THE ART of Tea.
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THE ART of Flower Arrangement.
The Art of Flower Arrangements
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BODY LANGUAGE: Chronobiology.
New Bio/Circadian Rhythm Research
Circadian clock system plays vital roles in the regulation of physiological processes, including cell cycle progression, cytokine release, hormone secretion, sleep and wakefulness, immune regulation, etc. Multiple systemic diseases are proven to be closely associated with circadian rhythm disorders, so chronobiology research is becoming a focal point in biological and medical fields at present. With the development of chronobiology in these years, external cues that can be used as synchronizers to reset the circadian oscillators of animals or cells have been gradually discovered. From time-serial collection to real-time monitoring through luciferase reporter genes and fluorescent proteins, the methods to observe biological rhythms are rapidly advancing and becoming more diverse. In addition, researchers have also established a number of circadian clock-related databases to facilitate access to previous research results. Through the combination of various in vivo and in vitro experiments, the mechanisms underlying circadian oscillations are constantly being elucidated, and the complicated connections between circadian rhythm disorders and various diseases are also being identified. Illuminating the crosstalk between circadian rhythm and human diseases can help us better clarify the pathogenesis of circadian-related diseases, which provides new strategies and ideas for disease prevention and treatment.
SLEEP: The Oddly Obscure History of Bed.
“Anything that can’t be done in bed isn’t worth doing at all.” You might think he was referring to sleeping and sex. But humans, at one time or another, have done just about everything in bed.
And yet, despite the fact that we spend one-third of our lives in bed, they’re more of an afterthought. I certainly didn’t think much about beds until I found myself talking about their history with the executives of a mattress company. These humble artifacts, I learned, had a big story to tell—one that’s 77,000 years old. That’s when, according to archaeologist Lynn Wadley, our early African ancestors started to sleep in hollows dug out of cave floors—the first beds. They wrapped themselves in insect-repelling grasses to avoid bed bugs as persistent as those of today’s seedy motels.
THE PHILOSOPHY of Mind: Arousal vs. Relaxation
THE PHILOSOPHY of SLEEP.
THE ART of Gaugin: 'The Spirit Dreams of Her'
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THE PHILOSOPHY of SLEEP: 'Aristotle’s Sleep + Dreams Theory'
THE ABSTRACT:
Aristotle’s naturalistic and rationalistic interpretation of the nature and function of ‘sleep’ (ὕπνος) and ‘dreams’ (ἐνύπνια) is developed out of his concepts of the various parts (μόρια) or faculties/powers (δυνάμεις) of the soul, and especially the functions of cognitive process: (a) sense/sensation (αἴσθησις), (b) imagination (φαντασία), (c) memory (μνήμη), and (d) mind/intellect (νοῦς). Sleep “is a sort of privation (στέρησις) of waking (ἐγρήγορσις)“, and dreams are not metaphysical phenomena. The purpose of this paper is to provide a new reading of Aristotle’s ‘theory of sleep and dreams’ through its connection to modern and contemporary research. To be more specific, through this analysis we shall try to present that many of the Stageirite philosopher’s observations and ideas on the phenomenon of sleep and dreaming have been verified by current experimental research (e.g. Psychology, Psychophysiology, Neurobiology, Cognitive Science etc.).