Rosa Parks The Meaning of Life - "The First Lady of Civil Rights"

Rosa Parks

The Meaning of Life

  "The First Lady of Civil Rights"

Rosa Parks in 1955, the year of her arrest, 

with  Martin Luther King, Jr. in the background

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65-year-old Parks writes:

"I was born in the South, fifty years after slavery, when 

racial segregation was legally enforced. I listened to my 

grandparents talk of their lives as slave children and was 

aware of the Ku Klux Klan’s activities in our community 

after World War I. Racial pride and self-dignity were 

emphasized in my family and community ..."

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• https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/02/04/rosa-parks-meaning-of-life/

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The Cognitive Neuroscience of Insight - Guest Submission - #Neuroscience

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Insight

Abstract

By John Kounios and Mark Beeman

Insight occurs when a person suddenly reinterprets a stimulus, situation, or event to produce a nonobvious, nondominant interpretation. This can take the form of a solution to a problem (an “aha moment”), comprehension of a joke or metaphor, or recognition of an ambiguous percept. Insight research began a century ago, but neuroimaging and electrophysiological techniques have been applied to its study only during the past decade. 

Recent work has revealed insight-related coarse semantic coding in the right hemisphere and internally focused attention preceding and during problem solving. Individual differences in the tendency to solve problems insightfully rather than in a deliberate, analytic fashion are associated with different patterns of resting-state brain activity. Recent studies have begun to apply direct brain stimulation to facilitate insight. 

In sum, the cognitive neuroscience of insight is an exciting new area of research with connections to fundamental neurocognitive processes.

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 Contact Authors

John Kounios 1 and Mark Beeman 2

1 Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102; email: john.kounios@gmail.com

http://www.innonavi.com/john-kounios/

https://twitter.com/JohnKounios/status/685608300835127296

2 Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208; email: mjungbee@northwestern.edu

http://www.psychology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core/profiles/mark-beeman.html

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"Strength" - Inspired, Heartfelt Guest's Poem

Strength

By Jennifer Hansford

You’re so strong, otherwise you wouldn’t be here, he said to me one day.

I know those words keep me standing tall, when nothing is going my way.

STRONG runs in my family, and I will make sure it carries on.

Because sometimes strength is all I have when everything else is gone.

The years pass by, but these words will remain in the front of my mind.

I think back to the day these words were spoken, when solace was hard to find.

These words melt away my heartache, and all my fears seem to disappear.

Forever there to remind myself, I’m so strong, otherwise I wouldn’t be here.

@HansfordJen 

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