Conflux No.23

	Gallery 1 Open All Your Doors
	One-line abstracts / of science news reports / to flummox your mind / and generate a chaotic flux / of yearning / in your non-existent soul. / And from amidst that chaos / emerge a few beautiful sutras / elucidating the science of the soul. / Yes, the soul does exist, / and only it exists! / That is the whole point.
	Peacock Feathers: That's So Last Year Some female birds have lost interest in flashy males
	Traffic Jams Happen, Get Used to It Physics helps explain bunch-ups on the highway
	The (Shocked) Nose Knows Prospect of pain improves our olfactory acuity
	1.   The falling snow, the sound of it, the dance of it, that peace that it brings and the coolness that comes through it... the sermon is going on!   2.   Become more sensitive to everything the universe consists of.   3.   Open all your doors, drop all your fears and paranoia and let existence come like a breeze dancing in you, laughing in you...   4.   Mind is the enemy. The more knowledgeable the more dangerous, the more knowledgeable the more closed.   5.   When there is no-mind even for a single moment, you have come home: a thousand miles journey is finished in a single moment.   6.   Where you are, inside — in the east or in the west — there are no directions, no indications, just a pure isness.
	Achievements in Group Theory Win Abel Prize Prestigious mathematics award recognizes American and Belgian who shed light on symmetry
	Rare Mutations Hint at Multiple Schizophrenias Nature of disease may vary from family to family
	MicroRNA Sets Stage for Human Therapies Researchers block the molecules for first time in monkeys
	Meditation simply means going beyond chemistry and physics, going beyond body and mind. It has nothing to do with chemicals. That idea has been perpetuated by very intelligent people like Aldous Huxley, who thought that by LSD, a chemical, you could attain to enlightenment.  And now in the world market, the underground market, there is a chemical available called `ecstasy'. You take it and for six hours at least, you will be in ecstasy. But these people are simply exploiting the great desire, the great longing…  Ecstasy is not a chemical — it is a deep understanding, an awareness; and awareness is not made of chemicals. Otherwise things would be very easy; you just go to the hospital, take an injection and become a buddha. Why unnecessarily harass me?  Here it may take years for you — every day you will become a buddha and every day you will fall down.                                                                                                          - Osho