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2007.June.18.Mon

Scans of Monks’ Brains Show Meditation Alters Structure, Functioning

Filed under: buddhism, meditation, news, science — adm @ 7:17.ICT

Digg poster toesfee, “The brain, like the rest of the body, can be altered intentionally. Just as aerobics sculpt the muscles, so mental training sculpts the gray matter in ways scientists are only beginning to fathom.”

Interesting:
* Digg.com presents the epitome of the latest, hottest news via Internet according to a heavily tech-biased community of users addicted to having the latest, hottest news as it comes out;
* This story is dated November 2004. At digg, it just was “made popular 5 hours 44 minutes ago” from ICT.07h12.Mon.18.Jun.2007.AD;
* 1,214 digg users had just dugg (voted positively for) the story at that time, pushing it into the ten most popular stories list of that moment;
* the comments, don’t miss the comments.

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