Beautiful Dust Specks

The last episode taught us that our "feelings" of happy and sad are neurotransmitters flowing through our brain, nerves, and bodies. This flow creates various states of being that we call happy, sad, love, pumped, bummed, etc. Let me share with you couple easy strategies that will allow you reach, strive, and attack your own happiness. Happy and love are the best. These two emotions are the best emotions and I want to help you reach higher/longer/fuller states of happiness.

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We all strive for happiness. We strive for a life filled with joy and wonder. A life of contentment, peace, and smiles. However, we are human and we humans live our days out swimming through a sea of emotions. In this episode I want to first teach you about the NEUROCHEMISTRY that is in your body and discuss the good and the bad it brings us. By understanding how the machine, you, is regulated by this chemistry we can begin to hack it. You can make choices, reframe the question, and choose a dynamic life. By doing so you will increase happiness, prolong the highs and lessen the lows. In order to embrace the chaos, we must first learn about the chemical chaos with.

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Another fun episode that was kind of unexpected. I am going to do a three part episode on Neurochemistry. This episode is an overview and introduction into the topics and feelings associated with this topic. I want to discuss next looking at the chemical combinations of love & loneliness. Then happy & sad and finishing with creativity & flow. Lets dive into this with a creative mind and a curious self. Enjoy the ride and leave comments if it makes you happy.

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This episode is a very fun episode where I discuss our human capacity to ask questions. We always think that a person's ability to answer a question is our greatest gift, but I think that our most epic ability is our asking brain. All great break throughs, wonders, and discoveries began with a person forming a question. Let me teach you how and why you should ask a new question each and every day.

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Kepler recently discover 1,285 new exoplanets (planets around distant stars) which has moved us closer to stating that planets are more common than stars. The Kepler telescope has opened our minds, data, and imagination about planets, even rocky planets, being very common out there in the Milky Way. Pondering the concepts of goldi-locks conditions made my brain ponder just how many special/perfect facets of life make us up. This expanding existence, when pondered, shows us that we are circles upon circles of awesomeness.

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The Overview Effect is a new term coined by Frank White and others. This effect personifies the ideas and feelings brought back inside the courageous astronauts who have seen the whole Earth at a glance. Each of them verbally describe a blissful feeling of awe, connectedness, and wonder regarding our Earth. This episode attempts to convey their emotions through direct quotes from these astronauts. These are some of the bravest and wonderful educated daredevils. Listen to their words and get a glimpse of this feeling.

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This episode will get you to go outside, look up at the Moon and give it an air five. The Moon that formed from an epic collision 4.5 Billion Years Ago has wonderful effects on our Earth and the ecosystems we know and love.

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This week I took a chance and submitted my voice to PRX - The Radiotopia Competition. I enjoyed writing and trying to compress my podcast's mission into a two minute audio clip. Give it a listen and let me know what you think. @The_ScienceBro and BeautifulDustSpecks.com.

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Take the time to appreciate the wonderful clear liquid that pours from the tap and rains down on you in the shower each morning. Take a second to appreciate the only substance on the planet that exists as a liquid, solid, and gas. In this episode I will teach you why you should scream with joy every time an ice cube floats to the surface of your glass at dinner. Water is epic, you are epic, lets love this hydrated existence we call life.

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This episode dives into why we should appreciate water as the primary medium of life. Each week we discuss the connections of nature and the substance that play a role in all is water. Where there is water, there is life. Why you ask? This holds true because water has seven wonderful properties. Properties that allow this amazing wet rock to harbor all the weird, wild, & wonderful life forms present in today's biosphere. Part 1 of 2.

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