I received this article over email recently, and I want to share it with the Earthsky community:
THE WAKING UP SYNDROME
by Sarah Anne Edwards and Linda Buzzell
“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” - T. S. Eliot
Just dealing with our daily lives keeps most of us too busy to worry about whether or not the sky is […]
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The waking up syndrome
Published April 28th, 2008 in Attitudes, Psychology, Change, Faith, Mental health, Education, Life, Environment, Health, Human World, Innovation, Body and Mind, Trends, Ideas and Uncategorized. 1 CommentAre you right-brained or left-brained? Find out!
Published October 28th, 2007 in Brain Science, Right Brain/Left Brain, Psychology, Mind, Images, Visual Imagery, Human World, Body & Mind, Body and Mind, Quiz and Uncategorized. 20 CommentsIn the last few days I have received “The Spinning Lady” several times over email. In early October, Australia’s Herald Sun published an article with an animated image of “The Spinning Lady” who has fascinating characteristics, the beauty of which is definitely in the eye of the beholder. Those viewers using predominantly the […]
The bees, continued, en francais
Published September 11th, 2007 in Colony Collapse Disorder, News in French Sciences, Crops, Bees, Body and Mind, Agriculture, Animals, Earth and Uncategorized. 14 CommentsI ran across an article in Futura-Sciences concerning the bee problem known as Colony Collapse Disorder. After a barrage of information earlier this summer, we are now experiencing a new wave of information. This interview is with Bernard Vaissiere, researcher for the French National Institute for Agricultural Research. He responds to the […]
The key to genius
Published August 25th, 2007 in Autism, Savantism, Gifted and Talented, IQ and Intelligence, Body and Mind and Uncategorized. 4 CommentsWay back in December of 2003, Wired Magazine published an article by Steve Silberman called The Key to Genius, in which he discussed the extraordinary gifts of austistic savants. Born with “miswired neurons,” these special individuals with Autism can do amazing things completely outside the range of the ability of ordinary individuals. For […]
Obesity in the u.s.
Published July 27th, 2007 in Statistics, Trends, Obesity, Body and Mind and Uncategorized. 15 CommentsEvery now and then I see something that makes me speechless, and that just happened around midnight tonight as I was surfing the Web. Here is a link to an illustration of the rise of obesity in the U.S. over the past 20 years. There are several charts included: 1985, 1991, 1995, […]