THE MIND AND BODY OF MAN

There have been many great thinkers of our time that have given great thought as to the nature of the human body.  Does the body itself think, or does it receive instruction and guidance to something else, what one might term, the mind? Does the mind exist, but is it one and the same as the human body? Is the mind simply the human brain, with each synapse representing a separate thought or emotion? Or is it something invisible, something divine, something that cannot yet be fully understood by current thinkers? Let us explore these theories and the philosophers behind them, beginning with one of the greatest thinkers of all time.

HOME COURT ADVANTAGE: TRUTH OR MYTH?

Sports fan around the world have heard the term “Home Court Advantage” or at least one of its variations (“home town advantage”, etc.) from the mouths of the announcers and commentators of their sport of preference at one point or another. It signifies a distinct advantage for an athlete or team of athletes when they play a game (match / fight / or whatever is most applicable) in their home town.

IS IT REAL?

But is this phenomenon really true? Does the extremely positive energy of a hometown crowd really transfer over to an athlete or team of athletes and give them the power to surmount all odds? If you’ve been participating or at least been watching sports for some time, you’ve probably noticed that the answer is sometimes “yes”, sometimes “no”. But is there some hard data to all this? Is the answer actually a resounding “yes, home court advantage does indeed exist”, and that the other times were actual data aberrations of some sort? Or is it the other way around? Is it a 50/50 chance, like if you flip a coin? Or, if it exists, is the ratio actually more one-sided, like 70/30, or even 90/10? Does it exist for all sports?