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Pray and meditate enough and some changes in the brain become permanent. Long-term meditators - those with 15 years of practice or more - appear to have thicker frontal lobes than nonmeditators. People who describe themselves as highly spiritual tend to exhibit an asymmetry in the thalamus - a feature that other people can develop after just eight weeks of training in meditation skills. "It may be that some people have fundamental asymmetry [in the thalamus] to begin with," Newberg says, "and that leads them down this path, which changes the brain further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Biology of Belief | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

There aren't many writers who have ascended into the literary ionosphere and then fallen back down to earthly obscurity with the nose-bleeding steepness of Barthelme. In the 1970s, he was considered the future of literature, and he still has fanatical supporters, my family being Exhibit A. But mostly he's regarded as a dead, twisted branch on the evolutionary tree of American letters. The first major biography of him, Tracy Daugherty's Hiding Man (St. Martin's; 581 pages), should help correct that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Donald Barthelme: America's Weirdest Literary Genius | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...wanted to focus on faces, because I wanted to focus on the eyes and capture a pivotal moment in a person’s journey in life.” Elswick’s attention to eyes serves as one of the strongest elements of the exhibit. Along with the absence of titles, the eyes encourage spectators to bring their own experiences to the painting while trying to discover what the character is experiencing and feeling at that moment. The ability to bring individual experiences to the work and create a unique vision of the piece allows the viewer...

Author: By Melanie E. Long, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: African, Irish Influence in 'Seven' | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

Hello, Dali. What began as a temporary exhibit in Berlin has now become, due to popular demand, a permanent museum of the works of Salvador Dali. The museum's website is in German only, but the 450 drawings, books, sculptures and film clips on display need no translation. Leipziger Platz 7, Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion Week's Couture Tea Cakes and Other Travel News | 2/9/2009 | See Source »

...Students Choose” exhibit might have looked unwelcoming, tucked away in the Sert Gallery in the Carpenter Center. But this Visual and Environmental Studies exhibit was just the way to remind Harvard students of the power art can have and its sophisticated way of providing both artists and viewers an alternative way to explore and express.The first segment of the two-part exhibit ran from January 20-30—the second part is currently on exhibition through February 13—and featured the work of 13 student artists from various fall semester VES studio classes. Each...

Author: By Erika P. Pierson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Students Choose' and Express with VES | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

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