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Mind & its Potential
Our regular readers may recall a post about the Mind & its Potential conference in late October and a reference to this conference in the weekly “Complete this quote”. The Vajrayana institute organised and hosted their annual “Mind & its potential” conference this week. There were a choice of two pre-conference workshops, two packed days of presentations, a gala dinner that raised well over $7000 for the Lifehouse foundation and eight post-conference workshops. It was a fantastic jam-packed week of meaty brain-related presentations and workshops! Some of the biggest stars from the Brain Sciences and Buddhist traditions were on stage for an incredible show of collaboration, integration and contemplation. With my long-held interests in Buddhism and the brain, this conference was a must-see event for the latest developments in both areas.
Wednesday Round Up #92
This week it’s music, anthropology and mind once we get the highlights out of the way.
Top of the List
Ed Yong, How Our Skin Helps Us To Listen
How your skin, along with your ear, is also involved in listening. So, can you hear me now? Your body matters to your brain, and our old concept of dedicated mental modules, encapsulated for specific functionality, just doesn’t match up with the reality of how the brain works.
Lisa Maruka & HotBook, Class Schedule: History of the Book: Literacy, Technology, Culture
Get a whole semester’s worth of reading on reading! Some fascinating links to understanding books using an interdisciplinary approach.
Neuroskeptic, Mental Illness vs. Suicide
Do countries with more mental sickness have more suicides? The assumption has often been yes, but worldwide data doesn’t support that. A good consideration of both the data and the assumption
Dr. X, Happy Thanksgiving
I loved these photos of a small boy at Thanksgiving
Scicurious, Mapping the Glutamate Receptor
Neurotopia with some pretty pictures and great description of a new paper in Science that gets all colorful (and structural too) with glutamate
Independent Lens, Journals of a Wily School
This documentary is amazing. It shows what anthropologists often hope to illustrate – the impact of both inequality and meaning, in this case for a young pickpocket in Kolkata who is part street leader, part police informer – and you get to see him caught up in both realities at once.
Music
Jonah Lehrer, Creation on Command
How does an act of imagination come about? Looking at how jazz improv and brain scans help reveal our internal artist
Neuroanthropology 