Saffron robes and lab coats: Buddhists and neuroscientist search for common ground

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Science and religion may seem at loggerheads, but the common ground between them is that both pursue knowledge about the brain and mind, though their approach is different. While one discipline uses methods developed in recent years to track activity in specific parts of the brain, the other uses 2,500-year old practices to development introspective inquiry of the mind

Analysis, Religion and science

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Brainstorming: As neuroscience advances beyond imagination, hope intensifies and dilemmas deepen

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Altering the physical brain can alter one's personality, behavior, and mood. Latest developments in neuroscience can be divided into those technologies that seek to map the brain and those that seek to alter it.

Psychological aspects, Physiological aspects, Brain, Brain mapping

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Regrets only

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The celebration of Pinochet's birthday was held in an opulent banquet hall in Santiago, Chile. He was not in attendance due to ill health. Hugh video screens displayed images of his dictatorship.

Chile, Behavior, Political aspects, Pinochet, Augusto, Dictators, Heads of state

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