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Dreams are tune-ups? 
  November 10, 2009 A Dream Interpretation: Tuneups for the Brain By BENEDICT CAREY It’s snowing heavily, and everyone in the backyard is in a swimsuit, at some kind of party: Mom, Dad, the high school principal, there’s even an ex-girlfriend. And is that Elvis, over by the piñata? Uh-oh. Lou Beach... more »
By Lance  - 3:49pm - 1 new of 1 message    

Humour - the consistent variable 
  A man wanted to find out what was making him drunk. He set up a test. One glass had gin and water, another had vodka and water and the other bourbon and water. He drank them and decided the consistent variable was water, so he decided it must be the water making him drunk.
By Lance  - Nov 11 - 5 new of 5 messages    

Moral turnips 
  I've been watching the Yank plevision series on DVD. It's called 'Grey's Anatomy'. Mainly it's simple emotional pornography. That's the point of the series. I've watched it because it also has some interesting medical puzzles. It makes me feel soiled, morally, to have watched the most recent episode. It seems that we're supposed to accept the rape of Iraq as... more »
By Peter Brooks  - Nov 11 - 1 new of 1 message    

Teaching evolutionary theory 
  Allow competitiion between ideas and see which are the fittest? This seems to me to be a valuable development: A birthday present for Darwin The teaching of evolution in primary schools will be an important defence against the ignorance of intelligent design Andrew Copson guardian.co.uk, Monday 9 November 2009... more »
By Dave Smith  - Nov 10 - 8 new of 8 messages    

Early stress produces (long-term) epigenetic changes 
  Early stress alters epigenome Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 8th November 2009 06:00 PM GMT] Scientists have figured out how stress experienced early in life can cause long-lasting changes in physiology and behavior -- via epigenetics. Image: Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich Specifically, early stress appears to induce epigenetic changes in a... more »
By Lance  - Nov 10 - 1 new of 1 message    

The effect of strong parental control on children in the East and the West 
  Parents just don't understand November 5th, 2009 in Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry Recent studies investigating the question of parental control in the west and in east Asian countries suggest that extreme meddling by parents can have negative effects on their children's psychological development in both of those regions, although the effects may not be... more »
By Lance  - Nov 6 - 2 new of 2 messages    

Civilisation collapse as a result of ecological mismanagement may not be new 
  Native American culture sowed seeds of its own collapse Floods brought the Nazca to their knees — but they crippled themselves by over-farming first. Lizzie Buchen The mysterious Peruvian culture that preceded the Incas had a significant hand in its own catastrophic collapse, new research suggests.... more »
By Lance  - Nov 4 - 7 new of 7 messages    

Voynich manuscript 
  Anyone with any thoughts on this mysterious manuscript? [link] [link] On another group a programmer is attempting to write a program to test the stroke theory. I'm not betting on his success. I'm inclined to think it was either a private (manufactured) language (so no... more »
By Lance  - Nov 3 - 5 new of 5 messages    

Meat and heat 
  There seem to be two main questions here -- to what extent does meat production contribute to climate change and what response is required: [link] Dave Smith
By Dave Smith  - Nov 1 - 1 new of 1 message    

Bad driving may be in your genes 
  ScienceDaily (Oct. 28, 2009) — Bad drivers may in part have their genes to blame, suggests a new study by UC Irvine neuroscientists. People with a particular gene variant performed more than 20 percent worse on a driving test than people without it -- and a follow-up test a few days later yielded similar results. About 30 percent of... more »
By Lance  - Oct 30 - 1 new of 1 message    

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