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Schopenhauer on Style. By Maria Popova “Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.”

Schopenhauer on Style

What does it mean to write with style? For Kurt Vonnegut, it was about keeping it simple yet interesting. For Herbert Spencer, about harnessing the economy of attention. For E.B. Aviso de derrumbe. No es extraño que Alemania, el país que ha producido mentes como las de Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche o Marx, tenga devoción por la filosofía, lo inusual es que la nueva revelación del pensamiento alemán —tronco inevitable del pensamiento occidental moderno— sea un autor oriental que cuando era un treintañero cambió Corea del Sur por Europa.

Aviso de derrumbe

The little known difference between folate and folic acid. If I asked you which of these vitamins was found naturally in food, folate or folic acid, would you know the answer?

The little known difference between folate and folic acid

If not, you’re in good company. Medical professionals, nutrition experts, and health practitioners frequently mix up the two, simply because the terms are often used interchangeably. Many health professionals would even argue that folate and folic acid are essentially the same nutrient. While folic acid is often considered to be a supplemental form of folate, there is an important distinction between these two different compounds. For women past childbearing age, and for men in general, excessive doses of the synthetic form of this nutrient are not necessary, and may even be harmful. The SSRI/Folate Connection: Why Big Pharma May Want to Monopolize the B Vitamin You Can’t Live Without.

If you missed our urgent Action Alert on the attempt to ban folate from dietary supplements, please take action now!

The SSRI/Folate Connection: Why Big Pharma May Want to Monopolize the B Vitamin You Can’t Live Without

Last week we told you about FDA’s sneak attack on folate, the B9 vitamin essential to human life. This week, we tell you why the drug industry may want folate all to itself: it could be a ploy to make billions on a new, patented SSRI/folate combo drug. Under the FDA’s new rules, Supplement Fact labels would only be allowed to list the term “folic acid” as an ingredient; the word “folate” would not be permitted. 432Hz, Coming Back to Nature. Its strange when you get out of the city into the countryside, you feel rejuvenated – the shades of colour, the sounds, birds, frogs, running water etc., has a soothing effect on the mind.

432Hz, Coming Back to Nature

These sounds consist of vibrational frequency, which is measured in Hertz (Hz). All of these natural harmonics vibrate at 432 Hz, and it’s the natural frequency of the universe. Un Corto Animado Que Nos Muestra La Hermosa Y Silenciosa Labor De Los Terapeutas. Billy Sheehan Basic Bass lesson. Una breve pero jugosa historia del cunnilingus. Neurons: How they work. Bitter Sugar: A Mystery Disease. Take a peek at the world's most exquisite libraries. Mira Los 54 Primeros Segundos. Eso Es Todo Lo Que Pido. Te Enganchará Después De Eso, Te Lo Juro.

Materiales para pensar: BUDISMO ZEN, FILOSOFIA Y PSICOANÁLISIS: UN ENCUENTRO DESDE LA ÉTICA. Síndrome de Asperger infantil. Se calcula que entre 3 y 7 niños de cada 1.000, sufren el Síndrome de Asperger.

Síndrome de Asperger infantil

A stunning map of depression rates around the world. Redder countries have higher depression rates.

A stunning map of depression rates around the world

Bluer countries have lower depression rates. (Max Fisher/The Washington Post) The Middle East and North Africa suffer the world’s highest depression rates, according to a new study by researchers at Australia’s University of Queensland -- and it’s costing people in the region years off their lives. The study, published this week in the journal PLOS Medicine, used data on the prevalence, incidence and duration of depression to determine the social and public health burden of the disorder around the world. Medicated-richard kern. Dopamine Dip. Build-a-Cell. Overview Build-A-Cell is a drag and drop game to teach students about the organelles and organelle substructures within a plant, animal, bacterial, and fungal cell.

Build-a-Cell

How to play Build-a-Cell. Different Brainwaves and how it Expands our Consciousness. The human brain is a complex entity constantly at work, sending electrical signals, communicating, building new neural connections and so on.

Different Brainwaves and how it Expands our Consciousness

This electrical activity generated by the brain, also known as brainwaves, reflect our state of mind. 36 fotos muy poderosas. Electromagnetic Radiation – The Dark side of Technology. In our daily lives we are constantly exposed to powerful electromagnetic fields or EMF emitted from cell phone towers, wi-fi hubs, high voltage wires, common devices like televisions, microwave ovens and almost all electronic appliances.

Electromagnetic Radiation – The Dark side of Technology

These EMFs have shown to disturb the human body’s natural energetic field, so you will experience the effects of it on a biological level in the body. In simple terms, electromagnetic fields are invisible waves that emanate from any electrical or wireless device. Its a kind of radiofrequency EMFs (RF-EMFs) by which all wireless technology operates. Since the field possesses magnetic and electrical properties, it also interacts with charged objects within the field (The human body possesses a positive field). A Thermographic image of the effect of using a cell phone for 15 minutes. Increíbles caricaturas que captan la esencia de la sociedad actual. FOTOS: Así debía ser una 'buena esposa' en 1953 – Publimetro. Brain&Mind Video. The Brain. Esta sencilla prueba podría predecir cuántos años vas a vivir.

20 Stunning Photos Of Natural Beauty That Your Human Eyes Could Never See. The winning photos of Nikon's annual Small World Photomicrography Competition prove that there is really more than meets the human eye. The 20 winning photographers this year are masters of photomicrography, or photos taken through a microscope. Each photo is an example of the wondrous beauty and detail that can be found in the most unexpected things, like plankton and embryos. The first place winner, Wim van Egmond, explains how he takes photos: "I approach micrographs as if they are portraits. 20 Stunning Photos Of Natural Beauty That Your Human Eyes Could Never See. Forget What You Know: Jacob Barnett at TEDxTeen.

Paul Miller: Offline. ¿Qué ocurre con tu vida cuando dejas Internet durante un año? Una parte de mí estaría encantada con la posibilidad de presentarme como el protagonista de está crónica, pero no es el caso. La sociedad de las poetas muertas. Dong Woo Jang: The art of bow-making. Buenos Aires. LA HISTORIA DE LA MATEMATICA 1. Cuentos para hablar de la muerte a los niños. Free Kindle Books. Ibiblio - The Public's Library and Digital Archive.

Temple Grandin: El mundo necesita todo tipo de mentes. Vikram Patel: salud mental para todos involucrando a todos. What doctors worry about. Jane McGonigal: el juego que puede darte 10 años extra de vida. Marvin Minsky habla sobre la salud y la mente humana. Sherwin Nuland sobre la esperanza. JD Schramm: sobrevivientes de suicidio, romped el silencio. Elyn Saks: Una historia de trastorno psiquiátrico, desde adentro. Vilayanur Ramachadran habla sobre sus mentes.

El poderoso derrame de iluminación de Jill Bolte Taylor. Sherwin Nuland y la terapia de electroshock. Joshua Walters: ser sólo un poco loco. Ruby Wax: ¿Qué tienen de divertido las enfermedades mentales? Tobacco Body. See how tobacco changes people. Take a tour around and in the body by pressing the plus and minus symbols. Move the scroll button in the middle of the page to compare the differences between smokers and non-smokers. Smoker The smoker's skin looks unhealthy, because the chemicals in cigarette smoke makes the skin's elastic fibers snap more easily. This causes the skin to lose its elasticity. Non-smoker The non-smoker's face looks healthy, because there are no skin-weakening substances circulating in his blood. Videoclub - Conmovedora reacción de un bebé de 10 meses al canto de su madre.

Trastorno Obsesivo Compulsivo. Providing information on vitamin D. The Cell: An Image Library. Euronews science - La depresión modifica la estructura cerebral. Cortometraje Depresión y Suicidio. Asociación Educar - Neurociencias. World Clock - Stats. POODWADDLE WORLD CLOCKThe World Stats Counter (V 7.0) This minute 250 babies will be born, 100 people will die, 20 violent crimes will be reported, and the US debt will climb $1 million. Van Halen - El Mejor Solo De Su Carrera HQ. Buenos Aires. ¿Qué es la creatividad? Un recorrido por las mentes brillantes que han abordado este tema / “Nuestra civilización está llegando a su fin, está agotada” University of Western Sydney (UWS)