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  • Brain Age Mythology Compared to What Really Improves Cognitive Health - Many people have been asking us recently about whether we all have a "Brain Age" and how we can reduce our "brain ages". This concept is a myth, fueled by the (very fun) Nintendo game and a recent PBS campaign promoting a program produced by Posit Science.
  • 10-Question Checklist to Select the Right Brain Fitness Program for You - Unless you have been living in a cave, you have read by now multiple articles about the brain training and brain exercise craze: sudoku, Nintendo BrainAge, multiple online games, software like MindFit and Posit Science... How do you know which of them can help you more, or whether you need any of them?
  • Can Brain Training Games Make You a Better Driver? Allstate Insurance To Test Them - Insurance company Allstate just announced a very intelligent initiative. According to the Chicago Tribune: -"Allstate, which called the Posit program (brain training games) "potentially the next big breakthrough in automobile safety," said it expects its software exercises to reduce risky driving maneuvers by up to 40 percent and improve stopping distance by an average of 22 feet when traveling at 55 miles per hour." -"We'll look to see whether over the next six to nine months there will be a reduction in" the number of accidents between the group participating in the video exercises and those sitting out, said Tom Warden, assistant vice president of Allstate's research and planning center.
  • New Guidelines for Alzheimer's Prevention - We all know how prevalent Alzheimer's Disease is becoming among older adults. Fortunately, researchers are paying growing attention to this area. Neuropsychologist Robert S. Wilson, at the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, recently published a promising study titled "Frequent Brain Stimulation In Old Age Reduces Risk Of Alzheimer's Disease": - "The study found a cognitively active person in old age was 2.6 times less likely to develop dementia and Alzheimer's disease than a cognitively inactive person in old age.
  • Top Ten Cognitive Health Events in 2007: Brain Fitness Program Explained, and More. - By now, you surely are aware that our brains retain the ability to generate neurons and change over our lifetimes, breaking the scientific paradigm prevalent during the 20th century. And you have read about the growing number of brain games and brain fitness programs offered. Now, you may wonder, why is all this happenning now?
  • Top 21 Books on Brain Health, Fitness and Training, Neuroplasticity and Neurogenesis - Given the growing media coverage of brain fitness and brain training, we have produced this compilation of the Top 21 Books that help understand these trends, the research behind them, and the implications for all of us. For your easy browsing, we have categorized them into seven groups: 1) Fascinating books on neuroplasticity (the ability of the brain to rewire itself through experience): - Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves - by Sharon Begley.
  • Why Do You Turn Down the Radio When You're Lost?: Multi-Tasking and the Brain 101 - You're driving through suburbia one evening looking for the street where you're supposed to have dinner at a friend's new house. You slow down to a crawl, turn down the radio, stop talking, and stare at every sign. Why is that? Neither the radio nor talking affects your vision. Or do they?
  • Brain Training to Improve Driving Skills Using Video Games, For Teenagers and Older Adults - Last month, at an MIT Northern California event, we discussed what specific applications might take computer-based brain training to a new level, and highlighted the potential to test and improve Driving Skills. Assessing and improving driving skills would be a top candidate, given both the well-defined nature of the need and the appearance of programs with growing evidence (both scientific and real-world) behind.
  • 7 Crucial Tips on How To Exercise Your Brain - We appreciate very much the role the media (Time Magazine, CBS, USA Today...) is starting to play in explaining the research behind brain exercise to improve memory and attention and help delay potential problems such as Alzheimer's Disease. Given the confusion we still see out there, we have consulted our neuroscience and health experts to prepare answers to these 7 Frequently Asked Questions: 1. Why is it so important to exercise our brains? Answer: Our brains are composed of different areas or "mental muscles", and we can strengthen them through mental exercise- or they get atrophied for lack of practice. The benefits are both short-term (improved concentration and memory, sustained mental clarity under stressful situations...

  • How does Bill Gates Brain Work? - Bill Gates delivered a very inspiring commencement speech in Harvard on June 7th. I recommend reading his full Remarks and reflecting on his core message, which may be summarized in its last sentence: "And I hope you will come back here to Harvard 30 years from now and reflect on what you have done with your talent and your energy.
  • Can Meditation Help to Read Hidden Emotional Messages in other People's Faces? - I recently attended a great workshop at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. The class was called "Reading Emotional Messages" and taught by Paul Ekman, Ph.D, a well-know scientist who regularly trains lawyers and police officials in his techniques.
  • Top 10 Actions in Brain Health Roadmap - On June 10th something wonderful happened, and the media hasn't paid much attention yet. On that day, the National Public Health Road Map to Maintaining Cognitive Health was released by the CDC and the Alzheimer's Association.
  • Easy Science Projects For Kids - It's important for kids to get involved in science from an early age, as exposure to scientific ideas and the world of exploration as soon as possible is the best way to foster a love for learning in your children that will last a lifetime.
  • Ten Highlights from the Aspen Institute Forum on Health, Wellness and Medical Science - The Aspen Health Forum just gathered an impressive group of around 250 people to discuss the most pressing issues in Health and Medical Science. 1- Global health problems require the attention of the scientific community. Richard Klausner encouraged the scientific community to focus on Global Problems: maternal mortality rates, HIV/ AIDS, clean water, cancer... 2- "Let's get real...Ideology kills". Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, on what it takes to stop HIV/ AIDS: "I am from Ireland, a Catholic country. And I am Catholic. But I can see how ideology kills..we need more empathy with reality, and to work with local women in those countries.
  • What Every Parent and Educator Needs to Know About Learning and the Teenager Brain - Dr. Robert Sylwester is an educator of educators, having received multiple awards during his long career as a master communicator of the implications of brain science research for education and learning. His most recent book is The Adolescent Brain: Reaching for Autonomy (Corwin Press, 2007). He is an Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Oregon. I am honored to interview him today. Alvaro Fernandez (AF): You recently published a book titled The Adolescent Brain: Reaching for Autonomy. What advice would you give to parents and educators of adolescents? Robert Sylwester (RS): Biological phenomena always operate within ranges. For example, leaves fall from trees in the autumn, but typically not all at once.
  • Ready to Measure Your Brain Fitness and Cognitive Health? - You know your weight. And your physical fitness. And a variety of health-related metrics. What about your brain fitness? In years to come, we can expect a growing number of assessments to help each of us address that precise question, using tools that today are only available to researchers and clinicians, raising both opportunities and concerns. Two recent announcements bring out important events in that direction: 1) Last week, OptumHealth announced an exclusive 3-year agreement (estimated at $18m) with the Australian company Brain Resource. Quote: "OptumHealth Behavioral Solutions will work with Brain Resource to provide clinicians with a Web-based assessment that measures general cognition (how people process information) and social cognition (how people manage their emotions).
  • Study: Meditation Can Help Adults and Children with ADHD - Travel back, in your mind's eye, to a time when you felt a healthy exhaustion after hiking, biking, playing sports.., and let you re-live that moment as vividly as you can. Then, remember, re-experience, a loving exchange that really touched you. Pause. See your partner. See the moment. Smell it. Hear what happened around you. Next, visualize the most caring gesture you have ever received, as full of details as possible. Who gave you that gift of caring. How you felt. Now, travel to the most magnificent place you have seen. Enjoy the views. Pause. Listen. Smile. Appreciate. Congratulations. You have trained your brain.
  • Online Computer Science Degrees - Do you love computers? Would you like to know how computers tick, how they work? If you had a computer science degree, you would know all about computers and more. But how can you get a computer science degree when you’re barely hanging on with your current job and financial obligations? The answer is easy. You can get an online computer science degree by studying and working in your spare time. In no time at all, you’ll be able to quit your dead end job and you’ll be able to get your dream job working with computers. When you find a good school, and there are many out there, you simply sign up and get to work.
  • Buying Science Fiction Collectibles - Would you characterize yourself as a science fiction junkie? Would you do anything to get a life-size cutout of one of the characters in the Star Wars movies? How about locating a rare costume from the movie Invasion of the Body Snatcher? Have you been hooked on Star Trek for years now and would love to get your hands on Star Trek lunch box? For some, that would just make your day complete! The world of science fiction collectibles seems to be as endless as the universe.
  • 3 Big Mistakes Readers of The Science of Getting Rich Make - Recently resurrected from its relative obscurity, Wallace D. Wattles' nearly one hundred year old classic masterpiece, "The Science of Getting Rich", has quickly become *THE* book to read on the subject of getting rich.
  • Exercise Your Brain in the Cognitive Age: Reflections on the Brain Games Market - In the past few days, The New York Times has published two excellent articles on brain and cognitive fitness. Despite appearing in separate sections (technology and editorial), the two have more in common than immediately meets the eye. Both raise key questions that politicians, health policy makers, business leaders, educators and consumers should pay attention to.
  • Forensics, The Basics Of An Evolving Discipline - Forensic science is all around us. More than likely you know someone who might have broken a law and ended up in jail.
  • The Art And Science Of Photography - Many professions today combine art and science to produce an effect, but none is more exciting and unique than photography. Amateurs love taking pictures and creating and sharing albums. Capturing and preserving special times in individual and family life is a special joy for many owners of small digital cameras today.
  • Brain Improvement and Cognitive Fitness: Fact or Fiction? - You may already have a Nintendo Brain Age game, or at least have heard of it. You may also have read recently that start-up Lumos Labs raised $3m to develop "brain training games". From the press release: - "Lumos Labs is at the center of a booming interest in cognitive exercise and the emerging science about the remarkable plasticity of the brain," said Amish Jani of Pequot Ventures.
  • The Top Science Sites For Kids - So you are a parent and would like your kids to get better at science. What do you do? Buy them more and more books on science. Get them science kits, chemistry sets, do it yourself experiments, models that they can build? The answers are tough to find. But since we are in the age of the Internet, there are sites that offer solutions for exactly this need of parents. Before we start looking at the specific benefits that these sites offer, let us go ahead and figure out what such sites should contain.
  • Basic Concepts About Forensic Science - Forensic science is not just what you see on television shows like CSI but rather the use of actual science to help determine the answer to varied legal questions. There are many different types of forensic disciplines that are used to help police and other officials answer these questions. These include criminalistics, forensic psychology, forensic pathology and others. Criminalistics is the science used to help understand the evidence in crimes. Evidence used in criminalistics can include biological evidence, trace evidence, impression evidence, controlled substances and ballistics. Biological evidence is usually bodily fluids such as semen and blood. Trace evidence are items like hair and fibers. Impression evidence are items like foot prints, impressions of car tires and fingerprints. Criminalistics is usually investigated in a crime lab.
  • Incorporating Science Into Your Next Backyard Adventure - Your backyard is a great place for your child to get outside in play. In addition to swimming and playing outdoor sports, your child can also use your backyard as a science experiment. If you are interested in helping them achieve this, you may want to familiarize yourself with some popular backyard activities, especially those that have a focus on nature and science http://www.angeleslosplasticsurgery.org Exploring your backyard is not only a fun activity, but it is also educational. There are a large number of living, breathing creatures that can be found outdoors. All children love exploring nature, but there are some who may enjoy this exploration more than others.
  • 3 Tips for Getting More from The Science of Getting Rich - Wallace D. Wattles' nearly one hundred year old classic masterpiece, "The Science of Getting Rich", has recently become *THE* book to read on the subject of getting rich.
  • At Last a Science that explains the Bible. - Announcing a radical New interpretation of the Bible that not only proves the existence of God but also reveals the Simplicity of the Gospel with Technical brilliance.
  • University of Cincinnati - Laboratory technician Program - Among the many career choices that one may like to take up, laboratory technician may not be on the high priority list of many. However, the job of a laboratory technician is always in demand. Laboratory research is required in different fields such as pharmaceutical companies, chemical industries, hospitals and biotechnology firms. A BS degree in clinical laboratory science would open a world of opportunities for professionals. It is one of the most sought after degrees today in the developed west as well as the developing east. Let us now check out what a BS program in clinical laboratory science would cover and the various job opportunities for professionals.
  • Space Travel: Science or Fiction? - There are those who deny Neil Armstrong walked on the moon and maintain the whole story was a government conspiracy. The idea that man could actually break away from our cradle of atmosphere and gravity was once fiction of the highest sort. Yet one dreamer made it a reality.
  • The benefits of science - Science is man’s helpmate. It has been great biessing to man. It has conquered nature. With the help of science, man controls the greatest forces. In fact in every field of life science enables man to lead an easy comfortable life. It has added very greatly to the progress of civilization. There are many benefits of science. It has helped the blind to see, the deaf to hear and the lame to walk. The invaluable help rendered by the physicians to the suffering humanity is highly praiseworthy. In the olden age, ordinary fever took a huge toll of life. There used to be on preventive measures against epidemies like smallpox, plague and cholera but now highly efficacious treatments are invented by the scientists. Great researches have been made in the field of medicine.
  • The Ender Saga: A Noteworthy Science Fiction series - January 1985 marks the beginning of America’s love affair with Ender Wiggin. It was that month that Ender’s Game was published, becoming an instant blockbuster, and “probably the most popular science fiction novel published in the last twenty years” (John Kessel).
  • UFO Articles - The UFO Lawyer - If you thought UFO sightings only belonged in science fiction movies and late night TV, and that believers existed on the fringe of society, think again.
  • Texas Schools Benefit From $9 Million Math & Science Grant - In July 2006 grants of $9 million were given to Texas Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (T-STEM) academics of the Texas Schools. The grants will go to the creation of 12 new academies and centers in the Texas Schools. T-STEM is a program that provides $71 million to various math and science projects at secondary Texas Schools.
  • Television - The television is one of the wonders of science. It has not only killed distances like radio, but it also shows us the pictures of the person who speak. For this double advantage it has become very popular over the world.
  • Forex Trading & The Science of Getting Rich - I first became aware of "the science of getting rich" a number of years ago when someone sent me a reprint of a book of that name by Wallace Wattle. The book is a very "dry" read but the author claimed that getting rich was an exacting science which means that if anyone applied the rules – to the letter, then the outcome, by scientific definition, would be a true replication.
  • Certain Laws Of The Science Of Getting Rich - The Experiment of Self-Help Self-help and personal improvement books have been gaining momentum for so long. Among all these books, topics on wealth creation and personal finance are the center of all these interest. However, some books just separate themselves from the substance that it presents rather than the form that most self-help books possess. The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles is definitely one of these books that hold much substance.
  • Classroom In Chaos? Get Some Order With Gratnells Storage Units - Anyone who has ever done work in a lab will know that they can be messy places, but messy and successful science mix as well as oil and water. School science needs abundant pipettes, test tubes, test tube holders, test tube racks, bunsen burners, tongs, the list is endless.
  • Forensic Science Job Market - Forensic science can be defined as the application of scientific methods and principles to solve crimes and other types of legal issues. In most criminal cases, a forensic scientist is typically involved in looking for and examining many kinds of physical evidence that can help establishing a link between a suspect of committing a crime and the scene of the crime or victim. Forensics is now a more popular subject since several TV shows became successful, such as Crime Scene Investigation (CSI).
  • 3 Simple Decisions That Made the Difference - When I first began studying the writings of Wallace D. Wattles, starting with his classic masterpiece "The Science of Getting Rich", I made three simple decisions that, looking back on them, made all the difference in the world as to how my life turned out. Here they are... Simple Decision #1 - I decided to focus *exclusively* on the writings of Wallace D. Wattles. In Chapter 10 of "The Science of Getting Rich" (Further Use of the Will), Wallace D.
  • Keeping a Positive Outlook on Life - Modern science tells us as a fact, that our world is nothing more than a projection or a mirror image of your inner world. There's a principle in the universe that states that for anything new to live, something first must die. Death and life are two opposite poles. There's a Law of Polarity, which is discussed in James Ray’s The Science of Success, of the same dance. We've been going through some tough times in our world, in our nation, in our consciousness. You know some challenges over the last several years have accelerated rapidly and some people would look at that and say that's horrible, it's bad.
  • University of Cincinnati - Master of Science in Criminal Justice - Study of Law has always been an evergreen subject from times when constitutions were framed. The Master of Science degree in Criminal Justice is one of the most prestigious degrees that one can get in the field of criminal justice.
  • Want To Teach Intelligent Design? Put It In A History Class - In 1980, the Reagan Revolution meant not only a reconsideration of sex education, but also a reconsideration of the theory of evolution. Back then, the alternative theory was called creationism or scientific creationism; today it's called intelligent design. I am no scientist, but I have issues with teaching intelligent design as science. Intelligent design revolves around the idea of an "intelligent designer," some unexplained force that created life, the earth or the universe.
  • The Power Of Yin: The Gift Is Given - From Chapter III of The Power of Yin: Barbara: I would like to ask you, Jean, whether you have specific images of the future. Don't use the word future if it is too linear. Jean: I don't even have to talk about my own images; I can talk about what is emerging. We don't allow prophesy in our culture, so it goes underground and comes up as science fiction. In the 1880s and '90s, the mode of science fiction was hardware science fiction: the ship to the moon, the ship under the sea, the laser.
  • Learning About the Patent Bar Exam - If you are intent on attending college and taking college courses throughout your education, there are definitely quite a number of possibilities after you graduate with a Bachelor's degree. One of those possibilities is to follow a Patent Agent or Patent Attorney career path. This can only be achieved, however, through the successful completion of the Patent Bar Exam.
  • Linn-benton Community College - Equine And Animal Science Programs - Linn-Benton Community College is located in Albany Oregon and is a two year public community college. Linn-Benton Community College offers Associate’s degrees in a wide variety of different subjects. Two of the degrees that are offered are Associate of Science with an emphasis in Animal Science or an Associate of Science with an emphasis in Equine Science. Linn-Benton Community College prides itself on providing practical instruction and being able to assist students in meeting their learning objectives. The curriculum is designed to be the first step toward students being able to meet the lower division requirements that are needed to transfer to a major university. Students who complete an Associate of Science degree with an emphasis in Animal Science will: By able to successfully apply multiple species animal husbandry skills and concepts within the livestock and equine industry.
  • Trekker versus Trekkie: The Controversy - So what is the difference between a trekker and a trekkie? The short answer is: nothing. According to Wikipedia, the all-knowing, on-line encyclopedia, both terms denote a fan of the Star Trek science fiction franchise. So why all the controversy between the two? I once heard that fans of the original series were called trekkers, while those of the Next Generation were trekkies, but I have since learned it’s not as simple as that.
  • Eliminate Confusion, Self Judgement, And Old Belief Patterns - Learn Ayurveda Health Care Choices - In the science of ayurvedic medicine, body type survey is used as one of the diagnostic methods of the science of Ayurveda. This self-protocol test is an accurate description of the examination done by the Ayurveda Rishis' Physicians. These ancient physicians performed the examinations and recorded the results in sanskrit originally.
  • Arizona Schools Benefit Form Science Foundation Grant - In April 2007 the Science Foundation Arizona (SFAz) announced an investment of $3.2 million into a K-12 Student & Teacher Discovery Program that will benefit the Arizona Schools. The Arizona Schools grants are the third awarding of SFAz funds intended to create a top-notch science, engineering and medical core in Arizona. The foundation intends to create this by supporting and funding secondary and university level Arizona Schools. Why Fund Science in Arizona Schools? Science Foundation Arizona is a non-profit organization created in 2006 to “strengthen scientific, engineering and medical research programs and infrastructure in areas of greatest strategic value to Arizona’s competitiveness in the global economy.” In addition to benefits to economy, educators in Arizona Schools are aware of a growing achievement gap that most affects minorities and low-income students. That gap is greatest in areas of math and science.

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