Option

A group of children were playing near two railway tracks, one still in use while the other disused. Only one child played on the disused track, the rest on the operational track.

The train is coming, and you are just beside the track interchange. You can make the train change its course to the disused track and save most of the kids. However, that would also mean the lone child playing by the disused track would be sacrificed. Or would you rather let the train go its way?

Most people might choose to divert the course of the train, and sacrifice only one child. You might think the same way, I guess. Exactly, I thought the same way initially because to save most of the children at the expense of only one child was rational decision most people would make, morally and emotionally. But, have you ever thought that the child choosing to play on the disused track had in fact made the right decision to play at a safe place?

Nevertheless, he had to be sacrificed because of his ignorant friends who chose to play where the danger was. This kind of dilemma happens around us everyday. In the office, community, in politics and especially in a democratic society, the minority is often sacrificed for the interest of the majority, no matter how foolish or ignorant the majority are, and how farsighted and knowledgeable the minority are. The child who chose not to play with the rest on the operational track was sidelined. And in the case he was sacrificed, no one would shed a tear for him.

The Avalanches

Genes and Schizophrenia

Johns Hopkins researchers have genetically engineered the first mouse that models both the anatomical and behavioral defects of schizophrenia, a complex and debilitating brain disorder.

They took advantage of the recent discovery of a major risk factor for this disease: the DISC1 gene (short for disrupted in schizophrenia), which makes a protein that helps nerve cells assume their proper positions in the brain.

As reported online this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers generated mice that make an incomplete, shortened form of the DISC1 protein in addition to the regular type. The short form of the protein attaches to the full-length one, disrupting its normal duties.

As these mice matured, they became more agitated when placed in an open field, had trouble finding hidden food, and did not swim as long as regular mice; such behaviors parallel the hyperactivity, smell defects and apathy observed in schizophrenia patients. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed characteristic defects in brain structure, including enlarged lateral ventricles, a region that circulates the spinal fluid and helps protect against physical trauma.

They note that the defects in these mice were not as severe as those typically seen in people with schizophrenia, because more than one gene is required to trigger the clinical disease. "However, this mouse model will help us fill many gaps in schizophrenia research,".

Tiny little me

چهار کامیون ماسه به یکدیگر که شن ها را به هر طرف پرت می کنن

در فاصله پنج میلیارد سال نوری از زمین

ادغام چهار کهکشان غول پیک

سه عدد از آنها تقریبا به اندازه کهکشان راه شیری و بزرگترین آنها تقریبا سه برابر راه شیری

( جمعیت ستارگان کهکشان راه شیری حداقل 40 برابر جمعیت کره زمین , یعنی در حدود 240 میلیارد)

نتیجه نهایی این فرآیند پیدایش یک کهکشان خارق العاده عظیم - تا ده برابر راه شیری

کلیه ستارگان در این ادغام در سه میلیارد سال نخست پس از انفجار بزرگ شکل گرفته

ادغام در حدود نه میلیارد سال پس از انفجار بزرگ روی داده است

Counterculture

In sociology, counterculture is a term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day, the cultural equivalent of political opposition. Although distinct countercultural undercurrents exist in all societies, here the term counterculture refers to a more significant, visible phenomenon that reaches critical mass and persists for a period of time. A counterculture movement thus expresses the ethos, aspirations and dreams of a specific population during a certain period of time — a social manifestation of zeitgeist(the intellectual and cultural climate of an era.).

Dance with me

Would U like to have BLOOD in ur dish?

COUNTERCULTURE against Governement Basics

خر به خراسان بردن: زیره به کرمان بردن

سکه رایج بلاد اسلامی: صلوات، چیزی که همه توان آن را دارند

دستمالیسم: فرهنگ چاپلوسی

فلفل سبز: سرباز نیروی انتظامی -به خاطر رنگ لباس

کاکتوس: مامور نیروی انتظامی

سه دروغ بزرگ: دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی

سیامک سنجرانی: سیم و سنجاق، اسباب تریاک کشی در زندان

Forget the Background

Genetics, wowwwwww

The reduction of the human being to no more than the biological expression of the programme of instructions encoded in his or her DNA will have serious moral consequences on how we look at ourselves.
Determinists are in danger of hunting for the "Cinderella" gene- those particular genes which in isolation pre-determine just about everything from intelligence to homosexuality, free market entrepreneurs and male dominance. if we accept that innate differences and abilities are written in our genes and biologically inherited , then hierarchy is actually encoded in human nature. The world is the way it is because that is exactly how it should be. A proposed scientific explanation thus becomes the instrument for legitimizing the status quo.