While Facebook’s rise took many by surprise, its success was little surprise to the hundreds of researchers who study social interactions in neuroscience labs across the country.   Here’s how social the brain is: the brain network that is always …

If students can only focus for 15-minute intervals, shouldn’t we devote precious class time to something more engaging?   Each school day, millions of students move in unison from classroom to classroom where they listen to 50- to 90-minute lectu…

Henry David Thoreau said, “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” At some point in our development we learn to see others through a lens of fear and hate. Because the brain is so malleable in our y…

What does one of the leaders of Lovingkindness in the West have to say about its effects in our daily life?See it on Scoop.it, via Radical Compassion