TIl John Milton was totally blind during the composition of his ten-thousand-line epic poem Paradise Lost. Every morning he would have verses already prepared in his head for his aide to take dicatation. If the aide was late, Milton would complain, saying 'I want to be milked'
TIL of the Brocken Spectre, an atmospheric condition in which the sun casts a person’s shadow onto fog or clouds, making the shadow appear enormous, otherworldly, and ringed with a rainbow halo.
TIL that that attributing depression to spontaneously low serotonin is “deeply misleading and unscientific” and 65-80% of people on antidepressants are depressed again within a year.
Very slow brain waves, long considered an artifact of brain scanning techniques, may be more important than anyone had realized. Researchers have found that very slow waves are directly linked to state of consciousness and may be involved in coordinating activity across distant brain regions.
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