Is Poverty Genetic?

Why do poor children perform worse in school? A researcher looks into this and finds physical differences between the brains of the rich and the poor but children aren't born with these differences.

Or money is just a simple human creation to which we give more preference than any other thing in this universe. If we scale the happiness of Bill Gates and an average person, then average person is more happier than him in most of the cases. Are we earning to be happy?

Co-operation

Co-operation and community are just as essential to our survival as selfishness. Tracey Mills studies some of the oldest microorganisms, he found that even the simplest creatures of this planet are capable of co-operation, he studied how different strains of marine bacteria defend themselves against predators, surprisingly the bacteria that makes the anti-biotics sacrificed themselves to protect others. Down at these level as well we see altruism, self-sacrifice for the good of the community. Theory of evolution holds this, we wouldn't have been born without altruism, so as universe.

The immortal Jellyfish

This immortal species cannot die. It achieves this by aging backward after sexual maturity, going through reverse puberty so it can start the cycle again and if the jellyfish is injured or sick, it returns to its polyp stage over a three-day period, transforming its cells into a younger state that will eventually grow into adulthood all over again.

Turritopsis typically reproduces the old-fashioned way, by the meeting of free-floating sperm and eggs. And most of the time they die the old-fashioned way too.

But when starvation, physical damage, or other crises arise, "instead of sure death, Turritopsis transforms all of its existing cells into a younger state," said study author Maria Pia Miglietta, a researcher at Pennsylvania State University. The jellyfish's cells are often completely transformed in the process. Muscle cells can become nerve cells or even sperm or eggs. It could also applied to human beings because human and jellyfish are not genetically very different.

Human head transplant

In 1970, the head of the monkey was transplanted onto the body of another at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in the US but they weren't able to fuse the spinal cords which means the monkey recipient couldn’t move its new head, it was able to achieve assisted breathing, but it died in a mere nine days following the procedure.

"The recipient's head is then moved onto the donor body and the two ends of the spinal cord – which resemble two densely packed bundles of spaghetti – are fused together,” says Thomsons. "To achieve this, Canavero intends to flush the area with a chemical called polyethylene glycol, and follow up with several hours of injections of the same stuff. Just like hot water makes dry spaghetti stick together, polyethylene glycol encourages the fat in cell membranes to mesh.”

Brain control drone

If the prospect of using a computer or a joystick to control a drone sounds like too much work, this robot may be the answer. The flying drone (dressed here in a monkey costume of sorts) can be controlled by brain waves.A specially designed brain-wave device, which can be used by people with disabilities, controls the flying drone.