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Catching Waves and Turning Them Into Electricity
Continue reading Catching Waves and Turning Them Into Electricity
Eight weeks to a better brain – Meditation study shows changes associated with awareness, stress
Participating in an eight-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress. In a study that appear in the Jan. 30 issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, a team led by Harvard-affiliated researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) reported the results of their study, the first to document meditation-produced changes over time in the brain’s gray matter.
Terraforming Mars: Turning the Red Planet Green
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Terraforming Mars: Turning the Red Planet Green
Here’s how scientists think we could turn Mars into Earth 2.0… Continue reading Terraforming Mars: Turning the Red Planet Green
This is Your Brain on Dreams, with Michio Kaku
When we slip into sleep and embark on a subconscious journey through our dreams, what exactly is our brain up to? Theoretical physicist, best-selling author, and all around cool guy Michio Kaku returns to Big Think to discuss the science of dreaming, as well as everything Freud got right about our subconscious: Continue reading This is Your Brain on Dreams, with Michio Kaku
You have 70,000 thoughts a day. This is how to organize them for maximum productivity
The average person has 70,000 thoughts each day, and if you don’t learn to organize them, they have the potential to wreak havoc on your productivity. Continue reading You have 70,000 thoughts a day. This is how to organize them for maximum productivity
Is Human Evolution still Occurring?
Humans have evolved: are we still doing so? Very slowly perhaps, but what’s really changing is how we are adapting to the natural environment. And here, the nerds are winning.