What is funazushi?Funa zushi, is a fermented sushi made with funa, a fish of the carp family taken from Lake Biwa; a specialty of Shiga Prefecture and a traditional dish in all of Japan, it is said to show vestiges of the oldest sushi in Japanese history. It is a product of ancient Japanese wisdom and art.Why is funazushi stinky?Funazushi is fermented!Making funa zushi takes anywhere from about a year to a good 2- years of ripening. The meat and bones grow soft as the fish are fermented in rice, and a distinct aroma, savor, and tartness emerges that is at times likened to cheese.

What is funazushi and why is it stinky?

While sushi can be made from nearly any fresh, edible fish funazushi is traditionally made with a kind of Japanese goldfish called&nbsp;nigorobuna, unique to Lake Biwa in Shiga Prefecture. Originally a food preservation method to fortify&nbsp;rice farmers’ food stores through the rainy season,&nbsp;the fish is pickled in salt to draw out moisture, then compressed with steamed rice to seal out air and encourage fermentation. The resulting product, harvested several months&nbsp;later, evokes strong, tangy blue cheese, feet and perhaps&nbsp;a whiff of ammonia.

How is funazushi made?

Funazushi is a very&nbsp;historical Japanese food and also known as the origin of Sushi. Funazushi is one type of *Narezushi and has a very long history. Narezushi was born back in Nara Period, at the time when the&nbsp;rice cultivation was introduced to japan from Thai and China.Ancient Japanese made Funazushi&nbsp;to preserve Fresh Funa, which could be caught only in a shot period of a year.

Funazushi: the living fossil of   sushi

Natto, Japanese fermented soybeans, are a dietary staple. Funazushi takes it one step further. What is funazushi? Grab your chopsticks.

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What Is Funazushi? It's The Funkiest Fish You've Ever Eaten.

Holding in the tears and pretending to be okay puts a lot of stress on your mind as well as your heart. Crying keeps you healthy.

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Singing in the shower daily can help boost your immunity, lower blood pressure, reduce stress and improve your mood.

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Even though there's no shortage of deadly flora and fauna in our own backyards, there's one tree on our planet that's just totally out of control.This innocuous-looking fruit tree is found in the Caribbean, parts of Central and South America and Florida, and it is so toxic that it can seriously injure or even kill you - in more ways than one.The manchineel tree (Hippomane mancinella) is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as “the world’s most dangerous tree”, and in Spanish it's literally referred to as "the tree of death".

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If a storm's coming, the manchineel tree is not a place you'd want to run to for shelter.So, first step of caution - do not touch it.When it rains though, the situation gets even worse.One of the most potent toxins contained in the sap is phorbol, a powerful water-soluble irritant that is picked up by the falling rain and scattered on anyone standing underneath (you're better off just standing in the open and being rained on, seriously).

It will literally rain acid on you

Somewhat unsurprisingly, the apple-like fruit that grows on the manchineel's branches has a very sweet smell, and looks harmless enough to the naked eye. However, even a couple of bites immediately create an intense burning sensation in the mouth, as well as blisters and swelling in the throat. These effects can last for multiple hours and in some cases the consumption of the plum-sized fruit can also lead to death from severe vomiting and diarrhoea that fatally dehydrates the body.

The fruit is definitely forbidden

When gathering firewood for your campsite, this tree’s bark and branches are definitely ones to avoid. Burning pieces of the manchineel lets off a toxic smoke that can lead to severe eye inflammation, temporary blindness, and significant breathing problems. Not to mention that the tree squirts its horrible sap when you cut its branches, leaving you exposed to the toxic substance directly.

Don't burn it, either

Speaking of camping, or picnicking for that matter, it isn’t wise to set up around manchineel trees - just being around them for prolonged periods of time can cause illness. In fact, some local native people used to tie enemies to the tree and leave them exposed as a form of torture. Thankfully, these days in many places were the manchineel grows, they are marked by red crosses and warning plaques.

It can make you sick just by being there

Sometimes nature goes totally overboard with its toxic compounds.

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The world's most dangerous tree will harm you in many ways

Artificial intelligence (AI) will fundamentally change medicine and healthcare: Diagnostic patient data, e.g. from ECG, EEG or X-ray images, can be analyzed with the help of machine learning, so that diseases can be detected at a very early stage based on subtle changes. However, implanting AI within the human body is still a major technical challenge. TU Dresden scientists at the Chair of Optoelectronics have now succeeded for the first time in developing a bio-compatible implantable AI platform that classifies in real time healthy and pathological patterns in biological signals.

Implantable AI System For Disease Prevention And Cure.

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Implantable AI System Developed for Early Detection and Treatment of Illnesses

The Tyranny Of Time. The clock is a useful social tool, but it is also deeply political. It benefits some, marginalizes others, and blinds us from a true understanding of our own bodies and the world around us.

What is Time?

... on February 15, 1894, a man walked through Greenwich Park in East London. His name was Martial Bourdin — French, 26 years of age, with slicked-back dark hair and a mustache. He wandered up the zigzagged path that led to the Royal Observatory, which just 10 years earlier had been established as the symbolic and scientific center of globally standardized clock time — Greenwich Mean Time — as well as the British Empire. In his left hand, Bourdin carried a bomb: a brown paper bag containing a metal case full of explosives.

On a damp and cloudy afternoon ...

... to his target, he primed it with a bottle of sulfuric acid. But then, as he stood facing the Observatory, it exploded in his hands.The detonation was sharp enough to get the attention of two workers inside. Rushing out, they saw a park warden and some schoolboys running towards a crouched figure on the ground. Bourdin was moaning and screaming, his legs were shattered, one arm was blown off and there was a hole in his stomach. He said nothing about his identity or his motives as he was carried to a nearby hospital, where he died 30 minutes later.

As he got closer ...

... what Bourdin was trying to do that day. An investigation showed that he was closely linked to anarchist groups. Numerous theories circulated: that he was testing the bomb in the park for a future attack on a public place or was delivering it to someone else. But because he had primed the device and was walking the zigzagged path, many people — including the Home Office explosives expert, Vivian Dering Majendie, and the novelist Joseph Conrad, who loosely based his book “The Secret Agent” on the event — suspected that Bourdin had wanted to attack the Observatory.

Nobody knows for sure ...

... was trying to bomb clock time, as a symbolic revolutionary act or under a naive pretense that it may actually disrupt the global measurement of time. He wasn’t the only one to attack clocks during this period: In Paris, rebels simultaneously destroyed public clocks across the city, and in Bombay, the famous Crawford Market clock was shattered with gunfire by protesters.  Around the world, people were angry about time ... (continued in noemamag.con)

Bourdin, so the story goes ...

The clock is a useful social tool, but it is also deeply political. It benefits some, marginalizes others and blinds us from a true understanding of our own bodies and the world around us.

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The Tyranny Of Time | NOEMA

The fear of missing out, or FOMO, happens because we find new experiences more exciting than repeat experiences. But research also shows us that we will repeatedly listen to our favourite song or rewatch favourite movies and TV shows. While many believe that if you want to look interesting, you need to show that you're open to new experiences, we take the value of delving into the known for granted.

Been there, done that

Researchers found repeating experiences were often more enjoyable than participants had expected. Every person will miss a large part of any experience. There are always more layers to explore. Repeating things is another opportunity to experience something fully, especially when the experience is complex.

Repeat experiences are more enjoyable

<ul><li>Recognise that the second experience will never be a replica of the first experience. On the contrary, it will always vary to some degree.</li><li>Looking for the novelty in the repeat experience will feel engaging.</li><li>Recognise that events are neither positive nor negative. It's how we view the events that make them positive or negative. If we look to find the experience enjoyable, we'll find evidence for it.</li></ul>

How to be more mindful of repeat experiences

There is joy in repetition partly because every human mind wanders. Consequently, we miss a substantial part of every experience.

The Surprising Benefits of Repeat Experiences

Coconut originated from India and Southeast Asia but spread naturally to other Pacific Ocean coastlines. Coconut milk is the liquid found when grating coconut meat. It can be very thick and creamy or thinner and more milk-like. Of all the plant milks, coconut milk has been consumed the longest.

Coconut milk

<ul><li>Soya beans come from China and are highly nutritious. Because of easy cultivation, it's grown in the Americas and Europe since the 19th century.</li><li>In 1866, Frenchman Paul Champion wrote about the Chinese drinking hot soya milk for breakfast.</li><li>In 1910, Chinese biologist and engineer Li Yu-Ying set up a dairy factory near Paris and patented "vegetable milk and its derivatives."</li><li>In 1956, the Plantmilk Society was founded in the UK to help create commercially viable plant milk. The final product was fortified with calcium, and vitamins B2, B12, and D2.</li></ul>

Soya milk

Almond milk was a common ingredient in Christian and Islamic cultures in the Middle Ages. The first mention appeared in a Baghdadi cookery book from the 13th century. Almond milk is easier to digest than cow's milk. It is seen as a beverage or food ingredient and is known for its therapeutic use.

Almond milk

Some people prefer rice milk to other plant milks, but it doesn't work that well in tea and coffee. The history of rice milk is shorter. In 1921, the first rice milk factory, Vita Rice, was set up in San Francisco, and in 1990, Rice Dream started rice milk packaged in TetraPak aseptic cartons, making it more available.

Rice milk

The traditional drink in Spanish-speaking countries is made from ground almonds, sesame seeds, rice, barley, cashews or tiger nuts. Each country and regions have specific horchata recipes with ingredients varying widely. Some people add cow's milk, but the original drink was only plant-based.

Horchata

Viva’s Veronika Powell reveals how our favourite milks have actually been popular around the world for centuries. 

A brief history of plant milks

<ul><li>Intensity - Going through an enlightenment experience regardless of belief makes people experience intensity through feelings of love, joy, or awe. These intense experiences is likely associated with increased activity in the limbic system which is the brain's primary emotional centre.</li><li>Unity - When we feel a profound sense of connectedness with the rest of humanity, God, or the Universe it is associated with a decrease of activity in the parietal lobe of the brain that stores sensory information.</li></ul>

The Five Elements of Enlightenment Experiences
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<ul><li>Clarity - Our sense of clarity is related to the thalamus that is the central structure that connects various parts of the brain to each other and it is what establishes our consciousness.</li><li>A Sense of Surrender - With a decreased activity in the frontal lobes during intense enlightenment experiences we lose the sense of purposeful control.</li><li>Transformation - The feeling of transformation comes from the increased activity and thickness of the frontal lobes. This area regulates our emotional responses and our overall cognition. Therefore continuous usage of this area solidifies the aspect.</li></ul>

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<ul><li>They can become more sensitised to the effects of serotonin and dopamine </li><li>The brains become more functionally connected, most especially the frontal and parietal lobes.</li></ul>

Other Benefits of Spiritual Practices or Retreats

Whether through daily meditation or on a week-long retreat, the experience of spiritual enlightenment transforms the brain

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How an intense spiritual retreat might change your brain | Psyche Ideas

In a new study from King’s College London and elsewhere, researchers found that low levels of electrical current can be used to inhibit pain signals in nerves from ever reaching the brain. Previous studies have shown that electrical neuromodulation (the alteration of pain perception through targeted delivery of electrical impulses) can be used as an alternative to medication and more specifically opioids. The novel treatment in the study instead directly inhibits pain signals before they can be relayed to the brain.

Scientists Find A New Method To Block Pain.

Scientists find a new method to block pain

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