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By Paul Kwatz, author of Conscious Robots Recently, Jeff Bezos announced he’d be spending $1 billion of his Amazon fortune every year on his Blue Origin Space Rocket Company. But maybe he’s making the wrong decision. 20 years ago, his conscious mind wondered whether building the world’s biggest bookstore would give him pleasure, and the answer came back from his non-conscious mind “Yes, Jeff - if you can achieve that, you’re going to feel great.” And that worked, and Jeff...

Garlic could ward off hospital superbugs, a new study revealed. Ajoene, an active sulphurous compound found in the pungent vegetable, when combined with antibiotics helps break down a bacteria's defences. Scientists hope the breakthrough could fight incurable cystic fibrosis and chronic wounds in diabetics as well as tackling MRSA and common hospital infection P. aeruginosa. University of Copenhagen researchers found ajoene destroys the biofilm of resistant bacteria and make antibiotics work again. It does not kill the bacteria but disrupts...

My father died last week. I don’t mean that to sound too dramatic: he was approaching 70 and had suffered from cancer for a few years. That said, he’d been in remission, and until what proved to be the last week of his life, he was pretty healthy. His doctor was somewhat baffled by his wellbeing, but had advised him to keep doing what he was doing, which included a martini every day at about 5.00 pm. The end was...

Legends say that there is no way to win an argument with your wife, but there is always a way to win your wife’s heart and that is by buying her the gift she always wanted. It can be Valentine’s Day or your wife’s birthday or even if you are trying to make it up for a previous fight, gifts can always save the day for you. If you are like most husbands who always fail to remember their wives...

Many people tend to negate the importance of beard grooming. One of the biggest misconceptions that comes up when having conversations about the beard culture is that having a beard translates to dirt build up and absence of cleanliness. Over the years, the stereotype has faded away and conversations that are more important dominate the beardiful world. Finding a beard maintenance regimen that works for you is half the struggle. Committing to that particular regimen every day of your beardiful...

Wrinkles around the eyes immediately start developing as soon as your skin begins to become more inefficient in turning over skin, which is sadly, just around your 30s.  Though the daily application of an eye cream may not completely erase signs of skin aging around your eyes, this anti aging eye cream reviews do help to prevent new ones from showing up at all. Rules when choosing an eye cream Observe skin around your eyes and elsewhere on your face....

A clothing label has started making souvenir handmade retro leather footballs to raise cash for charity. The stitched brown balls are reminiscent of the balls used by greats of the game such as Pele, Alfredo Di Stefano and Puskas. Early footballs were animal bladders or stomachs that would easily fall apart if kicked too much. Improvements became possible in the 19th Century with the introduction of rubber and discoveries of vulcanisation. The 32-panel ball design was soon overtaken by 24-panel...

A man who suffered a stroke so severe he almost lost his ability to speak has won a prize after he turned to photography to help him recover. Richard Raynor, 36, was even able to give a speech at his wedding with the help of slides he had taken. The former business consultant from Chilton, Oxon., developed aphasia - a communication difficulty with speaking, reading and writing - after his stroke in 2012. His sensational snaps have now won him...

We nortmally associate the sight of a one-armed bandit with a chance to pocket some extra dosh. Not so in this baffling puzzle, as a one-limb crim looks to make off with his swag bag. It’s chaos in the streets in this latest puzzle, and while a gang of thieves haul away their cash from the bank vault, only a single perpetrator has truly committed one-armed robbery. Can you spot the one-armed bandit in this bank-heist blowout? In a sea...