May 2010
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lickystickypickyme:
Daft Punk - Something about...
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Wired: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains →
“When first publicized, the findings were greeted with cheers. By keeping lots of brain cells buzzing, Google seemed to be making people smarter. But as Small was careful to point out, more brain activity is not necessarily better brain activity. The real revelation was how quickly and extensively Internet use reroutes people’s neural pathways. “The current explosion of digital technology...
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How Poverty Shapes the Brain (The Globe and Mail) →
psychotherapy:
Scientists hope bold new research will help poor children succeed…
“Studies suggest a number of areas of the brain may be affected by low socioeconomic status, including the circuitry involved in language, memory and in executive functions, a set of skills that help us focus on a problem and solve it.
But Amedeo D’Angiulli at Carleton University in Ottawa wants to steer...
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No Short-Term Solutions for Haitians' Mental... →
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“Haitian-American psychiatrists call for both mental health assistance and caution to aid Haitian earthquake survivors and their relatives in Haiti and the United States.
Haitians will need extraordinary help in dealing with the psychological aftereffects of the January 12 earthquake and reconstructing its meager mental health system, but any such...
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Swedish court convicts dead man for assault →
kitsunde:
This is how a civilized society deals with zombies. We all need to remember that zombies are were people too!
Vietvets comment on the Local cracked me up:
In the rest of the world, there are 2 sure things, death and taxes. In Sweden, there are 3 sure things. Taxes, death, and taxes after death.
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“Research by the Equal Justice Initiative, which issued the 2007 report Cruel and...”
– James Ridgeway, When Punishing Teens Is Cruel and Unusual (via themmases)
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bjornin asked: like to hear more about antidepressants sometime - i read that newsweek article.
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STAR Court →
“Prostitution Diversion Initiative, a program that approached prostitutes as victims rather than criminals, offering treatment and support to women in need. For prostitutes with prior felony convictions, the county created STAR Court—the acronym stands for Strengthening, Transition, and Recovery.”
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Newsweek: Antidepressants Depressingly Wonky →
I don’t even know if I have the energy to launch into this, let alone all the variables/issues this article didn’t touch. Not saying I disagree, just that this is a small piece of a larger issue…ok we’ll hash it out over drinks.
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in another long funk
hachface:
Self-medicating with Sweetarts. They are cheaper than SSRIs and have fewer side effects.
resourcefulness. i like it.
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“Four months after the earthquake, many Haitians still feel the earth move.”
– Dr. Maryvonne Bargues, a psychiatrist working with MSF in Haiti (via doctorswithoutborders) Haiti to the left? Let’s make this an opportunity instead of a forgotten crisis. (via aatombomb)
”Psychologists have treated 69,000 earthquake victims at MSF medical facilities and in camps. “Four...
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Targets for Sexual and Physical Assault →
“Juveniles placed in adult prisons are at heightened risk of physical and sexual assault by older, more mature prisoners. Many adolescents suffer horrific abuse for years when sentenced to die in prison. Children are five times more likely to be sexually assaulted in adult prisons than in juvenile facilities.”
So this is not news to anyone, and its no secret what happens in...
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Signs of a Cover-Up After Killings in a Haitian... →
“…Prison officials would not allow The Times to enter the walled prison compound, which sits directly behind the police station in the heart of town. But reporters interviewed six witnesses to the disturbance as well as five others who visited the prison either immediately after the shootings or…(via)
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A Texas criminal defense lawyer has had 20 of his... →
The New York Times profiles the lawyer, Jerry Guerinot, talks to his critics, and looks at one of his recent cases involving a British woman who recently lost a bid for U.S. Supreme Court review.
“A good way to end up on death row in Texas is to be accused of a capital crime and have Jerry Guerinot represent you,” the Times reports.
But “the Constitution does not require perfection in trial...
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Study Finds ‘Unattractive Harshness Effect’ for... →
“These jurors, who tend to process information based on emotions and personal experience, were 22 percent more likely to convict the less attractive defendants than jurors with a rational style of decision-making, the study’s lead author, Justin Gunnell, tells the ABA Journal. These experiential jurors also gave the looks-challenged defendants sentences that were on average 22 months longer...
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Why do the eyes move during REM sleep? →
crookedindifference:
During REM sleep, where most dreaming takes place, your eyes move around but it’s never been clear exactly why. A new study just published online by neuroscience journal Brain suggests that they are looking at the ever-changing dream world.
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Teens Sentenced to Perform Shakespeare →
nineteencaprices:
Wow…that’s pretty awesome :D
“The show is the culmination of a five-week intensive program called Shakespeare in the Courts, a nationally recognized initiative now celebrating its 10th year. Berkshire Juvenile Court Judge Judith Locke has sent these adjudicated offenders — found guilty of such adolescent crimes as fighting, drinking, stealing, and destroying property —...
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I was going to say how awesome it is on a day like this to work from home in a bathing suit, lounging on a blanket soaking up the sun, taking calls and scheduling stuff…but people stuck in offices don’t want to hear that either.
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I have started 3 posts and deleted them all.
dailyhuff:
Suffice it to say: in many ways, I’m worried that writing on the Web, which is virtually all I’ve done and which has given me some very good things, is nevertheless ushering in a whole new age of incredibly shitty writing.
This makes the endeavor feel kind of pointless.
I suspect that I’ve been deleting previous drafts because I know I’ll get over it.
I do exactly this. In fact,...
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nickdrake:
The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
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What do I do when I've had a really good day?
Pass out for about 4 hours. Achieving a life goal is exhausting.
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This is the glamorous: They know my secret... →
(The following is a selected moment from an actual telephone call I had today.)
“You sound down.” “It was a discouraging day. But, whatever, it happens.” “You’re not eating shit are you?” “Well, no. I had ravioli so I guess borderline shit.” “You left the apartment.” “Yes, I actually did quite a…
That’s the place my girl is goin, and some of the people I spoke with! I hope it all...
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Murder: New York City →
An interactive map where you can cruise the time line and zoom in for homicide stats.
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For the law, neuroscience changes nothing and... →
“Of course, scientific respectability is not everyone’s first priority. However, the law in most Western states is a public institution designed to function in a society that respects a wide range of religious and otherwise metaphysical beliefs. The law cannot function in this way if it presupposes controversial and unverifiable metaphysical facts about the nature of human action, or...
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A Woman’s Touch Can Be Risky →
“A new study finds that physical contact, such as a pat on the back by a woman, increases a man’s risk tolerance.(…) Investigators discovered that men would risk more money if a female experimenter patted them on the back, than if she just talked to them or if a man did the patting. (…)The results suggest that a woman’s touch works the same on adults as it does on infants: making...
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crookedindifference:
(via peto)
AIR -...
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“[I]n Soviet times such [underwater oil] leaks were plugged with controlled...”
– Oil Leak Could Be Stopped With a Nuke (via mattlehrer)
I’d love to see the Gibbs press conference on this idea. “Nothing to worry about, folks, we’re just going to detonate a small nuclear device right next to Florida.”
(via aatombomb)
According to some sort of press conference I was in ear shot...
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It's not about how smart you are. →
bgilliard:
Read it all. Carol Dweck makes smart people re-evaluate the nature of their smartness:
At the age of 63, Dweck wears an expression of perpetual amusement. She is petite and dressed in black, and after six years at Stanford her general gestalt is still more New York than California. (She was raised in Brooklyn, and she taught at Columbia University for 15 years before coming here...
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Inside Bed-Stuy's 81st Precinct →
givemesomethingtoread:
Two years ago, a police officer in a Brooklyn precinct became gravely concerned about how the public was being served. To document his concerns, he began carrying around a digital sound recorder, secretly recording his colleagues and superiors.
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Mamihlapinatapai
interweber:
readmorewikipedia:
Noun
A look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start.
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Donate Nashville →
soupsoup:
A great marketplace for posting things you can donate and where folks can post what they need.
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Brain Scan Evidence Rejected by Brooklyn Court |... →
datajunkie:
Interesting… I had expected the fMRI would fail the science test, not a legal one. Thoughts on this from my lawyer peeps?
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The legal question relies on the science. It’s all about the Daubert Standard -a test “used by a trial judge to make a preliminary assessment of whether an expert’s scientific testimony is based on reasoning or methodology that is scientifically...
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