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	<title>The Thinking Meat Project</title>
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	<description>Exploring what it means to be thinking matter</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Brainsong</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=1149</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Brain and mind</category>
	<category>Art</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you could translate your brain waves into music, what would it sound like? Would the sounds indicate anything meaningful to you? Some recent work published in PLoS One explores the characteristics of brain songs based on EEGs, and suggests that these songs do, in some circumstances, provide audible clues to brain activity.
Researchers in China [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words shaping thoughts</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=1148</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Language</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The question of whether the language we use shapes the way we think is an old one that has been answered emphatically in both the positive and the negative down through the years. Over at Edge.org, Lera Boroditsky has written this essay describing some of the research done in her labs that shows interesting links [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The world looks different</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=1147</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Perception</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been awhile since I read it, but I seem to remember that Tolstoy&#8217;s novel Anna Karenina includes two strikingly different descriptions of journeys: an exuberant Levin going someplace just after Kitty has accepted his proposal of marriage, and a distraught Anna&#8217;s trip somewhere, perhaps to the train station where she killed herself. The details [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let your mind wander</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=1146</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 03:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The very idea of a mind wandering suggests that the wandering mind is off course, aimless, or somehow gone astray. However, it might be more accurate to suppose that the mind is looking the other way while loosening the reins to allow more productive interaction between areas typically seen as having opposing actions. Recent research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anxiety, depression, and new brain cells</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=1141</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 15:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Brain and mind</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anxiety disorders and depression often strike together, and the latter has been associated with decreased survival rates for newly born neurons in the hippocampus, a part of the brain important in regulating the emotions. New research has investigated a chemical called fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2), which is crucial to brain development and brain repair [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baby minds and unconscious minds</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=1140</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 22:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Human nature</category>
	<category>Brain and mind</category>
	<category>Art</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about creativity lately, in particular about how it works and what it feels like to create something. A couple of recent news articles, while not directly about creativity, do seem to shed some light.
This article from the Boston Globe discusses some of the capabilities of the infant mind and how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People colors</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=1139</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Human origins</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I heard an excellent talk on the evolution of skin color by Nina Jablonski of Penn State. She started by describing how little work there was on the subject when she was asked to give a talk about it in the early 1990s; although it&#8217;s an interesting topic, the subject of skin color and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is feeling good good for?</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=1138</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Emotions</category>
	<category>Happiness</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent EurekAlert article describes some work that examined the effect of positive and negative emotions on a person&#8217;s level of adherence to typical cultural values. The study looked at Asians and Europeans; each culture, broadly speaking, has a different attitude toward individuality versus fitting into the group, and these attitudes were examined in individual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What makes us wise</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=1137</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Human nature</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wisdom is one of those difficult concepts: you know it when you see it, but it might be hard to describe succinctly. Perhaps that&#8217;s because it&#8217;s not a single entity, but a combination of traits. That&#8217;s the approach taken by a couple of researchers at the University of California at San Diego, who have mined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The best characteristics of our species&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=1136</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re in the middle of 100 Hours of Astronomy, part of the International Year of Astronomy. One of the 100 Hours activities is a 24-hour live webcast tour of some of the world&#8217;s big telescopes, Around the World in 80 Telescopes, which started this morning at 5:00 Eastern Daylight Time (9:00 UT). (The video can [...]]]></description>
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