Amaluna – a Play About Goddesses and Cycles Unveiled by Cirque du Soleil

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Amaluna invites the audience to a mysterious island governed by Goddesses and guided by the cycles of the moon. Their queen, Prospera, directs her daughter’s coming-of-age ceremony in a rite that honours femininity, renewal, rebirth and balance which marks the passing of these insights and values from one generation to the next.

Eric Gemelli Doubles Stock Market Profits Using Fibonacci Ratios on Holy Hormones Honey! – April 16

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Join Leslie Carol Botha when she interviews market analyst Eric Gemelli on using Fibonacci Ratios to analyze, predict and profit in the stock market Monday night, April 16 from 6 to 7 pm MST on KRFC FM, community radio in Fort Collins, CO.

You Are Controlled By Circadian ‘Believe It or Not’

Creative Health Blog

Health Education At Creative Health Institute

It is now known that the molecular circadian clock can function within a single cell. At the same time, different cells may communicate with each other resulting in a synchronised output of electrical signaling.

Studies of circadian rhythms have turned up the following sometimes hard-to-believe information:

1. If we were to live in total darkness, we would fall into a cycle of days that last up to 25 hours or longer.

Get Some Sleep: When shift work disrupts your rest

CNN Health

November 23, 2010

An estimated 20 percent of the American workforce does some type of shift work. This doesn’t have to mean working the graveyard shift. It can mean any work done between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m.

Most sleep doctors agree that working at night, from a biologic point of view, is not natural for human beings. We have evolved to be active in the daytime and to sleep at night. In fact nearly every cell in our body has a circadian rhythm, meaning that biological processes have a 24-hour cycle.

Reproductive life disorders in Italian celiac women. A case-control study.

7th Space Interactive

The aim of this study is to explore the association between celiac disease and menstrual cycle, gestation and puerperal disorders.

Methods: The association between celiac disease and menstrual cycle, gestation and puerperal disorders in a sample of 62 childbearing age women (15-49 age) was assessed within an age and town of residence matched case-control study conducted in 2008. Main outcome measures were the presence of one or more disorders in menstrual cycle and the presence of one or more complication during pregnancy.

Melatonin And The Circadian Rhythm

EmpowHER

August 3, 2010

By Jody Smith

Circadian rhythm. It’s not a dance beat. And it’s not the noise cicadas make in the summertime, the one kids count in order to tell how hot the temperature is. The term “circadian rhythm” is from the Latin, meaning “around the day”.

Circadian rhythm refers to your internal body clock, or your biological clock. Your circadian internal body clock is located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). The SCN is a cluster of cells in the hypothalamus of your brain.

Menstruation – A cultural history

IB Teacher Workshops
June 24, 2010

Click on the link below to go to the CBC radio 1 programme on

Seeing Red

A cultural history of menstruation

I find it a tad strange that I am adding it as a blog. However the mix of the physiology and culture compelled me to do so. It would make for an interesting discussion and incorporate the related syllabus points in a rather novel way.

Cancer Survivors-Optimal Health Tip – Rhythm and Regularity – Are Your 2 Allies in Your Recovery

Daily Health Care
Published By admin on July 11, 2010
The human body functions at its best when order is established: it follows a certain rhythm and cycles, therefore introducing rhythm and regularity in your life is one of the best strategies towards cancer recovery.

Choir to sing the ‘code of life’

BBC News

By Pallab Ghosh
Science correspondent, BBC News

Scientists and composers have produced a new choral work in which performers sing parts of their own genetic code.

Human DNA is made up of just four different chemical compounds, which gave musician Andrew Morley the idea of assigning a note to each of them.

The new piece, Allele, will be performed by the New London Chamber Choir at the Royal Society of Medicine on 13 July.

Edward R. Dewey and the Case for Cycles

Cycles Research Institute Blog

July 11, 2010
by Ray Tomes

After training as an economist, Edward R Dewey devoted his entire working life to the study of cycles. This was because, following the 1929 crash and resulting depression, he found that cycles were more useful for predicting economic events than any amount of economic theory that he had learned.