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What’s the Single Best Thing You Can Do for Your Brain and Health?
This piece of advice comes from Matthew Walker, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at UC Berkeley, as reported at The Atlantic Monthly website: “I think you have about 16 hours of optimal functioning before the brain needs to go offline … Continue reading
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Have You Lived Today?
If so, I suppose that would mean that you: did something novel as opposed to habitual; slowed down and noticed things; thought; loved; valued; took some risks; and either identified with Dionysus or channeled with discipline your Dionysian energies into … Continue reading
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Bottom Line: Exercise 30 Minutes a Day
A must-see YouTube by Dr. Mike Evans of the University of Toronto:
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Listen to Reason? The Laws of God vs. the Laws of Man
Below are some public mug shots of Amish men serving brief sentences in a Kentucky jail. Their crime? They refused to put yellow reflectors on their horse-driven buggies when using public roads. Their religion does not permit them to display … Continue reading
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Tagged America, amish, civil disobedience, determination, discipline, God, Henry David Thoreau, Jesus, michelle bachmann, notes from underground, religion, Sarah Palin
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Change Your Mind, Change Your Brain?
This was in the Los Angeles Times this past month: For the Trappist monks at the Abbey of New Clairvaux, life follows a pattern centuries old. They spend their days in the field and their nights in silence. They gather in prayer … Continue reading
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Prometheus Unbound 