The Perihelion Effect

Category: Science | Pseudo-Science | Conjecture

The analemma

You may have wondered what that figure eight loop drawn on a globe is. It is the analemma. In astronomy, an analemma is a diagram

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Chronobiology

How the Sun Affects Our Minds

More than three-quarters of all instances of human unrest—battles, upheavals, riots, revolutions, and wars—occur during the periods of the maximum number of sunspots in the

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Science | Pseudo-Science | Conjecture

Occurrence of suicide and seasonal variation

Occurrence of suicide and seasonal variation. Retamal P, Humphreys D. Departamento de Psiquiatria y Salud Mental, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. nhorwitz@bello.dic.uchile.cl

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Chronobiology

The Perceptual Calendar

The Calendar before Julius Caesar’s Calendar Even this calendar not is important to postal historians (!) it is important to know why Julius Caesar introduced

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Philosophy of Science

Jacques Ellul (1912-1994)

Jacques Ellul comments that while Technique is able to liberate man from the constraints of time and space that can never engender freedom. Ellul seems

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Chronobiology

observing the body’s cycle

I think that the ancients realized this relationship through yoga and self study. By observing the body’s cycle superimposed over the calendar’s these sages and shamen made

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