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The Mindset List for the Class of 2017 (Beloit College) 27 Aug 2013 | 05:28 pm
Each year as the new crop of college freshmen leave their families and begin the journey into adulthood, Beloit College reminds the rest of us how we are by offering a list of perspectives held by thi...
Omnivore - The Antispeciesist Revolution: On Animal Intelligence, Personhood, and Morality 27 Aug 2013 | 05:08 pm
This collection of links on animal rights, animal intelligence, animal consciousness, animal morality, and a whole lot more, appeared on Bookforum's Omnivore blog a couple of weeks ago. The antispeci...
Body Scan Mindfulness Meditation (Channel N) 27 Aug 2013 | 05:02 pm
This is pretty good - relax and enjoy. Body Scan Mindfulness Meditation By SANDRA KIUME The gentle voice of Florence Meleo-Meyer of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society a...
Documentary: A Profile of Elon Musk, Founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX 26 Aug 2013 | 07:13 pm
Elon Musk is the personification of the wunderkind. After completing undergraduate degrees in economic and physics at the University of Pennsylvania, he then moved to the Silicon Valley to pursue a Ph...
Dreaming as Mind Wandering: Evidence from Functional Neuroimaging and First-Person Content Reports 26 Aug 2013 | 06:46 pm
Mind wandering has been a hot topic in neuroscience and consciousness research for the past decade or so. In essence, mind wandering is exactly what it sounds like - it is what happens when we are not...
Virginia Hughes - Consciousness Is a Process 26 Aug 2013 | 06:16 pm
This cool article comes from the Only Human blog at National Geographic. Using the recent study that showed a mouse brain remains active for 30 seconds after death as a jumping off point, Virginia Hug...
NPR: Follow Your Weird 25 Aug 2013 | 07:45 pm
With this year's Burning Man Festival about to kick off, NPR's To the Best of Our Knowledge (TTBOOK) has devoted their show this week to "following your weird." Among their guests this week are Erik D...
Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts (Why Introverts Just Might Be the Best Leaders) 25 Aug 2013 | 07:17 pm
From FORA.tv: Citing the leadership of hesitant leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Rosa Parks, Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking,...
The Wisdom of Tenderness: Jean Vanier on Lived Compassion, L'Arche, and Becoming Human 25 Aug 2013 | 03:20 am
From NPR's On Being with Krista Tippett, this is a replay of an engaging and uplifiting conversation with Jean Vanier, a Canadian Catholic philosopher turned theologian, humanitarian, and the founder ...
Schizophrenics Used to See Demons and Spirits - Now it's Actors and Hidden Cameras (and They Make a Lot of Sense) 25 Aug 2013 | 03:19 am
Here is another outstanding article from Aeon Magazine, this one a look at how delusional disorders have shifted over the years, written by cultural historian Mike Jay. Using a 2012 paper (The Truman ...
