MUST SEE – Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s Stroke of Insight
Quinoa: The Top-Secret, Super-Food
Packed with protein, loaded with fiber, and older than Peru, quinoa is one of the most nutritious foods on the planet
How Do Lives of Addiction Begin Now?
Disturbing news from Pitt Medical researchers...are we really doing right by our kids now or just taking the easy way out and letting them be the judge of whether or not a life of addiction is really worthy of their lives now? Please take time to read this and then decide...comments please!
Facts About the Human Body
Get Ready to Christmas Eve Sky Show
Thanks to Larry for sharing this with us...
Hi! I thought you'd be interested in this story from Science@NASA: Consider it an early Christmas gift: On Dec. 24th the Moon and Mars are putting on a pleasing late-night sky show.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/20dec_christmaseve.htm?friend science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/20dec_christmaseve.htm
Science's Response to the Study of Dreams
World Clock
How Your Brain Makes Decisions for You
Pitt-Led Study Maps Making of Decisions in Human Brain
Separate brain regions work in an assembly line to evaluate a situation and make a decision, according to study results published in Journal of Neuroscience
PITTSBURGH-The brain, the human supercomputer, might work more like an assembly line when recognizing objects, with a hierarchy of brain regions separately absorbing and processing information before a person realizes what they are seeing, according to new research conducted at the University of Pittsburgh and published in the Oct. 31 edition of the Journal of Neuroscience.
Led by Mark Wheeler, a psychology professor in Pitt's School of Arts and Sciences, and conducted at Pitt's Learning Research and Development Center, the research is a step toward mapping the human decision-making process. This study used an innovative technique and analysis to show that human decision-making is a collaboration of brain regions performing individual functions. Future work based on these findings could lead to a better understanding of how decisions-good and bad-are made and the considerations people put into them.
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Money CANNOT Buy You Happiness!
The nonlinear nature of how much happiness money can buy--which is, lots more happiness when it moves you out of penury and into middle-class comfort, but very little when it lifts you from millionaire to decamillionaire--comes through clearly in global surveys that ask people how content they feel with their lives.
LDD - Leadership Deficiency Disorder
'Hobbit' Not a Modern Human Being
WASHINGTON (Sept. 22) - Scientists, wringing their hands over the identity of the famed "hobbit" fossil, have found a new clue in the wrist. Since the discovery of the bones in Indonesia in 2003, researchers have wrangled over whether the find was an ancient human ancestor or simply a modern human suffering from a genetic disorder. Scientists on Friday reported that a "hobbit" woman who lived 18,000 years ago was not a modern human, but rather an ancient ancestor.
