![]() ![]() As many as half of the synapses in the nervous system have the capacity to grow, connect, disconnect, and reconnect to each other in response to life experiences.Īlthough the concept of neuroplasticity dates back at least as far as 1890 when William James first proposed it in The Principles of Psychology, it was largely ignored for the first half of the 20th century. Connections that are inefficient or infrequently used fade away, while those that are frequently traversed will be strengthened. The brain is constantly laying down new pathways for communication and rearranging existing ones. This process occurs via increases in the number and density of neurons, dendrites, synapses, and proteins essential to the survival of nerve cells. Neuroplasticity refers to the brain’s ability to reorganize itself, forming new connections and pathways in response to neurological damage, learning new skills, or creating new memories. ![]() Neuroplasticity: The Brain’s Ability to Change Itself LukeNotes, Summer 2010 ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Maggie is trying to figure out who she is, what to do next in her life, and what's her purpose. I devoured this book in one day and couldn't put it down. Shauna Robinson is officially one of my new favorite authors! Maggie will have to decide what's more important: the books that formed a small town's history, or the stories poised to change it all. ![]() Especially when Maggie unearths a town secret that could upend everything. ![]() But keeping the club quiet, selling forbidden books, and dodging the literary society is nearly impossible. To help save the store, Maggie starts an underground book club, running a series of events celebrating the books readers actually love. So, when a series of mishaps suddenly tip the bookstore toward ruin, Maggie will have to get creative to keep the shop afloat.Īnd in Maggie's world, book rules are made to be broken. Bell River's literary society insists on keeping the bookstore stuck in the past, and Maggie is banned from selling anything written this century. But running a bookstore in a town with a famously bookish history isn't easy. When Maggie Banks arrives in Bell River to run her best friend's struggling bookstore, she expects to sell bestsellers to her small-town clientele. If only, I, Maggie Banks, believed in following the rules. I, Maggie Banks, solemnly swear to uphold the rules of Cobblestone Books. ![]() ![]() William Dalrymple in this book has very aptly narrated all the incidents that took place in the mutiny but the best part is that he has used the mutiny papers very well and it’s probably the first time when someone has brought them to the reach of the world so easily. The last Mughal by William Dalrymple is another historical piece of writing covering this dark incident of Indian history and is great in every aspect. Even after the mutiny of 1857, British never had to suppress such a mutiny and rebellion as it never happened anywhere else in any of the colonies of the British. But what they also did not know was the bloody way which they had to cross to achieve India with them as complete sovereign and that they had to face the biggest mutiny India or the world had ever seen. Also, British east India Company had never faced such a rebellion that too by the sepoys who were trained by them, by then. ![]() In the May of the year 1857 when British introduced the New cartridges with the cow and pig fat, they did not know that this would not only establish their rule in India as a complete authority but also would end the rule of a dynasty which had hitherto ruled India for 330 years with all its magnificence which had astonished the people and the dynasties all over the globe. ![]() ![]() The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The conversation is riveting, and somehow more informative than the many interviews in which Obama is the one fielding the questions. Here was the president asking Marilynne Robinson for her views on the role of fear in American politics, how her interest in Christianity converges with her concerns about democracy, and why she ended up a writer after growing up in small-town Idaho. Judging from the response online, it would seem that one of the things the American public doesn’t get a chance to do as often as we would like, is see, or rather read, our president in an uncontrived, non-primetime, philosophical, even theological meeting of the minds with a public figure he reveres. “One of the things I don’t get a chance to do as often as I’d like,” he says, “is just to have a conversation with somebody who I enjoy and I’m interested in.” Robinson was “first in the queue.” Typically when he travels to a place like Des Moines, Iowa, where Robinson lives, he must immediately make a speech, attend a town hall, visit a factory, or do some other similarly scripted thing, Obama explains. ![]() “This is an experiment,” the president says at the outset. ![]() What a pleasure it was when, earlier this week, the Internet was overtaken with the news that President Obama had conducted an interview with Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead, Lila, and many other novels and collections, for The New York Review of Books: Precious few are the moments when brilliant, cult-y fiction writers ascend to the all-important status of Trending Topic. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, according to the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition (JISSN), athletes need to consume a higher proportion of protein per day. This has been approved and promoted around the world and is “recommended” for the “average” person. According to Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) the average adult is “recommended” to have a daily caloric intake of 2000kcals comprised of Carbs: 260g or more (45-55%), Fat: 70g (34%), Protein: 50g (11%). To formulate an effective meal replacement, many factors are taken into account. ![]() Some gainers have close to 80% of calories from carbs. ![]() These tend to have a predictable ingredient list with carbohydrates being the highest portion of the meal. Most people looking to replace a meal, or add additional meals to their diet, use meal replacement products (MRP’s). Meal Prep is unique supplement for many reasons. ![]() ![]() ![]() When he was in New York during the war, he wrote “The Little Prince” in two versions, French and English. He joined the air force in 1939 and disappeared during a reconnaissance mission aboard his plane in 1944. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry started writing by recounting his experiences as an aviator. He went on to be hired by a postal company. He took an interest in planes and became a pilot during his military service in 1922. Note: This is a guest chronicle written by Kevin BODEVING of the “tondefi” blog Chronicle and summary of The Little PrinceĪntoine de Saint-Exupéry was a writer, aviator and poet. However, through the tales and the adventures of the protagonist, the Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry nudges us into thinking about life’s everyday situations that will without a doubt change the way we see things.īy Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943, 93 pages. Summary of the book The Little Prince: Our perception of the world around us is totally subjective. ![]() Welcome back to Books That Can Change Your Life ! Since it is not your first visit here, you must want to receive The 3 Vital Principles To Succeed in Life, backed by science : ![]() ![]() Even if Eleanor and her friends survive, they won’t end this journey the same people. But they quickly learn that the power of the stories they’ve turned to for help has a stronger hold on them-and their futures-than they realized. Stalked by the relentless mud beasts, they have to find a way to escape using their trusty book of twisted fairytales, their wits, and their friendship. If they fail, their families will be next. When their friends and neighbors begin disappearing, abducted by strange, mud-drenched monsters, Eleanor and her two best friends must race to uncover their enemy’s secrets. And her methods are a bit more…treacherous. ![]() January, it’s now his sister’s turn to hunt the three of them. ![]() But life in the too-quiet Eden Eld isn’t safe just yet: according to the bargain they made with Mr. ![]() Last Halloween, Eleanor, Pip, and Otto narrowly escaped the clutches of the evil January Society and their leader. A twisty, creepy follow up to Thirteens, for fans of Neil Gaiman's Coraline and Stranger Things. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Aislinn tends the Summer Court, searching for her absent king and yearning for Seth. It is a desperate bargain he makes to strengthen his court against the coming war. Violence seemed more inevitable by the day and the Summer Court was not yet strong enough to face conflict, so Keenan made a dangerous deal with the water fey. Torn between his new queen and his old love, Keenan left Huntsdale to wander aimlessly but after centuries of leading his court it was not long before the reality of being Summer King became too pressing. The Summer King is missing the Dark Court is bleeding and a stranger walks the streets of Huntsdale, his presence signifying the deaths of powerful fey. The fifth and final breathtaking instalment in the darkly seductive and best-selling WICKED LOVELY series, about the collision of mortal and faery worlds. ![]() ![]() ![]() When they meet the Langs, their lives seem close to ideal. "In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up," Larry reflects years later, as of course it is if, like the young Morgans, you are also in love and full of hope. The friendship began 34 years ago in Madison, Wisconsin, where Larry and Sid, both fresh out of graduate school, landed teaching jobs at the local university. ![]() Like much of his previous fiction, however, Crossing to Safety ranges freely over broad swatches of 20th-century American history and geography. ![]() Wallace Stegner's magnificently-crafted, heart-wrenching story of the remarkable friendship between the Langs and Morgans is framed by a single dramatic day in New England. This summer they have been summoned back to Vermont at the urgent request of Charity, who is desperately ill and has only a few days left to live. Here, over the past three and a half decades, the Morgans have spent many of the happiest times of their lives as "adopted members" of the Lang family. ![]() Larry and Sally Morgan, now in their sixties, have just returned to the lakeside home of their closest friends, Sid and Charity Lang. IT IS the summer of 1972 in a remote and lovely corner of northern Vermont, just south of the Canadian border. CROSSING TO SAFETY By Wallace Stegner Random House. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Such EC Comics titles as Tales from the Crypt, The Vault of Horror and Weird Science are known even to people unfamiliar with the source material, due to movie and television adaptations. The output of Bill Gaines' EC Comics line in the 1940s and 1950s is one of the most critically acclaimed of the pre- Comics Code comics publishers (and one of the major casualties of the Comics Code). The EC Archives are an ongoing series of American hardcover collections of full-color comic book reprints of EC Comics, published by Russ Cochran and Gemstone Publishing from 2006 to 2008, and then continued by Cochran and Grant Geissman's GC imprint (2011–2012), and finally taken over by Dark Horse in 2013. Example of EC Archives' digital coloring by Jamison Services on a Johnny Craig page: "Terror on the Moors!" in EC Archives: The Vault of Horror (2007), originally in The Vault of Horror #17 (February–March 1951) ![]() |