“Recent research suggests that rituals may be more rational than they appear. Why? Because even simple rituals can be extremely effective. Rituals performed after experiencing losses – from loved ones to lotteries – do alleviate grief, and rituals performed before… Continue reading

See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Alice Bell: If we don’t recognise the politics of science, we will just get played by those who do Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: "…Play into a game of hierarchies, and even if you don’t… Continue reading

What we watch is changing how we watch. And how we watch now across many forms of media and via many kinds of recording and/or through streaming is changing how creative types are creating for us. But the name for… Continue reading

The new study offers an unexpected insight: the large majority of noncoding DNA, which is abundant in many living things, may not actually be needed for complex life, according to research set to appear in Nature. The clues lie in… Continue reading

With the German verb wandern literally meaning “to hike,” the literal definition of the compounded “wanderlust” is a “desire to hike” although it has been colloquially appropriated to encompass strollers and roamers in a looser sense. http://nowheremag.com/2013/04/etymology-of-wanderlust/ Continue reading

See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions In a grandiose display of Foucauldian irony, one of the greatest anti-capitalist debates of our time has been reduced to an intellectual commodity. See on roarmag.org Continue reading

See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them. See on www.ted.com Continue reading

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Originally posted on The Dish: Not everyone is saying “not in my backyard”: On Tuesday, voters in Youngstown, Ohio, gave the fracking industry carte blanche to continue pumping chemicals into the ground beneath them and pumping natural gas out. A city… Continue reading

The origin of some of the words we use today go back much further than scientists once thought, suggesting an Ice Age-era proto-language that spawned many of the world’s contemporary linguistic groups, according to a new study by a group… Continue reading

Just a tad bit too fracking cool really. Cannot believe I did not hear about this two years ago. Continue reading