How Brain Hears the Sound of Silence: Separate Brain Pathways Process the Start and End of What We Hear

ScienceDaily (Feb. 11, 2010) — A team of University of Oregon researchers have isolated an independent processing channel of synapses inside the brain’s auditory cortex that deals specifically with shutting off sound processing at appropriate times. Such regulation is vital for hearing and for understanding speech.

The discovery, detailed in the Feb. 11…

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The self has an unlimited capacity to sense, being sat-cit-ananda. These sensations are limited or defined by the body being inhabited. For example, the human body senses light energies across a spectrum that we interpret as red orange yellow green blue indigo violet. Above violet in energy, is ultraviolet, which is not detected by the human eye. Similarly, energies below this light spectrum include infra-red, which again is not visually sensed. Yet we know that these energies are there,… Continue

ScienceNews: “Active Hearing Process in Mosquitoes”

2009 November 21

tags: Bristol Centre for Applied Nonlinear Mathematics, hypoxia, hysteresis, mosquito, nonlinear amplification, oscillationsby admin

This is a mosquito hearing organ. (Credit: University of Bristol)

Prabhupada, Chicago, July 4, 1975: [...] You cannot manufacture a mosquito. You can manufacture a 747, but manufacture a mosquito, then we shall know your… Continue

The total recovery time for a corneal transplant can be up to a year or longer. Initially, your vision will be blurry and the site of your corneal transplant may be swollen and slightly thicker than the rest of your cornea. As your vision improves, you will gradually be able to return to your normal daily activities.



For the first several weeks, heavy exercise and lifting are prohibited. However, you should be able to return to work… Continue