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This is your brain on drugs
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln:
From cable TV news pundits to red-meat speeches in Iowa and New Hampshire, our nation’s deep political stereotypes are on full display: Conservatives paint self-indulgent liberals as insufferably absent on urgent national issues, while liberals say…
Although the importance of the left hemisphere cannot be diminished, Western society has become a sanctuary and temple to the rational man. To not also honor creative and holistic thinking would not simply be a mistake, it would be dangerous.
In a way I resent that the left brain is portrayed as a monotonous wasteland. Is there no potential to take the chaotic creative drive of the right, feed it back through the left, and arrive at improved understanding and insight through the organization of creative energy?
Rationality without creativity isn’t really rational at all, in that it results in a very proximate kind of practicality, while discarding rationality for the pretty colors and lack of limitations associated with creativity leaves one disconnected from reality.
Both sides are equally desirable and necessary, and representing one as inherently “better” than the other is short-sighted and idealistic.
(I realize the text addresses this in the first line; my commentary has more to do with the image itself)
Watch The World’s First Footage Of A Female Brain During Orgasm
For science!
»As you can see in the clip, there is activity — changing in intensity — across 80 separate parts of the brain right before, during, and after orgasm. Apparently the only thing that stimulates a woman’s brain more is epileptic seizure. Komisaruk calls the orgasm process a “brain symphony,” and notes that he and his team hope to figure out what goes wrong in both men and women who cannot reach sexual climax
We just covered this today in psych 101.
Sex on the brain: What turns women on, mapped out
