Food Scientists.

Maat Petrova shopping for food. . . 2017.

Peace. Peaceful mindsets reign above the science of food. It is unusual to be aligned with the foods today. The practice of measuring has overtaken the sanctity of preparing food, removing the sacredness of eating has created disorders. Shifting into this paradigm has no beneficial relationship with power. Power is its own incentive to change, become, and be still within one's soul. Applied to food the better our dreams grow, the better we understand where we are as a People, as a family member.

It is summer time as things grow and the beginning of Harvest is the celebration ceremony. Without ceremony food is just there to eat. Ceremony and gratitude brings in the fullness of healthy minds, empowered spirits and right relations with our Mother, the Earth, each other and the animals who feed us, and the plants who know us, and what we need! ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/12/17

Màat Petrova shopping for vegetables. July 2017.

Great Powers Held Low.

This is elegance and a fun way to play with it.

There are deep forces within women. We can honor them, women can learn how to employ them in a sacred manner, or succumb to the omission of sacredness in relation to the forces of the feminine and the forces of masculinity. Another option growing in popularity is accepting the secular notion that science can transport those energies from one gender to another making a man a woman and a woman a man! If science cannot do it then like the Emperor with no clothes on we like to pretend we believe it real.

It is easier to not wake up and see. It is easier to not participate in the deep forces' capacity to engage the mortal life with eternity. This is the cultural heritage from European conquest. This spirit has wrecked the balances that held the world together, but has fulfilled prophecies of doom. Are we better for it, or just beaten down?

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Nov. 05, 2016

the Souls of Black Folks: Scarred and Scared of...

"What a pain to my soul knowing this and constantly having this history informing and cautioning me at all times!"

~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

August 18, 2016

Daughter of radiation experiment subject Elmer Allen comforts her mother, Fredna Allen.

By now most people know about the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, but what many don’t know is that this was just one in a long line of experiments conducted on African-Americans. The experiments actually began during slavery, when African-Americans were treated no better than field animals, and continued from there. Below is a list of the most heinous experiments conducted on African-Americans.

1. Experiments on slaves by slave owners were conducted en masse, long before the Tuskegee experiments. In his memoir, former slave John Brown described how his master, Dr. Thomas Hamilton of Georgia, tortured him with homemade medical experiments. Brown described how he was made to sit naked in a stool atop a burning pit as part of Dr. Hamilton’s experiment. “I could not have helped myself. There was nothing for it but passive resignation, and I gave myself up in ignorance and in much fear,” wrote Brown. After temperatures reached 100 degrees, Brown passed while Dr. Hamilton stood by with a thermometer. In another experiment, the good Dr. attempted to determine how deep black skin goes by blistering Brown’s hand and feet. Slaves provided antebellum doctors with their own personal guinea pigs.


2. It wasn’t just slave owners who were conducting experiments on slaves, but hospitals posted announcements for slaves to be used in experiments. In the 1850’s, Dr. T. Stillman placed an add for “sick Negroes” and slave masters were happy to hand over ill or elderly slaves who could no longer work. It was a win-win for slave owners who got back their slaves if they were healed, and if they weren’t healed, then hospitals paid for the burial. The slaves who were taken in by Stillman and his experiment had no legal rights.


3. Until the 1970’s, prisons conducted experiments on prisoners, most of whom were black. At Philadelphia’s Holmesburg prison, Dow Chemical paid to test potential carcinogens on the mostly black prison population. Many prisoners developed cancers, skin conditions, and mental illness as a result of their experimentation.


4. “I went to the Dr. who did that to me and asked him ‘why’…. I would love to have had children,” said Fannie Lou Hamer. While on the plantation, Hamer had developed a knot on her stomach. When she went to see the physician, he removed her uterus as well as the knot, preventing her from ever having children.

In the ‘big house’, the plantation owner’s wife joked about how Hamer had lost more than a tumor when she was in the hospital, and the news eventually got back to Hamer. Hamer went on to become a voting and civil rights activist. Hamer was only one of many African-American women who were sterilized, a practice which became a favorite of white doctors. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, trafficked in stereotypes and used the Negro Project to decrease black fertility.


5. In 1945, a black trucker named Ebb Cade was in an accident where nearly all of his bones were broken. While he was in the hospital, doctors gave him a toxic dose of plutonium. Before the plutonium could totally devastate his body, Cade must’ve gotten wind of what was going on because he escaped from the hospital. Unbeknownst to him, he’d became part of a study for which he never gave his consent. Cade died eight days after leaving the hospital. He was the first, but not last, African-American to be injected with uranium or plutonium as part of a radiation experiment. Former Secretary of Energy Hazel O’Leary declassified information on government experiments on unsuspecting African-Americans.


6. Charisse Johnson and her husband received a knock on the door from researchers at Columbia University who wanted to interview her 16 year old son Isaac, who was being held in a detention center. Isaac’s parents signed off on the interviews and tests, which they were told would be used to determine whether Isaac might have medical problems. Little did she know that Columbia University, in cooperation with the New York State Psychiatric Institute, was conducting an experiment on her son in an effort to establish a genetic connection between black boys to violence. The boys were given fenfluramine, which causes serotonin levels to rise. - Black Americans (8.5.16)

Pulsating Life of Punany !

Power to the Pussy  

Pussy was not meant to be messed with or mistaken for anything other than what Pussy was created for: deep and light purposes. She is to men and women a source of powers. The power of pussy are Powers. A dream a man may have of being a woman will never be fulfilled within him. That power was made for a particular body. Nothing can be birthed in a science project pretending to be a pussy. Pussy is a spirit activated by natural process.

Gregory E. Woods 7.31.15

Gittin' GRAY



Black American woman with gray hair

10 Head-Scratching Facts About Gray Hair



1. HOW HAIR TURNS GRAY


Hair grows in a follicle, a bulb-like tube on your scalp. The average head has 100,000 to 150,000 follicles, each operating independently from the others. Hair in its basic, unpigmented state is white. It gets its color from melanin, a pigment that also determines skin color. Two types of melanin, eumelanin (dark brown or black) and phaeomelanin (reddish yellow), combine to make all the hair colors. One hypothesis for why hair goes gray is that aging slows or stops the hair from accessing the melanin, so it comes out gray, silver, or white instead.


2. HAIR MAY BLEACH ITSELF FROM THE INSIDE OUT


New research reveals that graying may be from a build-up of hydrogen peroxide in the hair cell, which causes the hair to bleach itself on the inside. Cells naturally have a small amount of hydrogen peroxide in them, but it’s kept in check by an enzyme called catalase, which converts the hydrogen peroxide to oxygen and water. As we age, the body produces less catalase, so the hydrogen peroxide builds up and, according to the New York Times, blocks “the normal synthesis of melanin, the natural pigment in hair.” Thus the hair turns gray, giving new meaning to the phrase “peroxide blonde.”


3. GRAYING IS CAUSED BY HEREDITY


When you’re born, your genes are already hardwired for when and how your hair will turn gray. This includes premature graying—people who gray before age 30 usually do so because it runs in the family. For most of us, graying starts in middle age. Dermatologists go by the 50/50/50 rule of thumb: by age 50, half the population will have at least 50 percent gray hair—although a worldwide survey showed that number was much lower, with only 6 to 23 percent of people half gray by age 50.


4. RACE IS ALSO A FACTOR


In a related matter, race also determines when you’re likely to gray. In general, Caucasians gray in their mid-30s, Asians in their late-30s, and African Americans in their 40s.


5. PLUCKING ONE GRAY HAIR WILL NOT CAUSE THREE TO GROW IN ITS PLACE


This old wives’ tale is a myth. Each follicle can contain only one hair, and plucking it won’t make it able to produce multiple hairs. Furthermore, what you do to one follicle has no effect on the ones around it. That said, excessive plucking isn’t a good idea—it can damage the follicles and even stop hair production in that area altogether.

Mayor Marion Barry & Effie Barry

6. STRESS PROBABLY PLAYS A ROLE IN GRAYING


When President Obama went gray his first term in office, was it stress, age, or a combination of both? Scientists aren’t sure. While some researchers say that your genes alone are responsible for gray hair, others say that there seems to be a connection between graying and stress, just no direct link to prove it. In 2011, a study by Nobel Prize winner Robert Lefkowitz discovered that long-term productions of the body’s fight or flight response—the instinctive ability to mobilize energy in response to a threatening situation—can damage your DNA and cause premature aging, including graying hair.


7. TRAUMA WON’T MAKE YOU GO GRAY OVERNIGHT

Another myth is that a major shock will cause your hair to suddenly turn gray. This is sometimes called the Marie Antoinette Syndrome because the French queen’s hair supposedly turned white the night before she was beheaded. But hair, once grown, doesn’t change color, so waking up with a head of white hair isn’t going to happen. Although there is a very rare condition where all of the colored hairs can fall out, leaving only white hairs behind, the simpler answer is that Marie Antoinette probably just took off her wig.


8. SMOKING MAY CAUSE YOU TO PREMATURELY GRAY

Multiple studies have linked smoking with premature aging, which includes early graying. In 2013, a study found that there is a significant relationship between smoking and gray hair in people under 30. In fact, “smokers were two and half times more prone to develop PHG” or premature hair graying.


9. BODY HAIR ALSO TURNS GRAY

All your body hair—chest, nose, pubic, etc.—can turn gray. Body hair tends to gray at a different rate than the hair on your head, which is why some men can have gray beards and brown hair, or visa versa. By the way, dyeing gray pubic hair is a thing.


10. SOMEDAY, RESEARCH MAY LEAD TO A GRAY HAIR CURE

Scientists in Europe discovered a breakthrough with vitiligo, a disease where skin loses pigment and develops white patches. Like hair, vitiligo is caused by “massive oxidative stress via accumulation of hydrogen peroxide,” causing the skin to bleach itself from the inside out. Researchers have successfully treated the discolored skin and eyelashes of vitiligo patients, which has led some to predict a potential cure for gray hair. But while the idea sounds promising, history is full of tonics and creams claiming to cure gray hair. As far as we know, none of them have worked yet.





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THEY know their old stories

Aboriginal stories of sea level rise preserved for thousands of years

February 14, 2015

Nicky Phillips

Science Editor

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Aboriginal stories of sea level rise preserved for thousands of years

Details of life before and after this significant sea rise, which flooded areas around the Australian coast that were previously dry land, were recorded in the oral histories of the continent's Indigenous people. 

Sydney Morning Herald 

... "Western culture tends to value innovation whereas Aboriginal cultures throughout Australia tend to be deeply conservative," says Reid. They value consistency.

Reid says clans have very explicit mechanisms for teaching people to tell oral histories, as well as tasking others to ensure the orator tells stories accurately.

For instance, when children are told tales by their parents, they are tasked with quizzing the details and cross-checking them with their grandparents.

"People take these relationships very seriously," says Reid.

"The beauty of the relationship is that it is cross-generational and that provides a kind of scaffolding that's very successful at keeping stories accurate, not succumbing to a Chinese whispers effect." This feature of oral tradition appears to be specific to Australia.

Reid says most of the stories were recorded by "well-meaning white people who interacted with Aboriginal people in the early days of the colony" such as missionaries and government surveyors.

Academic historians have often scoffed at oral traditions, regarding them as fables or legends devoid of facts.

"Anglo-Australians have really ignored what Aboriginal people may know about Australia for quite a long time. We've come in and superimposed Western science," says Nunn.

Only recently have scientists realised these stories may contribute to our understanding of natural phenomena, says Nunn.

The pair are keen to track down more version of stories as well as new tales.

"We suspect we're just scratching the surface," says Reid... 

Black Women, Science & Masculinity

Study: Black Women in science Seen as “Masculine" and violent

By Michal Ortner A series of studies have been done on stereotypes involving jobs such as scientists and...

By Michal Ortner


A series of studies have been done on stereotypes involving jobs such as scientists and janitors. Second graders were asked to draw a scientist. The overwhelming results were of white men with glasses wearing white lab coats.

In an extensive study done by UC Hastings College of Law, 60 women of color in various scientific fields were surveyed about bias and discrimination.  100 percent of the women surveyed affirmed that they had experienced bias or discrimination in some form.
Latina and African-American women shared that they were most often mistaken for janitorial workers. “I always amuse my friends with my janitor stories,” one black woman scientist said. “But it has happened, not only at weird hours.”

In an online survey, 500 African-American female scientists were interviewed, along with 60 in-depth interviews. Over three-fourths of those surveyed said that they were required to verify their competence repeatedly.

Four typical types of gender bias against women were reported in “Double Jeopardy? Gender Bias Against Women of Color in Science.” The four biases are: having to prove yourself again and again, coming across as too masculine or too feminine, running into the maternal wall/motherhood bias, and experiencing a clash between the other few women in the company.

The National Science Foundation funded the study that discovered definite heightened gender bias towards women who were assertive. The women surveyed said that they were easily labeled “angry” or “emotional,” especially among the Latina women.

“Several of them were actually being treated as admin, expected to fill out other people’s grant forms, coordinate other people’s meetings, and they couldn’t get out of it,” said Joan Williams, a law professor at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law who worked as one of the authors of the new report.

“In others studies, we heard of white women being expected to do the ‘office housework’ – say, if you’re a lawyer, that means you’re responsible for doing the task list, or keeping track of everything going on in litigation,” Williams added. “It’s not like this – doing secretarial work.”

“The numbers have just not moved in all the STEM disciplines in the last 10 years,” said Janet Koster, executive director of the Association for Women in Science. “Women start out, but seep out of the pipeline when they go into early careers or academic education. For people of color, we’re not even getting them into the pipeline in the first place. That has to change.”

“We’ve been trying to change these organizations for 25 years. But they have not changed,” Williams said.

“So what women need now are very concrete strategies.”


Two of the five oldest women on earth are African American 

DREAMS illuminate

Part of the illusion within wealth is the way wealth can blend fantasy with the accumulation of wealth as a banner of arrival for a select few fond of telling others to dream big without giving them tools, or the trade secrets of finance and wealth to but a select few. But, alas wealth isn't the sum of existence, nor is fantasy the end result of good living. Wealth is an expendable commodity, in one way of looking at it, and fantasy is the dreams we come from and remember as reality. Science likes to listen to the dreamers and make manifest the dreams of the dreamers who tell their stories so well, or paint their dreams so well.  Wealth needs the fantasy, and fantasies need the release money provides to the dreamer bound by a need to give expression to the dreams constantly coming in the day and the night times. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5.13.13

Science IS

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Eagles & Men 

Scientists have determined that the core of the Earth is 6,000 degrees Celsius; 1,000 degrees hotter than previously thought. This new data fits the model that says there must be a temperature difference of 1,500 degrees Celsius to generate a magnetic field. The previous temperature did not fit those parameters.

More info: http://bit.ly/17o157s

Earth's layers 

Science Is Awesome

Nature In SEX

Natural Remedies for Sexual Dysfunction in Women

By Cathy Wong, ND

Updated June 25, 2014

What is Sexual Dysfunction in Women?

Sexual dysfunction refers to persistent or recurring problems during any stage of the sexual response (desire, arousal, plateau, orgasm, resolution) that prevents the individual or couple from experiencing satisfaction from sexual activity and causes distress.

Natural Remedies for Sexual Dysfunction in Women

Here are five natural remedies that are being explored for female sexual enhancement in women with sexual dysfunction:

1) DHEA

DHEA (dehydroepiandosterone) is a hormone produced naturally by the adrenal glands. It is converted in the body to the hormones estrogen and testosterone. Levels of DHEA decline naturally with age and also with a condition called adrenal insufficiency. Both have been associated with low libido, which is why researchers have examined whether DHEA supplements can boost libido in these groups.

There is some evidence suggesting that DHEA may help older women. In one study, 280 women and men between 60 and 79 years were given DHEA (50 mg) or placebo daily for a year. There was a slight increase in testosterone and estrogen levels in women, and a significant increase in the libido and sexual satisfaction of women over 70 with DHEA use. No benefits were seen in women between 60 and 70 years. Two additional studies have found that DHEA boosted sexual arousal in older women. Not all studies on DHEA and libido have found a benefit, so more research is needed.

See more on DHEA.

2) Ginkgo

Ginkgo biloba is a herb used for centuries in traditional Chinese medicine as a remedy for respiratory conditions, cognitive impairment, and circulatory disorders. In North America, it is most commonly used to improve cognitive function and memory in people with age-related cognitive decline and memory loss.

There has been some preliminary studies suggesting that ginkgo may also help people with sexual dysfunction related to antidepressant use. It was first investigated after an older man with sexual dysfunction due to antidepressant use decided to take ginkgo to improve memory. His sexual function improved noticeably, and his case caught the attention of researchers.

Studies to date, however, have not confirmed the effectiveness of ginkgo for antidepressant induced sexual dysfunction. For example, one small study examined the use of ginkgo or placebo in 37 people with antidepressant-induced sexual dysfunction. After two months, ginkgo was no more effective than the placebo in relieving symptoms. Larger, longer-term studies are needed.

For more information, read my article on Ginkgo.

3) L-Arginine

L-arginine is an amino acid that has numerous functions in the body. It is needed by the body to make nitric oxide, a compound that helps to relax blood vessels and allow blood to flow through arteries.

Studies on L-arginine for sexual dysfunction in women have used a combination product, which makes it impossible to know if any improvement was due to the L-arginine or other ingredients in the formula.

See more about L-Arginine.

4) Yohimbe

The bark of the herb yohimbe (Pausinystalia yohimbe) was historically used as a folk remedy for sexual dysfunction. The active constituent in the bark is called yohimbine.

Studies have not found yohimbe to be effective for sexual dysfunction in women. Yohimbe is not recommended and is a potentially harmful herb with severe side effects. For more information on yohimbe, read the Yohimbe Fact Sheet.

5) Damiana

Damiana (Turnera diffusa) is a herb used traditionally by the Mayan people of Central America to enhance sexual function in men and women. It is reported to be an aphrodisiac, stimulant, mood enhancer, and a tonic.

The use of damiana as an aphrodisiac is somewhat controversial because there is no scientific evidence that it works and yet it has been widely promoted as a sexual stimulant.

Check out my article on Damiana.

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Let us Listen to Learn

5 Brain Myths That Won't Go Away

Ryan WallaceJul 29, 2014

Pristine Qualities Abound

Michelle Pfeiffer sitting comfortably in a chair!!!!

Fascinating! If one were to think in terms of musical frequencies emitted by each planet in a specific sign, a person's horoscope would make a specific kind of harmony or music. Then, when brought together with others (people or even planets that continue to move through time), the music would be either enhanced or become cacophonic. In fact, the music is constantly encouraged to adapt and rearrange itself to fit the stronger pattern. 

Johannes Kepler (1561-1630) spoke convincingly of the harmony that permeates the universe, extending the work of Pythagoras and the theme of "music of the spheres". Pythagoras defined music "as the perfect union of contrary things, as unity in multiplicity, or accord in discord." Indeed, music does not only coordinate rhythm and modulation, but imposes order on the whole system. Pythagoras discovered that the pitch of a musical note changed if the length of a piece of string was stopped half way along. This created an octave that produced the same quality of sound as the note produced by the unstopped string, but it vibrated at twice the frequency. The Pythagoreans used music to heal the body and elevate the soul. In ancient cosmology the planetary spheres ascended from Earth to Heaven like the rungs of a ladder, with each sphere said to correspond to a different note on a grand musical scale. 

Traditional astrology recognizes 5 significant relationships based on the 12-fold division of the zodiac signs, their significance being derived by analogy with the ratios of the musical scale. Thus the conjunction is equal to 2 notes played in unison, dividing the circle into the ratio 1:2. Not confining himself to zodiac signs alone, Kepler looked into the theory of harmonics and extended the analogy of the musical scale. He alerted astrologers to several new aspects, such as the highly creative quintile and biquintile series, as well as the sesqui-quadrate. 3 laws of planetary motion: Kepler is most famous for formulating his 3 laws of planetary motion, which made a fundamental break with astronomical tradition and superseded the ancient Ptolemaic concept of a spherical universe with an epicyclical motion (around the Earth at the centre). 

In 1609, in Astronomia Nova ("New Astronomy"), Kepler announced in his first law that the orbits of planets were elliptical, not circular. In his second law he stated that the speed of a planet varied at different stages of its orbit. His third law was published in 1618 in Harmonice Mundi ("Harmony of the Worlds" - adding to Pythagoras' theme of the music of the spheres). The third law established that there was relationship between a planet's distance from the Sun and the time it takes to complete an orbit.

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"The mystery of sound." 

Artificial Vaginas Are On The Horizon!

Advancements in Regenerative Medicine Have Made Artificial Vaginas A Possibility



A recent New York Magazine infographic brought to light the impressive evolution of prosthetics, which as of April includes vaginas.

The piece documents advancements in regenerative medicine over the years. During an interview Wednesday, the author Matthew Giles explained to HuffPost Live's Ricky Camilleri how exactly these artificial vaginas are created.

"You’re taking cells from external genitalia and you’re creating ... this scaffolding that you place the cells on, and then you implant it to actually create the cavity, and the body takes to it," Giles said. "Two of the four women that have undergone this procedure at Wake Forest [University] were able to menstruate."

Watch the full conversation about bionic technologies below.

Between a women's legs is the secret place, the holy place! Can it be disgraced to become the carnage of convenience?
I don't know and I don't know the question or questions to ask of such a technological advancement and challenge to the sacredness of a life form.
- Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories
6.14.14 

Tip for girls to women

Playboy Wisdom: “You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches.” - Dita Von Teese

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the woman.

"One of the weirdest things is the distortion of beauty. Science has forged a way into the blinded, the fearful, and those sick with disgust in the mirrors of their minds, and the mirrors in their idea of self. Science has taken to the fears of women the way "jack leg preachers" take command of the weakened, and lure the cowering into their flock. Following the patterns set by the stories of the Emperor's New Clothes and the Pied Piper Western medicine has profited from illusion, and robbed many women of who they are by reformatting the dynamics of womanhood into narrow pens alongside the animals assigned to menial labor. 

Plastic surgery is a growing ridicule accepted as an alternative to introspection, and the natural order of stillness, self-realization, molding, growth, study, and the eventual ascension into maturity and balance fundamental to the art of the Feminine." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4.25.13

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Feb. 15, 2013

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PERCEPTION OF GOD IS PERCEPTION OF SELF

Marilyn Monroe

"It is kind of a dumb thing to offset the serious of this month's topic: the Goddess, but it is important to interject it into the mix, the conversation about the sanctity of women's perception of self, and how we, men, look at and regard women. In particular, white women because white people have positioned themselves to be the ideal of beauty and high standards. They believe they've convinced the entire world of their rightful place above everyone, and most do. It is evidenced in our lives, and irrefutable.

Six scientific differences between blondes and brunettes is considered a serious subject in business. READ MORE.

1. Blondes take longer to get ready.
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3. Blonde waitresses make better tips
4. First impression of brunettes is one of better intelligence.
5. Marilyn Monroe was not a natural blond.
6. Blondes in porn sell more product.

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Religion, the language of American foreign policy

The Most Religious US State Is ...

Mereana Taki in green top 

by Megan Gannon, News Editor

Once again, Mississippi reigns as the most religious U.S. state, with 61 percent of its residents classified as "very religious," according to the results of a Gallup survey released Monday (Feb. 3).

In contrast, only 22 percent of people in Vermont ranked just as devout, and the Green Mountain state held onto its title as "least religious."

Overall, about 41 percent of Americans indicated that they are "very religious," meaning that religion is an important part of their daily lives and that they attend religious services every week or almost every week. Some 29 percent were classified as nonreligious, because they did not attend services and didn't cite religion as an important part of their daily life. Another 29 percent fell somewhere in the middle of the two extremes, and were labeled as "moderately religious."

For the most part, the rankings have remained largely unchanged since Gallup first started tracking religiosity in 2008. The most religious states still tend to be clustered in the South, though Utah — with its large population of Mormons, typically the most religious of any denomination — stands out as an exception and ranks No. 2 in religiosity, according to Gallup. Meanwhile, the least religious states are mostly found in New England, the Pacific Northwest and other states in the West.

Top 10 most religious states

• Mississippi: 61 percent are very religious
• Utah: 60 percent
• Alabama: 57 percent
• Louisiana: 56 percent
• South Carolina: 54 percent
• Tennessee: 54 percent
• Georgia: 52 percent
• Arkansas: 51 percent
• North Carolina: 50 percent
• Oklahoma: 49 percent
• Kentucky: 49 percent 

Top 10 least religious states

• Vermont: 22 percent are very religious 
• New Hampshire: 24 percent
• Maine: 24 percent
• Massachusetts: 28 percent
• Oregon: 31 percent
• Nevada: 32 percent
• Washington: 32 percent
• Connecticut: 32 percent
• Hawaii: 32 percent
• District of Columbia: 32 percent

[See the full list of the most and least religious U.S. states]

Gallup officials said cultural differences and the geographic spread of different religions could explain the state-level variations in religiousness revealed in the poll.

Protestants, for examples, have "above-average religiousness," according to Gallup, and the Southern states have a higher percentage of Protestants than the rest of the nation. In contrast, states in New England have a higher percentage of those with no religious identity at all.

In some states, there seems to be a strong cultural predisposition to be religious. According to Gallup, Protestants in Mississippi are more religious than Protestants in Vermont, and even those who don't identify with any organized religion in Mississippi are still more religious than Vermonters with no religious identity.

The rankings are based on more than 174,000 phone interviews conducted nationwide throughout 2013 as part of the Gallup Daily tracking survey. The results were weighted to be representative of each state's adult population by gender, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity and education, based on Census data, Gallup officials said.

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