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When people engage in prayer, it's the frontal lobes that take the lead, since they govern focus and concentration. During very deep prayer, the parietal lobe powers down, which is what allows us to experience that sense of having loosed our earthly moorings. The frontal lobes go quieter when worshippers are involved in the singular activity of speaking in tongues - which jibes nicely with the speakers' subjective experience that they are not in control of what they're saying...
...Before education became the focus of his career, Duncan’s life centered around basketball. Though Duncan grew up in Hyde Park, he spent much of his childhood on the South Side where he had the chance to play competitive street ball. “Education came later, basketball came first,” says Duncan’s younger brother Owen. “His real great dream was to become a professional basketball player. It was somewhere between devotion and obsession...
...typewriter in his magazine-strewn room, Sunstein refused, declaring, “too much play and too little work makes Cass a dull boy.”According to McArdle, such occurrences were common, especially during Sunstein’s years as an upperclassman when he decided to focus on writing. “He had this weird thing where he’d be hunched over the typewriter kind of like Glenn Gould over the piano,” says McArdle. “He’d type with one finger on each hand, incredibly fast. He?...
...growing prison population, the current capacity issue is also a product of problems in our legal system and our conception of punishment. The legal system is designed to penalize those who commit crimes and to decrease the likelihood of persons committing subsequent crimes—for many offenses, the focus should not be on punishment, but on rehabilitation and preventive measures...
...number of writers in the media have noticed that people have become numb to the negative information around them. The focus of the individual has moved inward to his own economic survival. Attaching that to some reference point in the outside world becomes too painful when all of the news is alarming...