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One of the great disappointments of our generation is how slowly science seems to progress in certain areas. For example, we know for a fact that it is theoretically possible to re-grow human limbs. Our bodies are not all that dissimilar to salamanders on a biomolecular level. And yet, it still has not been done. Is this not the 21st century? Is this not the nanotech era?

From: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=regrowing-human-limbs

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Scientific American talks about how you can possibly train yourself to be more compassionate through meditation.

When engaged in compassionate meditation, the brain region known as the insula burst into action when the expert meditators heard the sound of a woman in distress. (The insula—a part of the limbic system—has been associated with the visceral feeling of emotion, a key part of empathizing with another’s emotional state.)

And when these experts heard the female screams or the sound of a baby laughing, their brains showed more activity than the novices in areas like the right temporal-parietal juncture, which plays a role in understanding another’s emotion.

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