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20 11, 2016

Nursery rhymes and brain development (Pallab Ghosh, BBC)

By |2016-11-19T07:37:27-05:00November 20th, 2016|2016, Debate / dialogue, education, Europe, Everything Else, health, Language, News, November, science, STEM, Technology|0 Comments

Nursery rhymes and brain development: "baby talk" of parents brings children in sync with their brain waves, helping them learn. From the article: The early indications are that when the brain waves of mothers and babies are out of sync, the babies learn less well. But when the two sets of brainwaves are in tune [...]

4 10, 2016

The 17th-C. Plague in London: Now We Know (Nicole Staybridge, BBC)

By |2016-10-03T17:01:33-04:00October 4th, 2016|2016, Academia, Debate / dialogue, Europe, Everything Else, health, History, Literature, Medicine, News, October|0 Comments

The 17th-C. plague in London: now we know. How DNA (and Daniel Defoe) reveal the killer bacteria's identity in one of history's longest cold cases. From the article: Testing in Germany confirmed the presence of DNA from the Yersinia pestis bacterium - the agent that causes bubonic plague - rather than another pathogen. Some authors have previously questioned the [...]

16 08, 2016

Therapy and the nurture of nature (Fiona Macdonald, BBC Culture)

By |2016-09-04T23:44:58-04:00August 16th, 2016|2016, August, Europe, health, History, Literature, News, poetry, U.S. / Canada, Writing|0 Comments

Therapy and the nurture of nature: how landscape and the natural world foster (from the Greek, therapeia) wholeness. From the article: For many writers, the act of observing nature has healing properties. Amy Liptrot found it from returning time again to the same spot, and feeling more aware each time of “the height of the tide, [...]

26 07, 2016

Gnomic genomics of happiness (Will Storr, The New Yorker)

By |2016-09-04T23:50:52-04:00July 26th, 2016|2016, Academia, Everything Else, health, July, News, Philosophy, psychology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Gnomic genomics of happiness: is happiness in our genes, and can our euphoria alter the way our genes express themselves? From the article: The study indicated that people high in eudaemonic happiness were more likely to show the opposite gene profile of those suffering from social isolation: inflammation was down, while antiviral response was up. Since [...]

13 07, 2016

Caring for the soul: where psychiatry and religion meet (Richard Gallagher, Washington Post)

By |2016-09-13T21:39:02-04:00July 13th, 2016|2016, Academia, Debate / dialogue, Everything Else, health, History, July, Medicine, News, psychology, Religion, science|0 Comments

Caring for the soul: where psychiatry and religion meet. Religion and science collaborate in order to help the spiritually afflicted, and thereby challenge the doctrinal conventions of each. From the editorial: Is it possible to be a sophisticated psychiatrist and believe that evil spirits are, however seldom, assailing humans? Most of my scientific colleagues and [...]

29 06, 2016

Egyptian knowledge, health, and piety

By |2016-11-02T11:52:10-04:00June 29th, 2016|2016, Africa, Everything Else, health, June, Literature, Medicine, Quotes, science|0 Comments

Egyptian knowledge, health, and piety: Herodotus, the Greek "Father of History," remarks on Egyptian learning and character. The Egyptians who live in the cultivated parts of the country, by their practice of keeping records of the past, have made themselves the most learned any nation of which I have had experience. I will describe some of [...]

22 06, 2016

Literature, therapy, and healing (Andrew Solomon, The Guardian)

By |2016-11-02T11:52:10-04:00June 22nd, 2016|2016, Academia, Debate / dialogue, Europe, Everything Else, health, History, June, Language, Literature, Medicine, News, science, Writing|0 Comments

How language -- its clarity, immediacy, and nuance -- is vital to both patients and doctors, for it can overcome the split between scientific specialization and the experience of suffering. From the article: Many of the great doctors have been writers, and those who have not have required writers to set down their insights. Hippocrates, Galen, [...]

8 06, 2016

The Joy of Reading (Ceridwen Dovey, The New Yorker)

By |2016-09-13T23:34:14-04:00June 8th, 2016|2016, Europe, Everything Else, health, June, Language, Libraries, Literature, Medicine, News, Philosophy, psychology|0 Comments

The joy of reading: can reading offer therapy to those in distress and provide a greater sense of well-being? From the article: For all avid readers who have been self-medicating with great books their entire lives, it comes as no surprise that reading books can be good for your mental health and your relationships with others, [...]

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