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New Neuroscience Reveals 3 Secrets That Will Make You Emotionally Intelligent

Before we commence with the festivities, I wanted to thank everyone for helping my first book become a Wall Street Journal bestseller.

And yet nobody seems to be able to explain what it really means or how you develop it.

And it turns out the latest research shows that the little we know about emotions is actually all wrong.

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with appointments at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Her new book How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain turns everything you know about the feels upside down.

That’s because you don’t know these emotion concepts; the associated situations and goals are not important in middle-class American culture.

But if we feel them deeply and we share them with others, nothing in this life is more real. »

Noninvasive spinal stimulation method enables paralyzed people to regain use of hands, study finds

Authored by newsroom.ucla.edu

The ability to perform simple daily tasks can make a big difference in people’s lives, especially for those with spinal cord injuries.

After only eight researcher-led training sessions with the spinal stimulation, all six individuals showed substantial improvements.

The study participants had chronic and severe paralysis for more than one year, and some for more than 10 years. »

EU agrees total ban on bee-harming pesticides

Authored by theguardian.com

The European Union will ban the world’s most widely used insecticides from all fields due to the serious danger they pose to bees.

The plummeting numbers of pollinators in recent years has been blamed, in part, on the widespread use of pesticides.

The EU banned the use of neonicotinoids on flowering crops that attract bees, such as oil seed rape, in 2013. »

Gates recalls Harvard past, sees problem-solving future

Authored by news.harvard.edu

There, Gates viewed demonstrations of ongoing cutting-edge research, including robotic bees and soft robots, and met with students, postdocs, and Professors Robert Wood and Conor Walsh, who run those labs, respectively.

“The work here is taking robotics in many dimensions and in different realms,” Gates said later during a relaxed back-and-forth conversation with Doyle and a Q&A session with students at the Science Center.

“I saw a variety of robots that are really amazing, and … the collaboration between the various teams was amazing to see.”. »

Exorcisms booming as Christian faith declines and internet offers easy access to black magic, priests told

Authored by telegraph.co.uk

Demand for exorcisms is booming as a result of a decline in Christian faith and the internet providing easy access to black magic, the occult and Satanism, a Vatican conference for exorcist priests was told on Monday.

So many people are asking to be liberated from the malign hold of the Devil that some priests are now delivering prayers of liberation – a first step towards exorcism – over the phone.

“There are priests who carry out exorcisms on their mobile phones. »