How We Can Live Together…
More than 30 years ago, an Egyptian-born Dominican monk, Bruno Hussar, wanted to create a place where people…
Month: September 2011
Two’s a crowd
dichotomy – a division into two mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities. Two things can be true at…
You Are What You Write – The Alphabet Effect.
Broadly speaking, there are two distinct types of writing systems – logographic and alphabetic. A logographic system is one…
“Look at the bird…” – information versus knowledge.
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re…
Interesting Discoveries About the Brain (9)
Language and reading seem to us in our society to be interchangeable but while language exists all over…
Interesting Discoveries About the Brain (8)
Sleep and the Brain When you are alert, your brain generates Beta Waves. When you are awake and…
Interesting Discoveries About the Brain (7)
Though the biggest part of our brains are composed of structural cells called glial cells and astrocytes, in…
Interesting Discoveries About The Brain (6)
Music to Our Ears In his book, Musicophilia, neurologist Oliver Sachs says, Anatomists would be hard put to…
Interesting Discoveries About the Brain (5)
Our ability to focus is invaluable. It helps us to understand, to problem solve, even to invent. However,…
Interesting Discoveries About The Brain (4)
You see what you believe. In their book, Sleights of Mind – What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about…