HuffPost Science: How Your Brain ‘Sees’ Art; Astronauts' Height Shift; Kilogram Gained Weight?

January 7, 2013 Subscribe · Forward WATCH: How Your Brain 'Sees' Art The Mona Lisa is arguably the most famous painting in the world. Have you ever wondered why? Leonardo Da Vinci was masterful at manipulating our own visual shortcomings to make us feel something beautiful, complicated, even unsettling. Continue reading... Space Mission Would Give Our Satellite One Of Its Own Astronauts' Height Changes While In Orbit, NASA Says Kilogram Has Put On Weight, Scientists Say Long-Beaked Echidna Specimen Suggests Egg-Laying Mammal Isn't Extinct In Australia After All A Living Mars: PHOTOS Show How Red Planet Might Look With Water Oldest Fossils Ever Found Date Back 3.49 Billion Years, Australia Research Shows DR. JILL BOLTE TAYLOR Does Our Planet Need a Stroke of Insight? The issues of mental health and global health are closely linked -- if not one and the same. Similar processes we use to improve our mental health can help us make better, more responsible decisions as a society -- by focusing on the compassion and integrity of our right brain, rather than the judgment, punishment and deception of our left brain. Continue reading... HARSHADA RAJANI My Love/Hate Relationship With the Brain I know that as a medical student and a fellow miraculous survivor, I should, like Jill Bolte Taylor, maturely and gracefully appreciate the awesome intricacies and tenacious strength of the brain. Instead, I'm totally disgusted by it. Continue reading... BEN THOMAS Some Songs Just Can't Be Heard Dr. Taylor tries to tell us, in the most precise language possible, what it was like to watch her thoughts fall away as she fell into timeless bliss. Truth be told, though, your own subjective experience is just as unique as hers -- and, ultimately, just as immune to exact translation. Continue reading... MIKE GOLDSMITH Can We Quiet the Sky? Aircraft: good. Aircraft noise: bad. This dichotomy has split many populations right down the middle for half a century and is only intensifying as demands for access to the skies and to urban accommodation grow. Is there an answer? Continue reading... JAMES M. GENTILE Television Ads for Math and Science What a welcome sight during the holidays: national television advertisements for improving America's student performance in math and science, aired during football games! They're making the need to improve America's performance in math and science part of our popular culture. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here Unsubscribe here.