It begins with the body

Reblogged from Broken Brain - Brilliant Mind:

If the body is stressed, and you don't do something about it, the mind is going to suffer.

People love to separate "mind and body" as though the two could ever be separated. Many intellectually developed people I know -- who are high-level professionals and leaders in their fields -- are quite antagonistic towards their bodies. They don't seem comfortable living in them.

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How capitalism is turning the internet against democracy, and how to turn it back

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“For Barlow, and the early pioneers of the internet, they were forming a new and different ‘Social Contract’, a governance that “arises according to the conditions of our world, not yours” informed by egalitarian values and the golden rule. Barlow’s vision captured the giddy optimism of early internet culture. This was a culture deeply hostile to commerce and government regulation that saw in the internet a utopian space that would usher in an age of democracy, open culture and participation.”

Tony Harewood‘s insight:

Curious for other opinions…

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Online Education Is Replacing Physical Colleges At A Crazy Fast Pace

Reblogged from TechCrunch:

Educators knew the online revolution would eventually envelop the physical classroom, but a torrent of near-revolutionary developments in the past month are proving that change is coming quicker than anyone imagined. In just 30 days, the largest school system in the U.S. began offering credit for online courses, a major university began awarding degrees without any class time required…

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Hallucinating sheet music

Reblogged from Mind Hacks:

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Oliver Sacks has just published an article on 'Hallucinations of musical notation' in the neurology journal Brain that recounts eight cases of illusory sheet music escaping into the world.

The article makes the interesting point that the hallucinated musical notation is almost always nonsensical - either unreadable or not describing any listenable music - as described in this case study.

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