Its hilarious to read the irony of Majid Ezzati... "Ezzati says he saw such disparities after the fall of the Soviet Union and after the social networks fell apart in Eastern Europe." Ezzati says "That monitoring should be telling us something about what sort of interventions, what sort of policies can reverse this an...(Read more...)
Emotional Distractions Hobble Memory Formation Posted by William Dwyer on 4/20, 10:36pm
Emotionally powerful distractions hobble memory formation. For the first time, researchers have seen in action how the "hot" emotional centers of the brain can interfere with "cool" cognitive processes such as those involved in memory tasks. Their functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) images of human volu...(Read more...)
Discovery of yet another big reserve of oil, this time in Brazil, brings back this alternative viewing of the nature of oil, just where it comes from, how it is created....... (Read more...)
A friend just sent me on this link, about a young Yale student, performance artist, i.e. the body as the art medium. This is the concept shared with the performance piece in Grand Central Station. "The student, Aliza Shvarts, was quoted in the the Yale Daily News as saying that the project was meant to explore t...(Read more...)
