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As the Oceans Turn Acidic, Scientists Report a Strange Finding: Hope

As the Oceans Turn Acidic, Scientists Report a Strange Finding: Hope | The Big Picture | Scoop.it

This work leant a surprisingly hopeful note to some of the proceedings. The assembled scientists and a few policy makers pondered ways to leverage their efforts, integrate and communicate a fast-growing sea of data, and perhaps even mitigate acidification’s effects. For possible further guidance, many looked toward a suite of recommendations due at the end of October from Washington State’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Ocean Acidification, the first such official body convened in this country.

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The "Interpreter" in Your Head Spins Stories to Make Sense of the World

The "Interpreter" in Your Head Spins Stories to Make Sense of the World | The Big Picture | Scoop.it

We humans think we make all our decisions to act consciously and willfully. We all feel we are wonderfully unified, coherent mental machines and that our underlying brain structure must reflect this overpowering sense. It doesn’t. No command center keeps all other brain systems hopping to the instructions of a five-star general. The brain has millions of local processors making important decisions. There is no one boss in the brain. You are certainly not the boss of your brain. Have you ever succeeded in telling your brain to shut up already and go to sleep?


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