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Philosophy of Science RSS FeedsRethinking ?Stinking Thinking? - Beginning in the 1950s, Albert Ellis laid the foundations for a major portion of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with his colorful descriptions of negative thought patterns, descriptions that remain useful to the present day. Yet these venerable tools also have their limitations and misuses.Tags: CBT, emotions, in practice, mindful awareness...Feed Source: feeds.counsellingresource.com Searching for What Forged the Iron Lady - The Iron Lady, the new movie about Margaret Thatcher, did not live up to its potential. Perhaps if they had focused on what it was like for her to be both a mother and a woman in power they might have made a more interesting movie.Tags: parenting and children, reviews, women
... The Moving Target of Technical Literacy - In the eighties, I made it a point to become 'computer literate'. In today's world of tablets and smart phones, 'computer literacy' begins to take on a new and shifting definition.Tags: history, intelligence, technology
... The Meaning of ?Life? - Although popular culture is often banal, there is worthwhile meaning embedded in this television show, including some Zen lessons on letting go of resentment, seeking justice instead of revenge, managing anger, achieving acceptance when times seem dark, and recognizing our connection with others.Tags: anger, emotions, meaning, mindful awareness,... Psychopathy: Is It Really Everywhere? - The term character disturbance describes a continuum of disturbed personality types. Psychopathy, or sociopathy, is the severest form of personality disorder at one extreme end of the range. Not everyone with a character disturbance is a psychopath.Tags: character disturbance, personality disorders, society
... Lessons from the Film ?Limitless? - Although film critics have given Limitless tepid praise, I found this movie to be deeply meaningful as a therapist. Understand Limitless and you understand many of the dreams and nightmares that haunt modern life.Tags: addiction, ADHD, drug abuse, intelligence, ... Alcohol and Endorphins: ?Feel Good? Chemical Key to Problem Drinking? - 'Feel good' endorphins may be activated differently in the brains of social drinkers as compared to problem drinkers, according to recent neuroscience research. These insights may lead one day to finding more effective drugs to treat problem drinking.Tags: addiction, alcohol, brain, neuroscience, ... Why Resolutions are Not Enough - Early in the new year many people resist making New Year's resolutions because of past disappointments or lack of confidence in their own abilities. If we could understand 'resolutions' in their larger context, we could use them for their proper purpose as tools to achieve what we most desire.Tags: decision making, emotions, in practice, m... 4 Tips for a Toxic Workplace: When Your Boss is a Covert-Aggressor - Dealing with someone who is covertly aggressive is always a challenge -- and especially so in the workplace, where we can feel trapped. Here are four tips to help cope with this kind of manipulative behavior.Tags: aggression, boundaries, bullying, character disturbance, p... New Year Celebrations ? Harking Back to Old Values - New Year's Eve celebrations seem to have gotten smaller in scope. Let's align ourselves more with the traditional intent of the celebration, and make a radical shift back to the values of repairing relationships and promising good behavior.Tags: existentialism, history, meaning, relationships, ... This Week in Science - A Drop in the Ocean | Monitoring Meiosis | Nailing Down the Superfluid Transition | Probing Pulsar Rotation | Monsoon Forcing | An Iron Hand for Silicon | Girl Power | Mystery of an Unextreme Microbe | Heat or Acid? | Immune Sentinels | Nature or Drug Abuse? | Natural Resistance | Lineage Identity... Editors' Choice - Astronomy: A Comet Dates Jupiter | Sociology: I Liked You From the Start | Genetics: Wrapped Up Right | Climate Science: Here's Looking at You | Cell Biology: Push Me Pull You | Chemistry: Sacrifices at the Surface | Education: Science Illustrated... Findings - CDC Finds No Physical Cause for Mysterious Disease | A Volcanic Trigger for Europe's Little Ice Age... [Editorial] The Global Knowledge Society - Author: Nina V. Fedoroff... [News of the Week] Around the World - In science news around the world this week, an Italian official will also be a defendant in the earthquake trial, Japanese experts have questioned the safety of?and need for?nuclear power, biodiversity in the Andes is threatened, and Nobelists are lobbying for a gigantic neutrino experiment.... [News of the Week] Random Samples - Thomas Edison is still number one when it comes to invention. Researchers think they know why the male orb-web spider will often voluntarily break off his whole sex organ while it's still lodged in the female's abdomen: It continues to transfer sperm into the female long after the male has fled or been consumed. A British seismologist has a geologic twist on the classic nightstand "word-a-day" calendar: the daily rock. And this week's numbers qua... [News of the Week] Newsmakers - This week's Newsmakers are Janet Rowley of the University of Chicago, Brian Druker of the Oregon Health & Science University, Nicholas Lydon of Blueprint Medicines, and Masato Sagawa of Intermetallics Co., winners of the Japan Prizes; Scott Doney, whose nomination to be chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been withdrawn by the White House; Johannes Vogel, an expert on fern genetics, who took over as director... [News & Analysis] Avian Influenza: The Limits of Avian Flu Studies in Ferrets - How concerned should people be that what happened in the controversial experiments that exposed ferrets to H5N1 avian influenza viruses engineered to be more transmissible will apply to humans?Author: Jon Cohen... [News & Analysis] Cell Biology: Donation Spurs a Cell Observatory?And Bigger Plans - The Broad Institute received a $32.5 million gift last week to take on one of the biggest challenges in biology: mapping the molecular "circuitry" inside several kinds of mammalian cells.Author: Jocelyn Kaiser... [News & Analysis] Astronomy: Celebrated Exoplanet Vanishes in a Cloud of Dust?Or Maybe Not - Last week, Fomalhaut b, an exoplanet that once enjoyed celebrity status, faced an identity crisis after astronomers failed to spot it in a new round of observations.Author: Yudhijit Bhattacharjee... [News Focus] Genomics: China's Sequencing Powerhouse Comes of Age - With new sequencing centers in Europe and the United States, BGI hopes its growing clout will help deliver the benefits promised by genomics?and revenue to pay off a mounting debt.Author: Dennis Normile... [News Focus] Ecology: Rebuilding Wetlands by Managing the Muddy Mississippi - When spillways were opened to divert the flooding Mississippi last spring, scientists studying the waters sought data that might help restore the river's eroding delta.Author: Carolyn Gramling... [News Focus] Oil Resources: Technology Is Turning U.S. Oil Around But Not the World's - The high price of oil is driving technological innovation that has reversed the decline in U.S. oil production, but the world will increasingly depend on OPEC and ?non-oil? oil.Author: Richard A. Kerr... [Special Feature] 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge: 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge - Author: Colin Norman... [Special Feature] 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge: Photography - Science and the National Science Foundation announce the winner, an honorable mention, and the "People's Choice" in the Photography category in the 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge.... [Special Feature] 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge: Illustration - Science and the National Science Foundation announce three honorable mentions and the "People's Choice" in the Illustration category in the 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge.... [Special Feature] 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge: Informational Posters & Graphics - Science and the National Science Foundation announce the winner, an honorable mention, and the "People's Choice" in the Informational Posters & Graphics category in the 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge.... [Special Feature] 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge: Interactive Games - Science and the National Science Foundation announce the winner, three honorable mentions, and the "People's Choice" in the Interactive Games category in the 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge.... [Special Feature] 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge: Video - Science and the National Science Foundation announce the winner, two honorable mentions, and the "People's Choice" in the Video category in the 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge.... [Letter] Investing in Libya's Education - Author: Sema K. Sgaier... [Letter] Invasive Species Unchecked by Climate - Author: Philip E. Hulme... [Letter] Invasive Species Unchecked by Climate?Response - Authors: Michael T. Burrows, David S. Schoeman, Carlos M. Duarte, Mary I. O'Connor, Lauren B. Buckley, Carrie V. Kappel, Camille Parmesan, Benjamin S. Halpern, Chris Brown, Keith M. Brander, John F. Bruno, John M. Pandolfi, William J. Sydeman, Pippa Moore, Wolfgang Kiessling, Anthony J. Richardson, Elvira S. Poloczanska... [Technical Comment] Comment on ?Abiotic Pyrite Formation Produces a Large Fe Isotope Fractionation? - Authors: Andrew D. Czaja, Clark M. Johnson, Kosei E. Yamaguchi, Brian L. Beard... [Technical Response] Response to Comment on ?Abiotic Pyrite Formation Produces a Large Fe Isotope Fractionation? - Authors: Romain Guilbaud, Ian B. Butler, Rob M. Ellam... [Letter] Proceed with Planning Despite Multiple Models - Author: Robert Dickinson... [Book Review] Have We ?Met the Enemy?? - Guillemin describes the aftermath of and investigation into the fall 2001 anthrax letters.Author: David A. Relman... [Book Review] When Do Incentives Corrupt? - Analyzing incentives in terms of power rather than as trades, Grant concludes that their use to further desired social and political goals raises some ethical concerns.Author: Tyler Cowen... [Books et al.] Books Received - A listing of books received at Science during the week ending 27 January 2012.... [Policy Forum] Scientific Publications: Coercive Citation in Academic Publishing - Many journal editors appear to strategically target authors and papers to pressure them into citing the editors' journals.Authors: Allen W. Wilhite, Eric A. Fong... [Perspective] Economics: Ready, Steady, Compete - Women's willingness to compete can be increased through appropriate affirmative action.Author: Marie Claire Villeval... [Perspective] Evolution: Surviving in a Toxic World - Natural variations in a single gene of wild C. elegans populations confer resistance to the bacterial toxin avermectin.Author: Adrian J. Wolstenholme... [Perspective] Neuroscience: To Stop or Not to Stop? - Does chronic drug abuse cause brain abnormalities, or do they develop before the onset of dependence?Authors: Nora D. Volkow, Ruben D. Baler... [Perspective] Climate Change: Marching in Near Lock-Step - A cave record from Peru closely matches climate patterns seen in cores from Greenland and the North Atlantic Ocean.Author: Donald T. Rodbell... [Perspective] Physics: Seeing the Superfluid Transition of a Gas - The universal thermodynamic functions of a superfluid formed from a fermion gas of strongly interacting lithium atoms have been measured precisely.Author: Wilhelm Zwerger... [Brevia] Nanoscopy in a Living Mouse Brain - Super high-resolution microscopy resolves neuron dynamics in the cerebral cortex of a living mouse.Authors: Sebastian Berning, Katrin I. Willig, Heinz Steffens, Payam Dibaj, Stefan W. Hell... [Research Article] High-Resolution View of the Yeast Meiotic Program Revealed by Ribosome Profiling - During yeast sporulation, the production of most proteins is tightly regulated by both messenger RNA levels and translational control.Authors: Gloria A. Brar, Moran Yassour, Nir Friedman, Aviv Regev, Nicholas T. Ingolia, Jonathan S. Weissman... [Research Article] The Southern Ocean?s Role in Carbon Exchange During the Last Deglaciation - Radiocarbon measurements of deep-sea corals reveal the presence of old, carbon-rich water in the Southern Ocean.Authors: Andrea Burke, Laura F. Robinson... [Report] Spin-Down of Radio Millisecond Pulsars at Genesis - Numerical calculations show that processes responsible for spinning up millisecond pulsars may also lead them to slow down.Author: Thomas M. Tauris... [Report] Revealing the Superfluid Lambda Transition in the Universal Thermodynamics of a Unitary Fermi Gas - Thermodynamic quantities for the superfluid transition of a strongly interacting atomic Fermi gas were measured.Authors: Mark J. H. Ku, Ariel T. Sommer, Lawrence W. Cheuk, Martin W. Zwierlein... [Report] Iron Catalysts for Selective Anti-Markovnikov Alkene Hydrosilylation Using Tertiary Silanes - Iron catalysts offer a potentially cheaper route than platinum for certain commercially useful carbon-silicon compounds.Authors: Aaron M. Tondreau, Crisita Carmen Hojilla Atienza, Keith J. Weller, Susan A. Nye, Kenrick M. Lewis, Johannes G. P. Delis, Paul J. Chirik... [Report] High-Latitude Forcing of the South American Summer Monsoon During the Last Glacial - High-latitude processes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres both influence the South American Summer Monsoon.Authors: Lisa C. Kanner, Stephen J. Burns, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards... [Report] Natural Variation in a Chloride Channel Subunit Confers Avermectin Resistance in C. elegans - Resistance to avermectin, an anti-nematode drug, is conferred by a deletion in a glutamate-gated chloride channel.Authors: Rajarshi Ghosh, Erik C. Andersen, Joshua A. Shapiro, Justin P. Gerke, Leonid Kruglyak... [Report] Affirmative Action Policies Promote Women and Do Not Harm Efficiency in the Laboratory - Increasing the representation of competition-averse individuals does not alter overall output.Authors: Loukas Balafoutas, Matthias Sutter... [Report] Female Leadership Raises Aspirations and Educational Attainment for Girls: A Policy Experiment in India - The effects of female leaders on girls occur via policy changes in the short run and parental aspirations in the longer run.Authors: Lori Beaman, Esther Duflo, Rohini Pande, Petia Topalova... [Report] Untangling Genomes from Metagenomes: Revealing an Uncultured Class of Marine Euryarchaeota - Reconstruction of whole genomes from a complex microbial community has revealed an evolutionary surprise.Authors: Vaughn Iverson, Robert M. Morris, Christian D. Frazar, Chris T. Berthiaume, Rhonda L. Morales, E. Virginia Armbrust... [Report] Sequential Signaling Crosstalk Regulates Endomesoderm Segregation in Sea Urchin Embryos - Separation of deuterostome endoderm and mesoderm occurs through sequential interactions between Notch and Wnt signaling.Authors: Aditya J. Sethi, Radhika M. Wikramanayake, Robert C. Angerer, Ryan C. Range, Lynne M. Angerer... [Report] Growth of Western Australian Corals in the Anthropocene - Cores taken from massive corals indicate that temperature rather than ocean acidification has governed reef growth.Authors: Timothy F. Cooper, Rebecca A. O'Leary, Janice M. Lough... [Report] Innate Response Activator B Cells Protect Against Microbial Sepsis - A specialized population of B lymphocytes is important for controlling bacterial infections and preventing sepsis.Authors: Philipp J. Rauch, Aleksey Chudnovskiy, Clinton S. Robbins, Georg F. Weber, Martin Etzrodt, Ingo Hilgendorf, Elizabeth Tiglao, Jose-Luiz Figueiredo, Yoshiko Iwamoto, Igor Theurl, Rostic Gorbatov, Michael T. Waring, Adam T. Chicoine, Majd Mouded, Mikael J. Pittet, Matthias Nahrendorf, Ralph Weissleder, Filip K. Swirski... [Report] Abnormal Brain Structure Implicated in Stimulant Drug Addiction - A neurological marker of addiction vulnerability occurs in sibling pairs who do not take drugs.Authors: Karen D. Ersche, P. Simon Jones, Guy B. Williams, Abigail J Turton, Trevor W. Robbins, Edward T. Bullmore... New Products - A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers.... 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