Ongoing discoveries and developments in the fields of quantum physics, human psychology, biology and medicine, communications, anomalous phenomena, ecological and environmental sciences, technology and other areas are often interesting and helpful.

Sometimes, these create hope and new opportunities to make the world a better place.

They can also trigger concerns, discomfort and anxiety. These can be useful feelings that motivate us or provide insight.

Sometimes new information is challenging to understand and may result in denial, ridicule and a reluctance to accept things outside of our normal awareness and knowledge.

These factors all seem to be very natural. This is simply "human nature."

Learning about what is happening in our world and being open-minded about the possibilities while at the same time "keeping our feet on the ground" and remaining "down-to-Earth" is sometimes a challenge.

GATHERING INTELLIGENCE

We learn about various aspects of current events through all kinds of news and media platforms such as TV, radio, films, books, magazines and the Web as well as friends and family, professional associates and even from our internal intelligence.

The serious problems that humans are dealing with globally are well known to us: war, hunger, poverty, disease, suffering, greed, corruption, injustice. These are painful and troubling realities.

Some of the developments and discoveries we are now finding out about might help resolve these challenges. In fact, many of these trends are clearly already underway.

Below are just a few of many examples:

- The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding research in biology and medicine to understand how certain creatures regrow severed limbs. Regrowing amputated human limbs might be within reach.