the Art of Connecting
The Science and Philosophy of Friendship: Lessons from Aristotle on the Art of Connecting*by Maria Popova* *“Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.”* *“A principal fruit of friendship,”* Francis Bacon wrote in his timeless meditation on the subject,*“is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.”* For Thoreau, friendship wasone of life’s great ... mais »
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The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back The NSA has undermined a fundamental social contract. We engineers built the internet – and now we have to fix it • Explaining the latest NSA revelations – Q&A - [image: Bruce Schneier] - - Bruce Schneier - The Guardian, Thursday 5 September 2013 20.04 BST - Jump to comments (720) [image: Internet business cables in California.] 'Dismantling the surveillance state won't be easy. But whatever happens, we're going to be breaking new ground.' Photograph: Bob Sacha/Corbis Government and industr... mais »
long-term memory
Proteins that are vital to long-term memorySeptember 16, 2013 (Credit: iStockphoto) Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute(TSRI) have found a group of proteins called Wnts that are essential to the formation of long-term memories. These proteins send signals from the outside to the inside of a cell, inducing a cellular response that is crucial for normal functioning of the adult brain (and aspects of embryonic development, including stem cell differentiation). “By removing the function of three proteins in the Wnt signaling pathway, we produced a deficit... mais »
Cooperation = Health
A radical new holistic view of health based on cooperation and disease based on competitionSeptember 16, 2013 A cytoscape analysis of all candidate genes identified at least twice and for which network information was available shows that many of the candidate genes are tightly linked to each other (credit: Marion Dejosez et al./*Science*) Researchers at The Mount Sinai Medical Center havedeveloped a radical holistic view of health — seeing it as a cooperative state among cells, while they see disease as result of cells at war that fight with each other for domination. Their unique a... mais »
Got rhythm?
Got rhythm? You can learn languages and reading better The surprising link between music, rhythmic abilities and language skills; can music training help you learn to read? September 18, 2013 Mechanical metronome (credit: Wikimedia Commons) Northwestern University researchers have found biological evidence linking the ability to keep a beat to the neural encoding of speech sounds. The study has significant implications for reading, according to Nina Kraus, director ofNorthwestern’s Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory. The study demonstrates that accurate beat-keeping involves synchronizatio... mais »
Power of Diverse Minds
How to Exploit the Power of Diverse Minds A good idea can be powerful. Many of them, in a network of diverse minds, can be more powerful still By The Editors 7 inShare Share on Tumblr [image: State of the World's Science 2013, Test Tubes]State of the World's Science 2013The growing connectedness of the world and the rising contribution of scientists and engineers from all continents have broadened the possibilities for human creativity »September 19, 2013 [image: Linked Chain in Beacons] Image: *Kotryna Zukauskaite* In Brief - Big corporations used to midwife good ... mais »
Inventiveness
When It Comes to Inventiveness, How Do Nations Compare? To foster innovation, a nation must take advantage of its location, history and culture, and reach outward to foreign markets and talent By Soumitra Dutta , Daniela Benavente and Sacha Wunsch-Vincent 10 inShare Share on Tumblr [image: State of the World's Science 2013, Test Tubes]State of the World's Science 2013The growing connectedness of the world and the rising contribution of scientists and engineers from all continents have broadened the possibilities for human creativity »September 19, 2013 [image: Two business... mais »
RABIRIUS
*Referência para meus amigos e parentes arquitetos e apreciadores da arte e fotografia* Rabirius (architect) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia *Rabirius* was an Ancient Roman architect who lived during the 1st and 2nd Century AD. His designs included the massive Flavian Palace, situated on the Palatine Hill at Rome, and the Alban Villa at present-day Castel Gandolfo, both erected on a commission by his patron, emperor Domitian.[1] Domitian's care for the architect may have been mirrored by Vespasian and Titus, his son, as the Colosseum in Rome (across from the Palatine Hill) resem... mais »
Chronobiology
*Artigo referido pela AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja*Chronobiology: Stepping out of time - Michael Eisenstein Nature 497, S10–S12 (23 May 2013) doi:10.1038/497S10aPublished online 22 May 2013 Article tools - PDF - Citation - Reprints - Rights & permissions - Article metrics How can people better adapt to an 'unnatural' world of artificial lighting and alarm clocks? Subject terms: - Sleep - Circadian rhythms and sleep By the time Elizabeth Klerman boards the train to go to her office at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, the c... mais »
Imagination
Where is imagination located in the human brain?September 18, 2013 *[+]*[image: Schlegel-mental-workspace-image-high-res.jpg] Eleven areas of the brain are showing differential activity levels in a Dartmouth study using functional MRI to measure how humans manipulate mental imagery (credit: Alex Schlegel) Imagination lies in a widespread neural network — the brain’s “mental workspace” — that consciously manipulates images, symbols, ideas and theories and gives humans the laser-like mental focus needed to solve complex problems and come up with new ideas, Dartmouth researchers conclude ... mais »
Forgetting
A gene for forgetting Could lead to new PTSD treatments September 20, 2013 [image: mit_memories_fade_away] (Credit: Christine Daniloff/MIT) A new study from MIT reveals a gene that is critical to the process of memory extinction (when older memories are replaced with new experiences). Enhancing the activity of this gene, known as Tet1, might benefit people with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by making it easier to replace fearful memories with more positive associations, says Li-Huei Tsai, director ofMIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. The Tet1 gene appears to control... mais »
Violent Video Games
A Plea for Caution: Violent Video Games, the Supreme Court, and the Role of Science Ryan C. W. Hall, MD, Terri Day, JD, LLM, MSSA, and Richard C. W. Hall, MD Additional article information Abstract On November 2, 2010, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of *Schwarzenegger v Entertainment Merchants Association*, with a ruling expected in 2011. This case addressed whether states have the right to restrict freedom of speech by limiting the sale of violent video games to minors. To date, 8 states have tried to pass legislation to this effect, with all attempts being found un... mais »
Aging
Google seeks the fountain of youth By Charlie Osborne | September 19, 2013, 1:39 AM PDT Some of the best minds of my generation will eventually be destroyed by aging -- but not if Google can help it. Can the world's greatest information indexer really solve humanity's most universal problem?|*- Aly Windsor*, News Editor 0Comments more + - - - - - - - Think Google, think search engine, autonomous vehicles, Android and offices complete with gourmet food and slides. You don’t immediately associate the tech firm with the ageing process. However, according to t... mais »
Foucault
Google doodle honors Foucault and his pendulum - [image: Foucault's pendulum Google doodle] Google changed its doodle to honor Leon Foucault, inventor of the famed pendulum that demonstrated Earth's rotation. (Google / September 18, 2013) - - [image: How a comet impact may have jump-started life on Earth -- and elsewhere]How a comet impact may have jump-started life on Earth -- and elsewhere - Did life on Earth start on Mars? A scientist lays out the evidence - [image: Sun's magnetic field is about to flip: What it means for Earth]Sun's magnetic field is ... mais »
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