lamiak – Page 5 – Lamia Holden

Telescope

February 8, 2011February 18, 2013lamiak Comment

I took this photo standing on one of the bottom levels of the Provincetown Tower – looking up. The lighting is ‘natural’ – [...read more]

Green Rain

January 16, 2011September 2, 2016lamiak Comment

Art is so incredibly nourishing. My eight year old daughter spends so much time with a sketchbook in her hands. It is her go-to activity whenever she is not whirling around the house stirring up eddies of activity. I love to see her settled on the couch, sketchbook on her lap, trying out her character creations in different perspectives. [...read more]

Chronic Stress and Neurogenesis

January 15, 2011September 2, 2016lamiak 3

It was a woman scientist, Elizabeth Gould, who discovered in 1989 that chronic stress is devastating to neurons -and most importantly, that the [...read more]

Smooth Overlay

January 5, 2011September 2, 2016lamiak Comment

The jQuery tools available for Website development are like a cookbook full of wonderful recipes to try. This one is called Overlay, an [...read more]

Embracing the Wide Sky

January 5, 2011September 2, 2016lamiak Comment

I could read endless books about the brain. We know so little about the mechanisms of thought and feeling. I can’t help wanting [...read more]

Proust was a Neuroscientist – Walt Whitman

January 5, 2011September 2, 2016lamiak 1

Loved this book. Lehrer shows that several 19th & 20th century artists – each discovered an essential truth about the mind that neuroscience [...read more]