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Eric Kandel is a titan of modern neuroscience. He won the Nobel Prize in 2000 not simply for discovering a new set of scientific facts (although he has discovered plenty of those), but for pioneering a new scientific approach. As he recounts in his memoir In Search of Memory , Kandel demonstrated that reductionist techniques could be applied to the brain, so that even something as mysterious as memory might be studied in sea slugs, as a function of kinase enzymes and synaptic proteins. (The memories in question involved the “habituation” of the slugs to a poke; they basically got bored of being prodded.)
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Creative Writing Ideas, Courses and Free Online Classes Welcome to CWN, where you’ll find creative writing ideas, free online writing courses for new authors, plus hundreds of story starters , poem starters , and journal writing prompts to keep you inspired. CWN was created as a free service by writing teachers to provide a supportive and friendly place for authors and poets at all stages in their writing lives. If you're just starting out, you can reach the next level in your writing with our free online writing courses and easy step-by-step guides to writing short stories , novels , poetry , and drama .
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DeepSpirits is about digging deep into the human mind, exploring spirituality and consciousness, transcending, finding practical solutions & applications in daily life, redefining beauty, making a difference... The Master of Dialogue The European philosophical tradition is a series of footnotes to whom? Plato of course.
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Three decades of growing inequality and collapsing public morality have pitched America into crisis, imperilling its democracy. But there are precedents for a way out, says Robert Reich
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