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God Lives In Our Head!

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Researchers at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke recently confirmed something I’d been guessing for quite some time – that religion is all in our head. In their study they took religious and non-religious people alike and asked them to think about religious topics while hooked up to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) [...]

Can You Trust Your Memory?

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

I just learned about some recent advances in scientific studies related to memory.  Apparently memory does not work how I always thought it did.  I had learned, from reading slightly dated neuroscience texts, that memories were “burned” into the brain, similar to how data is burned to a CD or DVD.  They were immutable, and [...]

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