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HISTORY, PART IV – THE SUMERIAN CIVILIZATION

Feb 1, 2022Howard BellUncategorized

This is the fourth in a seven-blog series on history. In this blog, I describe some of the African impacts on the Sumerian Civilization. What was the Sumerian Civilization? Sumeria, Indus Valley, and Ancient Egypt were the first societies to manifest all the features to qualify as a civilization.   The term Sumer refers to the region

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History, Part III – The Indus Valley Civilization

Aug 29, 2021Howard Bell1 CommentUncategorized

This is the third in a seven-blog series on history.  In this blog, I describe some of the African impacts on the Indus Valley Civilization.  What was the Indus Valley Civilization? The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), Mesopotamia, and ancient Egypt were the world’s three earliest civilizations. In physical size the IVC was the size of

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History, Part Ia – The Olmec Civilization – Extension

Feb 16, 2021Howard Bell2 CommentsUncategorized

In my last blog I said that in my next blog I would focus on the Indus Valley civilization.  However, I have delayed that blog in order to provide my reactions to an article that concludes there is no real evidence that Africans and/or Egyptians ever made it to the Americas prior to Columbus’ voyage

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HISTORY, PART II – THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION

Nov 14, 2020Howard Bell3 CommentsUncategorized

This is the second in a seven-blog series on history. In this blog, I describe the African origins of ancient Egypt. Today, the Sahara Desert is a 3,630,000 square mile barrier, (larger than America’s contiguous 48 states) between Egypt and sub-Saharan Africa. However, at the dawn of ancient Egypt the Sahara was not a barrier

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History, Part I – The Olmec Civilization

Aug 11, 2020Howard Bell6 CommentsUncategorizedEgyptians, Histones, Mesoamerica, Olmecs, Pyramids

This is the first in a seven-blog series on history. In this blog, I describe how blacks were viewed in history as I was growing up, how I was able to overcome the negative views of blacks in history, and how my view of the world was altered when I learned about the Olmec civilization.

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Epigenetics, Part IV– How to Reverse Epigenetic Changes

Jun 25, 2020Howard BellNeuroplasticity

Epigenetics, Part III – Behavioral Epigenetics

Feb 17, 2020Howard Bell1 CommentNeuroplasticity

Epigenetics, Part II – How it Works

Dec 30, 2019Howard BellNeuroplasticity, Science of SELF™Adaptive Adolescent Brain, Adequate sleep, Aerobic exercise, Amygdala, Axons, deep breathing, DNA, Epigenetics, Gene expression, Good eating habits, Life science

Epigenetics, Part I – Why is it important?

Nov 9, 2019Howard BellNeuroplasticityAdequate sleep, Aerobic exercise, Amygdala, Axons, Brain plasticity, DNA, Epigenetics, Good eating habits, Life science, Meditation exercise, Mirror neurons, Neurons, Neuroplasticity, Positive thoughts, Prefrontal Cortex, Rehabilitation, Self-story, Stress reduction, Survive a life threatening event, Synaptic Pruning, Teen neuroplasticity
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Neuroplasticity, Part IV – How to Strengthen Our Brain

Sep 23, 2019projfu5Neuroplasticity, Science of SELF™Adaptive Adolescent Brain, Adequate sleep, Aerobic exercise, amy, Good eating habits

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SELF Blogs

SELF Blogs provide information about Project Future Institute and the SELF Program and seek to encourage a dialogue about initiatives that can help individuals, especially at-risk students,* achieve their dreams and fulfill their potential.

“At-risk students” are defined as students who are below grade level in mathematics.

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  • HISTORY, PART IV – THE SUMERIAN CIVILIZATION
  • History, Part III – The Indus Valley Civilization
  • History, Part Ia – The Olmec Civilization – Extension
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  • History, Part I – The Olmec Civilization

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