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Are Emotions Prophetic?
For thousands of years, human beings have looked down on their emotions. We’ve seen them as primitive passions, the unfortunate legacy of our animal past. When we do stupid things – say, eating too much cake, or sleeping with the wrong person, or taking out a subprime mortgage – we usually blame our short-sighted feelings. People commit crimes of passion. There are no crimes of rationality.
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The Personal Analytics of My Life – Stephen Wolfram
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One day I’m sure everyone will routinely collect all sorts of data about themselves. But because I’ve been interested in data for a very long time, I started doing this long ago. I actually assumed lots of other people were doing it too, but apparently they were not. And so now I have what is probably one of the world’s largest collections of personal data
How to Change Your Life – SmartMoney.com
Arends: MIT research suggests the key to breaking a bad habit lies in identifying both its cue — and its reward.
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New Kind of Memory Trick May Help Drug Addicts Recover – MedicalXpress
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In Sitting Still, a Bench Press for the Brain – NYTimes.com
In Sitting Still, a Bench Press for the Brain
The role of meditation in brain development has been linked to the idea of increased cognitive capabilities.
Unhurtful Thoughts: A Preoccupied Brain Produces Pain-Killing Compounds
Unhurtful Thoughts: A Preoccupied Brain Produces Pain-Killing Compounds
Spinal scans reveal the mechanism by which intense thinking can block pain receptors in the nervous system
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Mind Games: Sometimes a White Coat Isn’t Just a White Coat – NYTimes
Published: April 2, 2012
What we wear can affect not only what people think of us, but also the way our brains work, a study involving a doctor’s coat shows.
The Power of Music: Mind Control by Rhythmic Sound
New Orleans, October 16, 2012 – You walk into a bar and music is thumping. All heads are bobbing and feet tapping in synchrony. Somehow the rhythmic sound grabs control of the brains of everyone in the room forcing them to operate simultaneously and perform the same behaviors in synchrony. How is this possible? Is this unconscious mind control by rhythmic sound only driving our bodily motions, or could it be affecting deeper mental processes?
Study Discovers Internal Trigger for Panic Attack in the Previously Fearless
An experiment involving a woman incapable of experiencing fear because of brain damage suggests a different path for signals generated by internal bodily stress like heart attacks.