February 2012
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November 2011
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“Patricia refers to herself as “a sovereign Most Christian Princess as certified...”
– Sovereign Citizen ‘Governor’ And ‘Christian Princess’ Convicted Of Tax Fraud | TPMMuckraker
October 2011
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Sweet metaphors, sweet people →
It all sounds a bit insane: people who like sweet foods are someone just generally nicer than people who don’t. It sounds like the latest example of dubious evolutionary psychology, but it’s actually about how language subtly shapes our behavior.
Study unveils word patterns of psychopaths →
Sigmund Freud, 1909 - NYTimes →
September 2011
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“Their uses may even be mutually necessary. Peretti puts it this way: if 4chan is...”
– Radical Opacity - Technology Review
August 2011
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IEEE Xplore - The fractal analysis of the eyeball... →
July 2011
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Scientists give computer schizophrenia | TG Daily →
June 2011
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Can Humans Sense the Earth’s Magnetism? →
“The people without the ability to mimic the facial expressions of others (joy,...”
– Frozen Feelings: Botox Users May be Less Empathetic to Others - EmpowHER.com
May 2011
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Futurity.org – If you give a computer... →
The neural network used by Grasemann and his adviser, Professor Risto Miikkulainen, is called DISCERN. Designed by Miikkulainen, DISCERN is able to learn natural language. In this study it was used to simulate what happens to language as the result of eight different types of neurological dysfunction.
“Winston speculated that the magic ingredient that makes humans unique is our...”
– Unthinking Machines - Technology Review
April 2011
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“According to a criminal complaint filed in Washington, D.C. Superior Court,...”
– Gauguin painting in Washington attacked by Susan Burns | Mail Online
March 2011
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“Subjects … sitting in hard, cushionless chairs were less willing to...”
– » How Your Coffee Mug Controls Your Feelings | Johnny Holland
February 2011
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“I swear I’m not the kind of guy who hears voices,” Srivastava says. “But that...”
– Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code | Wired
January 2011
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“He went through Kim Porter and Rodney King and knocked down the WTC and then...”
– An appeal to the law (#; #)
7mo Infants Seen Grasping Point of View of Others... →
December 2010
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Scientists Gain Insights into How to Erase... →
One intriguing application of Clem and Huganir’s work may be the eventual development of pharmacological aids that help re-open or extend fear’s malleable period, and offer a chance to quiet a damaging memory formed long ago. Indeed, the chemical cascades that precede the increased receptor turnover in the amygdala were quite well characterized in their paper, and suggested several possibilities...
Neural Feedback: Brain Influences Itself with Its... →
the brain’s electric field is not a passive by-product of its neural activity, as scientists once thought. The field may actively help regulate how the brain functions
November 2010
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Narcissistic Disorder to Be Eliminated in... →
He also blamed a so-called dimensional approach, which is a method of diagnosing personality disorders that is new to the DSM. It consists of making an overall, general diagnosis of personality disorder for a given patient, and then selecting particular traits from a long list in order to best describe that specific patient.
This is in contrast to the prototype approach that has been used for...
Tetris Reduces PTSD; Pub Quiz Makes It Worse | LAT →
Tracking the Brain's Ability to Bluff | Technology... →
October 2010
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Neuroticism expensive for society: study:... →
September 2010
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“The association between psychotic disorders and living in urban areas appears to...”
– Study examines association between urban living and psychotic disorders
August 2010
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...to distribute the world order information... →
When an officer asked her what happened, she said, “I got signs from God, he told me to distribute the world order information,” according to the arrest-warrant affidavit.
She told the officer that Brasch was her “closest friend.”
When asked why she shot him, Robbins replied, “I was expecting someone else to come in” and that God told her to shoot.
Technology Review: Blogs: Mims's Bits: Babies Take... →
Babies with physical disabilities don’t have the same opportunities to explore their environment as their peers, which is why giving them the infant equivalent of powered exoskeletons is a splendid idea.
A splendid idea, and one very much like Anne McCaffrey’s The Ship Who Sang.
Phys Ed: Does Music Make You Exercise Harder? -... →
“Humans and song birds” are the only creatures “that automatically feel the beat” of a song, she said. The human heart wants to synchronize to music, the legs want to swing, metronomically, to a beat.
China's digitally-induced dysgraphia →
Conceptual precursors to language |
Susan J.... →
“The amazing thing is that the look on his face was as if he had never seen a...”
– Life without language « Neuroanthropology
Conversations.org: Interviews With Social Artists →
Are there adults living today who have not learned any language, who cannot even conceive of language?
May 2010
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HDTV Keeps Viewers Watching Longer | NYT →
“Crystal-Clear, Maybe Mesmerizing”
“I am now putting together an invoice for him for approximately $80,000 in gold...”
– Anti-Government Man Jerry Kane Jr., Teenage Son Reportedly Killed Police In Deadly Shootout | Huffington Post
April 2010
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Sleeping (or Not) by the Wrong Clock | NYT →
Random:
A therapeutic full night awake under observation in a hospital setting instantly relieves the depression in about 60 percent of patients. This is one of the major, surprising findings of biological psychiatry. The problem is, after the next day’s recovery sleep the depression is likely to return. So the benefit is only ephemeral.
““Microchips are like little beepers,” the woman told the committee....”
– GA Woman To State Judiciary Committee | TPM
Neuroskeptic: Why Do We Dream? →
March 2010
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“Humans have been subjected to deep hypothermic cardiac arrest for aortic surgery...”
– Benjamin P. Best. Pretty wild, huh? (via keyholez)
“I still have people torturing my pelvis and lungs with dispersed sound waves and...”
– Airborne bears to catch bin Laden, and other letters to the Pentagon | Stars and Stripes
The default-mode, ego-functions and free-energy: a... →
This article explores the notion that Freudian constructs may have neurobiological substrates.
“A portable, plugless, brain-to-computer interface using electroencephalography...”
– Recent University of Maryland work covered at PhysOrg. (via fiatluxemburg)
Mark Becker found guilty of first-degree murder in... →
The trial largely centered on Becker’s mental status on the day of the shooting. Prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed that Becker shot Thomas and that Becker suffered from paranoid schizophrenia that caused him to have intense hallucinations and delusions.
But prosecutors Scott Brown and Andy Prosser repeatedly argued that that mental illness was not equal to insanity.
February 2010
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JAMA -- Abstract: Effectiveness of Long-term... →
Neuroskeptic: Drunk on Alcohol? →
Ethanol vs. acetaldehyde
“Concentrate. These are your students. You have an obligation to them. Canceling...”
– Mental Illness in Academe - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education
January 2010
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Organic transistor paves way for new generations... →
Psychodynamic psychotherapy brings lasting... →