American’s Heads Getting Bigger

New measurements of hundreds of skulls of white Americans born between 1825 and 1985 suggest that their typical noggin height has grown by about a third of an inch (eight millimeters).

It may not sound like much, but the growth translates to roughly a tennis ball’s worth of new brain room. –NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Monster Black Hole Surrounded by Ring of Stars

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has imaged this coiled galaxy with an eye-like object at its center. The ‘eye’ at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars.

 

SEE ALSO: –MASSIVE BLACK HOLE ARCHIVE

Silent Lucidity: Active Dream States and the Otherworldly

Many people will tell you, when it comes to remembering their dreams, that only bits and fragments will emerge; aside from this, there is, in essence, really very little else that manages to break through to the human mind of the waking hours. On the other hand, there are also many who will state that in addition to being able to recall their dreams, some of them are incredibly vivid, with a number of interesting elements that spill over into the realms of the active imagination, where one can actually control aspects of the dream; in essence, the dreamer is aware of the fact that they are dreaming.