Radical Behaviourism and Society
Here is yet another entry for the Rational Skepticism Science Writing Contest. Please give it a read and, if you like it, vote for it! Also, I may have failed to mention, the general topic the essays must address is “What area of scientific research do you think will prove to be the most important by the end of this century, and why?”
The Narcissism of ADD & ADHD – ADD, ADHD & Executive Functioning Coach
Image courtesy of imagerymajestic/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net Individuals with ADD and ADHD have a strong tendency towards narcissism. I speak from personal and professional experience. We have a tendency of looking at the world through our eyes and failing to see it from other people’s point of view.
The Art of Prayer – 7 Keys to Intentional Manifesting – Global Illumination Council
Jon Rasmussen, Contributor Do you know how to pray? There is more to it than just asking God for something that you want.
Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones
by Maria Popova How to become an “antischolar” in a culture that treats knowledge as “an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order.” “It is our knowledge — the things we are sure of — that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning,” Lincoln Steffens wrote in his beautiful 1925 essay. Piercingly true as this may be, we’ve known at least since Plato’s famous Allegory of the Cave that “most people are not just comfortable in their ignorance, but hostile to anyone who points it out.”. Although science is driven by “thoroughly conscious ignorance” and the spiritual path paved with admonitions against the illusion of thorough understanding, we cling to our knowledge — our incomplete, imperfect, infinitesimal-in-absolute-terms knowledge — like we cling to life itself. And yet the contour of what we know is a mere silhouette cast by the infinite light of the unknown against the screen of the knowable.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)
Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) Introduction Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a serious condition which affects an estimated 1% of the population.
The Body in Coaching - Embodied approaches, tools and tips
Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story.” – Gabrielle Roth Why the body is important for coaches The body is an integral part of what it means to be human, so needs to be an aspect of effective coaching. Coaching as a discipline came from the body athletic – the standard Western view of the body as a machine that carries the head around – so physicality was quickly ignored by most early coaching schools which focused on language and thinking. As coaching has matured some schools have reintegrated the body to some extent and there are several embodied specialists such as Strozzi Institute, Leadership Embodiment and my own Embodied Facilitator Course.
Holistic Science
MSc, PG Cert Western science is dominated by ‘reductionism’ – the idea that natural phenomena can be explained in terms of their component parts. Reductionism is incomplete, and can be counter-productive since it suggests that by analysing the ‘mechanical’ workings of nature we can fully predict and manipulate it. Holistic science recognises the limitations of this methodology, focusing instead on nature’s qualities, complexity and intrinsic value, giving a science fit to solve global challenges. Schumacher College in partnership with Plymouth University (link is external) is the first in the world to offer a postgraduate programme in Holistic Science.
3D Printed Heart Saves a Child's Life - Technology News
3D printing is getting more and more new applications every day. Although it looks more suitable for industrial manufactures, the latest application of the 3D printing process is regarding medicine. If we have to be more exact – heart surgery. Roland Lian Cung Bawi of Owensboro was born 14 months ago and has the misfortune of having four congenital heart defects. The life-saving heart surgery was held at Kosair Children’s Hospital in collaboration with engineers from the University of Louisville.
5 Amazing Properties of Sunlight You've Never Heard About
By Sayer Ji Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Sunlight is well-known to provide us vitamin D, but did you know that it kills pain, keeps us alert at night, burns fat and more… Our biological connection and dependence to the sun is so profound, that the very variation in human skin color from African, melanin-saturated dark skin, to the relatively melanin de-pigmented, Caucasian lighter-skin, is a byproduct of the offspring of our last common ancestor from Africa (as determined by mitochondrial DNA) migrating towards sunlight-impoverished higher latitudes, which began approximately 60,000 years ago. While the health benefits of vitamin D are well-documented (GreenMedInfo.com has identified over 200 health conditions that may benefit from optimizing vitamin D levels: Vitamin D Health Benefits page, and Henry Lahore’s Vitamin D Wiki has far more), the therapeutic properties of sunlight are only now being explored in greater depth by the research community. 2) Sunlight Burns Fat
