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What Is the Hygiene Hypothesis?
Red Rabbit keeps noticing articles mentioning hygiene hypothesis so he decides to do a search for an article that actually defines it. ‘Many parents believe that their children must be kept in an environment that is as clean as possible, but some research suggests that being exposed to what many would call unclean…
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Doctors Advise Striking a Balance Between Dirty and Hyper-Clean
‘As advances in modern medicine are made and more antibacterial and sanitizing products are released, hygiene among people has improved. But doctors are concerned there may be such a thing as “too clean.” Dr. Nectar Aintablian, infectious disease specialist and pediatrician at Tallahassee Primary Care Associates, believes…
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A Matter of Balance
‘As civilization evolved, we moved from the Cave Man to living in dirt floor huts with many family members in one space and farm animals living in close contact to the home, and then to overcrowded cities with poor sanitation practices. Many lives were lost to bacteria, viral, and parasitic type infections that spread like…
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Yeti and Chewy learn all about magic
Early one morning Yeti decides to take a short cut through Bamboo Forrest and ends up bumping into Chewy. But that’s not all that he finds there. “Psst … Chewy, who are those people?” asks Yeti. Chewy is not really sure but he tells Yeti that they all just popped out of that magical book. The two of them decide to walk…
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History of magic
‘The belief in magic and magical powers dates back to the earliest recorded history. In Egypt, for example, large number of magical papyri, in Greek, Coptic, and Demotic, have been recovered. These sources contain early instances of much of the magical lore that later became part of Western cultural expectations about the…
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More magic history
“Let’s take it a step further,” says the magician….. ‘Astrology and Astronomy - The works of Ptolemy mostly concerned math, science, astrology, and astronomy. His most important contributions were in the fields of math and science. However, he compiled a great deal of information on astrology and astronomy, considering it…
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History of magic continued…
‘Cabalist Magic - Perhaps the best synthesis of magic in the Middle Ages and Renaissance was exhibited by Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola. In his works, Mirandola not only originated the romantic concept of a soulmate, he gave The Renaissance Magus the magic of Cabala, synthesized from the Jewish Mystical Kabbalah practices.…
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The history of magic evolves
‘Magic continued to evolve over the decades. In the early 1800s, Richard Potter became the first stage magician in the USA. Some of his tricks included passing coins through a table, breaking and restoring broken watches and placing his hand in a bowl of molten lead – not a trick to be tried at home! Magic gradually came…
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History behind the magical materials
‘Historically, many self-proclaimed magicians have required rare and precious materials, such as crystal balls, rare herbs (often picked by prescribed rituals), and elements such as mercury. This is less common in fantasy. Many magicians require no materials at all; those that do may require only simple and easily obtained…
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What Can Magicians Teach Us about the Brain?
‘Neuroscience can learn a lot by tapping the intuitive knowledge of magicians as new sources for inspiration and study. A magician tosses a ball into the air once, twice, three times. Suddenly, the ball vanishes in mid-flight. What happened? Don’t worry, the laws of physics haven’t been broken. Magicians do not have…
