"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them."
~ Paul Valery
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BODY
~ Journal Pages To Download -- Something to help you stay on track with your New Year's resolutions. And here is some more help: Healthy and Happy List.
~ For those of you who are skinny and want to get big without getting fat, try Lonnie Lowry's Strategic Overeating for Mass.
~ Estrogen Curbs Appetite In Same Way As The Hormone Leptin.
~ Benefits Of Eating Fish Clearly Outweigh Risks -- Mercury has been in the press a lot of late, but this study suggests that there is more risk in not eating fish.
~ Study: Amniotic fluid yields stem cells -- Cool, another way to circumvent governmental idiocy.
~ If it's in the house, parents will eat it -- Another good reason not to feed your kids junk food.
~ Coenzyme Q10 benefits people with heart failure.
PSYCHE
~ Feeling Blue This Winter? According To A New Survey, You're Not Alone. Seasonal affective disorder sucks.
~ Brain Studies Reveal The Mechanisms Of The Voluntary Control Of Visual Attention -- "Neuroscientists at Duke University have mapped the timing and sequence of neural activations that unfold in the brain when people focus their attention on specific locations in their visual fields."
~ Augmented cognition: Science fact or science fiction? -- "The limitations of cognitive processes, particularly attention and working memory, place a ceiling on the capacity of the brain to process and store information. It is these processes that some researchers are aiming to enhance with augmented cognition, an emerging field which aims to use computational technology to enhance human performance in various tasks by overcoming the bottlenecks in processes such as attention and memory."
~ Why Confess? -- "If we're truly sorry for our sins, why do we have to confess them to another human being?" This is a Catholic argument, so be warned.
~ What Memories Are Made Of: Researcher Uses A Comparative Approach To Study Plasticity Of Recall.
~ Emotion Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorders -- "Like alexithymia, those with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are also known to have problems processing emotional information. This may at least partially account for some core features of autistic behavior: especially problems in social interactions."
~ Consciousness and the Brainstem -- This post uses terms familiar to integral psychology, but is decidedly not integral in its approach.
~ Borderline -- "Narcissism- what I believe to be the primary disease of our times-- is one side of a coin. The other side-- the narcissist's enabler-- is the borderline."
~ Brad at Hardcore Zen is rockin' it: ENLIGHTENMENT Part A Million.
~ The Art of Relating from Mushin at Love, Truth, Beauty -- it's an audio download.
CULTURE
~ Looking for Mr. Right -- "Conservatives aren't very happy about the leading G.O.P. contenders for President. So they're beating the bushes for a candidate they can love."
~ How the U.S. Is Losing the PR War in Iraq -- "Insurgents using simple cell-phone cameras, laptop editing programs and the Web are beating the United States in the fierce battle for Iraqi public opinion."
~ US Congress Tackles Earmark Spending -- It's about time.
~ Dying Church Gives Keys to its Competitor -- "A "dying" Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala, which had dwindled to about 40 elderly white people, decided to give their church and everything in it -- including the cemetery and the 9-foot-Steinway concert grand piano -- to a thriving predominantly black Baptist congregation started in 2003 that had no building to call its own."
~ Mental Health Risks Vary Within The U.S. Black Population -- "The longer Black Caribbean immigrants stay in the U.S., the poorer their mental health becomes. That's one finding from a new study that examined the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among Black individuals in the U.S."
~ Over 200 Million Children Under 5 Failing To Reach Their Potential In Cognitive Development -- "More than 200 million children under 5 years fail to reach their potential in cognitive development because of poverty, poor health and nutrition, and deficient care, reveals the first paper in a three part Series on child development, which begins in this week's issue of The Lancet."
~ Quinn Norton on Body Hacking at 23c3 -- Body hacking - Functional body modification.
~ Where Rampant Scientism Takes You -- "When science replaces religion, it becomes more and more like religion, and in the minds of its worshipers, can justify the same sorts of inhumanities."
HABITATS
~ Can GM's Electric Car Go the Distance? -- "Hoping to catch up to Toyota, General Motors is unveiling the Chevy Volt concept car, a plug-in hybrid that runs on pure electricity. But will it actually hit the highway?"
~ The Green Mayor -- A look at Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.
~ Interview with Melinda Kramer of Women's Global Green Action Network.
~ Ten Stories You May Have Missed -- From WorldChanging.
~ Environment at Center of Canada Cabinet Shakeup -- "Stung by criticism of its environmental policy and preparing for a possible election this year, Canada's government made sweeping changes to its cabinet Thursday and promised to do more to fight climate change. "
~ World May Be Facing Highest Grain Prices in History -- "The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) projects that distilleries will require only 60 million tons of corn from the 2008 harvest. But here at the Earth Policy Institute (EPI), we estimate that distilleries will need 139 million tons—more than twice as much."
~ My buddy Jay makes some good points: Single Sex Education: Yes, But What If You’re Gay?
~ Decentralization of taste and lowest common denominator choices -- From Michel Bauwens at P2P.
INTEGRAL
~ Kent at Zaadz is looking for input: Any Thoughts on Integral Journalism or Integral Truth?
~ Paul Salamone makes some good points: The Attention Economy and Integral Institute.
~ A Whole Writing critique of Andrew Sullivan's "Into Africa" from Joe Perez on Until fame. See also: The Four Core Types.
~ By the way, Joe is having some health issues (A symptom that gets noticed) -- Let's all send him some healing energy to get his T-cell count up. Even the emotional lift of knowing many of us care about him and his well-being is enough to boost his immune system.
~ Integral Practice - Alan Kazlev is up over at Integral World.
~ Transcend and include from Mystery of Existence.
~ Ed Berge at Open Integral posts How much for that spiritual practice in the window?
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