December 2010
74 posts
“The emerging field of placebo research has revealed that the body’s repertoire...”
– Steve Silberman, Meet the Ethical Placebo - a powerfully effective faux medication that meets all the standards of informed consent.
The trouble with evidence
(…) cases grab the headlines and our attention, but they also point to an underlying problem with fingerprints—and with shoe prints, handwriting, and nearly every other form of classical forensics data. “The fact is that many forensic tests…have never been exposed to stringent scientific scrutiny,” a committee convened by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences concluded last...
New York City Government : We Have The Right To... →
neighborhoodr:
A video where a New York City snow removal worker was seen destroying a car by improperly attempting to free themselves from being stuck in the snow circulated all over the Internet this past week.
We copied the official New York City 411 Twitter account on the link he posted:
Here’s their response:
I agree that in an emergency, your car will need to be damaged if it helps...
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approachingsignificance asked: I love your blog. Seriously. Keep on truckin'.
approachingsignificance asked: I love your blog. Seriously. Keep on truckin'.
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I jus got an email from the lab saying we ran out...
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unconsciouskoine asked: Hi,
I came to visit your psy-tumblr, again. :)
Take a look at my tumblr, i hope you enjoy.
I came to visit your psy-tumblr, again. :)
Take a look at my tumblr, i hope you enjoy.
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Watchfuckyeahnervoussystem:
I think that our brain is the answer…the answer for every question (even philosophical and ethical ones).
For this reason, Neuroscience is the most important and interesting subject in science.
Henry Markram is director of Blue Brain, a supercomputing project that can model components of the mammalian brain to precise cellular detail — and simulate their activity in...
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“Cocktail is a stimulating liquor composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water,...”
– The earliest definition of cocktail was in the May 13, 1806, edition of the Balance and Columbian Repository, a publication in Hudson, New York. Thanks, Wiki
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10 Surprising Health Benefits of Sex. →
section9:
rosieloveswords:
I just forwarded this to my husband.
But, I almost sent it to my dad. I caught it before I actually clicked, “Send.”
Whew.
Which ones were the surprise?
And these weren’t mentioned: improved sense of smell, reduced risk of heart disease, reduced depression, better bladder control and better teeth. xxx
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“Vision – A candle flame seen at 30 miles on a dark, clear night
Hearing – The...”
– Perceptual psychologists have long been interested in limen – the threshold at which a stimulus becomes detectable. The following limen for the different senses, expressed in everyday terms rather than in terms of physical quantities, have a certain poetry to them. Galanter, E. (1962)....
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Peasant's life saved by medieval brain surgery →
Although the skull is the earliest discovered in England showing conclusive signs of this kind of treatment, skulls dating back to Neolithic times reveal that trepanning was also performed on people who had no head wounds, perhaps in an attempt to treat mental illness. But a mystery still remains: how did a man who was apparently a humble peasant manage to afford such complicated medical...
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Michigan man faces charges for reading wife's... →
A Rochester Hills man who says he learned of his wife’s affair by reading her e-mail on their computer faces trial Feb. 7 on felony computer misuse charges. Thirty-three-year-old Leon Walker used his wife’s password to get into her Gmail account. Clara Walker filed for a divorce, which was granted this month. Leon Walker tells The Oakland Press of Pontiac he was trying to protect the...
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“We will be open till 1am for you!”
– Harry, beloved bodega man telling me the hours because he noticed I didn’t buy enough booze.
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“That’s what I think is sexy now. Soft kissing with anyone. There’s...”
– Tom Ford
Anything you say Mr. Ford.
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"UK Science Journal Publishes Study by... →
ryking:
This is not a story from The Onion.
…making doctoral students everywhere cry.
What Is The Effect of the Death Penalty on Plea... →
As over 90% of convictions in criminal cases are obtained by guilty pleas, studying the incentives of prosecutors and defendants in pretrial negotiations is essential to understanding the operation of the criminal justice system itself. via
“A simple model delivers a clear prediction: the threat of the death penalty results in fewer plea bargains and more cases going to trial....
“Studies of California, New York, and North Carolina suggest that a capital trial...”
– Does the Threat of the Death Penalty Affect Plea Bargaining in Murder Cases? Evidence from New York’s 1995 Reinstatement of Capital Punishment - Ilyana Kuziemko, Harvard University
Watchfuckyeahnervoussystem:
Mus musculus brain: focus on hippocampus
AWESOME! WATCH PLEASE…
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Watching the creation of a synapse is the closest I get to spirituality.
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How the relationship between science and... →
“Scientific American has an excellent article on the sociology of communicating new discoveries and how the relationship between science and journalism has changed over the years.
It’s a remarkably comprehensive analysis that looks not only at science publication but how it relates to our regular patterns of social communication.
According to the author, online science pioneer Bora...
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Watch H.H. Holmes: America’s First Serial Killer - Nothing to do? You can watch this and learn how disturbed this guy was. It’s actually very interesting and well done.
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scotttfriday-deactivated2011021 asked: i like the way you think. you're hired.
scotttfriday-deactivated2011021 asked: i like the way you think. you're hired.
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“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of...”
– Plato
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Is long-term solitary confinement torture? →
One of the paradoxes of solitary confinement is that, as starved as people become for companionship, the experience typically leaves them unfit for social interaction. Once, Dellelo was allowed to have an in-person meeting with his lawyer, and he simply couldn’t handle it. After so many months in which his primary human contact had been an occasional phone call or brief conversations with an...
