VEA - Is Today's Lifestyle Hampering Children's Brain Development? Is Today’s Lifestyle Hampering Children’s Brain Development? By Tom Shenk Unfortunately, I believe the answer to the question posed in the headline to this article is “Yes.” My study of recent brain research tells me that students today have more brain development issues than did children of past generations. If you’ve been working with children for more than 20 years, you may have seen this trend playing out in your classrooms. . • In 1980, only 1 in 10,000 children was diagnosed with autism. . • ADHD diagnoses have grown 2000 percent since 1990. These are just a few examples. “That’s pretty depressing,” you may be thinking, “Is there anything we can do to change all that?” For step one, travel back with me in human history to the period before we learned to farm—when we hunted and gathered our food. For step two, brainstorm some ideas for this question: “According to brain research, what activities, experiences and environmental factors best stimulate healthy brain development?”
The Newsroom - America is not the greatest country in the world anymore...(Restricted language) Wealth Inequality in America. Viral Video Shows the Extent of U.S. Wealth Inequality. No Thanks for Thanksgiving. November 21, 2012 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. One indication of moral progress in the United States would be the replacement of Thanksgiving Day and its self-indulgent family feasting with a National Day of Atonement accompanied by a self-reflective collective fasting. In fact, indigenous people have offered such a model; since 1970 they have marked the fourth Thursday of November as a Day of Mourning in a spiritual/political ceremony on Coles Hill overlooking Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts, one of the early sites of the European invasion of the Americas.
Not only is the thought of such a change in this white-supremacist holiday impossible to imagine, but the very mention of the idea sends most Americans into apoplectic fits -- which speaks volumes about our historical hypocrisy and its relation to the contemporary politics of empire in the United States. Some aspects of the conventional story are true enough. Salvaging Resilience. Regular readers of this blog will know by this point that my efforts to make sense of the shape of the emerging deindustrial future involve the occasional odd detour, and one of those is central to this week’s post. Mind you, those same regular readers may be wondering if the detour in question has to do with Ben Bernanke’s secret name as a Sith Lord, a point which occupied some space in comments on a recent Archdruid Report. (The best proposal so far, in case you’re wondering, was Darth Flation – think (in)Vader, (in)Sidious, etc.)
Still, that tempting topic will have to be left for another week. Instead, I’m going to have to clear up the confusions surrounding a bit of jargon popular in the current peak oil blogosphere. That process is more than a little reminiscent of fishing scrap metal out of a swamp; in the present case, the word that needs to be hauled from the muck, hosed off, and restored to its former usefulness, is “resilience.”
Efficiency, in other words, is not resilient. What we see. 5 Ways To Change A Habit. Habits make up 40 percent of our daily behaviors, according to studies. And yet, because habits unfold within our basal ganglia – one of the oldest parts of the brain – they often feel nearly unconscious. So how do you change a habit? By diagnosing it’s components, and reprograming the behavior. Here’s how to do just that: 1. Identify your habit’s routine There is a basic pattern at the core of every habit, a kind of neurological loop that has three parts: A cue, a routine and a reward.
To understand your habit, you need to identify the components of your loop. 2. Rewards are powerful because they satisfying cravings. 3. Every habit has a cue, and experiments have shown that almost all habitual cues fit into one of five categories: Location Time Emotional State Other People Immediately preceding action Where are you? What time is it? What’s your emotional state? Who else is around?
What action preceded the urge? 4. A habit is a formula our brain automatically follows: 5. Habits. First Earth | Uncompromising Ecological Architecture. RT.
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