From the Atlantic’s Is Google Making Us Stupid?: “Thanks to the ubiquity of text on the Internet, not to mention the popularity of text-messaging on cell phones, we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. But it’s a different kind of [...]
Tag Archives: brain
Study shows marijuana increases brain cell growth
January 13, 2008 – 12:03 pm
From Simon Fraser University’s student newspaper’s Study shows marijuana increases brain cell growth: “Supporters of marijuana may finally have an excuse to smoke weed every day. A recent study in the Journal of Clinical Investigation suggests that smoking pot can make the brain grow.”
Right Brain vs Left Brain Creativity Test
December 13, 2007 – 12:00 pm
From the Right Brain vs Left Brain Creativity Test at The Art Institute of Vancouver: “Being creative or artistic doesn’t mean you know how to draw or play an instrument. Being creative is a way of thinking, a way of viewing the world.” [Find out how your brain works by taking the test.]
How Baboons Think (Yes, Think)
October 9, 2007 – 12:18 pm
From the NY Times’ article, How Baboons Think (Yes, Think): “As Darwin jotted down in a notebook of 1838, “He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.’”
Homo politicus: brain function of liberals, conservatives differs
September 10, 2007 – 11:22 am
From Physorg.com’s article, Homo politicus: brain function of liberals, conservatives differs: “Using electroencephalographs, which measure neuronal impulses, the researchers examined activity in a part of the brain — the anterior cingulate cortex — that is strongly linked with the self-regulatory process of conflict monitoring. The match-up was unmistakable: respondents who had described themselves as liberals [...]
Links for June 15, 2007
June 15, 2007 – 10:33 am
Updated 1:45 p.m.
20 Ways to Get and Stay Happy: “As experts gather for the International Conference on Happiness, TIME looks at proven ways to find more joy in life.”
The Unspeakable: Buried Alive in Your Own Skull “Science published a report on a young woman devastated by a car crash in England. For five months after [...]
Can “neurotheology” bridge the gap between religion and science?
April 26, 2007 – 11:50 am
Can “neurotheology” bridge the gap between religion and science?: “Donning chain-mail hoods of electrodes and contemplating universal peace and love, the [Tibetan] monks [including the Dalia Lama] show EEG patterns that appeared to be laced with higher than normal levels of gamma waves—even after they stopped meditating. These higher-frequency vibrations have been proposed as a [...]
Scientists discover ’shadow person’
September 25, 2006 – 12:26 pm
“Ever feel as though you’re being followed? As if someone is behind you, shadowing your every move? It might be your ‘shadow person’, created by unusual activity in a specific brain region, a new study shows.
Study detects prejudice in the brain
June 30, 2006 – 11:52 am
Sure, you might say you’re not prejudiced, but your brain knows different. And now, thanks to a new study, scientists know too. The study found that, “while individuals may consciously see members of social out-groups as people, the brain processes social out-groups as something less than human.” Now, would you please stop looking at me [...]
Green Mountain College Student’s Neuron Suddenly Becomes Sentient
March 17, 2006 – 12:00 am
“Icthanatos ichor hemophile.â€
Those were the first words spoken to Ramona Schwartz by her neuron. They sounded just as ridiculous the first time as they do now, but because they came from inside her head, Ramona found them less humorous than others might.
Ramona does not have a psychological pathology. The voice that comes from inside her [...]
