By our third year, most of us will have learned to count. Once we know how, it seems as if there would be nothing to stop us counting forever. But, while infinity might seem like a perfectly innocent idea, keep counting and you enter a paradoxical world where nothing is as it seems. See it [...]

I just came across something extremely curious. There is a black spherical anomoly on the south east limb of the sun. I have no idea what this may be. See it on Scoop.it, via Mindscape

Most religions have the belief that there was once a more perfect world, from which man has been banished. This has often been interpreted as meaning a real previous civilization used to exist, populated by beings we now see as gods. Outside religion, central to such ideas is Atlantis, a mythical island deep in our [...]

The first cellular life on Earth probably arose in vats of volcanic mud akin to Darwin’s idea of a “warm little pond,” a new study says. See it on Scoop.it, via Mindscape

Some physicists are uncomfortable with the idea that all individual quantum events are innately random. This is why many have proposed more complete theories, which suggest that events are at least partially governed by extra “hidden variables”. Now physicists from Austria claim to have performed an experiment that rules out a broad class of hidden-variables [...]

Independence is being Gnostic. Originally, Gnostics simply called themselves, “Knowledge seekers” as Gnosis means Knowledge, the idea being, if Truth is ONE, then all Knowledge Seekers who GENUINELY seek the truth, should eventually end up at the same view, but by their own paths. See it on Scoop.it, via Mindscape

The most controversial subject brought up in What the BLEEP Do We Know!? was not the concept of sub-quantum information as the substrate of all life (Planck Scale); nor was it the idea that quantum physics may have as much to say about God as religion. Nope. As per audience response, it’s the ships – [...]