Courtesy of my husband. I'm passing it along because I think it's a nifty example of the power of the human mind. Reading this makes me wonder if this is part of why Campbellian archetypes exist ... it almost feels like an origin story for the existence of comic books.

Believing You Are Very Good Or Evil Boosts Your Physical Capabilities Source: ( Read more... )

My ruminations in the wee, small hours of the morning reminded me that I still need to read The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.

While I don't think that Kalina Christoff is right about people changing their attitudes towards daydreamers, this article from TheAge.com is still interesting:

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Thanks to my friend, ThangK, for sharing this TED video featuring Stuart Brown speaking about the cognitive significance of play:



Hooray for an evolutionarily advantageous level of neoteny!

Feel-good foods Source: AJC

... that have little in common with each other save for the fact that both were published at Edge:

• What Makes People Vote Republican? by Jonathan Haidt (More on it from The New York Times(Give him a few paragraphs ... he does eventually acknowledge his own arrogance and condescension for looking at others from an ivory tower perspective as an ( Read more... )

Charitable:

• List of links to help hurricane evacuees Source: AJC
• Initiative to save the house where Superman was created. Found through Neil Gaiman's blog.

Edible:

• Chateau de Saigon on Buford Highway looks really good.
• Speaking of Vietnamese, mmm, banh mi.
• Sushi House Hayakawa
  Anyone who knows me a bit knows that I'm a sushi addict. This looks ( Read more... )

Thanks to Brad Grier for this one:

What is the Monkeysphere?I'd be curious to know if researchers ever performed a comparative study of the brains and behavior of people in small towns versus people in big cities. I say this because I wonder if the small town residents might have a slightly larger pool. Small town folks have a smaller group as a ( Read more... )

From Neatorama:

Experiment with art under the influence of LSD

I'm especially curious to hear what the parents on my list have to say about this article from Australia's News.com:

Critical dads 'devastate' new moms