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Exteriorizing the Inner Realms: Occult revelations in the art of ‘Abraxas’
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 of the editors of the journal ABRAXAS. See on journal.extra-ordinarium.com
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How the brain works during meditation | neuroscientistnews.com
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. Mindfulness. Zen. Acem. Meditation drumming. Chakra. Buddhist and transcendental meditation.…
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New target for chronic pain treatment found | neuroscientistnews.com
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 Mark Zylka, PhD, Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology,…
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Flies take time over tough decisions
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 was four or five times weaker, but chose randomly if…
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When PhDs realize they won’t be professors – Macleans.ca
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 9,000 Ph.D. graduates working as entry-level “postdoctoral researchers” in Canada.…
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US Navy funds morality lessons for robots (Wired UK)
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 comes to making logical decisions (such as, the only winning…
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We Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy – Existential Comics
Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Awesome! See on existentialcomics.com
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the FCC’s Net Neutrality Proposal
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
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Here’s How Netflix Is About to Change Radically
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 not throw hundreds of choices at people all at once.…
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Video reveals entire organism’s neurons at work
Researchers image complete nervous system in real time. See on www.nature.com
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Deconstructing God
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 adopted a new position, for which you will require new…
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Phenomenology: a beginner’s understanding
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 Merleau-Ponty The philosopher argues that while empiricism, psychology, and neurology…
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Phenomenology & Practice
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
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The future soldier: part human, part machine
The U.S. military has big plans for wearable tech in the coming years. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: The Soldier 2.0 See on www.cnbc.com
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We are dead stars | the Atlantic
The buddy-friend-guy just played this for me. Really nice account of our relation to the cosmic order. Every atom in our bodies was fused in an ancient star. NASA astronomer Dr. Michelle Thaller explains how the iron in our blood connects us to one of the most violent acts in…
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Even Conservative Judges Can’t Deny the Constitutional Logic of Same-Sex Marriage – The Daily Beast
Who would have thought, just a few years ago, that the states on the vanguard of marriage equality would be the deepest red states? But here we are: From December’s decision in Utah to the past two weeks in Arkansas and now Idaho, we’ve seen a string of a dozen…
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Mutants and Mystics
Cool book… Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal Jeffrey J. Kripal Offers a brilliantly insightful account of how comic book heroes have helped their creators and fans alike explore and express a wealth of paranormal experiences ignored by mainstream science In many ways, twentieth-century America was…
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