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The problem is that these hidden social interactions remain out of focus in the experiment. Our aim at the Interacting Minds project at the Danish Neuroscience Centre in Aarhus is to develop a new kind of experiment that is focused on such interactions. In the past decade, the neuroscience of social behaviour has blossomed. A major catalyst for this has been the discovery of what seems to be a physiological mechanism for social interaction, located in the brain's "mirror neurons". These have been seen to fire not only as a monkey, say, grabs a peanut, but also when the monkey sees an experimenter do the same thing. Imaging experiments in humans have similarly revealed parts of our brains becoming active when we see someone moving, or even when watching a walker hidden among moving dots. It seems we are not just observers of the social scene but that we automatically share the experiences and emotions of the people we are observing. - Mushin Schilling

Testosteron mache aggressiv, egoistisch und asozial. Das dachten Forscher zumindest bislang. Im Magazin "Nature" berichtet nun ein Team um den Hirnforscher Christoph Eisenegger und den Ökonomen Ernst Fehr von den Universitäten Zürich und London aber, dass offenbar das Gegenteil der Fall ist - zumindest bei Frauen. - Mushin Schilling

The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the "devils in the details" in current cap and trade proposals: free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and distraction from what’s really required to tackle the climate crisis. If you’ve heard about cap and trade, but aren’t sure how it works (or who benefits), this is the film is for you. - Mushin Schilling

There are two natural conclusions to be drawn from recognizing that human beings are part of a global organism. First, one can recognize that human civilization has a remarkable capacity for responding to external and internal challenges. The existence of such a capacity for response does not mean that human civilization will survive external challenges any more than the complexity of any organism guarantees its survival. However, one can hope that the recent reduction in the incidence of military conflicts will continue and the ability to prevent or address local disasters will increase. The difficulties in overcoming other systematic ills of society, such as poverty, may also be challenged successfully as the origins of these problems become better understood. - Mushin Schilling

Somehow, Professor Donnie Hoyle has returned to add a personal teaching touch and help you discover how Photoshop and life intersect in the most restraining-order-inducing of ways. - Mushin Schilling

Nice little synchronicity as I tweeted 4 min after this: "Now we know what the Google Wave is also for: Innovation: How your search queries can predict the future http://bit.ly/u6bzO" - Mushin Schilling

which of course just validates the point.... - Wildcat

The latest research from the internet search giant, though, suggests that real-time results could be even more powerful – they may reveal the future as well as the present. Google researchers Hyunyoung Choi and Hal Varian combined data from Google Trends on the popularity of different search terms with models used by economists to predict trends in areas such as travel and home sales. The result? Better forecasts in almost every case. Projected sales of cars and vehicle parts, for example, can be extrapolated from the figures for the previous month and this time last year, but adding in the volume of automobile-related search queries to the model cut the error rate by 15%. - Mushin Schilling

Information is carried on top of gamma waves, just like songs are carried by radio waves. These "carrier waves" transmit information from one brain region to another. "We found that there are slow gamma waves and fast gamma waves coming from different brain areas, just like radio stations transmit on different frequencies," she says. - Mushin Schilling

Comm.unity is a software framework in development, which is intended to allow developers and researchers to easily create applications that are proximity aware and socially aware, and can run on a large set of existing consumer devices. It implements a wireless, device-to-device information system that bypasses the need for any centralized servers, coordination, or administration. It also supports the social learning and user profiling features described above, and designed to span an extensible set of radio interfaces (WiFi, Bluetooth, IR, etc.). - Mushin Schilling

What we found was that the information gap was only one barrier to nonprofit collaboration, and that more than anything, competitive request for proposal processes and scarce resources created active structural dis-incentives for groups to come together. Since then, our project has shifted to reflect the new reality, and instead of talking about "facilitating collaboration" we now are thinking about how to create ecosystems in which collaboration can thrive if it wants to. - Mushin Schilling

he sooner you accept the situation, the sooner you can do something about it. Instead of shying away from the answers, dive in. Remember: use the fear as a catalyst, not a focus. Your focus needs to be the underlying problem. If you think your boss wants to fire you because of that last project you bungled, ask him to debrief the project and help you plan the next one. If you're worried that raising the issue of overwork will expose your lack of capability, talk to your boss about increasing your capability to manage the workload. An at-risk client? Let the client know you understand why they might be at risk of defection. Then listen. We often avoid conversations that make us feel vulnerable. Things that touch us deeply, our fears, our self-image, our future. But here's the thing: not talking about them is what actually makes us vulnerable. Once we confront the underlying issues — say them out loud, ask about them, explore them — we feel, and become, much stronger, much less .... - Mushin Schilling

The end of the world is near—December 21, 2012, to be exact—according to theories based on a purported ancient Maya prediction and fanned by the marketing machine behind the soon-to-be-released 2012 movie. But could humankind really meet its end in 2012—drowned in apocalyptic floods, walloped by a secret planet, seared by an angry sun, or thrown overboard by speeding continents? - Mushin Schilling

The brain is a social organ, workplaces are social systems, and neurological research is producing more understanding of why employees who feel isolated, unrewarded, unfairly treated or oppressively controlled can’t fully engage in their work. Leaders and managers who value high performance can learn how to address the social brain in productive ways that avoid neurological sabotage. - Mushin Schilling

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This operation, nicknamed "standstill" by the doctors who perform it, required that Pam's body temperature be lowered to 60 degrees, her heartbeat and breathing stopped, her brain waves flattened, and the blood drained from her head. In everyday terms, she was put to death. After removing the aneurysm, she was restored to life. During the time that Pam was in standstill, she experienced a NDE. Her remarkably detailed veridical out-of-body observations during her surgery were later verified to be very accurate. This case is considered to be one of the strongest cases of veridical evidence in NDE research because of her ability to describe the unique surgical instruments and procedures used and her ability to describe in detail these events while she was clinically and brain dead. - Mushin Schilling

Der Experte für Nahtoderfahrungen Dr. Michael Schröter-Kunhardt über die Software, die uns auf das Leben nach dem Tod vorbereitet, Super-Realität, unseriöse Kollegen und die Ignoranz der Neurobiologie - Mushin Schilling

This website, which contains the material of the course VA312, taught at Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey; attempts to walk you through the long and diverse history of a particular aspect of human endeavour: The translation of ideas, stories and concepts that are largely textual and/or word based into a visual format, i.e. visual communication. - Mushin Schilling

By now the world’s community of experts had finally agreed, with little dissent, that it was highly likely that the strong global warming seen since the 1970s was in large part the work of humanity. In a 2007 consensus report, they went on to point to greenhouse warming as a likely cause of the more frequent summer heat waves, warmer winters, stronger rainstorms, dwindling glaciers, and other changes in weather patterns that were already seen to be underway... as predicted.( - Mushin Schilling

Global warming started long before the "Industrial Revolution" and the invention of the internal combustion engine. Global warming began 18,000 years ago as the earth started warming its way out of the Pleistocene Ice Age-- a time when much of North America, Europe, and Asia lay buried beneath great sheets of glacial ice. - Mushin Schilling

I typically don't give much thought to universal mind theories unless they have some solution to the way such a large brain might store and send information in physical energy networks. This is such a theory. - Mushin Schilling

Hello FriendFeed! - BeeLing

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With the prevalence and growing importance of using social media to connect with customer communities, the community or social media manager is fast becoming a commonplace and much-needed position at companies around the world. - Mushin Schilling

As much of this activity was spread across the brain, they say that consciousness has no single "seat". "Consciousness is more a question of dynamics, than of a local activity," says Gaillard. Bernard Baars of the Neuroscience Institute in San Diego, California, who proposed a "global access" theory of consciousness in 1983 agrees: "I'm thrilled by these results." He says they provide the "first really solid, direct evidence" for his own theory. He also says that having such a signature will make it easier to look for signs of consciousness in people with brain damage, infants and animals with the help of non-invasive techniques such as EEG. - Mushin Schilling

Here are some concept designs that myself and ace designer Philip Langley put our heads together to create. It’s an investigation into how social networking may work in the future, focusing on mobile and augmented reality (AR). Our investigations were inspired in particular by these brilliant (AR) concept drawings which I often use in presentations I give. There are some crude, but fascinating, implementations around too that inspired us. After some brainstorming and quite a few mockups, we came up with the below. Admittedly AR is the new hype. But you can see how valuable (and scary) this could be when applied to a social networking paradigm. It assumes amazing resolutions, facial and object recognition, and more accurate GPS — none of these far off. - Mushin Schilling

Prof. Dr. Peter Kruse ist ein deutscher Psychologe mit dem Schwerpunkt Komplexitätsverarbeitung in intelligenten Netzwerken sowie Leiter des Methoden- und Beratungsunternehmens nextpractice in Bremen. Kruse lehrt als Honorarprofessor für Allgemeine und Organisationspsychologie an der Universität Bremen. Im Rahmen seiner interdisziplinären Tätigkeit widmet er sich vor allem der Nutzung von kollektiver Intelligenz zur Förderung wirtschaftlicher und gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungsprozesse. Nun hat er wieder einen sehr interessanten Vortrag gehalten. Das Thema: “Wie die Netzwerkkultur die Gesellschaft verändert” (35 min): - Mushin Schilling

Bereits im kommenden Jahr soll die "Ära des sozialen Kontextes" beginnen. Netzwerke werden dann in der Lage sein, die Vorlieben ihrer Nutzer zu erkennen. Internet-User werden eine Online-Identität besitzen, die sie von Netzwerk zu Netzwerk mitnehmen. Und auch auf den Handys wird sich einiges verändern. - Mushin Schilling

Studenten auf der Jagd nach coolen Ideen und Wissenschaftler als kreative Schwärme - der Kreativitätsforscher Peter Gloor vom Massachusetts Institute of Technology untersucht, wie Schwarmintelligenz funktioniert. Kategorie: Kreativitätsforschung Erstellt am 16.10.2009. Im Interview erklärt er, wie Menschen dabei gemeinsam zu schwingen beginnen und dass Kreative ihre Ideen lieber unters Volk bringen sollten, statt sie nur patentieren zu lassen. - Mushin Schilling

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom. - Mushin Schilling

Ironson began to zero in on a patient's relationship with God in an attempt to predict how fast the disease would progress. ... Ironson says over time, those who turned to God after their diagnosis had a much lower viral load and maintained those powerful immune cells at a much higher rate than those who turned away from God. "In fact, people who felt abandoned by God and who decreased in spirituality lost their CD4 cells 4.5 times faster than people who increased in spirituality," Ironson says. "That was actually our most powerful psychological predictor to date." "Just so I understand it," I confirm, "if someone weren't taking their meds and were depressed, they would still fare better if they increased in spirituality?" "Yes," she says. "Now, I'm not in any way suggesting that people don't take their meds," she adds quickly, laughing. "This is really an important point. However, the effects of spirituality are over and above." - Mushin Schilling

Wonderful video - Mushin Schilling