An international team of neurosurgeons and organ transplant specialists recently discovered that a brain can be revived 50 minutes after being removed from the body if connected to a liver. It was a bit of a ghoulish experiment, but the results could be vital to improving common resuscitation methods in cases of ischemic heart attack, […] The post International Team Successfully Restarts Animal Brain, Offering Hope for Heart Attack Treatment, Better Transplants appeared first on Good News Network.

Books Poetry 13 More Poems to Summon the Spirit of Halloween From haunted houses and ancient rituals to horror movies, these poems capture the essence of lonesome October… By Holly Kybett Smith | Published on October 24, 2024 Photo by William Nettmann [via Unsplash] Comment 0 Share New Share Photo by William Nettmann [via Unsplash] October has come back around, and with it the opportunity to indulge in all things spooky: horror movies; ghost stories; and—yes—poetry. I compiled my first list of Halloween poems in 2020; my second in 2023. The cauldron has yet to run dry, so this year I bring yet another collection of poems celebrating the macabre, the eerie, the weird and otherworldly… “I Grew Up in a Haunted House” by Tylor James I stood frozenbefore the mirror;a living statue,heart palpitating.My spine a lightning rod… Our first poem—dedicated to Ray Bradbury—explores, with deliciously unsettling imagery, the terror that comes with grappling with the concept of death for the first time, during childhood. That fear of fading away follows the narrator into adulthood and haunts him with both its inevitability and the prospect that, in a sense, it may have already come to pass. “The Haunted” by John Masefield Here, in this darkened room of this old house,     I sit beside the fire.     I hear again,Within, the scutter where the mice carouse,     Without, the gutter dropping with the rain… We move now from one haunted house to another, rendered in terrifyingly vivid detail by Masefield. This house has been made haunted by its inhabitants, and subsequently it has begun to take on a life of its own, encroaching on any mortal who enters. “Samhain” by Annie Finch Tonight at last I feel it shake.I feel the nights stretching awaythousands long behind the daystill they reach the darkness whereall of me is ancestor… In this atmospheric, autumnal poem, Annie Finch celebrates Samhain—the Gaelic festival from which Halloween can trace its origins—by drawing the reader’s attention to its timing, at a sort of tipping-point in the year, when summer has faded and autumn begins to cede ground to the dark and chill of winter. “There She Is” by Linda Gregg When I go into the garden, there she is.The specter holds up her arms to showthat her hands are eaten off.She is silent because of the agony.There is blood on her face.I can see she has done this to herself… Perhaps my favourite poem on this year’s list, “There She Is”conveys a short horror story in sparse and unsettling free verse. Who is the titular She, and what does she represent?—this is left for you, the reader, to decide. “The Truth About Doppelgängers” by Crystal Sidell You have to know what you’re looking for. I learned thisafter—after I glimpsed their not-quite white saw-edgedteeth in my peripheral vision, neatly filedand gleaming when I dared to look straight at them… I spoke too soon: I think this one might be my favourite. Lavish and dark, laced with subtly vampiric imagery, Sidell’s verse explores the classic Gothic theme of the doppelgänger. “Ghost in the Land of Skeletons” by Christopher Kennedy If not for flesh’s pretty paint, we’re just a bunch of skeletons, working hard to deny the fact of bones. Teeth remind me that we die. That’s why I never smile, except when looking at a picture of a ghost… Recommended by a commenter on last year’s article, this short prose poem offers a fond look at ghosts and spirits, reminding us that they are us—just a step or two removed. “A Child’s Nightmare” by Robert Graves Through long nursery nights he stoodBy my bed unwearying,Loomed gigantic, formless, queer,Purring in my haunted ear… There’s something uniquely awful about having a vivid nightmare as a child. Of course, adults have nightmares too, but by adulthood we have a lot more context about the world that makes those nightmares easier to shake loose in the day. The nightmares of childhood, though, are longer-lived, kept fresh in our minds by their abstract and inexplicable nature. In this nightmare, the shadowy figure standing at the child’s bed repeats the word “Cat!” like an omen—and there’s something strangely horrible about it, especially when it’s hard to gauge what the word means, in this context. “Anna, Possession (1981)” by Claire C. Holland A blade in her back,it threatens to bubble up from inside,to pour from her prone and twistingbody, everywhere, frothinginto cracks in the cement, heavylike paint… This poem, which follows the the character of Anna, played by Isabelle Adjani in Andrzej Żuławski’s 1981 psychological horror film Possession, can be found in Holland’s anthology, I Am Not Your Final Girl. In the book, “[e]ach poem is based on a fictional character from horror cinema, and explores the many ways in which women find empowerment through violence and their own perceived monstrousness.” “Allegiances” by Emily Berry Morning is a gown put on at midnight, but no one’s comingI don’t know what your secrets areYou say you have no secrets but I can feel them,they’re bumps under the blanketYou do not let me in… Suspicion suffuses this poem by Emily Berry, which follows its narrator through the small hours of the night. Read along and think of stories of betrayal, subterfuge, enemies kept close to the chest. The Girl in the Green Silk Gown by Seanan McGuire Once and twice and thrice around,Put your heart into the ground.Four and five and six tears shed,Give your love unto the dead… What’s this? A novel has crept onto the poetry list? This book (and its poetry) is another recommendation from a commenter on last year’s list. It follows a hitchhiking ghost on a mission to track down her killer—an excellent premise for a Halloween read! Bear in mind, though, that it is the second in a series, and you may want to start at the beginning. “Field of Skulls” by Mary Karr For you: a field of skulls, angled jawsand eye-sockets, a zillion scooped-out crania.   They’re plain once you think to look… Next on the list, another poem that stirs up an atmosphere of paranoia and dread. Karr conjures horrific visions from a simple starting point; a question many of us have asked ourselves at different moments in our lives: what waits out there in the dark? “Necropolitan” by Scott Cairns Not your ordinary ice cream, though the glazeof these skeletal figures affectsthe disposition of those grinning candiesone finds in Mexico, say, at the start of November… The strange, dark, sugared imagery Cairns conjures in this poem calls to mind the calaveras made to celebrate the Day of the Dead, or Halloween trick-or-treaters receiving their spooky rewards (though ice cream doesn’t usually feature on that menu). There’s a morbid humour in the picture it paints. “October” by Bobbi Katz October is when jack-o’-lanternsgrin in the darkness            and            strange company crunchesacross the rumple of dry leavesto ring a doorbell… Lastly, an atmospheric poem that encapsulates the excitement of October and the thrilling approach of Halloween, as it grows ever closer… What are your plans for Halloween this year? And are there any other poems you find particularly appropriate for the season? Let me know in the comments![end-mark] The post 13 More Poems to Summon the Spirit of Halloween appeared first on Reactor.

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In 1935, Albert Einstein and His postdoc Nathan Rosen found a hypothical mathematical spacetime structure that bridges between two separate regions of space, potentially allowing a shortcut between these regions. Travel through the throat could be much faster than travel in the familiar external spacetime that connects them. This is an example of a general class of spacetime structures with two mouths connected by a throat, known as `wormholes.’ In 1962, Robert Fuller and John Wheeler demonstrated that the Einstein-Rosen wormhole is unstable and would pinch off before any particle traverses it. Subsequently, Stephen Hawking, Kip Thorne and collaborators showed that exotic matter with a negative mass (energy) density could stabilize a wormhole and make it hypothetically traversable. Such a substance is known to exist as the `dark energy’ whose repulsive gravity causes the accelerated expansion of the Universe. However, to construct a wormhole one would need to excavate dark energy from the cosmic reservoir and mold it to the shape of a wormhole. We do not know if that is possible since the nature of dark energy is unknown. Visualization of a wormhole (Credit: Public Domain). A traversable wormhole would allow an advanced civilization to travel back in time. This is because time progresses differently inside and outside the wormhole. As a result, synchronized clocks at either end of the wormhole remain synchronized for an observer passing through the wormhole. Imagine observers at one end of the wormhole that encountered time dilation and aged less by moving around or temporarily visiting a gravitational potential well. Such observers would be able to connect to the older end of the wormhole at the same time, and allow the older version of themselves to meet their younger selves. This constitutes a time machine from the point of view of an outside observer. In 1992, Stephen Hawking proposed the `chronology protection conjecture,’ arguing that the laws of physics prevent time travel, making the Universe safe for historians. Since we do not have a predictive theory that unifies quantum mechanics and gravity, we do not know whether Hawking’s conjecture is true. If it is, then traversable wormholes cannot be constructed by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations. This set of arguments suggests that if we ever discover alien visitors near Earth that took advantage of wormholes to travel faster than light, we would know that Hawking’s conjecture is wrong and that time travel is possible. Their scientific feat would have major implications to the theory we develop for quantum gravity. It will also raise ethical questions, such as whether we should request access to their time machine and go back in time to kill Adolf Hitler before the Holocaust. Such an act would allow me to bring to life 65 members of my father’s family who died in Nazi concentration camps. Having access to a time machine as a tool for correcting human history is one possible benefit of encountering alien quantum-gravity gadgets. Another would involve travel to distant locations in the cosmos within a human lifetime through a wormhole. Which one should we choose to use first? My personal priority would be to fix human history before embarking on interstellar trips. This is because we know what needs to be fixed in our past but we do not know which interstellar destination is worthwhile. Encountering the technological products of advanced extraterrestrial scientists could be very helpful to our own scientific progress. We discovered quantum mechanics and General Relativity only a century ago, and we have a lot to learn. Last week, I had a delightful dinner in the company of string theorists from Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative. Three of them sat next to me, and so I could not resist the temptation of asking them: “In case we discover a mini black hole in the solar system and experimentalists will be able to access it and test quantum gravity theories like string theory, would you encourage full funding for the experimentalists to pursue this task even if the results could potentially invalidate your lifelong work on string theory?” They all replied: “Absolutely, yes.” I therefore noted: “Well, that demonstrates that deep inside you are real physicists and not mathematical physicists.” The post The Reality of Wormholes: Are They More Than Just Theory? appeared first on Anomalien.com.

MRC President Brent Bozell and MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider blasted key leaders of the Democratic Party for making a sharp left turn against Americans’ First Amendment freedoms.  Bozell and Schneider penned an op-ed for The Daily Wire, promoting a new MRC Free Speech America study exposing the incredible contrast between past statements attacking free speech by every twenty-first-century Democratic presidential nominee and their present statements and actions. Bozell and Schneider hammered all of them for abandoning free speech principles. In particular, the authors tore into President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for tearing up past promises of respect for free speech by using government agencies to pressure social media companies to censor the opposition. “Today’s Democrats, led by Kamala Harris, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, are not just tiptoeing around the edges of censorship; they’re creating an Orwellian nightmare where the state is being called upon to regulate speech and to determine what is fit to be heard in the public square.” Conservatives are under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on so-called hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

The national Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee reportedly fired one of its staffers in Montana after video suggested he handled a ballot box inappropriately, prompting speculation about possible "tampering."Surveillance cameras keep continual watch over all ballot boxes in Montana, including the one affixed to a column outside the Glacier County Satellite Office on the Blackfeet Reservation.On Wednesday, news broke that Laszlo Gendler, a DSCC employee, had apparently been caught on video touching the ballot box twice during a visit to the Glacier County office and even tugged on it at one point. He also apparently snapped a photo of the box with his cell phone.'The activity was certainly highly suspicious and concerning.'Glacier County elections administrator Crystal Cole immediately flagged the video and sent it to Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen (R), who sounded the alarm bell about potential "tampering.""Footage has emerged of a D.C. Democratic staffer tampering with a ballot drop box in Glacier County," Jacobsen said in a statement, according to KRTV. "This isn’t speculation — it is on camera. ... We are currently investigating this matter with the help of law enforcement and will continue to observe the actions of the Democratic Party of Montana under close watch."In a statement to Blaze News, Maggie Abboud, spokesperson for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, described the video as "incredibly damning."Even DSCC spokesperson David Bergstein admitted that the man in the video had broken protocol regarding ballot boxes."Poll observers are instructed not to touch ballot boxes. This individual was attempting to ensure a new ballot box was secured to the wall, neither the ballot box nor ballots were affected," Bergstein said in a statement, according to the New York Post.When Cole confronted Gendler about the incident, he did tell her he had been sent "to see how secure the box was," Cole wrote in a report to Jacobsen, according to Times Now. Cole seemed dubious about that explanation, noting that "the MT Dem Party failed to notify the Elections office" that it had dispatched anyone to test the security of the ballot box."The suspect and details were turned over to Glacier County law enforcement," added Richie Melby, a spokesman for the secretary of state’s office, in a statement to the Post. "Our elections director was pleased that the individual was not able to remove the ballot box from the wall, although, as the election administrator signified in her email, the activity was certainly highly suspicious and concerning."However, Glacier County deputies investigated the matter and released Gendler without pressing charges."After a review of the evidence, including the footage, we have determined that the issue is unsubstantiated. The behavior captured in the video does not constitute a legitimate attempt to tamper with the ballot box or the electoral process," said Glacier County Attorney Terryl Matt.Nevertheless, Gendler has been fired, according to KRTV and the Post.The video of Gendler comes as Republican challenger Tim Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL, appears to be on track to oust U.S. Sen. Jon Tester (D) from the seat he has held for more than 15 years."Jon Tester and Senate Democrats know they are losing to Tim Sheehy, so it appears they are trying to cheat in the election," Abboud added in her statement to Blaze News.Should Sheehy prevail, Republicans stand a good chance of retaking control of the Senate since former Gov. Jim Justice, a former Democrat, is expected to win the West Virginia Senate seat soon to be vacated by Sen. Joe Manchin (D), who is retiring, the Post noted.Democrat Senate candidates in the Rust Belt also face tough challenges from their Republican counterparts.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!