You open your laptop, ready to start. For a moment, there is silence-then the noise begins. "I don't have much time." "This isn't hard; why can't I just start?" "I really should've finished this yesterday." "I really could have knocked it out of the park if I had just started sooner." "Why am I always like this?" Thoughts clash like radio stations out of tune. You freeze, mid-motion.
Dan Brown's latest thriller, The Secret of Secrets, follows neuroscientist Katherine Solomon as she reports how low GABA, an inhibitory neurotransmitter in the nervous system, expands consciousness. She states in her research that low levels of GABA enable things like telepathy, remote viewing, and more. She explains that on our deathbeds, we experience a precipitous drop in GABA, revealing to us what lies beyond. Her science leads to a mind-bending cat-and-mouse chase around the most beautiful parts of Prague.
Archimedes discovered that the volume of water displaced by an object is equal to the volume of the object itself, enabling him to determine the crown's purity.