May 17, 2008
One thing I know about meditation: it does afford the practitioner the opportunity to take a daily look at how the brain functions -- even when we don't particularly want it to!
At the session of one of our artists' support...
Dan Agin | Posted April 24, 2008 | Media
The supply of garbage about the human brain thrown at the public by the media seems endless. It seems anytime media people need a junk science story that plays into what they think people want to hear they just close their eyes and grab something out of a pickle barrel.
...Alvaro Fernandez | Posted April 21, 2008 | Living
Did you know that, no matter your age, your brain will probably have new neurons by the end of today? And that some of your decisions will have an impact on that number -- and on how long new and existing neurons survive?
A decade after the...
Gary Marcus | Posted March 22, 2008 | Living
I'm not talking about sticking your head in fMRI scanner, which, so far as anybody can tell, is perfectly safe. (Unless you happen to have a pacemaker or pieces of shrapnel in your head, in which case you might want to give the whole procedure a miss).
No,...
Joseph LeDoux | Posted October 15, 2007 | Entertainment
Emily Dickinson said in one of her poems that "The brain is wider than the sky." I've been trying to narrow it down for the past 25 years, especially in terms of how it makes emotions, and how it goes wrong in emotional disorders. One of the key problems that...
On Tuesday night's "Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert had fun with...
From the AP: Democrat John Edwards endorsed former rival Barack Obama on Wednesday, a...
*** UPDATED BELOW *** President Bush has said repeatedly that he would not insert himself into the...
As the odds get longer and longer, the obvious question is: Why doesn't Hillary Clinton gracefully concede...
It's a pretty well known fact that most women - attractive women -...
Utterly insane goings-on tonight on...
NEW UPDATE BELOW As violence in Iraq continues -- clashes today left 11 dead and 19 injured -- President...
Just off the House floor today, the Crypt overheard House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers tell two...
Tonight, Keith Olbermann unleashed what may well have been his...
The Democratic Party has finally decided who's going to break it to Hillary that it's time...
George W. Bush is unworthy of the presidency. He is a disgrace to himself,...
Peter Clothier | Posted May 14, 2008 | Living