December 2009
35 posts
Scientists Find an Antibody Which Hunts and Kills... →
Thought-to-Speech Machine Could Be the Beginning... →
MIND Reviews: Doctoring the Mind : Scientific... →
Despite advances in our understanding of mental illness, treatments leave patients no better off today than they did almost half a century ago—according to British clinical psychologist Richard P. Bentall. In his provocative book, Doctoring the Mind, Bentall takes on the conventional field of psychiatry, arguing that it works in a way that is “profoundly unscientific” and fails to actually help...
Portrait of a Multitasking Mind: Scientific... →
Inflated Expectations: Crowd-Sourcing Comes of Age... →
“the region of the brain involved in high-level cognition, in the control of the...”
– Observations: Going the distance: A new study finds that the reward center in the brains of depressed people lacks endurance
SEEDMAGAZINE.COM: metacognition →
Wegner argues that this twitch is responsible for all sorts of afflictions, from anxiety disorder (we get anxious whenever we think about not getting anxious) to insomnia, which can occur when the drowsy brain checks to see if we’ve fallen asleep (and so we wake up).
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Cool Tools: Taylor Luggage Scale - Totally need... →
A tiny electronic scale that will weigh your luggage.
Crack Research: Good news about knuckle cracking.:... →
Men often treat their friends better than women do... →
Who’s more “sociable,” men or women? Common sense says it’s women, right? And many research studies back this impression up: Women are more interpersonal, more connected, more interdependent than men. Women are more likely to share intimate information with each other than men. But is that really the whole story?
There is also research suggesting that men have larger...
Red Dead Redemption gameplay trailer is awesome,... →
What's Basically the Most Adorable Children's Gift... →
Uganda bans female circumcision →
This is GREAT news. Such a terrible thing to do to a women.
jmsc:
STORY HIGHLIGHTS The practice, which involves cutting off a girl’s clitoris, is also called female circumcision Human rights activists have decried the practice, saying it poses major health risks for girls Convicted offenders face 10 years in prison, with life imprisonment if the victim dies Most victims live in Africa and...
Rudolph, the Red-Nippled Reindeer - Red-Nippled... →
Burger King Beguiles Hungry Men With Shower Babe... →
“Our research showed that breakfast is a male-centric audience for Burger King; it doesn’t resonate as well with women — we are targeting the people who are buying breakfast.”
Shred Like a Geek: Recycled Circuit Board Guitar... →
Media Browser Is a Must-Have Windows Media Center... →
Create Reusable Shopping Bags Out of Old T-Shirts... →
Keep Flash Videos in Full Screen on Dual Monitors →
Yeah, TV Executives Are Terrified of Streaming... →
"Bandwidth hogs" join unicorns in realm of... →
How Tiger Woods Should Have Used Technology To... →
Ridiculous User Interfaces In Film, and the Man... →
WhoSampled Matches Samples to Their Original... →
Is Your Site Slow? Google Launches Tool to Help... →
“We’re talking about an extension of your body’s schema.” - Wicked! Plug me in.”
– Mental Maps Reveal the Brain’s Plug-and-Play Plasticity: Scientific American
“Tests Find More Than 200 Chemicals in Newborn Umbilical Cord Blood - Including...”
– Tests Find More Than 200 Chemicals in Newborn Umbilical Cord Blood: Scientific American