The Lost Art of Letter Writing
In this age of mobility and information, there simply isn't any time for such a thing as a long, flowing, hand-written letter.
In this age of mobility and information, there simply isn't any time for such a thing as a long, flowing, hand-written letter.
Art Markman, Ph.D. | Posted 05.16.2012
Working memory capacity is the amount of information that people can hold in mind at once. All of us have a relatively limited amount of information we can think about at any one time, but there are differences between people in the size of working memory.
Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D. | Posted 05.10.2012
It can be said that society "clips and trims" the human mind -- our daily consciousness and perceptions -- in order to form a general consensus in thinking.
Ira Israel | Posted 05.05.2012
I hope that all of us can be brave enough in the future to release our fears and set examples of peace, love, understanding, and authentic eyeball-to-eyeball communications and connections that others will want to emulate.
William Horden | Posted 05.03.2012
Is there an inner compass we can trust to guide our steps to an enduring sense of well-being in these turbulent times?
Ira Israel | Posted 04.30.2012
I never realized what an idiot I was until I started meditating. Let me rephrase that: I never realized how limited my mind was until I tried practicing mindfulness meditation.
Gangaji | Posted 03.25.2012
To consciously choose to be without thought is the gateway to direct experience. If we are bound to our thinking process for our reference points of reality, we will ask only those questions guaranteed to keep attention on analysis, cause and effect and conceptual evaluation.
Vivian Norris | Posted 03.10.2012
"... They are finding that the isolation and separation of objects from each other is more apparent than real; at deeper levels, everything --atoms,...
Amy Russell | Posted 09.23.2011
Sometimes I'll let my thoughts get deeper, and I reflect on my life, what I'm doing, the other people in my life; those who have been significant, those who I might have just met...
Peter Baksa | Posted 09.07.2011
Pray and you will get what you desire, what you need. Why? Because matter is made up of energy and thought is a form of energy, so it follows that thoughts can manifest in our reality.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.17.2011
If you want to distract yourself and raise your thoughts, what do you think about? Do you consider the elephant, contemplate the heavens, or something similar?
Eric Maisel, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
The thinking module I'm proposing fosters critical thinking and creativity, makes use of the resources a school already possesses, and helps students move beyond narrow, subject-based specialization.
Eric Maisel, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
I have a simple, doable suggestion to make with regard to radically reimagining the education of children. Let's let our children actually think for 45 minutes a day.
Terry Newell | Posted 05.25.2011
"The mind, once enlightened, cannot again become dark." - Thomas Paine to Abbe Raynal, 1782 Thomas Jefferson wanted only three things on his tombsto...
Patrice Bendig | Posted 05.25.2011
Pulling all-nighters in college is not an out-of-the-ordinary activity. During my academic career, I had to pull a few during finals week. The morning...
Judith S. Beck, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
All of a sudden, I do a cognitive shift. I realize I have a choice. I can make the worst of the situation (continue bellyaching to myself) or make something better of it. Why not?
Tom Morris | Posted 11.17.2011
You don't have to become a French Existentialist or even a country music songwriter in order to cultivate thoughts about some of the most important issues of our existence.
Tom Morris | Posted 11.17.2011
This week, The New York Times launched a new online commentary called "The Stone," where academic philosophers, professors at our colleges and univers...
Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 11.17.2011
In a world where "overcoming" is the usual approach to dealing with problems, there is little time made for proactive moves that do more for us than remove worry - they create peace.
www.mochiads.com | MochiAds | Posted 05.25.2011
The game resembles a normal tetris, with the only difference being that in order for a blocks combination disappeared it is necessary that the sum of digits on blocks be equival to a certain constant. With the mouse, drop tiles in the grid. Try to make adjacent tiles (columns or rows) add up to the required value. Use power-ups to assist in your progress.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.17.2011
Dorothea Brande was an American writer and editor, well known for her books Wake Up and Live and Becoming a Writer (a useful resource for writers, by ...
Richard Laermer | Posted 05.25.2011
What if restaurants put a bin near the door for our cell phones, Blackberries, etc? Consider what would happen when our dining companions got up to use the bathroom, leaving us alone. With our solo thoughts.
Andrew Lam | Posted 05.24.2012