Engage in “sensory sorcery” with Pam Grossman, New York-based associate editor for Abraxas as she takes us on a tour through five incredible esoteric art pieces. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Very intriguing conversation on esoteric and occult art with one… Continue reading

Meditation is more than just a way to calm our thoughts and lower stress levels: our brain processes more thoughts and feelings during meditation than when you are simply relaxing, a coalition of researchers from Norway and Australia has found.… Continue reading

Researchers at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine have found a new target for treating chronic pain: an enzyme called PIP5K1C. In a paper published May 21 in the journal Neuron, a team of researchers led by… Continue reading

Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: After training fruit flies to avoid a new smell at a specific intensity, the researchers offered them a choice between that dangerous odour level and a weaker one. The flies did well when the safe option… Continue reading

Young academics struggle with the transition from school to work Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: The Postdoc Survey, a partnership between the Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars andMitacs (an organization that coordinates industry-university research partnerships, including internships) consulted 1,830 of the estimated… Continue reading

Scientists to explore the challenges of providing autonomous robots with a sense of right and wrong — and the consequences of their actions As we all learned from the 1986 film War Games, machines have the upperhand in warfare when it… Continue reading

Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Awesome! See on existentialcomics.com Continue reading

This is our chance to tell the government how to guarantee a free and open internet. Here’s a rundown of key issues so you can make your voice heard. See on www.truth-out.org Continue reading

Using Netflix will not always involve scrolling through endless lists of movies served up by genre or because you watched one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer last summer. A Netflix executive says in the future, the streaming service may… Continue reading

Researchers image complete nervous system in real time. See on www.nature.com Continue reading

Can reading abstruse French theory lead to religious belief? Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Always a pleasure to read Jack Caputo.  “If you cease to “believe” in a particular religious creed, like Calvinism or Catholicism, you have changed your mind and… Continue reading

Originally posted on ann e michael: http://www.themontrealreview.com/pics2/mereau-ponty-image.jpg “Phenomenology is the attempt to discover the origin of the object at the very centre of our experience…[to] describe the emergence of being and…how, paradoxically, there is for us an in-itself.”              Maurice… Continue reading

Phenomenology & Practice is a human science journal dedicated to the study of the lived experience of a broad range of human practices. See on www.phandpr.org Continue reading