News tagged with monks
Scientist inspired by Dalai Lama studies happiness
(AP) -- After hearing about his cutting-edge research on the brain and emotions through mutual friends, the Dalai Lama invited Richard Davidson to his home in India in 1992 to pose a question.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 14, 2010 |
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Researcher uncovers secrets of Kells 'angels'
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Book of Kells and similarly illustrated manuscripts of seventh- and eighth-century England and Ireland are known for their entrancingly intricate artwork -- geometric designs so precise ...
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Data may not compute: Program stores older Web research files, left at risk by technological leaps
Modern scholars are wrestling with a problem that ancient monks and early authors managed to master: how to keep their work accessible to future generations.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 19, 2011 |
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Meditation helps increase attention span
It's nearly impossible to pay attention to one thing for a long time. A new study looks at whether Buddhist meditation can improve a person's ability to be attentive and finds that meditation training helps people do better ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 14, 2010 |
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One in six Mediterranean mammals face extinction
One in six Mediterranean mammals is threatened with extinction at the regional level, mainly due to the destruction of their habitat from urbanization, agriculture and climate change, nature body IUCN said ...
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Study suggests Buddhist deity meditation temporarily augments visuospatial abilities
Meditation has been practiced for centuries, as a way to calm the soul and bring about inner peace. According to a new study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, there is now ev ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Stanford researcher taps power of cell phones to make music (Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The sound is unearthly—the sort of hypnotic drone you might hear from the chanting of state-of-the-art Tibetan monks. Or a vibration picked up via radio signals from another galaxy.
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Hawaiian monk seal sent to Waikiki to save species
The Hawaiian monk seal, the most endangered marine mammal in the United States, has a long list of threats - fishing nets, sharks and, particularly, humans. But for one group of seals, the biggest threat came ...
Feb 15, 2012 |
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Dangerous toxin discovered in critically endangered Hawaiian monk seal
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from NOAA have discovered a potent and highly-debilitating toxin in the endangered Hawaiian monk seal, a first-of-its-kind chemical finding that is now prompting investigations ...
Jun 08, 2011 |
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Europe faces extinction of many species, EU says
(AP) -- The Iberian lynx that prowls the grasslands of southern Spain. The Mediterranean monk seal swimming waters off Greece and Turkey. The Bavarian pine vole that forages in the high meadows of the Alps.
May 16, 2011 |
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Monk seal and hump-backed dolphin are threatened by fishing activities off coast of Mauritania
Catalan researchers have studied the marine trophic network in Mauritania, on the north west coast of Africa, which is an extremely heavily exploited fishing area, as well as being home to two of the world's ...
Jan 21, 2011 |
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Rare Hawaiian monk seal brought to Long Marine Lab for study and treatment
(PhysOrg.com) -- A young Hawaiian monk seal that was removed from the wild last year for treatment and rehabilitation is providing researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a rare opportunity ...
Mar 18, 2010 |
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Buddhism on the dinner plate
(PhysOrg.com) -- New book by a Harvard nutritionist and renowned monk encourages the Buddhist sense of mindfulness in how people eat.
Apr 06, 2010 |
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Environmental historian now tackles industrial disease in Japan
Controlling Japanese B encephalitis might seem easy to an outsider. Since the brain-injuring virus needs mosquitoes and pigs to spread, government officials should ban standing water in cemetery cisterns and urban drainage ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 18, 2010 |
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Man indicted in death of Hawaiian monk seal
(AP) -- A federal grand jury has indicted a 78-year-old Kauai man in the shooting death of an endangered Hawaiian monk seal in May.
Aug 06, 2009 |
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