How to Live Forever? Be a Jellyfish

While it is often joked that cats have nine lives, a certain species of jellyfish has been deemed “immortal” by scientists who have observed its ability to, when in crisis, revert its cells to their earliest form and grow anew. That means that these tiny creatures, 4 mm to 5 mm long, potentially have infinite lives.

What really motivates us to be creative?

Our current economic system is based on the idea that a higher material reward motivates people to perform better. This turn out to be to true for physical tasks where higher incentive increases the performance. On the other hand, when the task involves even simple congnitive effort, the higher material incentive provokes a poorer perfomance. This study was not conducted by some 'marxist' NGO, but by Harvard and was funded by non other than the Federal Reserve.






Full audio: http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2013/the-surprising-truth-about-motivating-others

Amazing Fact - We Are Made Of Star Stuff

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Symphony of Science - 'We Are All Connected' (ft. Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye)