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Imagine this your sitting on your sofa picturing the future in your head that you thought only you could see. But the next day your Inventor friend swings by and describes exactly what you pictured the other day. You would stand there lost and astonished wondering just how he knew exactly what you thought. Nikola Tesla in 1839 became absolutely convinced that a definite image formed in your thoughts, must through reflex action produce an image on the retina corresponding to the one imagined. He believed it could be read by a suitable apparatus and then illuminated onto a screen by taking photographs. After this, you could use ordinary methods to project it and play your thoughts like a slideshow. This makes our minds an open book. Unfortunately, Tesla’s Plan didn’t work out as expected. researchers to this very date are still studying his vision and exploring the idea of mind-reading machines. Looking at mind-reading, scientists have developed algorithms that can learn to interpr...

You may just be your twin. How is that possible? Well, there is something known as chimerism. This is a rare case when two fertilized embryos don’t identify each other as siblings and fuse to form one foetus. In other words when one twin fuses into the other forming one baby with two kinds of genetic material. This is also known as the Vanishing Twin Syndrome. It is very likely that people don’t realise their dual DNA nature and fail to recognise themselves as chimeras. There are about 100 cases of chimerism so far however with the advancements in genetic testing chimerism may become  more and more common. Chimerism is usually discovered by chance unless the mixing of genetic material causes unusual health problems like mixed blood or ambiguous genitalia may occur if the twins were of opposite sexes. Chimeras are born with different eye colours or unusual skin markings which many chimeras falsely understand as a birthmark, failing to realise it is actually their twins gen...