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A scientific fluke

Do you know dear reader, have in common dynamite, microwave oven and penicillin? We are sure you have the answer on the tip of the tongue and is not to be stuck there tell it to the dynamite, the microwave oven and penicillin were invented a fluke, are the product of chance.

science (which for all is a fancy name and bombastic) has called this serendipity. The term is used to define the power of making a discovery or lucky find by accident. The buzzword that was invented by the English writer Horace Wallpole to describe some of their creations. He in turn took it (which in science is called plagiarism) of a fairy tale called "The Three Princes of Serendip" where they relate the adventures of characters who regularly used their wisdom to find things were not looking.

The man has walked into modernity fluke tip. In this world "serendipities" the vast majority of the discoveries and inventions have been made by chance. However, serendipity is not just winning the lottery, for there is much "memo" in this world who have missed the fact. Louis Pasteur said that in the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind. This is evident in the case of Newton, as a man with less "witted" had made an apple pie instead of the law of gravity.

But as provide "cool" connection between the accident and invention? To not leave with doubt are some of the most famous inventions serendipities:

divine inspiration or boredom hell

The famous yellow leaves (post it) without which it would not be conceivable post-modern world, were invented when an employee 3M Company developed a glue that stuck, frustrated put it away. Some time later when I heard a sermon at church (maybe too long) trying to sort his missal, he came to mind the idea of \u200b\u200busing the glue on small pieces of paper that could stick and take off.

A very moving photo

In their first attempt, Louis Daguerre did not get clear images, your photos were very faint and hardly. Daguerre day I keep one of these photographs in a cabinet of chemicals, to remove later found her with a clear and firm. The closet was full of bottles with chemicals which have been responsible. " Daguerre took out one by one the bottles to find the cause of the effect. When the cabinet was found empty the phenomenon continued to occur, then fixed in one of the shelves had a spot of mercury, the product of a broken thermometer. Then he realized that mercury vapors were the answer to your mystery.

When technology popcorn reached

While investigating a radar apparatus for use as an engineer got a chocolate bar in his pocket. Later when he wanted to eat the chocolate realized that the bar had melted. To see what happened put together several of the devices a little corn. Upon his return he found a pile of popcorn and the answer to fast food.


hooks instead of teeth

After a stroll through the countryside George realized Maestral clothing that had filled with burs. With great curiosity I look under a microscope to understand how so tightly clutched tissues. Discovered that the seeds were covered with tiny hooks tangled in the threads of the fabric. With this idea, De Maestral decided to design a closure based on this model, because it was invented Velcro (Velvet = velvet and crochet = hook)

American Breakfast gives

After having left forgotten for a day, the Kellogg brothers tried to amass a preparation of wheat grain. By passing the roller noted that there was a mass of crushed and flat, but the grains were scaly. By using this process with corn, Kellogs were invented what today can be considered one of the most common breakfast in the world.

you any names in order, the list is really long: Birth control pill, penicillin, vulcanized rubber, X-rays, Viagra, dynamite, chaos theory, saccharin all made by a real chance that did not go unnoticed in the eyes of someone curious and creative. So when you think the man to dominate nature and has reached the top of the technology, do not feel so proud, because this has truly been a fluke.

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Are you an animal

When you hear these words do not be offended are the purest truth. The ability to think, create and understand our environment makes us believe that sometimes the masters of nature, but we forget that no more than a hairless ape, controlled by an old instinct, seeking pleasure.

Pleasure is a great idea of \u200b\u200bnature aimed at reinforcing those behaviors necessary for survival. Thanks to him there are many species of animals that still walk the Earth. The scheme is really simple: Why spend on stalking, chasing and catching a prey? "Because food gives pleasure -" To find a partner, beat competitors and reproduce the species? "Because the clones produced pleasure. If we go to less primary aspects, the mechanism work: to analyze and study the environment? Understanding that gives us pleasure. It is just reward and punishment, nature gave us a brain rewards us with pleasure when we do things beneficial to us.

Where does the pleasure? The pleasure is produced by activation of the limbic system, a group of neurons responsible largely on instinct and emotion. It is located in the center of the brain in a structure called the primitive paleocortex that animal brain is still existing in our evolved skull (The animal in us all.) To activate the limbic system is necessary to the discharge of organic substances called neurotransmitters. Secretion is itself generated by the body chemistry in a particular activity: eating, sleeping, copulating, etc..

so powerful What is pleasure? With this question in mind, a group of scientists developed an experiment that was very enlightening: A single electrode was implanted directly into the limbic system, to stimulate electrically. After the electrode was connected to a lever in the monkey cage. What happened? When the animal learned to lever down experienced pleasure, its existence was dedicated to lowering the lever. Existence that was not very long, since the need and obsession with pleasure was that he forgot to eat and drink water. A real death for fun.

This phenomenon explains what happens in the head of an addict, all addictive drugs copied the structure of neurotransmitters and trick the brain causing the activation of "pleasure circuit" of the Limbic System.

drug consumption is related to pleasure, so that the person seeking to use again, again and again. The pursuit of this pleasure is not controllable then lies in the depths of your brain and expressed as an instinct, there is no reason that could block an instinct. Thus even if the addict is aware that it is hurting you can not control the urge to look for another dose. If allowed, and in some cases it happens, the addict could devote their lives (like the monkey in the experiment) to take the drug that produces pleasure.

So when you be angry with a neighbor to call the animal, think that anger is also an instinctive response and therefore further evidence that although the monkey Greek view, it is cute.