Section 5: The Death of Tragedy: Tragedy has had a long history and has always been, and indeed continues to be, of great cultural significance.  Who has not heard of Shakespeare ?  Even my own mother, who left school when she was 15 in 1932 had studied Julius Caesar (not ranked as a trage...

We are losing the war -Jack Murtha-The War is lost Harry Reid-Can't defeat the Taliban-The Silver Tongue Devil (Obama). The Big sellout--HOODWINKING THE AMERICAN PUBLIC--how easy was that--too easy Obama generating and cashing in on fear tactics-right out of the KGB handbook-Stalin would be proud Co...

Scientific American Mind takes a look at the complex idea of embedded metaphors - the idea that many of our concepts are determined by the physicality of our bodies. This is not a new idea - George Lakoff has done seminal work in this area - and it was explored quite deeply (and slightly differently...

Not much can capture the joy of a 6% rally like the Aquarius song from closing credits from the 40 Year Old Virgin. Thank goodness the bear is over, the financial crisis is over and we can buy them with both hands (that was sarcastic). As has been mentioned many times the biggest up days occur in be...

[image source] The New Scientist posted this interesting look at how the evolution of a "theory of mind" - the recognition we have that others also have an interior consciousness (this begins in kids around the age of two or three) - might explain the creation of the idea of God. 'Theory of mind' co...

I'm fascinated with books that deal with the social psychological conscious like Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers/Blink/Tipping Point or Stephen Dubner/Steven Levitt's Freakonomics. I'd love to read more books in the same vein. Any choice authors or books I should check out?...

RADIO EFT is happy to bring you Eva Gregory today. Join Michele Price, The Breakthrough Specialist-Chip Engelmenn, Author Born Loser's Guide to Abundance-Paul Zelizer, The Money Makeover 2.0 Guy "The Three Amigos" love to show you how they have created increasing abundance and prosperity in their li...

Research on ecstasy as a treatment for PTSD is not new, but it has been sparse at best due to the government ban on schedule 1 drugs for research. But that has been changing in recent years, and that is good news for patients as well as researchers. Perhaps veterans, who are expected to constitute t...

I would love to have seen this presentation by Shinzen Young at the 2000 Toward a Science of Consciousness conference. Even the abstract is interesting reading/ Applications of Mindfulness Meditation in the Study of Human Consciousness Abstract from Shinzen Young's presentation at the Toward a Scien...

Daniel Siegel: A System's View of Disintegration & Integration (He's still cute, he's still brilliant, he speaks in easy-to-remember aphorisms and he's still heartful. What's not to like?) "Integration is the linking of differentiated parts. The concept is useful for ass...