Click Here to Read: Some Very Initial Thoughts on the US-China Deal by Naomi Klein on the Common Dreams Website on November 12, 2014.
For the first time, China is committing to capping its emissions and acknowledging that there must be a limit to its coal-powered growth juggernaut. It’s not everything, but it’s certainly not nothing. (Image: y-axis.com)
Bi-Ocularity, the Functioning Mind of the Psychoanalyst
Dr. Dana Birksted-Breen in the reading of her unpublished paper
January 15, 2015 – 8:30 p.m. – IPTAR West, 140 W 97th St, New York NY
Birksted-Breen discusses the mode of attentiveness that she calls bi-ocularity: one eye/I on the immediate and one eye/I on that which is not present, the” there” of the unconscious, the lost connection, the non represented. She distinguishes it from Bion’s notion of “binocular vision”.. Bi-ocularity entails a necessary gap in the images, which also corresponds to the temporal gap of Continue reading Bi-Ocularity, the Functioning Mind of the Psychoanalyst with Dana Birksted-Breen at IPTAR
Click Here to Read: Reexamining FDR’s Response to Kristallnacht Ken Burns and others have called it impressive, but the truth is less inspiring By Rafael Medoff on the Tablet website on November 4, 2014.
Germans pass by the broken shop window of a Jewish-owned business that was destroyed during Kristallnacht. (US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD)
Click Here to Read: ‘Anti-Racist’ Group Moves to Exclude Jews from Kristallnacht Commemoration
Sharona Schwartz on The Blaze website on November 10, 2014.
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Click Here to Read: Landing on a Comet, a European Space Agency Miss ion Aims to Unlock the Mysteries of Earth by Kenneth Chang in The New York Times on November 12, 2014.
Click Here To Read: Otago neuroscientists reveal mechanism crucial to molding male brains on The Eureka News Website.
Caption: Professor Allan Herbison is leader of a team discovering that neural circuitry they previously showed was vital to triggering ovulation also plays a key role in moulding the male brain. They have found that male-specific signalling in the Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons of new-born mice is crucial to generating a testosterone surge that occurs up to five hours after birth. This brief but powerful increase in testosterone blood levels, which only takes place in males, is known to cause their brains to develop differently to females.
Credit: Sharron Bennett
Click Here to Read: Maurice Merleau-Ponty on Wikipdeia.
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Click Here to Read: Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty on the wikibrown.edu website.
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