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Interview with Dr. Garet Lahvis on genetic and animal models of empathy and...
Image by juanpol via Flickr It was a great pleasure to speak with Professor Garet Lahvis from the Department of Behavioral Neuroscience at the Oregon Health and Science University, and learn more...
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Look deeply into my eyes and let me see your genes
*** PODCAST accompanies this post *** Nowadays, it seems that genomics is spreading beyond the rarefied realm of science and academia into the general, consumer-based popular culture. Quelle...
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Social scientist unites biology with Buddism
Image via Wikipedia Just a few excerpts from a lecture by the renown social psychologist Paul Ekman who is known for his work on the biology of human emotion. Here he relates conceptual bridges...
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Suffering begets empathy and the spiritual journey
Image via Wikipedia Pointer to a neat lecture on humans’ natural predisposition toward empathy which seems to be rooted deeply in our species’ need for social belonging as well as “grounded in the...
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Yoga spirit, southern style
Are they practicing breath control? No. Are they practicing postures? No. Are they desperately seeking meaning and a connection with divinity? Yes. Are they pulled in one direction by the wants...
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Love is space and time measured by the heart
Have you ever lost track of time in yoga class? On a good day, I’ll get so into the practice that my awareness of “how much time still to go?” comes at the very end. Other days, I might feel time...
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A yogi's guide to what women want
Image via Wikipedia Please forgive the absurd title here … its just a play on words from a flabby, middle-aged science geek who is as alluring to “the ladies” as an old leather boot. Like a lot of...
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Are there genes for my favorite part of me?
Here’s an excerpt from William Vollmann’s book Poor People … of an exchange between two men … one, a passerby, and the other, homeless “young, bearded, well-clad, his his bluejean legs sewn into...
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Our genomes … our stories
We all have a story. You know, the narrative of you … your life, its twists and turns … the person you are inside, the person you want(ed) to be … the special, unique person that you are. Your story...
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rs53576 AA (not GG)
I’m so lonely sometimes, but I never want to go out. I have 2 “A” alleles at rs53576 (link to science).
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