July 2010
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Re: neuroscience as evidence and offender... →
Ignoring the original/sensational headline of “creating” a killer, and focusing on degrees, factors and potential genetic predispositions leading to violent behavior, neurolaw is expected to be a revolutionary area to address evidence, culpability and sentencing. It’s not about medicalizing crime, it’s investigating behaviors and risk.
“Something like in 1,200 cases,...
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Are there any experts on entitlement/eligibility of long term state benefits for minors with PDD in NYS in the house?
Yes? Contact me for a paying consultation.
No? Ok, carry on.
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“I’m serving up some some serious Dances with Wolves hair right now.”
– Me. All night long.
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continuum:
A professor of law at Washington and...
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SEX. And who's getting it more often. →
Here’s 15 studies covering multiple populations surrounding frequency and sex… remember, a correlation between two factors does not necessarily indicate causality. Then again, sometimes it does.
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Les Baxter - Exotic Moods - Jungalero
So here it...
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“at what age do you tell a highway it was adopted? i think seven, because that’s...”
– zack galifianakis (via piratekitten) (via thefranticsearch) (via gracielalala)
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'Several Dozen' Pentagon Employees Found with... →
fauxshizzle:
Federal investigators have identified several dozen Pentagon officials and contractors with high-level security clearances who allegedly purchased and downloaded child pornography, including an undisclosed number who used their government computers to obtain the illegal material, according to investigative reports.
The investigations have included employees of the National...
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Why Older Women Lust →
In other words, despite the girls-gone-wild image of promiscuous college women, it is women in their middle years who are America’s most sexually industrious.
To test this theory, Buss and his students asked 827 women to complete questionnaires about their sexual habits. And, indeed, they found that women who had passed their peak fertility years but not quite reached menopause were the...
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Is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal? →
Yep.
The authors investigated the role of homosexual arousal in exclusively heterosexual men who admitted negative affect toward homosexual individuals. The men were exposed to sexually explicit erotic stimuli consisting of heterosexual, male homosexual, and lesbian videotapes, and changes in penile circumference were monitored. They also completed an Aggression Questionnaire (A. H. Buss & M....
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toosweet4rnr:
The Beatles - Besame Mucho
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How The Brain Benefits From Musical Training →
The studies suggest society should “re-examine the role of music in shaping individual development,” and schools should consider boosting efforts to incorporate musical training into the curriculum, the researchers say.(…)
Studies show children with musical training have more neural activity in response to changes in pitch during speech than those without such training....
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“What we call our minds is simply a way of talking about the functions of our...”
– Francis Crick, 1966
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Conditional Regret
For a while, I had this special thing, it was so perfect and it was all mine. No one in the world knew about it but me. I could get blissfully lost just thinking about it and not feel one wasted minute go by. I’d think about it and just put it on the shelf when I was done - sure that it would be there anytime I came back for it. And it was for a long time, without fail. Except secretly, I...
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Watchpapillonsetouragans:
hey tumblr people, i just wanted to thank everyone that follows me. as you all know i post mainly bossa nova related posts, but what a lot of you don’t know is that i front a bossa nova band, useless landscape. unfortunately as a sideman for many other groups i do not have a whole lot of time to work on my own project. the first few releases will be out in the near...
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Raising a Psychopath
driftingonandon:
Raising a Psychopath
Basically this is the blog written by a man who, with his wife, decided to adopt an older child. What they get is Lucas, a six year-old who has had a rough start to life. He exhibits many strange behaviors, and his parents suspect that he is not entirely normal. According to his father (who writes the blog), Lucas is diagnosed with Reactive Attachment...
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I just finished filling out a 198 page assessment tool. By hand. I now need a neck brace, one of those wrist things bowlers wear, a snuggie and a martini with a shoulder rub filled with positive affirmations.
portorock asked: Chicago pizza: essentially round lasagna or genuine pizza?
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“Currently, the state does not have a single full-time psychiatrist on staff to...”
– N.Y. Agrees to Vast Changes in Youth Prison System - NYTimes.com
It’s about time this is fixed. The situation has been horrendous for years. As bad as the state-run asylums of forty years ago.
(via mikehudack)
Long overdue bit of progress. There are some really good post-release...
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Re: Intergrating NeuroLaw →
Neuroscience provides a new lens to examine the concept of freedom underlying moral and legal responsibility. Recent scholarship integrating neuroscience into debates over moral and legal responsibility, however, largely concede that criminal law must fundamentally alter its view of human actions and of human behavior and restructure its concept of responsibility to conform to these new...
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“All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without...”
– Henry Miller (via nolagrrlnyc)
RELEVANT.
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20 new cases accepted and scheduled!
twenty! now its time for ice coffee & really get to work.
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“Seduction is a matter of feelings and people opening themselves. I don’t think...”
– Miuccia Prada, The Woman who Loves Men (via)
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1 down. 1 to go.
Today was about interviewing possible neuro labs to spend the next 2 years in. This one was with a brilliant researcher who has the market cornered in her area of expertise, a great mix of lab assistants and tons of opportunities for me to get published (a huge plus) AND top of the line lab equipment. She was friendly and warm and I couldn’t find one thing I didn’t like about her or...
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Rock Soup: Our Mission Statement →
Six months after a 7.0 earthquake left 230,000 dead and more than 1.5 million people homeless, Haiti continues to be in dire need of assistance rebuilding its fragile infrastructure. We thought this would be a good time to post the Rock Soup Project mission statement. We’re anxious to get this…
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Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience
myserendipities:
“Minds are not brains… [W]hile each of us has his own brain, the mind that each of us has is the product of more than that brain; it is in important part the result of the social interaction with other brains. As essentially social animals, humans are nodes in complex networks from which their mental lives derive most of their content. A single mind is, accordingly, the result...
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Living Dolls →
givemesomethingtoread:
They parade in miniature ballgowns, where false eyelashes and can be as young as five… We venture into the world of mini beauty pageants to meet the young princesses and their pushy parents.
Aside from the obvious point of parents sexualizing their children in these things…one mother excused herself by saying, “I want my child to be aware that there’s...
