operatingsystem:crux

Understanding Microsleep — When Our Minds Are Both Asleep and Awake - The Crux
▻http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2019/06/18/during-microsleep-youre-asleep-and-awake-at-the-same-time

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This weird state of consciousness is characterized by brief bursts of sleep that happen while a person is awake — often while their eyes are open and they’re either sitting upright, or even performing a task. During microsleep, parts of the brain go offline for a few seconds while the rest of the brain stays awake. [...] And usually, people don’t realize it’s happening to them.

Researchers don’t fully understand why certain parts of our brain switch off throughout the day. But they have found the states of sleep and wakefulness aren’t as cut and dry as we might assume. And although fatigue does seem to prime the brain for microsleep, even well-rested people do it — a lot.

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#Moyen-Orient - Le représentant du #Vatican à l’ONU soutient l’usage de la #force contre l’EI - France 24
▻http://www.france24.com/fr/20150315-vatican-onu-geneve-force-ei-etat-islamique-genocide-irak-syrie-pa

L’observateur permanent du Vatican aux Nations unies à Genève a apporté un soutien inhabituel au recours à la force en Irak et Syrie contre l’organisation de l’État islamique (EI). Dans une interview au site catholique américain Crux, l’archevêque Silvano Tomasi accuse l’EI de commettre des atrocités à grande échelle qui justifient une intervention internationale.

Vatican backs military force to stop ISIS ‘genocide’ | Crux
▻http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2015/03/13/vatican-backs-military-force-to-stop-isis-genocide

Tomasi issued the call in an interview with Crux on the same day he presented a statement entitled “Supporting the Human Rights of Christians and Other Communities, particularly in the Middle East,” coauthored with the Russian Federation and Lebanon, to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Is Our Universe a Big Schrödinger’s Cat—Where It’s Alive Is Where We Live? | The Crux | Discover Magazine
►http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2011/12/01/is-our-universe-a-big-schrodingers-cat-where-its-alive-is-wh

Recently, astrophysicist John Webb of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and colleagues published new findings that indicate that the fine structure constant may not be a constant after all—it may vary through space or time. Through observations of galaxies that lie 12 billion light-years roughly to the north with those at the same distance lying to the south, the team discovered variations in the fine structure constant amounting to about 1 part in 100,000. It is not clear whether quantum effects would drastically change when a fundamental constant such as the fine structure constant varies by such minute amounts. But if they do, and the change in the constant is significant, it could mean that there are universes—or distant parts of our own universe—where matter as we know it, and hence life, could not exist.