New study on the effects of meditation on the brain
There have been a number of studies documenting the effect of meditation on the brain, enough so that the claim that “meditation rewires your brain” is one that
Is there a downside to seeing everything as a skill?
Skill sees to be everywhere, and everything, it seems, is now a skill. Compassion is a skill, as you can discover in a day-long seminar with Kristen New. In
“Stillness… is a skill, and as a culture we’re not practicing this skill much these days”
The Greater Good Science Center’s Christine Carter argues that “we have gotten really, really bad at just doing nothing,” and it’s taken a toll. Stillness—or the ability to
Athletes, academic performance, and the stereotype threat
A couple months ago Annie Murphy Paul wrote about new research demonstrating that the “stereotype threat”— the negative effect that stereotypes about low academic performance can have on
“We’re teaching our players: Sleep is a weapon”
The Globe and Mail has an article about how Canadian hockey and American football teams, like the San Francisco Giants, have turned to sleep experts to help their
“people with ADHD have an overactive imagination as opposed to a learning disability”
The Takeaway with John Hockenberry has a brief piece on Scott Barry Kaufmann’s work on the neurological evidence that the same parts of the brain that are most
“He found that he almost ‘craved’ using the device:” on reports of Google Glass addiction
You might have seen articles recently on a case of a man with Google Glass addiction. It’s been written about in the Guardian, BBC, Fast Company, io9, and
Is Einstein history’s greatest “don’t give up your day job” story?
From Walter Isaacson’s Einstein: His Life and Universe: So it was that Albert Einstein would end up spending the most creative seven years of his life— even after
Unstructured time and self-directed executive functioning
Another study examining how unstructured time is important for kids: a Frontiers in Psychology article on how “Less-structured time in children's daily lives predicts self-directed executive functioning.” From the
Mindfulness improves brain computer interface control
This is very interesting: a team at the University of Minnesota led by Bin He, a professor of biomedical engineering, has conducted a study measuring the ability of