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In
1958, scientists were observing Rheses Monkeys on an island off the
coast of Japan. In the middle of their research, they happened to
notice that an 18-month-old monkey, named Imo, did something never
done before by a monkey -- instead of eating dirty sweet potatoes
right out of the ground, she first washed them in water. She
then taught this trick to her mother and then to her playmates, who
continued to pass it on to the other monkeys.
Here's
the kicker -- the scientists observed somethng 'unexplainable' --
when about 100 monkeys knew the trick, all the monkeys were
seen washing their sweet potatoes-- including those on the surrounding
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Question: How is it possible that the monkeys on the nearby islands learned how to do this trick without any observable connection to each other? How else does this show up in life? Hint: Co-evolution |
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Place two individual heart cells into a petri dish, and they will begin to beat in unison. Think about that... |
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When
women spend time in close proximity to each other, such as in a home
or college dorm, their menstrual cycles will eventually start to coincide.
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Question: How about for men? Are there patterns that we take on with our fellow dudes? |
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Isn't it funny how some dogs and their owners tend to look like each other? |
Question: What's up with this? Is it your imagination, or does it have something to do with "energy patterns?" |
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A new device, that dramatically improves the speech of some people who stutter, works by mimicing what's normally part of the brain's feedback system. The trick is to make it think there's more than one voice speaking at the same time. The result -- the speech locks into flow. |
Question: What do you think might be responsible for the flow of speech ? |
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One of my drum teachers, Mark Schulman (with Cher's band), demonstrated how to lock-into the beat/groove of the music effortlessly, and automatically. He put a 'clicker' (metronome for keeping the beat when practicing) in front of me and had me try to 'bury the click' by clapping along with it (the clicking sound disappears when you do it right, and you only hear your hands clapping). After watching me struggle to get into the beat, he told me to relax, close my eyes, and just let the sound of the click draw my hands in. Eventually, my hands starting clapping closer and closer to the click, and then......I buried the click!...and for 30 seconds straight :-). The best part? It felt as though it was doing it all by itself and I just had to let it happen. It is the difference between forcing it vs. allowing it, working to create the music vs. plugging into the flow of it and letting it take me for a ride. In the end, if I create the right atmosphere for it, the very best music imaginable happens -- without any struggle, effort, or work....it just simply flows. |
Question: What's this say about experiencing the very best of what life has to offer? |
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Strike
a tuning-fork that plays an A note (220 vibrations/second), and not
only will another 220 fork nearby begin to vibrate, a 440 (A note one
octave above), and even an E fork will too (half-way inbetween the A's).
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Question: What makes the other tuning forks vibrate? |
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Leslie Lempke is a savant who is able to play back any musical piece after a single listening. |
Question: How much is it a question of learning how to "tune into" or channel what we want to create/ do? |
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| There's a certain kind of fungi that for most of their lives act independantly of one another. And then -- they get into a formation and combine into one single creature! | Question: What's up with that!? |
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Fireflies during mating season will light up in unison, creating a beautiful show. |
Question: How is it that they are able to coordinate this display? |
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