Stuck in a Rut? Meditation Can Help Get You Out.
via Big Think by Orion Jones
Experimental psychologists at the University of Negev, Israel, have concluded that just a few weeks of meditation training are sufficient to help individuals think more creatively and change mental patterns that may be harmful to their health.
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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Franco, Hitler, and Stalin pursued a common goal: Destroy Europe’s political elite, and tilt the continent’s focus from colonization to self-colonization... more
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Lack of Single Protein Causes Persistent Viral Infection
via Big Think by Orion Jones
Article written by guest writer Rin Mitchell
Researchers from the Scripps Research Institute have discovered a protein believed to aid in the passing of viral infections. Based on a study that examined mice affected with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV), the mice that lacked the TLR7 protein were unable to clear the infection – whereas the mice with the protein could clear the virus in two to three months.
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“Frog in Your Throat?”, 1900s
via Retronaut by Amanda
Source: Kosmic Dreams with loads more images than the selection that Amanda made for Retronaut.
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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Have fiction and philosophy parted ways? Novelists used to take big, abstract questions and make them real. Now, it seems, writers don't even try... more
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Is War Inevitable?
via Big Think by Orion Jones
War Is Inevitable
“At the present time,” said famous biologist EO Wilson, “we are still fundamentally the same as our hunter-gatherer ancestors, but with more food and larger territories.” According to Wilson, that explains why wars have persisted, albeit at less frequent intervals and on smaller scales.
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Sugar, Sugar 2
via How-To Geek by Asian Angel
In this game you indulge in sugary-sweet fun as you control the direction sugar flows while working to fill all the empty cups waiting for you. Whether it is a downward flow, redirected off-screen and back, reverse gravity, or teleportation you will certainly find your ingenuity tested as you try to win before the flow of sugar runs out!
You can follow Asian Angel’s walk-through here or take a chance and go straight to the game here.
There are two other Sugar games: the original Sugar, Sugar and Sugar, Sugar: The Christmas Special.
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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
E.O. Wilson has always relished a good fight. Now he's turned on the ideas about human nature that made him famous. Here comes the backlash... more
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Cellophane Ads c.1930s-1950s
via Retronaut by Chris
See the rest of Chris’s selection here
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Coal Fleet: 1910
via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive - Vintage Fine Art Prints by Dave
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, circa 1910
“A coal fleet”
8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company
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