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The Museum of Possibilities
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by einbar  2-4-2011    2
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How the brain's architecture makes our view of the world unique
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by einbar  12-5-2010   
 "We are all familiar with the idea that our thoughts and emotions differ from one person to another, but most people assume that how we perceive the visual world is usually very similar from person to person. However, the primary visual cortex – the area at the back of the brain responsible for processing what we see in the world around us – is known to differ in size by up to three times from one individual to the next".
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Life Unseen: Images of Magnificent Microscopic Landscapes
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by einbar  11-23-2010    1
 we can find beauty in places we did not suspect—inside a flower from a roadside weed, in the anatomical details of a flea or under a mushroom growing on a dead tree
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The Connection between Creativity and Mental Illness
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by einbar  11-23-2010   
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A Mystery: Why Can't We Walk Straight?
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by einbar  11-23-2010    1
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Why Your Decisions are Always Right or why are humans so good at fooling themselves?
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by einbar  9-28-2010    2
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The evolution of a relationship
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by einbar  9-25-2010    1
  “ tackles this puzzle by imagining the human bond of friendship as a living organism and posing a number of questions that a natural historian might ask. How does friendship work? How does it develop and change in diverse environments? How does it intersect with kinship and romantic relationships? And how might it have evolved?”
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Where Good Ideas Come From?
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by einbar  9-24-2010    3
 That’s the real lesson: Chance favors the connected mind.” ~ Steven Johnson
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Watch the skies - what other forms of intelligence might be like?
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by einbar  9-24-2010    1
 This raises the question of whether we would recognise alien intelligence if we met it And perhaps, more importantly, would it recognise it in us?
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Don't believe your eyes: This year's best illusions
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by einbar  9-21-2010   
 2010 Best Illusion of the Year Contest
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Me, Myself and My Stranger: Understanding the Neuroscience of Selfhood
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by einbar  9-21-2010   
 New case studies focus on rare illusory body perceptions that could answer questions about how we maintain a "self"
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Six ways that artists hack your brain
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by einbar  9-21-2010    2
 "Here we take you on a grand tour of the burgeoning field of neuroaesthetics. You’ll find out how Claude Monet bypasses your consciousness and plugs straight into your emotions, how Salvador Dali triggers neural conflicts and how Renaissance art and trompe l’oeil fool us into believing the impossible. And we turn the spotlight on the artist’s mind, revealing how Wassily Kandinsky drew on his synaesthesia to produce some of the most celebrated artworks of the 20th century".
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Brain matter linked to introspective thoughts
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by einbar  9-17-2010    1
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“There was a woman at Alexandria named Hypatia"
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by einbar  9-15-2010    6
 Hypatia of Alexandria (370 – 415 d.C.) was a keen philosopher , mathematician, astronomer,, Hypatia is also famous for having been murdered by Christians fanatics as “devoted at all times to magic, astrolabes, and instruments of music.”
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The library of human imagination -
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by einbar  9-13-2010    2
 Jay Walker, curator of the Library of Human Imagination
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How Desire Affects Perceptions of Distance
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by einbar  9-10-2010    2
 When we judge distance, desired objects seem nearer
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Incredible close-up shots of mantises
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by einbar  9-8-2010    1
 ‘I got my picture at exactly the right moment and it was very special for me because I had waited a couple of hours for something interesting to happen. After that I decided to called the picture ‘patience.’.
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What Does It Mean to Be Human?
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by einbar  9-8-2010    4
 What does it mean to be human? Centuries worth of scientific thought, artistic tradition and spiritual practice have attempted to answer this most fundamental question about our existence. And yet the diversity of views and opinions is so grand it has made that answer remarkably elusive. While we don’t necessarily believe such an “answer” — singular and conclusive by definition — even exists, today we make an effort to understand the wholeness of a human being without compartmentalizing humanity into siloed views of the brain, emotion, morality and so forth. So we look at this complex issue from three separate angles — evolutionary biology, philosophy and neuroscience — hoping weave together a somewhat more holistic understanding of the whole.
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Need to Want Less
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by einbar  9-6-2010   
 The disconnect between our wants and needs is one of the most fundamental and universal paradoxes of being human. Virtually everyone comes in contact with it in various levels of intensity. That piece of rich flourless chocolate cake after a perfectly healthy and nourishing meal. The lover you so desire even though you don’t need all the drama Read more: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/09/06/need-to-want-less-erin-hanson/#ixzz0ymzBC6Uu
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‘Self Comes To Mind’: Your Brain On Music
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by einbar  9-5-2010    4
 Self Comes To Mind is a collaboration between composer Bruce Adolphe and neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, known for his research and writing on the evolution of human consciousness
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The Wonders of Man in the Age of Simulations.
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by einbar  9-5-2010    1
 "The problem that confronts man in the 20th and now 21st centuries, as Hannah Arendt writes, is that we face the danger that we might so fully create and make our artificial world that we endanger that quality of human life which is subject to fate, nature, and chance. To bring oneself up to date on this current version of the debate over our human, superhuman, and inhuman futures, three recent books serve as excellent guides." The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier Simulation and Its Discontents by Sherry Turkle
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insight into superstitious behavior
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by einbar  9-4-2010   
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How do we determine the racial background of a person that we have just met?
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by einbar  9-4-2010   
 Study shows skin tone is not the major determinant of perceived racial identity
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Trying To Do Too Much
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by einbar  9-3-2010   
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Mapping the Mind: Online Interactive Atlas Shows Activity of 20,000 Brain-Related Genes
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by einbar  9-3-2010    1
 Researchers at the Allen Institute for Brain Science have developed an online interactive atlas of the human brain showing the activity of the more than 20,000 human genes.
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Are Two Heads Better Than One? It Depends
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by einbar  9-1-2010   
 "Are two heads really better than one? It seems the answer is yes, but success depends on the competency and confidence of the individuals involved"
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Body Painting Evolved -
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by einbar  8-31-2010    1
 Blending the human body seamlessly into a textile design with body painting techniques
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The Ancient Book of Sex and Science
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by einbar  8-30-2010   
 "In 80 whimsical pages, the collection of vintage-inspired artwork is a voyage into the human mind, with all of its carnal obsessions and romantic mythologies".
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The moments of connecting to others that touched peoples' lives the most"
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by einbar  8-30-2010   
 the events that end up being most important in our lives,are social events -- moments of connecting to others and feeling their connections to us."
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If time is so strange, why does it seem so normal?
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by einbar  8-30-2010   
 “Ever since Einstein, physicists have been telling us that time – this steady tick-tock of the universe – is much weirder than we think. It doesn’t flow in a single, linear direction, or beat like a steady metronome. Instead, it depends on all sorts of peculiar cosmi variables. We speed up, time slows down And there’s nothing in the mathematical laws of physics that says time can only go forward. In theory, at least, the hands of your clock can tick in both directions. But if time is so strange, then why does it seem so normal? Psychologists and neuroscientists are now beginning to explore the phenomenology of time, beginning not with spacetime but with the fleshy brain”
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If we are only a reflector of information, are we really there?
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by einbar  8-30-2010   
 The defining idea of the coming era is actually the loss of an idea we never had to worry about losing before. It is the decay of belief in the specialness of being human
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Why humans are really, really bad at reasoning??
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by einbar  8-29-2010    2
  " Failures of logic, are in fact effective ploys to win arguments".
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Solitude conjures imaginary companions
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by einbar  8-28-2010    4
 "Lonely people can make themselves a mindful gadget, a thoughtful pet, or a god to populate that world"
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“That which is created by mind, is more real than matter.”
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by einbar  8-26-2010   
 Upside down,,,
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Could self-aware cities be the first forms of artificial intelligence?
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by einbar  8-24-2010   
 The cities of the future will be huge and super-dense — but will they also be alive?
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7 must-see What’s My Line? appearances by some of history’s sharpest minds
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by einbar  8-24-2010    2
 7 must-see What’s My Line?: SALVADOR DALI 'WALT DISNEY,ALFRED HITCHCOCKEL,EANOR ROOSEVELT
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Living in denial - Why are so many people refusing to accept what the evidence is telling them?
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by einbar  8-24-2010   
 "In this special feature we look at the phenomenon in depth. What is denial? What attracts people to it? How does it start, and how does it spread? And finally, how should we respond to it? "
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Dark restaurant alters appetite and eating
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by einbar  8-21-2010    1
 What we see, it seems, plays a big role in how hungry we feel
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Do philosophic views affect job performance?
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by einbar  8-21-2010   
 "Belief in free will predicted job performance better than conscientiousness, belief in influence over life events and a commitment to a ‘Protestant work ethic’ where diligent labour is seen as a benefit in itself"
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The ability to recognize one’s emotions.
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by einbar  8-14-2010    1
 A critical aspect of self-awareness is the ability to recognize and temper one’s emotions.
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