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The New York Times & Log In: Apr 8, 8:46am 2 reviews health, art
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/health/08brai.html; A Disease That Allowed Torrents of Creativity in The NYT by SANDRA BLAKESLEE
When artists suffer damage to the right posterior brain, they lose the ability to be creative, Dr. Miller said. Dr. Adams's story is the opposite. Her case and others suggest that artists in general exhibit more right posterior brain dominance. In a healthy brain, these areas help integrate multisensory perception. Colors, sounds, touch and space are intertwined in novel ways. But these posterior regions are usually inhibited by the dominant frontal cortex, he said. When they are released, creativity emerges. A Disease That Allowed Torrents of Creativity UCSF Memory and aging center Autistic savants: tune in and turn off Rita Carter Autistic savant Wikipedia Famous autistic savants Wikipedia Image of a migraine by Anne Adams Pebbles 2. Anne Adams 1998. gouache on paper. I have been absorbed yesterday evening by a program about " autistic savants" (sorry I did not pay attention to the broadcaster, for, I didn't know that I would land on this article this morning). They are children who become musicians, fine art artists, mathematicians as a consequence of a deficiency in some areas of the brain. The scientists specializing in their condition came to realize that the brain scans of those kids were intriguingly similar to the scans of demented patients who developed similar savants achievements as children autistic savants. The UCSF Memory and aging center notes that "... degeneration of certain areas of the brain is thought to release previously dormant cognitive abilities in other areas of the brain with amazing results." What is most fascinating is this idea that everyone is eventually doted with a similar exceptional potential as autistic or demented savants but unable to access it. Is there a way to catch up with that exceptional potential that lays buried deep in our brains? Some think that the practice of meditation could possibly unleash that potential... Hum.

Pollution causes 40 percent of deaths worldwide | Science Blog: Aug 14, 2007 8:36am 1 review health, globalization
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/pollution-causes-40-percent-deaths-worldwide-1...; Pollution causes 40 percent of deaths worldwide in Science Blog in http://www.news.cornell.edu/
About 40 percent of deaths worldwide are caused by water, air and soil pollution, concludes a Cornell researcher. Such environmental degradation, coupled with the growth in world population, are major causes behind the rapid increase in human diseases, which the World Health Organization has recently reported. Both factors contribute to the malnourishment and disease susceptibility of 3.7 billion people, he says. Of the world population of about 6.5 billion, 57 percent is malnourished, compared with 20 percent of a world population of 2.5 billion in 1950, said Pimentel. Malnutrition is not only the direct cause of 6 million children's deaths each year but also makes millions of people much more susceptible to such killers as acute respiratory infections, malaria and a host of other life-threatening diseases, according to the research. Pollution causes 40 percent of deaths worldwide Here is another demonstration of the false premise of modernity. Modernity is indeed always presented by its apologists as being the race towards always better lives for all... Check this: "Of the world population of about 6.5 billion, 57 percent is malnourished, compared with 20 percent of a world population of 2.5 billion in 1950," So the total quantity of mal-nourished people goes from 0.5 billion in 1950 to 3.7 billion in 2007 while the total quantity of well-nourished goes from 2 billion in 1950 to 2.8 billion in 2007. Are you able to see progress here? I'm not. Globalization is responsible for a big chunk of that population growth and it seems that globalization has only benefitted those who were already well-nourished initially. But there is another lesson here. Health is not bettering because of advanced medicine as the myth would have it. A better health and a higher life expectancy seem mostly related to the quality of the water distributed to the people and the quality of the air they breathe ...

Google Health Prototype: Aug 14, 2007 8:03am 1 review health
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/08/google-health-prototype.html; Google Health Prototype in Google Operating System
New York Times reports that Google's plans for a service that puts you in control of your health information start to take shape. This service could help you make more informed decisions about your health, get personalized recommendations from specialists and share this information with other people Google Health Prototype Dr. Google and Dr. Microsoft - Empowering the individual to gain a better knowledge about what is out there that he could put to use in his personal health care plan. - Empowering the individual to have the control over the memory of his health care history. Those are noble goals that could help the individual in liberating himself from the chains of serfdom woven around him by the health care market. But danger lies ahead, for, the health care market could very well impose itself at the steering wheel of such a service in exchange for the ads it will pay to Google. Individual empowerment versus market control. Google's premise was "no evil" and I understood that as "Individual empowerment against market control". Let's see how that works out.

How Fat Makes me Fit: Jul 31, 2007 8:23pm 9 reviews health
http://www.mind1st.co.uk/How_Fat_Makes_me_Fit.asp

Bloglines | Log In: Sep 1, 2006 12:06pm 48 reviews health, environment
http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs; The Hundred-Year Lie in How to save the world by Dave Pollaerd Randall Fitzgerald's new book The Hundred-Year Lie is an exhaustively researched condemnation of the food, pharmaceutical and chemical industries, explaining how these industries, in their search for profit at any cost, have imperiled our health. To me it was reassuring: Everything in the book supports my self-experimentation hypothesis that modern immune-system diseases, both AIHDs and AIDDs, are caused by a combination of 'modern malnutrition' (lack of diversity and micronutrients in what we ingest) and exposure to toxic man-made environmental poisons. URL: The Hundred-Year Lie

What we eat is what we are. This diagram is an excellent tool for all those who wish to experiment with a less polluted life for "we can't rely on government or government agencies, the medical profession, industry or science (which relies heavily on industry grants and sponsorships) to warn us, or to take any meaningful steps to fix the system."

http://anthropik.com/2006/08/the-radioactive-ciggy/: Aug 31, 2006 8:39am 2 reviews health, environment
http://anthropik.com/2006/08/the-radioactive-ciggy/; The Radioactive Ciggy in The Anthropik Network by Jason Godesky Tobacco often appears as a sacred power in Native American lore. It is given to spirits, and is believed to have medicinal properties. This seems jarring, given what we now know about smoking. How could these same Natives, who had such comprehensive command of the medicinal and edible plants around them, mistake the carcinogenic nature of tobacco? Of course, when we carefully examine the history of tobacco, we find something very curious. Cancer often leaves skeletal evidence, and old ethnographic accounts can often be used to piece together symptoms of diseases unknown to the original ethnographer, yet evidence of lung cancer among Native Americans before the 20th century remains rare. In 1990, then Surgeon General C. Everett Koop declared on national television that 90% of all smoking-related cancers were caused not by tar or any of the other factors we normally think of, but radioactivity. URL: The Radioactive Ciggy URL: Radioactivity in tobacco causes cancer
Industrial agriculture and the Green Revolution make tobacco radioactive... and this radio-activity causes cancer but not tobacco per se. Proof lies in the skeletal evidence that lung cancer was rare among 19th century indigenous people who smoked profusely. The use of phosphate fertilizers and other pesticides is what makes tobacco radioactive and carcinogenic... well, well and big capital again succeeded to hide the truth from our eyes!

EGO Magazine: Should We Cure Aging?: Feb 27, 2006 4:23pm 2 reviews biology, health, science, life
http://www.egothemag.com/archives/2005/08/post_6.htm; The knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton has never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. - Aldous Huxley

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