M.J. Rose

This news is from last month, but just in case you haven’t heard: The “immortal jellyfish” can transform itself back into a polyp and begin life anew.

Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?

By NATHANIEL RICH

Takashi Murai

“After more than 4,000 years — almost since the dawn of recorded time, when Utnapishtim told Gilgamesh that the secret to immortality lay in a coral found on the ocean floor — man finally discovered eternal life in 1988. He found it, in fact, on the ocean floor. The discovery was made unwittingly by Christian Sommer, a German marine-biology student in his early 20s. He was spending the summer in Rapallo, a small city on the Italian Riviera, where exactly one century earlier Friedrich Nietzsche conceived “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”: “Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again. . . .”

For the complete article click here to go to the New York Times.

I was always skeptical of Bigfoot even though I wanted so much to believe in a higher primate with which we humans could share our world. With all the hoaxes and insubstantial “evidence” floating around, it was starting to feel bleak for poor Sasquatch, despite its long history of sightings, dating all the way back to ancient pictographs by native North Americans.

And then there was new analysis of the original print of the infamous Patterson/Gimlin film. The recent documentary from National Geographic in which this incredible film evidence is seriously tested can be seen here –

For more interesting information on newsworthy Bigfoot goings-ons of late, please visit the links below.

‘Bigfoot’ DNA Sequenced In Upcoming Genetics Study

Some of the most beautiful and convincing Bigfoot photos I’ve ever seen.

If you’re a subscriber: Coast To Coast Radio interview with researcher David Paulides in which he discusses some of the evidence and legends of Bigfoot. “Forensic drawings made from witness testimony have shown remarkable similarities, he noted. Pictographs of Bigfoot-like creatures on rocks by Native Americans date back 1,500 years, and Elders have said that their ancestors revered them as “caretakers of the woods,”…”

Those of us who are creative types may, sadly, already be aware of this – and therefore it is not much of a mystery to us! The good news is that with increased scientific understanding may come better treatments, but let’s hope that whatever treatments are discovered treat the illness without damaging the genius that often comes along with it…

Creativity ‘closely entwined with mental illness’

By Michelle Roberts

Health editor, BBC News online

“Creativity is often part of a mental illness, with writers particularly susceptible, according to a study of more than a million people.

Writers had a higher risk of anxiety and bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, unipolar depression, and substance abuse, the Swedish researchers at the Karolinska Institute found.

They were almost twice as likely as the general population to kill themselves.

The dancers and photographers were also more likely to have bipolar disorder…”

For the complete piece click here to go to the BBC.