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Dean Radin shares research findings at the Science of Consciousness Conference in Tuscon 2016. He is shown with Stuart Hameroff, host and co-sponsor.

In the classic double-slit experiment of quantum mechanics, light, electrons and other quantum elements behave either as waves or particles…

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In negotiating with Iran, John Kerry and President Obama exemplify the principle of Herman Melville's Billy Budd: Avoid the perils of striking out by mastering the skills of reaching out. 

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Our individual minds, though distinct and uniquely ours, may also join with others in a kind of mental symphony that now and then becomes audible against a prevailing background of static. That’s a conclusion suggested by the Global Consciousness Project (GCP), which got its start at Princeton University in 1998 and now operates as an international collaboration.…

An unprecedented global "supersociety" may be emerging -- in spite of resource depletion, pollution and conflict that seem to be driving us to dystopia.

This surprisingly positive prospect is the fruition of key developments that are now germinating and sending out their first tentative shoots. They all engage a vastly underutilized resource: the best that is in people.

Among these highly-human developments, seven of the most imminent and notable are these: 

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The future of bitcoin, the new cyber currency, could be tiny or titanic depending on how it's promoted from here on out. If backers try to make it the universal currency of a new era, bypassing banks and governments, it could end up as "financial Esperanto."

If, however, backers lower their sights and shoot for "financial English," bitcoin could surge as never before. 

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Bigger bucks ahead … because money itself is being re-invented!  But it’s not really about the money; material wealth may be a secondary motivator.

The new money is 100% internet-based. It flows free and fast like electrons, and it comes with superpowers. Call it money 2.0, internet money, or supermoney. “Up, up and away!”

(Note: The term "supermoney" is used by at least two companies: supermoney.com of Santa Ana, California; and…

Within a few short years we could see an energy explosion that changes everything. It promises to come years to decades sooner than conventional (hot) nuclear fusion. And it could be a lot cheaper, more scalable, and more transformative.

(But keep it to yourself. Most media people are.)

Back in 2009, CBS News's 60 Minutes boldly announced: "…

Connections between digital currency users on Ripple network

Ripple Live Network, Ripple Labs

A whole new Internet seems to be forming. It's the Internet of Money, which promises to transform everything economic, just as the existing Internet has with communications.

When the…

The move opens the huge, growing long-term care market to general insurance agents, financial advisors and others; with back-end support from LTC Financial Partners, they can offer specialized care solutions without becoming specialists themselves.

Manhasset, NY March 12, 2014 – Today LTC Financial Partners announces a broad expansion of…

With recurring drought likely as climate change mounts, California may have to move to where the water is. The Great Lakes region, say, or Bangladesh.

Alternatively, water could be brought to where California is, now that the Colorado River isn't…

From Kickstarter project: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/23182138/smile-youre-living-longer

Smiling has been found to --…