Here's my favourite books of the year: Human Anatomy, Depicting the Body from the Renaissance to Today - Rifkin, Ackerman, Folkenburg (Thames & Hudson) One of my favourite books ever. A remarkable collection of anatomy images spanning 500years - basically a history...
Read more...Cells (blue) moving through a matrix of fibres (green) http://www.zurichminds.com/videos/ruth_schwartlaender.html Click on the link, or the picture, to see a 7 min video 'Ruth Schwartländer: "Why Nano in Technology?"' Her talk describes how cells communicate with their environment by introducing forces into the surrounding...
Read more...High stress during pregnancy is bad news, but it turns out that moderate-stress might boost fetal brain development. Studies in rodents suggest that stress during pregnancy inhibits neural growth, while the children of women who lived in war zones during pregnancy have...
Read more...Check the first two or three minutes of this spinal cord operation. Before the dura is opened you can see the csf (and cord?) moving through the membrane (around 0.30 plus). When the dura and then arachnoid is opened the flow of...
Read more...First 6 minutes and then to 16 minutes of this video are wonderful - the transcription is good if you only have time to scan.http://www.edge.org/conversation/the-normal-well-tempered-mindClick this link for the video and transcriptionSome quotes are below. I love the idea of a risky...
Read more...About 30 years ago astrophysicists noticed that things didn't add up for galaxies. There just wasn't enough material to explain how they came into being out of the early universe. Computer simulations showed the universe should have rapidly broken up and diffused...
Read more...This came out of a recent undergraduate seminar I did for Body Intelligence in Vancouver. They are things that I think are useful to name before and after a treatment to establish some sense of change. Appreciation of the whole organism as...
Read more...The other day i was in an art gallery and there was a main atrium area with a domed glass roof. For quite a long time i felt myself just stand there and stare motionless. It felt like i’d gone into a stillpoint...
Read more...Check out the youtube link below. It describes a craniosacral chi kung that connects with the dura mater. The beauty of this chi kung is that it can specifically orient you to the dura and allow you to experience its quality and...
Read more...Here's a wonderful insight into the repression of creativity in main stream education that explains a lot about society and the lack of body intelligence in the world.http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
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Ged Sumner