Month: June 2014
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Meditation. Compassion. Ancient knowledge, long gone...
Mounting evidence of the impact of contemplative practices like meditation (which we now know can, quite literally, rewire the brain) are finally bringing modern science up to speed with ancient wisdom. Mindfulness and compassion -- the practices of cultivating a focused awareness on the present moment, and extending a loving awareness to others -- are…
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Oil spills, purple elephants, science as a tool of politics.
Much of the methane released by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout hung around until the end of that year. In a new study of data collected in the months after the spill, scientists report that the numbers of methane-munching microbes plummeted while the gas was still abundant. The result contradicts an earlier report, which suggested…
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Watson, computers, humans becoming them...
In 2007 IBM began a research project to build a supercomputer that could quickly and accurately understand questions. Seven years later, the computer called Watson has shrunk in size and is now going mobile - IBM has challenged developers to come up with ways to take advantage of its computing power. BBC Click's Sumi Das finds out…
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Learning.
Are your lectures droning on? Change it up every 10 minutes with more active teaching techniques and more students will succeed, researchers say. A new study finds that undergraduate students in classes with traditional stand-and-deliver lectures are 1.5 times more likely to fail than students in classes that use more stimulating, so-called active learning methods.…
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Experience the unexperienced. Dream reality...
Researchers found a way to make you experience lucid dreaming (a state where you are aware that you are dreaming and can consciously alter your dream and control your experience in it) by electrically stimulating the brain during sleep. (1) Oh how void we really are. How arrogant and shallow at the same time. Our…
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