“While Freud’s concept of the superego played a more ethical role, encouraging the id and ego to follow moral rules, [the] Id-Ego-Superego structure roughly matches onto the Unconscious-Conscious-Metacognition structure of the mind studied in neuroscience today.”
Tag: 07.09.16
Looking For Brain Fitness? It Takes More Than Simple Games
One study, “financed by the National Institutes of Health, suggests that cognitive training that uses thinking, such as problem solving and learning, like reading a newspaper article and discussing it with a friend, has staying power in the brain — even 10 years after the training ends.”
Steinway Has Huge Ambitions For Its Grand Pianos – In China
“‘I wanted to buy something special,’ Mr. Wang said. ‘It’s just like a Rolls-Royce.'”
Twyla Tharp And Her Dancers, Looking Back And Planning For The Future
“What’s interesting about this piece more than anything for me has been — obviously, I’m not at the beginning of my career, I’m at the end of it. I’m looking at this more as an actor discovering something. It’s an amalgamation of 20 years of dancing.”
A Violinist In Exile, In Germany [VIDEO]
“The Syrian National Orchestra for Arabic Music was renowned throughout the Middle East. But when war broke out many of its members had to flee.”
Keeping Low-Income Students In College Requires More Than Just Financial Aid
“While nearly 75 percent of respondents said their school had some sort of emergency-aid program, most also said that need outpaces resources, and few actually use data to figure out which students are most at risk of quitting, in part because they’re already overwhelmed by requests.”
Thousands Of People Strip Naked And Paint Themselves Blue (For Art)
It was for a photographer, so being outside, naked and painted different colors of blue, was totally acceptable. [VIDEO]