I read an interesting (read nonsensical) piece of Research result, in New Indian express, bangalore Edition, dated 7th Feb 08, found out by the Italian scientists. I call it ‘junk research’ as the results of such researches do more harm than good to woman-kind!
They have found out that wearing high heeled shoes can boost a [...]
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High heeled shoes to up women’s libido!
Posted in fashion, food for thought, life's dilemmas, people, psychology, research, science, sexuality, society, thoughts and emotions, women, youth, tagged breaking bones, fall, fashion, high heeled shoes, Italian scientists, junk research, pelvic muscles, podiatrists, research, sex appeal, sexuality, walking with high-heeled soes, women-libido on February 9, 2008 | 12 Comments »
BELCHING COWS & GREEN HOUSE GAS
Posted in diseases, environment, food for thought, from TOI, pets, research, society, tagged belching, cows, europe, grass eating, greenhouse effect, mad cow disease, research funding, sweden research on January 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The following is the letter to the TOI editor that mr vidyaranya bellur emailed, but unfortunately the letter was highly edited and published on 28/01/08. since he had emailed a copy to me, i thought of publishing it here unedited so that it might interest my readers and they may write their comments on this:
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Dyslexia or Learning Disability – 5
Posted in children, counselling, disability, education, empowering, food for thought, learning disability, life skills, life's dilemmas, our mind, parenting, people, psychology, research, society, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, tagged auditory discrimination, dyslexia, figure-ground perception, reading difficulties, short term visual and auditory memory, visual and auditory closure, visual discrimination, visual perception on January 19, 2008 | 16 Comments »
In my last post I had written about the various difficulties that children with LD face while reading. Most of these difficulties occur because of visual and auditory perceptual problems. Let me explain.
Children will have normal vision, normal hearing ability, but may have difficulty in:
visual and auditory discrimination – they may be unable to discriminate between similar [...]
Dyslexia or Learning Disability – 4
Posted in children, counselling, disability, education, empowering, food for thought, learning disability, life skills, life's dilemmas, parenting, people, psychology, research, society, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, tit bits, tagged coding and decoding letters, dyslexia, figure-ground perception, grapheme, learning disability, phoneme, phonetic way, reading difficulty, whole word approach on January 17, 2008 | Comments Off
We will continue with the identification features of Learning Disability in Children. Many of these features may be present in a child below the age of 8 as part of their developmental phase. There are developmental norms in various domains of child development and children differ in their pace of attaining these norms. If they persist [...]
Dyslexia or Learning Disability – 2
Posted in adding dimensions, children, counselling, disability, education, empowering, food for thought, life skills, life's dilemmas, parenting, people, psychology, research, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, tagged ADHD, learning disability on January 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »
In my first post on Dyslexia, I had mentioned that some children will have difficulties in the psychological processes of acquiring language, understanding and using it. Let me mention which are those psychological processes:
Attention
Sensory input or sensation
Perception (integration of all the sensory inputs inside the brain and making sense of them)
Cognition (understanding the information and [...]
Taare Zamin Par and Dyslexia
Posted in children, counselling, disability, education, empowering, food for thought, life skills, life's dilemmas, parenting, people, psychology, research, society, spreading awareness, suicide prevention, thoughts and emotions, tagged depression, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, dyslexia, learning disability, low self-esteem, low self-worth, sensitizing parents and teachers of school going childr, suicidal ideations on January 12, 2008 | 17 Comments »
By now most of you readers would have seen the movie “Taare Zamin Par”, directed by Aamir Khan. I am sure it has touched the viewers’ hearts and has been successful in bringing awareness about a condition called “dyslexia“. But many cinema goers forget the whole message once they get back to their other pressing [...]
S A D – Seasonal Affective Disorder
Posted in counselling, medical science, our mind, people, psychology, research, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, tagged depression, seasonal affective disorder, serotonin, melatonin, winter season, low day light on December 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
In psychology the word ‘affect’ means mood/emotions. It is found that many people suffer from depressive symptoms during winter season! the symptoms are very similar to the psychological depression which is a kind of ‘mood disorder’. Such people may experience lack of interest and motivation to do things, may not want to socialize, may experience [...]
Fear – biological or behaviour based?
Posted in adding dimensions, empowering, food for thought, genetic engineering, life skills, our mind, personality, psychology, research, spirituality, thoughts and emotions, tit bits, tagged cats and rats, fear, fearlessness, genetic modification, innate trait, internal enemies, soul modification on December 16, 2007 | 11 Comments »
People have a variety of fears. Some fear darkness, some fear animals, some others fear loss of face, some people fear death of self or death of loved ones and other so many. Some even have irrational, inexplicable fears of such high intensity that can upset the quality of their everyday life. Such intense, irrational [...]
Does our heart store memories???
Posted in food for thought, personality, psychology, research, science, spreading awareness, tit bits, tagged donor-recepient of heart, heart, heart transplantation, memories, personality changes, personality traits on December 15, 2007 | 3 Comments »
How often do we all exclaim,”deep down, my heart knows it!”, “my heart keeps thinking of you!”, “my heart rules my head!” etc. Could our hearts really think? Could our hearts be storing our memories??
Yes, each cell in our body has memory. It is called cellular memory. It is not just our neurons and neural [...]
heuristics or shortcuts of brain!
Posted in food for thought, our mind, people, psychology, research, thoughts and emotions, tit bits, tagged brain, decisions, heuristics of brain, poor decisions, vivid images on December 11, 2007 | Comments Off
another interesting research news in today’s TOI:
our brain is capable of holding huge amounts of information that we keep gathering everyday. just because i have stored so much of information, dont get deceived that brain processes all that info when i need to make a decision about anything. brain applies its own heuristics (thumb rule) [...]
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