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About Michaela

I am a wanderer and a wonderer, like you are. I love our journey and to walk in the company of friends – to learn, experience, share, laugh, cry and above all I simply love this marvelous, magical, mysterious life. I have no plan (cannot believe I am saying this) and my only intention is to be truthful to myself and others.

When all the world is renewed

R. Wagner: Parsifal (Good Friday Music) There is beginning in each end. That is the symbolism of Good Friday

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Portraits of the mind

Purkinje Neurons . Among other things, these cells are the masters of motor coordination in the cerebellar cortex. Toxic exposure such as alcohol and lithium, autoimmune diseases, genetic mutations including autism and neurodegenerative diseases can negatively affect human Purkinje cells.

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The Truman Show

There is anarticle in the New York Times today, that speaks of the results of a poll conducted with 1224 adults nationwide, about their views on the economy, budget deficit and health care. I love the first couple of questions: … Continue reading

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Truth

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. The Buddha

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J’accuse

Deepwater Horizon, Apr 20 2010, the biggest oil spill in history. A disaster that is all but forgotten, while BP is suing the owner of the oil rig.  So who is at fault, who is to blame ?  The One … Continue reading

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A code of secrecy

By Yuliya Tymoshenko  It began as a grey and muddy spring day, like so many others in my homeland. It ended in dread and mourning. Of course, none of us knew the precise moment when catastrophe struck at Chernobyl 25 … Continue reading

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The beautiful mind

A scanning electron microscope picture of a nerve ending. It has been broken open to reveal vesicles (orange and blue) containing chemicals used to pass messages in the nervous system.

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Portraits of the mind

The hippocampus is a major component of the brains of humans and other mammals. It belongs to the limbic system and plays important roles in the consolidation of information from short-term memory to long-term memory and spatial navigation. Hippocampus (Photomicrograph, 2005) | Genetically-encoded fluorescent proteins illuminate neurons in different colors in a modern … Continue reading

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A different view…

..on just about everything. And it also sounds true to me.  So what do you think ? ZEITGEIST: MOVING FORWARD

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The beautiful mind

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