Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Buddha Break 2007.03.06

  • Top 10 ways to improve your mental fitness and make your brain age younger.

  • "If marijuana were a new discovery rather than a well-known substance carrying cultural and political baggage, it would be hailed as a wonder
    drug.
    "

  • Scientists have discovered why some individuals may be predisposed to drug addiction and believe it may lead to better treatments for this brain disorder.

  • Make sure you go to bed early because lack of sleep affects moral judgment.

  • Daniel Gilbert on the "The Vagaries of Religious Experience."

  • Contemplate this: AI vs. meditation (re: Minsky's The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind & Alan Wallace's Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge).

  • Insight from metapsychologist Isabel Gois into Benjamin Libet's "Mind Time: The Temporal Factor in Consciousness."

  • Genes and fortune determine happiness.

  • Couples share patterns of life satisfaction.

  • Mindfulness in mood disorders.

  • Massaging young minds.

  • Human compassion surprisingly limited.

  • Christology and the Human Body.
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