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Consciousness is the brain's Wi-Fi - SF State News - San Francisco State UniversitySAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30, 2009 -- Your fingers start to burn after picking up a hot plate. Should you drop the plate or save your meal? New research suggests that it is your consciousness that resolves these dilemmas by serving as the brain's Wi-Fi network, mediating competing requests from ...
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Dead Salmon 'Responds' to Pictures of People | LiveScience(especially where those can be drawn from multiple sources / places AND over a great period of time – think warehoused / stockpiled for months or years from some type of mining verses just acquired from another type). It began in 2005 when Bennett picked up a salmon at a local market. An hour ...
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Matt Walker: Secrets of the Sleeping Brain | FORA.tvWhy do we sleep? Although science has yet to explain the reason we spend one-third of our lives in this bizarre state, an exciting theory suggests that sleep can solidify newly learned memories by rewiring the architecture of brain. Emerging neuroscience evidence also indicates that sleep can ...
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Medical marijuana moves mainstreamMedical marijuana moves mainstream July 6th, 2009 By Dana Hull David Goldman has a chronic headache, but help is on the way. A driver arrives at his apartment and rings the doorbell, checks Goldman's ID card, then hands over a small bag of marijuana.
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Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism - Events - An Evening with Legendary Psychologist Paul Ekman, on His New Book with the Dalai LamaAn Evening with Legendary Psychologist Paul Ekman, on His New Book with the Dalai Lama
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Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism - Events - An Evening with Legendary Psychologist Paul Ekman, on His New Book with the Dalai LamaA unique bond formed between the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman when the two first met in 2000. The leader of Tibetan Buddhism and the renowned Western-trained scientist soon realized that despite their different educational and religions backgrounds, they shared the same motivation for analyzing ...
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Chip Conley: Are You Working in a Fear Factory?Are You Working in a Fear Factory? You can catch much worse than the flu at work. W. Edwards Deming, the father of the total-quality movement in business, once said that the primary duty of every leader is to remove fear from the workplace. Smart man. Today, our workplaces have become "fear ...
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In San Francisco, a Coed Retreat Dedicated to Female Sexuality - NYTimes.comThe Pleasure Principle SAN FRANCISCO EVEN in a culture in which sex toys are a booming business and Oprah Winfrey discusses living your best life in the bedroom, a coed live-in commune dedicated to the female orgasm hovers at the extremes. The founder of the One Taste Urban Retreat ...
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Improving Brain Processing Speed Helps MemoryImproving Brain Processing Speed Helps Memory ScienceDaily (Feb. 11, 2009) — Mayo Clinic researchers found that healthy, older adults who participated in a computer-based training program to improve the speed and accuracy of brain processing showed twice the improvement in certain aspects of ...
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FORA.tv - Steven Pinker - Why Politicians Use Empty LanguageThe Commonwealth Club of California San Francisco, CA Sep 12th, 2008 Psychologist Steven Pinker explains the reasons why political rhetoric tends to be vague, empty, and bland. Veiled innuendo allow politicians to avoid angering voters while speaking to supporters who understand the coded language....
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