Scientia Pro Publica #16: Us, Friends, and Society

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 16, 2009 |

Wel­come to the 16th edi­tion  of Sci­en­tia Pro Pub­li­ca, the blog car­ni­val  that cel­e­brates the best sci­ence, nature and med­ical writ­ing pub­lished in the blo­gos­phere with­in the past 60 days. What are some of the fas­ci­nat­ing top­ics you can explore and dis­cuss with this group of blog­gers? Sci­ence & Us The Evolv­ing Mind: What’s the point of…

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Meditation and The Brain

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 26, 2008 |

Superb blog arti­cle by Newsweek’s Sharon Beg­ley: The Lotus and the Synapse, intro­duc­ing a new Study that shows com­pas­sion med­i­ta­tion changes the brain. To read the orig­i­nal paper led by Richard David­son and Antoine Lutz, click Here. We will be cov­er­ing this in more detail next week.

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Manage your feelings for conflict resolution

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 25, 2007

Stephanie West Allen kind­ly alert­ed us of her impres­sive new ini­tia­tive and blog, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Dr. Jef­frey M. Schwartz, titled Brains On Pur­pose. They have part­nered to bring a series of sem­i­nars on neu­ro­science and con­flict res­o­lu­tion: Port­land, Ore­gon, in Novem­ber 2007, and San Fran­cis­co Bay Area in Jan­u­ary 2008-so far. Dr. Schwartz has…

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