This Week, Part 2:
The Weirdest, Wildest Stories of 2010!

10 Profound Innovations That Will Change The Future
Even the best of science and technology has yet to solve climate change and famine, or conquer disease. More and more people live on a planet with shrinking resources, which leads to political strife and conflict. Here, we examine some of the hottest areas where researchers hope to forge a better tomorrow.

3-Minute Exercise Improves Memory & Brain Power
So many people have no idea what they want or just haven't taken the time to seriously think about it. They aim for nothing and hit it with amazing accuracy. The first and very important step to achieving all your goals is actually having a clear picture of what they are.

How to Direct the Power of Your Magnetic Mind
What you are learning now is conscious access to your theta state of extraordinary thinking. You are embarking on a journey to attain other levels of consciousness within you by consciously slowing your mind to theta. This process can become as easy and automatic as waking up in the morning and going to sleep at night.

The Army's Totally Serious Mind Control Project
Soldiers barking orders at each other is so 20th Century. That's why the U.S. Army has just awarded a $4 million contract to begin developing "thought helmets" that would harness silent brain waves for secure communication among troops. Ultimately, the Army hopes the project will "lead to direct mental control of military systems by thought alone."

Money Kills Pain Better Than Aspirin
Researchers at the University of Minnesota carried out a series of studies which revealed those who counted money before taking part in an experiment where they were subjected to low levels of pain felt less discomfort than those who did not.

Being Enlightened Gets You Everything In Life
It is an irony of the world that the people who seek material things and desire to have them before thinking about enlightenment, tend to attain neither, but those that acquire enlightenment first are the ones who do.

The Quest to Read the Human Mind
Mind-reading machines could help doctors understand the inner worlds of people with hallucinations, cognitive disabilities, post-traumatic stress disorder and other impairments. Judges could use them to sneak a look into suspects' brains by having them reenact the experience and reading their visions.

The Dark History of Government Mind Control
The emphasis on this experiment was probably one stage of several as it focused on completely wiping out a persons memory. The next stage would likely be in reprogramming it, building it up with multiple personalities which could be triggered to perform a desired function like assassinations, sex, relaying messages, piloting an aircraft etc.

The 5 Rules of Happiness
Using these five rules you'll soon find yourself on the right path on the pursuit of happiness. Eventually it will become automatic, and you'll find happiness a predominant state of mind. Once you realize the ease of acquiring this emotion, you develop an entirely new scale of highs and lows.

Your Body Takes Thoughts Literally
The body embodies abstractions the best way it knows how: physically... One study showed that participants who were asked to dwell on a personal moral transgression like adultery or cheating on a test were more likely to request an antiseptic cloth afterward than were those who had been instructed to recall a good deed they had done.

2012: Tibetan Monks See the Future
In 2012, the world will start plunging into a total destructive nuclear war. And at that time something remarkable will happen, says a Buddhist monk of Tibet. Supernatural divine powers will intervene. The destiny of the world is not to self-destruct at this time.

15 Reasons to Learn Astral Projection
People often wonder as to what possible benefits one can get through Astral Projection or Out-of-body-experiences. Let us look at some of them.

Strange Science of Organ Transplant Memory Transfer
Becoming an organ donor is a great way to help out a person in the event of one's death. A study has shown, however, that sometimes donor recipients take on certain characteristics or personality traits from the donor, a phenomenon that researchers are having a difficult time explaining.

Why Do Astronauts Experience God?
Their experiences, along with dozens of other similar experiences described by other astronauts, intrigue scientists who study the brain. This "Overview Effect", or acute awareness of all matter as synergistically connected, sounds somewhat similar to certain religious experiences described by Buddhist monks, for example.

Remote Influencing for Fun and Profit
We ascertained that there appeared to be a direct subconscious mental connection at all times between individuals... there is enough scattered evidence like this to indicate that not only are individuals in subconscious mental contact, but also under some circumstances they can establish conscious mental contact.

The Coming Superbrain
In Dr. Kurzweil’s telling, rapidly increasing computing power in concert with cyborg humans would then reach a point when machine intelligence not only surpassed human intelligence but took over the process of technological invention, with unpredictable consequences.

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