This abandon bowling alley was turned into one of the most surreal interactive art experiences ever. The Meow Wolf art collective is an art production company that creates immersive exhibits like haunted houses, museums and jungle gyms. In a 20,000 square-foot bowling alley in Santa Fe, New Mexico, they created “The House of Eternal Return”. This was actually purchased by the Game of Thrones author George RR Martin to allow the team to create this insane world.

 “They explained this vision of a Victorian house, unmoored in time and space with a haunted forest and a magical cave system, and portals to other worlds,” Martin told NPR. “And of course, it pushed all my buttons. I love that kind of stuff.”

This immersive experience is filled with color, texture and out-of-this-world design. In this interactive world, you are encouraged to touch everything, push every button and explore this vast and strange land.

One of the the organizers of the group says they were inspired by theme parks, burning man, grocery stores, and nature. What a strange combination.

Visitors have describe the experience to be like a real life MMORPG or a virtual reality that is actually there. This crazy world took over 18 months and 150 artist to finish. You can explore this amazing world yourself for only $18 if you live out of state and $15 for New Mexico residents.

What do you think of this Alice and Wonderland ask type place? Would you run around in this colorful land of surrealism?

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An interesting new theory suggests if you have an RH negative blood type, you may have a kind of “alien DNA”. Studies show that Rh negative blood types do not carry the gene originating from the rhesus monkey, the supposed animal humans evolved from.

So if we have all come from monkeys, why do some people not carry that crucial gene? 

There are 4 blood types that we know of: A, B, AB and O. These differences are classified according to the different proteins which are found on the surface of our blood cells that fight off bacteria in the body. Most people have these proteins which means they are Rh positive. But a very minor group, only 10 to 15% of people have an Rh negative blood type.

This means they lack some of the proteins that an Rh positive person does.

Scientists have questioned where exactly the Rh negative blood group originates from, about 35,000 years ago. It’s seem to originally be connected with certain groups and tribes of people. About 40 to 45% of Europeans have an Rh negative group yet only 3% of African-American and 1% of Asian people have Rh negative blood.

Characteristics that come with this blood type are:

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Low Serotonin

A couple of years before I started University, I lived a completely different life. I ate cheap food of questionable nutritional value. I had poor mental habits and exercised little to nothing. I felt anxious in social situations. Today I can recognize the symptoms of a dysfunctional serotonin system, something I could not back then.

Low Serotonin Causes

We have more material things than ever before, but happiness seems to slip through our fingers. In our relentless pursuit of happiness we do the things that destroy it.

We wreck our health, both mentally and physically. The results are low levels of the chemicals that put smiles on our faces.

The number of americans on SSRI antidepressants nearly doubled between 1999 to 2012, from 7% to 13%. SSRI’s are a special class of drugs that block reuptake of serotonin. This leads to increased concentration of serotonin in the synaptic cleft.

Related reading: How Your Spiritual Awakening Is Helped by This Chemical in Your Brain

Low Serotonin Symptoms:

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Have you ever wondered where our eye color comes from?

Many people might assume the blue in some people’s eyes developed over time from the reflection from the sky or water. But the truth is a lot more interesting…

The team of researchers from Copenhagen university have found that a single mutation has caused the phenomenon of blue eyes. Every single blue eyed person are genetically related to 1 person who lived in the black sea region between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago.

This gene called  OCA2 really started to be noticed about 8,000 years ago. Dr. Hans Eiberg claims that before this time, every person had brown eyes. This gene created a switch in our genetics which shifted the ability to produce brown eyes and started producing blue tinted iris’s.

Almost 95% of Europeans in Scandinavian countries all share the color blue in their eyes. The color blue in our eyes is as recent as Europe itself. The question many scientists are asking is why and how exactly did we go from no one having blue eyes 10,000 years ago to having 20 to 40% of Europeans having blue eyes now?

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Samurais we’re considered military nobility and officers of medieval and early modern Japan. In Chinese, the kanji for samurai was a verb that meant to wait upon or a company persons.

While only less than 10% of Japan’s population were samurais, their teachings are still found today in daily day life and in modern Japanese martial arts. They served as the enforcement for the ruling shogunate and helped gain rule over the country during the 12th century.

In 1854, Japan finally decided to open it’s ports for international trade and these portraits were found. These pictures capture the final years of the existence of samurais in 1868. There was a prohibition of wielding a sword for anyone other than the Armed Forces which led to the dissipation of the samurai class.

To this day, bushido, meaning the way of the warrior is still a thriving concept. It originates from the samurais moral values, stressing the importance of frugality, loyalty, martial arts and honor. These stunning portrait take us back in time to world seemingly so foreign to ours, yet it was only a few hundred years ago these masters roamed the earth.

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