experimental data, when the same phenomena have a systematic, multiple repetition. In other words, all scientific laws are statistically the most probable in nature, and any violation of them is perceived primarily as a mistake of a person who did not take something into account. But when this kind of violation of the law is repeated many times, the researcher has doubts about its truth. As a result, the scientist comes to new conclusions, which begin to play the role of a new law. However, there are phenomena in our life that cannot be explained at all from a natural science point of view. Than it can be caused? Is it just the underdevelopment of our science? This, of course, exists, but this alone can explain the current impasse.

Another reason is that all of our laws are based on understanding only three-dimensional, physical reality. Moreover, many scientists stubbornly continue to consider this reality the only possible one and deny the existence of other worlds, with a different coordinate system and other laws. However, Giordano Bruno spoke about the plurality of inhabited worlds. He, of course, believed that such worlds are similar to our Earth and are somewhere far away, on the stars, but now we can assert that they are very close and, moreover, they are combined with our world. The presence of a plurality of worlds of this kind was scientifically proven by the American physicist Hugh Everett back in the middle of the last century. These universes are not isolated from us by a rigid and impenetrable wall, but from time to time penetrate into our three-dimensional reality, bringing about paradoxes and artifacts that we wonder at and sometimes see. A similar kind of entry into another reality is carried out on our part by especially gifted people called psychics and mediums.

However, further study of parallel worlds is hampered by the prevailing paradigm, according to which other laws are fiction, and all observable artifacts are delusions. Such a position is very convenient for academically minded researchers: it allows them to consistently explain the world, to navigate in it. However, it is also a brake on further studies. As advocates of alternative knowledge say, each person is hypnotized by a biocomputer of kind and kind. In other words, the vast majority of people see, hear, and understand only those phenomena, objects, and patterns that they have been taught from childhood through upbringing and training. In addition, in alternative science there is the so-called Biloff effect, discovered by an English parapsychologist named Belov.

It was Beloff who came to the conclusion that in the presence of skeptical and unfriendly spectators, parapsychic phenomena such as telepathy, telekinesis, extrasensory diagnostics, and others are “muted” and cannot be reproduced until these people leave the room where the experiment is performed. Scientists have also discovered the opposite effect - the Hawthorne effect, which means a facilitated energy-information impact in a positive, benevolent audience. In other words, all our feelings, thoughts and moods influence the manifestation of parapsychic phenomena, and the mind itself and, in particular, the consciousness of a collective of people and the entire human community, has a psychokinetic and materializing effect, which should always be remembered in our research.

ARIGO - THE BRAZILIAN WONDERWORKER

His full name is Jose Pedro de Freites, but he is known to the world under the pseudonym Arigo.

How this poorly educated Brazilian made unmistakable diagnoses, wrote out competent prescriptions and performed the most complex surgical operations, is still a mystery. In any case, official science is helpless in explaining its phenomenon. But Arigo is remembered and honored by hundreds of thousands of patients whom he helped in his time.

Brief biography of the healer

He was born in 1921 and died tragically in 1971, predicting the date of his death in advance. Until the end of the 40s of the XX century, he led the life of a simple man in the street and was no different from the rest. But one day, with the help of a simple penknife, he removed a lung tumor from a certain politician. How a wealthy official trusted an ordinary worker for such a difficult operation even for experienced surgeons, and for what reason Arigo decided on such an adventure - history is silent. It is only known that from that time on, huge crowds of the afflicted besieged the modest housing of the newly-minted healer - Arigo did not refuse anyone and did not take money for it. It is noteworthy that Arigo operated only on those whom medicine refused. He sent everyone else to the doctors.

With his success, Arigo has amassed a lot of ill-wishers. After all, the very fact that he treats hopeless patients was a reproach to traditional medicine.

Despite the fact that Arigo did not have a single case of complications among his patients, a criminal case was opened against him. The reason was that Arigo is engaged in medical activities, without a medical diploma. Even the intercession of Brazilian President Kubizek, whose daughter Arigo cured of cancer, did not help. However, even during his stay behind bars, Arigo continued to advise patients ...

In the 60s, a commission was convened to study Arigo's methods of work. All his diagnoses were recorded, recommended drugs were tested, cured patients were thoroughly examined. Arigo himself was repeatedly photographed, shot on film, numerous interviews were taken, his actions were checked in infrared and ultraviolet rays, etc. Unless he himself was seen through an X-ray. The conclusions of the commission were disappointing for her: they could not understand how he did all this. Arigo is a direct challenge to medicine and all modern scientific concepts. The only thing that the commission determined for sure was that Arigo never made a mistake in any diagnosis, and all his operations ended in a complete recovery of patients. According to the most conservative estimates, Arigo helped two million patients.

How did the healing itself go?

Arigo received several hundred patients daily. All this time, the healer was in a state of complete detachment, or a trance, which, when he came to, he did not remember at all. This is evidenced by the fact that when Arigo was shown a film about how he performed the operation, the healer was so shocked that he lost consciousness.

Usually, one glance was enough for him to diagnose a person, after which he immediately took up a knife to perform an operation. Moreover, no anesthesia or sterility was required for this. The healing itself often took place in the most inappropriate circumstances. So, for example, the healer carried out the most complicated cataract operation with nail scissors on the street and surrounded by boys who, noisily, piled on top of each other, but, apparently, this did not bother Arigo at all ...

He used some patients in a rude and even cruel manner, that is, without saying a word, he pushed them against the wall and with a sweeping thrust into the sore spot with a knife that had previously been used to peel potatoes. From the outside, it looked like some kind of sadistic nightmare. However, the patients did not feel any pain or fear, although they were fully conscious. Having finished the operation, Arigo wiped the knife on the edge of his not always clean shirt and joined the edges of the wound with his hands, which healed in a matter of minutes.

It is noteworthy that Arigo did not operate on all of his patients. In some cases, he visually studied the patient for some time, named the diagnosis, and then wrote out a prescription or refused help, realizing that this person was hopeless.

The medicines he prescribed were mostly well known to the medical profession, but in most cases outdated or ridiculous, and in such combinations and dangerous doses that had never been used in medicine. They also tried to reproach Arigo, despite the fact that such prescriptions always helped his patients.

Attempts to explain the Arigo effect

While in a trance state, Arigo was noted to speak with a German accent and understand German well, although he did not actually know the language. It turned out that through Arigo, an Austrian doctor who died during the First World War, named Adolf Fritz, enters our world, who, in turn, consults with the spirits of his Japanese and French colleagues. This turned out to be more than strange, if one does not draw on the theory of spiritualism, half-forgotten in our age, according to which Arigo is none other than a born medium, into whose physical body certain spirits from time to time instill. It is they who produce various kinds of paranormal phenomena, such as: extrasensory diagnosis of patients, their anesthesia during surgery, as well as stopping postoperative bleeding and fantastically fast healing of postoperative wounds. Under these conditions, Arigo is only an instrument in the hands of the inhabitants of the afterlife, which, however, does not diminish his personal merit. In principle, he could have refused healing. However, believing that this ability was given to him by God, and being a deeply religious person, he decided to use it with the greatest benefit to others.

Arigo died in 1971, as previously predicted. A bus full of people overturned on a completely flat road. He alone died, and none of the passengers even had a scratch. Apparently, the transcendental forces needed it so that he was born, and then, having completed his mission, he left just as soon.

ATTACK OF EVIL

The existence of parallel worlds is only assumed by modern scientists. And our ancestors, apparently, knew about them many centuries ago and communicated with them as best they could. Among the entities inhabiting the transcendental worlds, there were kind, positively disposed towards humans and evil or demonic spirits, one of the main tasks of which is to harm people in every possible way. This division is rather conditional, since much depends both on the situation and on the nature of the person communicating with the spirits and his goals. The uniquely unpleasant spirits, from which we expect only dirty tricks, include evil spirits, including devils, demons, mermaids, water and other infernal creatures.

Some of the history of the attacks of the forces of darkness

In the winter of 1606, in Basel, there was a trial of a certain Françoise Bos, who was accused of colluding with the devil who had bewitched her husband. Francoise swore that she did not call the devil, but he himself came and paralyzed her husband, who slept soundly for several days.

Another mysterious event happened in Lower Saxony. The story tells of a woman who was also visited by unknown creatures in the middle of the night. When Frau Anchen was getting ready for bed, she saw a strange light outside the window, and after a while she felt that there was someone outside the room. She lit a candle and saw a nondescript dwarf with an exorbitantly large head at her son's bed. Ankhen screamed and rushed to her son, but the dwarf suddenly disappeared.

Despite the fact that most of the medieval evidence of encounters with demons concerns the female, the male part of the population was also persecuted by mysterious creatures. Noteworthy is the documented testimony of one priest, who claims that he was a victim of temptation by an infernal being who appeared to him under the cover of night. The devil arose in the midst of a dwelling inside a luminous ball and tried to seduce the spiritual person by materializing naked women in front of him.

Malicious poltergeist and UFO in modern Russia

In the New Age, some people are also the objects of attack and persecution by demonic beings. However, in our country, where the main part of the population, due to the 70-year cultivation of godlessness, does not believe in either God or the devil, the appearance of mysterious individuals from behind the looking glass is associated with such a phenomenon as a poltergeist or a UFO, which, however, does not change the essence because it's not the name.

A classic example is the notorious Barabashka, which appeared during the years of perestroika in a women's hostel. However, not all spirits turned out to be so cute and harmless brownies. In some cases, the poltergeist destroyed or set fire to all property, and brought the residents themselves to a severe neurosis. Examples, even with the extreme rarity of the phenomenon, are enough. The cruelty of the poltergeist concerned only things, objects, less often - pets of one apartment and did not extend to neighboring ones. And very rarely there was a physical attack of a “noisy spirit” on a person. A connection was also established between the raging poltergeist and some one tenant of the “bad apartment”, who subconsciously charged him with energy. Today it is firmly established that this kind of unwitting initiator or carrier of poltergeist is most often a teenager in a state of pubertal crisis or a person suffering from some kind of mental or endocrine disease.

It is noteworthy that the poltergeist turns out to be a more ardent atheist than any of the communists. This is manifested in the fact that the noisy spirit deals with the attributes of any religious cult with special brutality. Moreover, the nature of the confession does not play a role for him. Unlike cinematic vampires, he is not afraid of Christian crosses, which he destroys in the first place, which once again speaks of his demonic nature.

Incubus and succubus

This was the name in medieval Europe of evil spirits who visited women (incubi) and men (succubi) at night and had sexual intercourse with them. By the way, the name "incubator" is formed from one of these words - a device for hatching chickens.

One of the first theorists of the origin of violent spirits was the Parisian bishop Guillaume Auvergne. It was thanks to him that in the 12th century interest in this issue increased dramatically. Guillaume claimed that demons are not capable of full-fledged sexual contacts, but skillfully create the illusion of such in the mind of their victims, while stealing sperm on the side. How they do this, the theologian does not explain. The stolen incubus seed is then "blown into the female womb". To prove his version, the bishop refers to certain Portuguese witches who, as they initially claimed, became pregnant "from the wind."

In the protocols of the Holy Inquisition, with surprising regularity, sexual relations of interrogated women with Satan or with one of his deputies are mentioned. In The Hammer of the Witches, a unique guide to medieval demonology compiled in 1487 by Heinrich Institoris and Jacob Sprenger, it says: “... such a woman, introduced to the kingdom of the devil, receives her own special feature for love. He arranges a wedding with her, while others have fun. This devil often visits her, enters into sexual relations with her, sometimes orders her to do this or that evil ... "

It is important to note that many women themselves devoutly believed that they really entered into a love affair with the devil and were in a marriage union with him. Of course, one cannot trust the testimony obtained under torture in the dungeons of the Inquisition, but nevertheless, one is struck by the amazing uniformity of these testimonies, which coincide even in details and practically did not change over several centuries of the rule of the Inquisition. It was also believed that the number of incubi exceeds the number of succubi by almost 10 times, because women are supposedly more lustful creatures and often sin with demons.

Recently, incubi and succubus have become the subject of interest for ufologists, as cases of the so-called “rape” of both men and women have become more frequent not by demons, but by aliens.

What Science Says

From the standpoint of eniology and partly modern psychology, both incubi and succubus are the result of an obsessive imagination during forced sexual abstinence. At the same time, distinct astral mirages of these characters arise, which, under the conditions of their unconscious importunity, are finally alienated from the personality, taking on the appearance of lustful demons. Approximately the same can be said about the nature of the poltergeist, which is formed due to the increased or distorted work of the psyche and endocrine glands in humans. However, the question arises: why does not this happen to every sexually preoccupied? Apparently, this is all the same because it is based on the primary manifestation of the spirit itself, which is weak and frail, and therefore does not exert any external force if it is not saturated with energy from a suitable person.

TALES FROM THE CRYPT

Wandering graves, dead men rising from their graves, vampires and werewolves - why not attributes of a youth subculture ready? However, these phenomena occur both in antiquity and today. Moreover, all of them are related to ordinary people, often far from savoring any carrion, romanticizing death and decay. Some of these cases will be discussed in this chapter.

restless coffins

A certain Thomas Chase, the head of a large family, living on the island of Barbados in the Caribbean, in 1805 built a large crypt for himself and all his relatives. He did not have to wait long - two years later they placed the coffin with the body of his niece, Thomasina Goddart, and a year later the body of his two-year-old daughter, Mary Ann Chase. Four years later, another daughter, Dorcas, followed. Soon Thomas Chase himself died, who was known as a fanatic and caused antipathy among all the inhabitants of the island. But when the funeral brigade opened the wrought iron gates of the crypt, everyone was amazed at the unimaginable picture: weighty lead coffins were scattered in different corners. Immediately there was a suspicion that these dark-skinned slaves thus decided to take revenge on the sadistic master. However, the fault of the servants was not proven, and the order in the tomb was restored. In 1816, during the next funeral, the situation repeated itself - the coffins again turned out to be sharply shifted from their places. Careful analysis again yielded nothing. The next funeral was accompanied by a huge crowd of onlookers - everyone was eager to see what would happen this time in the tomb. And again, the story of moving the coffins repeated itself. In 1819, when another relative from the Chase family was buried, even the governor of the island was invited, who saw with his own eyes the pogrom in the crypt. His indignation knew no bounds. He wanted to find and properly punish the intruders, who, as he believed, rampage in the tomb and thereby damage his own reputation. He had no doubt that at least 6–8 people were involved in this - lead coffins simply could not be moved with less effort. For this purpose, a thin layer of sand was poured into the tomb so that the traces of the alleged wicked would be imprinted on it. But they did not wait for the next funeral, and six months later, by order of the governor, the crypt was opened. However, officials noted that there were no marks either on the cement-walled door or on the floor. Nevertheless, the coffins again lay randomly. And then the authorities ordered that all subsequent burials of the Chase clan be carried out in other places, and the crypt itself was tightly walled up.

A similar story with coffins was noted at the same time in Estonia. Unlike the previous case, people passing by the cemetery here heard rattles, groans and other frightening sounds coming from inside one of the tombs. When opening the crypt, the coffins also turned out to be scattered, and some even turned upside down. There was a suspicion that someone was buried alive, and therefore he made noise and turned over the coffins, trying to get out. But when the coffins were opened, it turned out that every single dead lay in their places, as they should. The reasons for the movement of the coffins were not found here either, and therefore it was decided to bury all the dead away from each other, and to destroy the tomb. Only after that did the long-awaited peace come to the churchyard.

Wandering graves

Sir Arthur Hazlem in the 1920s regularly visited the grave of his grandfather, located in the cemetery of the Scottish village of Glenisville. And then one day, once again visiting the churchyard, Hazlem tried to find this grave, but to no avail. He turned to the caretaker for help, who had worked here for a long time and knew the location of all the burials from memory. The desired grave has indeed disappeared! However, the attendant nevertheless found her, but 200 meters from the place where she had always been. How did she get there? And who should have reburied these bones? Maybe only the tombstone was moved here, and the grave itself remained in the old place?

And then Hezlem hired gravediggers who dug a deep hole in the place of the previous burial, but the coffin or the remains of the deceased were never found. When the same excavations were carried out in a new place, where there was a tombstone with the name of the deceased relative, at a depth of one and a half meters they came across a decayed coffin and bones. On the finger of the discovered skeleton, Hazlem easily recognized a silver ring with the initials of the deceased grandfather, with whom he never parted and was buried with him. At the same time, there were no signs that someone had done a ridiculous job of transferring the remains. However, Sir Hazlem was not the only one who encountered the phenomenon of a wandering grave.

There are a lot of interesting things going on all the time. We bring to your attention some interesting facts from different areas.

Scientists blindfolded people for 4 days, and the hallucinations were incredible

Sometimes our brain can do funny things. Take, for example, a study in which scientists took 13 people, blindfolded them for 96 hours (that is, 4 days), and recorded everything that these people “saw”. Ten participants in the experiment began visual hallucinations, some of them very intense and vivid. Many of the hallucinations consisted of simple lights, some were more complex. But in each case, the participants knew that it was all just a figment of their imagination.

Here is what one of them says: "Hallucinations began about 12 hours after the blindfold, and turned into a series of different pictures, as if in a dream." Another participant reported that she saw a butterfly turned into a sunset, saw an otter and a flower. She also saw cities, the sky, lions. All of these visions were so vivid that she "could hardly look at them." “If it was sunset or sunrise, then it was impossible to look at the sun because it was incredibly bright.”

Here is the opinion of the authors of the experiment:
“All 13 subjects who voluntarily agreed to long-term visual deprivation were perfectly healthy people who had no cases of cognitive dysfunction or psychosis. They also did not have any ocular pathologies. They wore specially designed bandages, and during the experiment, experts recorded their sensations on a voice recorder. Ten subjects (77%) reported visual hallucinations that were both simple (in the form of bright spots of light) and complex (decorative objects, landscapes). In most cases, hallucinations began after the first day of visual deprivation. The subjects were aware that their visions were not real. This experiment clearly proves that rapid and complete visual deprivation is quite enough to cause visual hallucinations in absolutely healthy subjects.

One subject, a 29-year-old woman, experienced a hallucination after 12 hours of deprivation. It happened while she was standing in front of the mirror. It was at this moment that she dreamed of a green face with huge eyes, which frightened her very much. Another 24-year-old woman reported that her hallucination was the same event. It seemed to her that she was dozing, waiting for her sister to come to her. When the sister finally entered the room, the woman noticed that instead of eyes she had spots of light.

Eight-year-old millionaire YouTube star

Meet Evan, the cute 8 year old with the best job in the world. He earns hundreds of thousands of dollars, and he does what all children do - plays with toys. He is the face of EvanTubeHD and runs a family YouTube channel that reviews new toys and video games. Evan's videos regularly get over a million views and the channel earns $1.3 million a year.

This is one of those success stories that makes people ask themselves, "Why didn't I think of this"? It all started as a small game project created by Evan and his father Jared. They wanted to make a funny video using clay models from the Angry Birds game. The video came out so cute that they decided to make it really popular, and when the number of views of the video exceeded one million, Jared realized how big the popularity had become. It happened shortly before their channel turned into a serious business project. “By reviewing toys that are more recent, we try to provide people with up-to-date product information,” he said.

If you go to this channel and watch some of the videos, then you will see that they are adorable. Evan fits the frame perfectly, and his reviews are so compelling that you'll want to go out and buy a toy yourself, no matter how old you are. His 6-year-old sister, Gillian, is also on the set, and gives little explanations that make the videos a million times more attractive. Take that video of two kids playing in the park with Softee Dough toys. They tie their mother to a tree and throw these toys at her. Immediately, a warning appears on the screen: “For your safety, we strongly advise against tying your own mother to a tree and throwing toys at her. This will lead to severe punishment." Believe it or not, this video has already received over 50 million views.

So how do wealth and fame affect little Evan? It turns out that he is completely normal, like any other child. “He goes to school, does his homework, hangs out with friends, attends karate classes, and of course he has time for his computer. I don't think he understands how popular the channel is." Jared, who works for a video production company, says he and his wife would love to keep Evan's life as normal as possible. That is why there is no information about the boy's surname on the channel, and there is no other information that allows him to be identified.

Spermatozoa are attracted to the smell of flowers

A few years ago, scientists made a strange discovery: semen seems to gravitate toward the scent of lily of the valley. Could this discovery mark the start of a new era of scent-based conception and the discrediting of flower shops?
Lily of the valley is a white flower that emits a very sweet fragrance. Due to the fact that it was very popular in a certain era, it now seems old-fashioned and is associated with the bath soap of very old ladies. The composition of this soap includes bourgenal, the main component of the aroma of real lily of the valley.

In the laboratory, it turned out that bourgenal is a kind of attractant for human sperm. The human egg releases chemical attractants to attract sperm to itself. Scientists were confused because they could not find anything like bourgeonal in the female reproductive system - the spermatozoa simply went crazy at the scent of lily of the valley.

Obviously, "aroma" is more of a metaphor. Sperms don't have a nose, they can't appreciate a pleasant smell. Bourgenal has a physical effect on sperm, and after some research, scientists understood why. There are cation channels for sperm. Cations are positively charged ions, in this case calcium ions with two additional positive charges. When the sperm enters a certain chemical environment, the ion channels open and the tails of the sperm begin to wriggle, giving them extra speed to fertilize the egg.

Bourgenal for some reason opens these channels. Unfortunately, this only happens at very high concentrations of bourgenal. So high that it can't be used for conception or benefits outside of the lab. So don't worry, it's impossible to get pregnant from perfume.

Antarctic notothenoid fish bleed from ice

To survive in the coldest climate on Earth, Antarctic notothenoid fish have a special non-freezing protein in their blood that binds ice crystals and interferes with their growth to keep the fish from freezing. Paradoxically, a new study has found that the same protein prevents ice crystals from melting, which leads to the accumulation of ice in the veins of fish throughout the year, damaging their health.

The fact that many Antarctic fish have ice in their veins has been known for a long time, but scientists did not know how ice is excreted from the body of fish. During the winter, ice accumulates in the spleen, and the researchers hypothesized that it melts in the warm summer waters.
To test their theory, the researchers took representatives of several fish species in the waters of McMurdo Bay in southern Antarctica during the winter and tested them in the laboratory. They heated the bodies of the fish to temperatures that exceeded the expected melting point of ice, but some of the crystals never melted. That is, even when the ice was overheated, it remained in a solid state.

The scientists then caught fish in the summer in McMurdo Sound, and 90% of the fish they caught had ice crystals in their blood, despite the temperature of the water. After examining ten years of water temperature data in the strait, scientists found that it rarely reaches the level of melting ice crystals in the blood of Antarctic fish. However, the researchers concluded that the ice remains in the blood of fish for almost their entire lives.

Ice crystals trapped in the tissues and organs of fish can cause harmful inflammatory reactions and block narrow capillaries, similar to how asbestos destroys the lungs of humans. At this stage, the researchers are not sure if the adverse health effects of the fish are due to ice in the blood. However, they do believe that these fish must have evolved defense mechanisms against ice accumulation.

The Anthropocebo Effect Explains How Our Minds Can Destroy the World

The placebo effect and the nocebo effect clearly demonstrate that our minds have a special kind of control over our bodies. And they can also take control of the world. And that's something to worry about. The placebo effect is so widespread that it is taken into account in every trial of a new drug. People who take completely useless sugar pills report that their condition has begun to improve. They do it in a very dramatic and consistent way, which is why companies have to constantly make sure that their newest drug is more effective than sugar pills.

The other side of the coin is the nocebo effect. If people are convinced that they will experience negative consequences after taking a drug, there is a high probability that this is exactly what will happen. If a group of women believes that they can all die of heart disease (though there is no real reason for this), their chances of dying from cardiovascular disease are much higher than those of a group that does not share their unfortunate faith.

Jennifer Jacquet, assistant professor of environmental studies at New York University, believes that the above effects may extend beyond the body. She coined the term "anthropocebo effect". People who believe that humanity can only destroy the planet and nothing else, at some point can cause the destruction of the planet. We can't put in the effort to save something because we believe it won't work. We are not looking for solutions, we believe that there are no solutions. And if the destruction of the environment is inevitable anyway, then we could capitalize on it. In other words, people who believe that humanity can only destroy everything around, and that nothing can be done about it, can themselves cause their own death.

claws of archimedes

The device works on the principle of a crane: it grabs an enemy ram, lifts it into the air and throws it down. Let us give the floor to the Greek historian Plutarch, who wrote the biography of Marcellus: “During the double attack of the Romans (that is, from land and from the sea.), the Syracusans were dumbfounded, stricken with horror. What could they oppose to such forces, such a powerful army? Archimedes launched his machines. The land army was hit by a hail of projectiles and huge stones thrown with great swiftness. Nothing could withstand their blow, they threw everything before them and brought confusion to the ranks. As for the fleet, then suddenly from the height of the walls the logs fell, due to their weight and given speed, onto the ships and drowned them. Either iron claws and beaks seized ships, lifted them into the air nose up, stern down and then immersed in water. Or ships were set in rotation and, circling, fell on pitfalls and cliffs at the foot of the walls. Most of those on the ships died under attack. Every minute they saw some ship raised in the air over the sea. Terrible sight!…”

Water on earth is older than the sun

A new chemical model of the early solar system has found that almost half of all water on Earth came from interstellar ice when the sun formed. This means that moisture in our solar system is not due to local conditions in the protoplanetary disk, but rather is a regular feature of planetary formation. This gives rise to the hope that life can exist in the Universe besides us.

To determine the age of water in the solar system, the researchers focused on studying the hydrogen in deuterium, known as "heavy hydrogen" because it has an extra neutron. Interstellar ice has a very high ratio of deuterium to hydrogen because it formed at very low temperatures. Scientists already know this from studying the composition of comets and asteroids.
The level of deuterium in the water of the solar system has been rising since the formation of the sun. So to determine whether the Sun can independently produce today's level of the isotope, the researchers created a computer model that goes back to the beginning of the solar system and doesn't account for legacy deuterium.

However, this model was not able to produce the same amount of deuterium that is now being found. Therefore, researchers estimate that between 30 and 50% of our solar system's water was part of the ancient molecular cloud that gave rise to the sun and planets. The scientists published their discovery in the journal Science.

If the formation of our solar system was typical by cosmic standards, then the discovery proves that interstellar ice takes part in the formation of everything from and to the nearest planetary systems. And since all life we ​​know depends on water, this news increases the chance that other planetary systems have everything to support life.
To paraphrase Samuel Coleridge's "Old Mariner's Poem": "Water, water everywhere, there's something to drink on every planet."

Spies-saboteurs of Leningrad

During the Second World War, the German command sent crowds of spies-saboteurs to the besieged city of Leningrad. Spies were equipped first class! They were given clothes like locals, documents, passwords, appearances and addresses of safe houses.
But, here's the problem. It soon became clear that all this was in vain - super trained spies were caught by any patrol that stopped them for a banal document check ... Brilliant forgeries of the best criminologists in Germany, with enviable regularity, became a kind of pass to the wall.

Throughout the war, the Germans tried to forge Soviet documents. The best minds were thrown into this task! Entire groups of specialists selected the texture of paper, the smallest shades of paint and in every possible way revealed secret symbols - the result is zero! Ordinary Soviet patrols, consisting of semi-literate Asian peasants, revealed the linden at first sight!
It was only after the war that the secret of making "unforgeable" Soviet documents was revealed.

It turned out that everything is simple to disgrace. The Germans are a very cultured nation and they made paper clips from stainless steel. While real Soviet paperclips were rusty.

Incredibly Strange "Lady Macbeth Effect"

One of William Shakespeare's most famous plays, Macbeth, tells the story of a power-hungry general who rises to power by assassinating the King of Scotland. Of course, he would never have done it if his wife, Lady Macbeth, had not pushed him to it. However, the femme fatale soon discovers that killing in cold blood is not so easy at all, and begins to suffer from remorse. Wracked with guilt, Lady Macbeth thinks her hands are covered in blood, and she washes her fingers furiously, trying to get rid of the supposed gore.

Of course, this is not the only case. In the Gospel, for example, Pontius Pilate famously “washed his hands” by handing Jesus over to the crowd for execution. In fact, so many guilty boys and girls try to get their hands wet, and researchers have even come up with a catchy name for this phenomenon: The Lady Macbeth Effect. And this effect is incredibly powerful.
In 2006, University of Toronto researcher Chen-Bo Zhong and colleagues conducted a series of tests on a group of guilty subjects. First, the researchers asked subjects to recall their past. Some were asked to remember their good deeds, while others were asked to remember their not-so-ethical deeds. The subjects were then given slips of paper and asked to complete unfinished words such as "W _ _ H" and "SH _ _ ER". As it turned out, people who talked about their sinful deeds wrote "WASH" ​​(Eng. "Wash") and "SHOWER" (Eng. "Shower"), and people who remembered their good deeds were more likely to write words such as "WISH" (Eng. "Wish") and "SHAKER" (Eng. "Pepper").

In the second test, the subjects were again asked to remember their ethical and unethical actions, and then offered a choice of either pencils or antiseptic wipes. You probably won't be surprised to learn that three-quarters of those who contemplate their misdeeds choose napkins.
And what does all this mean? According to Zhong, "the cleanliness of the environment surrounding the subjects may have an impact on their moral behavior." Unfortunately, this influence is not always positive. Zhong worries that people who have symbolically washed their hands may start to feel better despite all their wrongdoings and may refuse to take responsibility for their unethical actions. In other words, the act of washing gives them something like a sense of forgiveness. Perhaps that is why many say that cleanliness is next to godliness.

Your decisions are a lot more random than you think.

For the most part, we make decisions based on our previous experience. But what to do in completely new and unpredictable situations for us? A new study suggests that when we are faced with an unexpected scenario, the brain chooses randomness as its best strategy.
When it comes to decision making, the brain is very dependent on past experiences. Some experts believe that the brain has a built-in mechanism for evaluating the effectiveness of a decision based on past precedents. It is also something that we can be aware of. And to improve the rationality of decision-making, it is very important that we use new information to change our confidence in the faith.

But a recent one by Alla Karpova shows that randomness may be the brain's preferred policy when things are especially difficult, or when the situation has no precedent in the past. And this is not very good, as it leads to risk.
Karpova's experiments showed that rats, when faced with a hard-to-beat competitor, abandon their usual tactic of using past experience to make decisions and make random choices instead. This “strategy switch,” according to Karpova, is under the control of a specific area of ​​the brain, and it is a sign that the brain may be “disconnecting” from its past experiences and entering “random decision mode” in a desperate attempt to overcome competitive advantage. From an evolutionary point of view, this makes no sense. When animals are faced with a new and unpredictable situation, such as a predator that moves completely erratically, it is often useful to change behavior randomly. This can lead to very risky decisions that would otherwise not be made, but it can also be life-saving. The trouble is that it can be very difficult for some animals to get out of this regime.

As always, research on rats in the scientific world is perceived with skepticism. But Karpova points out in her article that primates, when faced with a new situation, also tend to resort to random rather than stochastic choice. So it is highly likely that people are prone to similar cognitive processes. Of course, Karpova's data can be useful in some related research areas. For example, they could potentially be used to treat diseases such as depression.

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