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...There is no denying they are part of a minor phenomenon on the Asian music scene. Audiences in the region are demonstrably drawn to fetching violinists who can play the moldies?as long as compositions are laced with contemporary hooks, dance beats, and the occasional hip thrust. Record labels are busy marketing other young fiddler-cum-vamp acts such as Diana Yukawa of the U.K., American Hilary Hahn and Akiko Suwanai of Japan...
...implications of this “mind over matter” phenomenon have major implications for both pain management and a variety of nonmedical spheres, Spiegel said...
...What is really interesting about modernization, or any cultural phenomenon, is not where it came from, but what happens to it after it arrives,” she said...
This is certainly a strong point—and, probably, a correct one. But if, as the remarkable progress of neuroscience continually indicates, we can pin down (as Freud conceded might be possible) the exact physical location of mental phenomenon like pain—then why can’t we treat that physical location and thereby alleviate the mental problem? We do not need to rob from mental experiences, as Kim puts it, “their qualitative character, their special accessibility to our awareness, and their privacy” in order to affect and enhance them by chemically...
While the warm winter is beneficial to sun-loving students and to the school’s energy consumption, it may note troubling worldwide phenomenon...