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In this podcast, the author is actually advertising the Maharishi University of Management, but in the act he discusses consciousness and its importance in education. I found it especially interesting because it takes the perspective of a biological consciousness. It describes experience as "traces in the brain" and the distinctive "connection of neurons." In addition to this he brought up the point that the brain is constantly changing; "Over 70 percent of the brain changes everyday." However, this make me wonders where is the evidence to back up this assertion. Although somewhat unconvincing for me, this podcast raises a very important point: is consciousness physical? I hope I could answer this question but it is plausible that such a question would remain unanswered for a long time. Neuroscience and the biological perspectives on cognition are still young, but I am certainly that progress will come at any time.

I'm learning more about envy right now, and in particular what I'm wondering about is "How does envy affect people lives". I was searching this question online and this poem caught my attention because it explains exactly one reaction that envy can cause on people. "When the poison reaches the heart it's too late. Disastrous emotions take over such as revenge and hate." The quote I chose here is basically saying that envy cause people to get their emotions mixed up leading them to do the wrong thing. It also cause people to take revenge and do something they'll regret later on. I think this is correct because that how people react with envy. Not everyone reacts like that but most of them do.

I was looking at the different blogs on google blog search and something had caught my eye. The title of the blog was called "New Leonardo Da Vinci painting found?". There reason this caught my eye was because Leonardo has been dead for hundreds of year, why is it that it took them this long to discover one of his paintings? Another interesting thing is that the price of the painting arose overnight from thousands of dollars to over one hundred and sixty million. Now that is a real shocker. Although it hasn't been one hundred percent confirmed that it is in fact Leonardo's paintings, however there is a very high chance. I hope to research more into this later on today. As of right now, there is not enough facts.

I'm learning more about diseases like diabetes and heart disease now, and in particular what I'm wondering about is: Is is diet or genetics that determines if you get these diseases or not. I searched in the New York Times for "fast food and cancer" and I found this op-ed piece to be interesting because of how it connects personal issues out to big societal ones. "According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, three-quarters of health care spending now goes to treat "preventable chronic diseases." Not all of these diseases are linked to diet - there's smoking, for instance - but many, if not most, of them are." Seventy-five percent of health care spending goes to things like heart disease and diabetes, which are preventable if we just had better diets!

As I was searching for blogs about the 2012 Apocalypse, this site showed up. In this article, the Mayans are being blamed for "making the world end." There is no reason for the Mayans to be blamed for killing the human race and the world itself because all they did was prophesize and write down theories. In my opinion, don't hate one human race for killing the world that has already been to blame. At least this is what I am getting from the title itself.

what I noticed most about the Main street flushing pimp is that he really made a name for him self out on the street and people realy miss him being out on the street. If you go out on main street and ask just about eny one if they have ever seen him chansis are they have. When Hellen sead that he might be dead I was shockt that it might be a posibillity he was the life of main street he made every one happy and he was really friendly

"Chinese search and rescue teams arrived in Port au Prince within 48 hours after the earthquake. Now that the airport is controlled by the U.S. military, aid agencies and other governments trying to bring in relief are furious at being turned back" nice sounds like something the u.s would do i mean they own it so they should take care of it

I was searching up, "phobia reasons and symptoms," and this item came up. It focuses on two types of phobias, Agoraphobia and sociophobia.\n\n"Agoraphobia like social phobia, affects more women than it does men. Sufferers of agoraphobia are terrified of panic attacks occurring in public places. Common fears are crowded environments and places where one can't escape easily. Meetings, standing in a queue or elevator are common situations that spark fear."

About being charged for heavy bags in Europe, but not in America due to differences in kilograms and pounds.

The mental illness took hold when he was about 25. Sheila remembers the day Wallace was splashing buckets of water on the family home, convinced that the gas company was shooting radiation at the windows. Its so sad when people start to think that they are not safe in their own home. This reminds me of a movie I watched where the girl had schizophrenia and she didn't trust anyone around her.