Gemma Joy Frith

Sometimes in life, we find out a piece of information that makes us feel like we have fallen out of the matrix for a moment. We ask ourselves, 'How did I not know this?' Learning about the SCN might just be one of those times. The big sciencey word that the three letters represent is Suprachiasmatic Nucleus. Supra-chias-matic nucleus. What does it do? Well, think of it as an orchestra conductor and timepiece for your entire body. The SCN sends messages to the body clocks within your organs,...

Science has brought uncontestably positive things to humanity, like life-chaning medicine and space exploration. But there are infinite problems that science will never be able to solve. Like how long it takes one heart to heal, once its broken. Or how long it takes another heart to forgive. Those things are as individual as fingerprints, and yet, not even you can answer them about your own heart. So science will never know. Every heart has its own timing, and that in itself is proof that...

To view anything, humans must take a perspective. For example, if I sit across from you in a restaurant, your perspective will show the busy kitchen, my face, the patrons behind me. My perspective will show the calm water view, a few seagulls and a pelican, and your face. Everything we perceive is from a perspective. That perspective is not just made up of what we see, its also made up of how our brains work, our DNA, our past, our stories, how our day is going... and so on. So then you can...