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Teaching the neurons to meditate

In the late 1990s, Jane Anderson was working as a landscape architect. That meant she didn't work much in the winter, and she struggled with seasonal affective disorder in the dreary Minnesota winter months. ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Calm after the storm

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Japanese have impressed the world with the relative calm and order they have maintained in the aftermath of one of the world’s worst natural disasters.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers study whether yoga can calm overactive hearts

Can doing the downward-facing dog keep your heart from racing out of control? Alicia Jones is hoping so.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Sonic Cradle lands spot in TED exhibition

A Simon Fraser University graduate student project that melds music, meditation and modern technology has landed a rare spot as an exhibit at TEDActive 2012 in Palm Springs, California this month.

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mechanism of calming hyperactivity by psychostimulant drugs identified

It has long been known that psychostimulant drugs have the paradoxical effect of reducing hyperactivity. [Psychostimulant drugs include methylphenidate – known by the trade names Ritalin, Concerta, and Methylin – ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cutting-edge cocktails light up New York

You're not allowed to light a cigarette in New York bars, but there's nothing to stop a bartender from setting your cocktail on fire with a 815 degrees Celsius (1,500 degrees Fahrenheit) poker.

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Namaste, travelers! SFO opens airport yoga room

(AP) -- Stressed out by flying?

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Marriage therapist says high-conflict couples have work to do before saying 'I do'

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Kansas State University marriage therapist has Valentine's Day advice for couples contemplating commitments and engagement rings: Mix romance with a generous portion of reality.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Twitter CEO says blocking policy over-distilled

(AP) -- Twitter CEO Dick Costolo sought to calm the global outrage over the company's new country-by-country censorship policy on Monday, complaining in part that the issue is being treated with the same kind of shorthand ...

Technology / Internet

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 2

For most Mexicans, the digital age is still out of reach

Israel Vasquez, 12, has no computer or Internet access at home, but he needs both to do his homework.

Technology / Other

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Big Tobacco led throat doctors to blow smoke

(Medical Xpress) -- Tobacco companies conducted a carefully crafted, decades-long campaign to manipulate throat doctors into helping to calm concerns among an increasingly worried public that smoking might ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Shipwrecked: Women and children first?

Barely three months short of the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic, which went down on 15 April 1912, another shipwreck has galvanised the world’s attention. With tragic stories of loss, chaos and ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

World's first magnetic soap produced

Scientists from the University of Bristol have developed a soap, composed of iron rich salts dissolved in water, that responds to a magnetic field when placed in solution. The soap's magnetic properties were ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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