Extreme Physical Empathy?

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Can you think yourself into a different person?

“You may be given certain genes but what you do in your life changes your brain…”

We used to believe our brains couldn’t be changed. Now we believe they can – if we want it enough. But is that true? Will Storr wades through the facts and fiction for Mosaic science.

Read the article on Ars Technica

Podcasts and Videos on Systems Thinking

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Want to read and hear something that will challenge the way you think?

Something that will literally re-shape the way you see the world?

Blog posts on systems thinking

I’ve been writing about systems thinking for 10+ years. So, this blog has a ton of stuff on the topic.

Systems thinking blog posts in this blog: https://multispective.wordpress.com/?s=systems+thinking

Podcasts on systems thinking

Here’s a collection of podcasts on the topic of Systems Thinking. There’s quite a range in tone, density, accessibility, sometimes industrial jargon is used, so, feel free to surf around until you find one you like.

Podcasts on systems thinking:

Tunein – http://tunein.com/search/?query=systems%20thinking

Podcast Directory – http://www.podcastdirectory.com/episode-search-for/systems+thinking.html

Entry-level – Here’s a link to one podcast that I thought was easy to understand and accessible to the general public.

Personality Hacker Podcast – Systems Thinking & the Illusion of Causality

More podcasts?

Feel free to search for “Systems Thinking” in other podcast directories. Here’s a list of 50 podcast directories out there:

http://propodder.com/2011/10/top-50-podcast-directories/
http://tunein.com/embed/player/t97549404/

Videos

Peter Senge: “Systems Thinking for a Better World” – Aalto Systems Forum 2014 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QtQqZ6Q5-o

Internet Archive – https://archive.org/search.php?query=systems%20thinking