It has long been known that human babies born in the winter months are at higher risk of several neurological diseases, including winter depression, bipolar depression and schizophrenia. Since the seasons are a function of the position (and declination) of the planets in our little solar system…
While I was traveling on the train this morning I opened the newspaper I was carrying with me and looked at the horoscope. "A chance for love will come your way," the newspaper predicted with firm certainty, and I vowed not to tell my wife. "You are a pleasant person, but you can also get angry when the wrong buttons are pushed."
Yes indeed. andHoroscopes They press all of them at once.
I threw the newspaper away with disdain and switched to the laptop, where I read the new research in science. And it was there that a surprise awaited me.
Astrology, it turns out, has a scientific biological basis.
Actually, this is not such a big surprise. According to the hocus-pocus of theastrology, people's lives and tendencies are influenced by the position of the stars on their date of birth. In fact, this is a well-known and well-documented fact in science. It has long been known that human babies born in the winter months are at higher risk of several neurological diseases, including winter depression, bipolar depression and schizophrenia. Since the seasons are a function of the position (and declination) of the planets in our little solar system…
Well, this is astrology. Scientifically, statistically and far from the wild predictions of the various types of idiots. The really interesting question is - how and why? How is our adult personality shaped according to the season in which we were born?
Many answers have been offered to the question - from a higher prevalence of the flu virus, to the mystical influence of Jupiter. None of them have yet been empirically proven. especially the mystic.
In an attempt to find a more serious answer, researchers recently conducted an experiment that was published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature Neuroscience. The researchers took advantage of the well-known fact that with the coming of summer the days get longer and the nights get shorter, while in winter the days are shorter and the nights are longer. They raised groups of mouse pups from birth to weaning under artificial winter or summer light-dark cycles. After weaning, the reactions of the different mice to different light-dark cycles, as well as to life in complete darkness, were tested.
In the mice born in the artificial winter, a consistent slowdown was evident during the time they engaged in their daily activities, regardless of the light-dark cycle in which they were tested. The reason for this was discovered when the scientists tested the mechanism of the biological clocks in the mice's brains, using a detective-tracker gene that was inserted into the clock cells and caused them to glow green during activity. The result was as expected: the activity of the clock genes was less coordinated with the environment in mice born in the winter compared to mice born in the summer.
If that is not enough, the studies have shown that the effect of being born in winter on the clock genes remains until adulthood. The biological clocks of the summer-born mice remained stable and coordinated with the environment at all times. In contrast, the biological clocks of the mice born in winter tended to deviate wildly from the standard when the mice were transferred to a light-dark cycle simulating summer.
According to the study's lead editor, Douglas McMahon, a professor of biological sciences at Vanderbilt University. "The mice raised in the winter cycle show an exaggerated response to the seasonal change, which is distinctly similar to the response of human patients suffering from seasonal disorder [winter depression, R.C.]."
The new research raises an interesting possibility, according to which seasonal changes in light-dark cycles are able to affect the developing brains of toddlers and also determine their personality in the future. After all, we already know that the biological clock also affects the mood of humans. Now that we have found a mechanism in which light-dark cycles leave their mark in the developing brain of the mouse, there is reason to assume that a similar phenomenon also occurs in the human brain. And if this is the case, then the season of birth (or more precisely, the light-dark cycles that the fetus and the baby experience) has a general effect on the development of the brain and personality.
How far can these hypotheses be accepted? The answer is still not clear. First of all, despite the evolutionary similarity between us, it is hard to deny that mice are different from humans. It is possible that humans have a different mechanism of biological clocks, and the seasons at the time of birth and lactation do not affect the human brain over time. Because of this, it is not advisable to jump to conclusions from a single study just yet. It is better, as is customary in science, to wait for further studies that will verify and confirm the initial results, and from this we can formulate a more complete theory that may fit each baby with appropriate light-dark cycles in his crib.
Perhaps the best lesson to be learned from the current research is about the openness of science to new ideas, side by side with the uncompromising demand for empirical evidence. In particular - as forAstrology and Horoscope- The astrologers and star contracts dismiss the scientists as 'closed-minded'. It's not far from that. The scientific community has long been aware of the effect of the seasons on the risk of neurological diseases. The difference between scientists and astrologers is that scientists use all the modern tools at their disposal to understand the phenomenon, while many ofastrologers Still working with star maps that were invented in ancient Babylon and do not correspond in any way to the sky of today.
Wrapped in deep thoughts, I glanced at the clock. December now, winter. I opened the iPhone and started calling my wife. You should hurry.
to the researchers' press release
Editor's note: Don't worry, the science site has not repented and will not publish from now on Horoscopes, the title was written sarcastically, what's more, there is a very large distance between a general effect of daylight and a specific effect in a certain week - do X and don't do Y. If someone didn't understand this, and according to the responses you can think - astrology has no scientific basis, even if there is a feature One of many that astrology predicts will be true. Even a standing analog clock shows the correct time twice a day (and a digital one usually only once).
And just to be sure, so that it is clear what our opinion is about astrology: Transcript of a conversation in which I confronted the astrologer Herzl Lifshitz on the Politics show in 2006 and an explanation Why astrology has no scientific basis
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I believe in God, but I certainly don't believe that horoscopes (or any other superstition) have an effect on my life. (Almost) A-Y-N K-S-R between the beliefs, and your attempt to connect them is a mistake from ignorance (shuruk shuruk) in the best case, and despicable in the other case.
For those who are familiar with the skit about the patient with the cheerfulness disease who came to Hacham Maimon.
I was born in the height of winter at the end of January,
And in addition, there was snow on the streets at the height of the wheel axle of my father's bicycle, this is how he described it,
And it was in Turin Italy, and until now there are no final plantings and on the contrary nothing
managed to spoil my mood, so don't start, because it might get worse,
Thank you Haim
banter…
Although a broken watch shows the correct time several times a day, the owner of the watch cannot know when he should look at it in order for it to show the correct time. That is, a broken watch does not help its owner at all. He is worth nothing. Like astrology for example. Or God or any other stupid spiritual thing.
post Scriptum. If anyone found my message offensive, I'm sorry, but according to Jewish law it is forbidden to delete the explicit name (Jehovah) after it has been written, so it is forbidden to delete it.
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If the watch synchronizes with an ideal clock, then the number of times it will show an accurate time per day is effectively unlimited. This amount will be of the order of magnitude of the number of times per day that synchronization is performed.
And my father: as far as I know a broken digital clock does not show the time at all, maybe if it works with "digital ink" that does not consume energy 🙂
Tikonchik: ***only*** a standing clock shows the time exactly twice a day. ***Any*** working clock, which is not adjusted by God in and of itself, will show the exact time often much, much further away, unless correction functions are built into it, which will slightly shorten the wait.
For example: How often does a watch whose deviation is 1 second per year strike?
Already decades ago, the psychologist Eysenck, who created an introversion-extroversion test, found a correlation between the results of his test and the months of the year in which the examinees were born.
It's like saying that quantum mechanics has proven the influence of objects in space on humans.
The summary paragraph before the article and after the title is just a quote from the text, not a summary at all. This whole article is grandmother's stories that can be summarized in a summary paragraph and save precious time.
So make a normal summary!
Two clarifications:
1 - Did commenter #6 "usurp" my name?
2 - The study suggests that the period of birth (season of the year) affects the newborn....
In astrology, which was "established" about 5000 years ago, there was a parallel between the state of the star systems
(in relation to the sun) for the seasons,
But because of the oscillations of the earth on its axis, the position of the "signs" changed,
Star systems that thousands of years ago were seen in the winter "moved" and their position relative to the sun is different,
Therefore astrology = vanity!
Hi Ronan, indeed following science today every charlatan knows that in order to convince he has to be very specific. The lie must appear believable.
Correction to 11 (just a certain word didn't come out there):
"a minute or a single" tsal "a minute or a single second".
Astrology actually refers to a very precise location of birth, date of birth and exact time of birth down to a minute or single resolution. Simply, most of the people who do not bother to expand their education in the field (as in any other field) are not aware of this. Especially if you judge it in the light of the somewhat amateurish horoscope, which is published in newspapers, for example.
To Whom It May Concern. Accurate horoscope forecast.
This prediction is correct provided you were born on your date of birth: you are most likely an innocent gull who is being fed harsh words and you swallow everything.
I don't believe there are people walking around among us who need this clarification.
Father, thanks for the clarification, for a moment I thought I was dreaming.
Finalizing a good signature for all the people of Israel with an absolute scientific basis
An analog clock with a moon-phase also shows the correct time only once a day if it stands…
Obviously, this is sarcasm, but if it's not clear enough, I clarified it in a comment at the end of the article itself.
Well, did you find love? You didn't tell us!
Neither basic nor scientific...
The title in the original article informs about the influence of the season of birth on the course of a person's life. This is true and has been known for a long time, but it has nothing to do with astrology...
And so I allow myself to assume that the title of the article was written sarcastically what...
It is clear that the influence of the season of the year in which he was born will affect the personality and future development of a baby (or any other creature) since all conditions are different and his behavior from the first second is completely different. Clothing, nutrition, temperature, light, pigments and the like. It has nothing to do with astrology and as stated in response 2, astronomy does not distinguish between the seasons at all and in fact completely contradicts the facts presented above and known for a long time.
Astrology is not a science. This is indeed a long-term study based on ideas put forward by star researchers in antiquity. It's nice that thousands of years ago these pioneering researchers were able to understand that there is a cycle in the movement of the stars and tried to study and understand the effect of the cycle.
It is understandable that then, thousands of years ago, these researchers received trust from the people and different beliefs took root in the world.
Today's followers, on the other hand, are just some kind of charlatans who understand very well that there is no real scientific connection between the position of the stars and someone's future, most of them know very well that the position of the stars today is very different from the alignment of the stars in ancient times, but none of this bothers them and they happily use the correctness of some of the people to believe this nonsense. Honestly, it's not bad. For most of the people who believe this, it is only good to read a horoscope that they might have a new love... and the editors of the various sections have enough spunk to fill whole pages with content. (:
Honestly, it seems strange to me that scientists try to give astrology a scientific basis. Indeed, after a short skim through the source article, I found the following sentence said by the research director: "Although it sounds a bit like astrology, it's not!"
A successful civil year
Mr. Cezana our winter is similar to the height of summer in northern Europe, in the southern hemisphere it is summer, astrology, reading in coffee, and divination by chicken bones does not refer to the location of birth but to the date and time, therefore there is a logical fallacy here.
This is what happens when, in the winter months, babies drink heated plastic bottles that release a dangerous chemical (bisphenol A) following contact with hot liquids