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Featured Articles: 2010 Science & Technology

Studio Shot #1
by Matt Jones
December 25, 2010
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Daily Connect: The Power of Negative Thinking and Buddha's Brain
by Ethan Nichtern
November 22, 2010
This seems like a good quote for the holidays, which is one of the worst crisis times of the year, and a time of difficulty and depression for many people. If our survival instinct has actually wired us to view the world in a negative light, it...
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The Internet Is Lying To You
by Jerry Kolber
November 17, 2010
Yes, it is. And in honor of National Unfriend Day I'm going to tell you exactly how the internet is lying to you. It is lying because it is promising you endless satisfaction of all your desires - if you feel it, want it, wonder it, want to...
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Daily Connect: A Wandering Mind is an Unhappy Mind
by Ethan Nichtern
November 12, 2010
According to a new study, it turns out that a wandering mind is an unhappy mind. That's a pretty amazingly simple discovery, but the study demonstrates that our happiness level is less based on what we are doing than how simply we are engaged...
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Great Eastern Sun Art vs. Setting Sun Art #11: Sarah Sze @ Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
by Matt Jones
October 12, 2010
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Saturday Morning Cartoon #2: Piece of Cake
by Matt Jones
October 2, 2010
original in Papermate Blue Pen Ink   Rainbow version in Papermate Flair Ink
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Making Nonsense of Reality
by Jerry Kolber
August 25, 2010
I've been working these past few weeks on writing a proposal for a television series about the human brain, and it's been interesting seeing how much of neruoscience relates directly to my study and practice of Buddhism.  One thing in...
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Video: A Headset that Reads Your Brainwaves
by Patrick Groneman
August 25, 2010
  My first two thoughts upon watching this TED video were: "Do we really need computers to close our curtains for us?" and "This would be an amazing mind training tool".   
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