Odds and ends

Telepathy -.

https://news.cgtn.com/news/7859444d336b7a6333566d54/share.html

Chinese scientists have found a gene that can help reduce the effect of soil salinization on rice yields. https://news.cgtn.com/news/336b444d336b7a6333566d54/share.html

Chinese scientists have made a breakthrough in creating stem cells with a cocktail of two chemicals that can induce mature somatic cells to turn back into pluripotent stem cells. https://news.cgtn.com/news/3441544d336b7a6333566d54/share.html

Courtesans of days gone by

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5589975/Queen-courtesans-charged-princes-dukes-MILLION-pounds-night-humble-Brit.html

Growth of brain cells in old age

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5582173/Elderly-adults-grow-just-new-brain-cells-20-year-olds-study-claims.html

Over the rainbow – Harmonica

https://youtu.be/GhIlY96zdq4

Mental message sent from one person to another 4,000 miles away.

The study published in the journal PLOS One connected a person in Mumbai, India, with another in Paris who wore headsets connected over the internet.

Read the full story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2745797/Scientists-claim-telepathy-success-sending-mental-message-one-person-4-000-miles-away.html

7 September 2014