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...sounder basis for morality than the unprovable dogma of an immortal soul. It's not just that an understanding of the physiology of consciousness will reduce human suffering through new treatments for pain and depression. That understanding can also force us to recognize the interests of other beings--the core of morality...
...brain is generating another obsessive thought. Don't I know it is just some garbage thrown up by a faulty circuit?" After 10 weeks of mindfulness-based therapy, 12 out of 18 patients improved significantly. Before-and-after brain scans showed that activity in the orbital frontal cortex, the core of the OCD circuit, had fallen dramatically and in exactly the way that drugs effective against OCD affect the brain. Schwartz called it "self-directed neuroplasticity," concluding that "the mind can change the brain...
...hours wasted by passengers waiting at security, on container and cargo controls, on cumbersome border checks, on the expansion of police and intelligence personnel - not to speak of the nonmonetary costs of civil liberties curtailed. On the other hand, globalization just gallops along. "We told you so," hard-core practitioners of the dismal science might crow. "Economics beats politics any time." The mighty dynamics of expansion seem to bear them out. So does the history of the first globalization, from 1850-1914. There were lots of small wars then: the Crimean one, the wars of German unification, a spate...
...foresees more good years to come, at least until 2010. Globalization is acting precisely as predicted - as an engine of growth that accelerates investment by leveling borders and speeds up consumption by driving down prices. These competitive pressures also bear down on costs, and so money remains cheap while (core) inflation is safely confined. If U.S. growth has slowed a bit, Japan and Euroland are no longer a drag on the global economy. More significant is the uptick in confidence. Last year, those morose Europeans called off their consumption strike, and so consumer spending is up by around 2%. That...
This being examination period, the imminence of second semester seems hard to believe. But even as students sit in Lamont cubicles, surrounded by Core readings that had been assigned in September, the first day of shopping period looms just over two weeks away. Courses need to be selected, and academic plans need to be formed. Faculty members can assist students with this process by doing something that’s both remarkably easy and enormously helpful: posting the syllabi of spring semester courses online during reading period. Students can shop only so many courses during shopping period, and the rapid...