August 2010
84 posts
thisistheglamorous asked: The few times I get fancy about ice I'll make a batch of clear ice in perfect cube ice trays. Boil the water twice to get all the impurities out and put them into this: http://is.gd/eO3AN. The end result is perfectly clear symmetrical ice cubes. Super easy to do and people always comment on them.
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Important Convo with Clients
Me: Hi, How's it going?
Her: If you don't come here and shoot me in the face to put me out of my fucking misery, I am going to kick you in the vangingo!!!
Me: So you will be paying me today. See you soon!
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LA TIMES: Scientists believe that daydreaming or... →
inothernews:
Until recently, scientists would have found little of interest in the purposeless, mind-wandering spaces between Mrazek’s conscious breakfast-making tasks — they were just the brain idling between meaningful activity. But in the span of a few short years, they have instead come to view mental leisure as important, purposeful work — work that relies on a powerful and far-flung...
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Physicians’ Relationships with Industry: The...
Physicians’ relationships with the pharmaceutical and device industries have been a growing focus of attention, with questions raised about their impact on prescribing practices,diagnostic criteria, practice guidelines, continuing education, conduct and reporting of research, and patients’ and public trust.
Such relationships can be understood as giving rise to a “principal-agent problem,” which...
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Is There Anything Good About Men →
caterpillarcowboy:
This is the best article I’ve ever read on the differences between men and women. It’s very long but really worth reading.
Highlights:
The distribution in ability is naturally different in men and women. There are more men at the top AND bottom of society. There are more men at the top AND bottom of IQ.
Men are genetically predisposed to take more risks than women, which...
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Solitude conjures imaginary companions →
I’ve just read a fantastic study on how loneliness, or even a brief reminder of it, leads us to see human-like qualities in objects around us, believe more strongly in the reality of God and supernatural beings, and even perceive pets to be more human-like.
The research, led by psychologist Nicholas Epley, is wonderfully conceived and speaks to how we seem to psychologically ‘reach out’ when...
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Re: Operation Dumbo
A (really nice) bunch of you have asked about how the elephant is doing since it’s been a month since my last report. I was cautioned in the last email from the Elephant Sanctuary that bringing more attn to this may cause certain govt. agencies to take her to a sub standard zoo. This would be bad news since the move would potentially add to the trauma/anxiety. So, as advised I backed...
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NEW RESEARCH INDICATES THAT CRIME WITNESSES TEND... →
criminalwisdom:
Via Vaughn Bell.
“Study participants were convinced they were describing a scene from memory, when they were often describing a similar scene someone else had seen, and then told them about.”
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Juvenile Offender Culpability and Sentencing: age... →
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling this May in Graham v. Florida, restricting life without parole sentences for juveniles, relied in part upon scientific evidence from developmental psychology and neuroscience. In ruling that juveniles are categorically different from adults, the high court was assisted by amicus briefs from the American Psychological Association and other professional organizations...
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so this is a whispery post at 1:06am…because I may have found a new place by school in the building I love. very excited, will seal the deal later in the week. don’t want to jinx it-so that’s all for now. but- yay, air claps!
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The psychology of advertising in the Mad Men era →
“Film-maker Adam Curtis has just posted a fascinating look into how the Madison Avenue advertising agencies of the 1960s first understood and applied psychology to marketing.
Part of this covered how advertisers began to take advantage and promote the increased focus on unconscious motivations and individuality to take advantage and promote the idea of the ‘self’ as consumer, and he expands...
loveisasickness asked: what is the name of the song you just posted?
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Yeah, I know. How many times is this song going to...
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“Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers...”
– George du Maurier (via sothenshe)
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“I think what happens is that prosecutors and police think they’ve got the...”
– The Wrong Stuff. Reasonable Doubt: Innocence Project Co-Founder Peter Neufeld on Being Wrong. Kathryn Schulz, Slate.
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There's a yard sale at the Amityville Horror... →
inothernews:
Bet we’ll find Occultist rummaging through the bins.
(via WCBS 880)
pro tip: just buy and go. don’t ask questions. they hate that. and no side eye. trust me.
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Thumb sucking was a brain disease →
“It sounds ridiculous now, but at the time these were weighty concerns and thumb-sucking merited a place in medical textbooks where it was thought to be responsible for dental damage – a genuine risk to developing teeth in some cases – but less realistically, it was also cited as a cause of facial deformity and, oddly, masturbation.”
I’ve just discovered an astounding article from...
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Do we really do experience time more slowly when... →
The piece riffs on a 2007 study called ‘Does Time Really Slow Down during a Frightening Event?’ led by neuroscientist David Eagleman who discusses the project on the show.
The experimenters wanted a way to find a way to test whether we suddenly start experiencing time in greater detail when in mortal danger, or whether it just seems that way when we look back on it.
The findings of the...
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Branching out at 3:35am
Everyday this week I have done something new.
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Fighting Crime by Reading Minds →
“How far out is P300 as a viable law enforcement tool? Maybe not too far, judging by the company the researchers behind the new study have been keeping. Rosenfeld says the work was funded by the Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment — part of the Department of Defense — which trains federal polygraph operators. (…) Rosenfeld counters that in some cases, the civil liberties of...
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"Getting detetion is crap. Do you think making us... →
Straight from the source.
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A man has been convicted of murdering his ex-wife... →
Is there such a thing as the facebook defense yet?
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Mood and the False Memory Effect →
With Sadness Comes Accuracy; With Happiness, False Memory
“In two experiments, we found that affect can influence the encoding processes believed to lead to the production of false memories. In particular, negative affective cues reduced the false memory effect.” Also suggesting:
…that positive affect can be expected to benefit performance on tasks requiring relational...
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“The problem with our sensory world..." →
my serendipities
The problem with our sensory world – this “blooming, buzzing confusion” of sights, sounds and smells – is that we put so much faith in it. We believe that the world we experience the world as it is, and that our sensations are an accurate summary of reality.
But that’s a convenient illusion. In fact, it is the one illusion that makes every other perceptual illusion...
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WatchI know. So I disappear for a couple of days, then show up all unannounced with a Tom Petty video?
You see kids, sometimes you just have so much goin’ on. Maybe you are finding a new place to live and that’s crazy… and you closed up a chapter of your life (that frankly took too long to complete, but hey- you muthafuckindidit) and your starting a new phase…and really big,...
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Century-Old Scotch Now Off The Rocks In Antarctica... →
anarchyandscotch:
shaneguiter:
A crate of Scotch whisky that was trapped in Antarctic ice for a century was finally opened Friday — but the heritage dram won’t be tasted by whisky lovers because it’s being preserved for its historic significance.
The crate, recovered from the Antarctic hut of renowned explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton after it was found there in 2006, has been thawed very...
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Life for Half an Ounce of Medical Marijuana for a... →
A Texas state trooper stops a 1990 Mercedes with an expired registration sticker. The driver says he does not have his driver’s license or proof of insurance. After arresting him for “failure to identify,” the trooper searches him and his car, finding 14 grams (half an ounce) of marijuana and hashish. Indicted for possession with intent to deliver, he could be sent to prison...
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Prison Without Walls →
givemesomethingtoread:
Incarceration in America is a failure by almost any measure. But what if the prisons could be turned inside out, with convicts released into society under constant electronic surveillance? Radical though it may seem, early experiments suggest that such a science-fiction scenario might cut crime, reduce costs, and even prove more just.
Fascinating, with as many cons as...
