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Edge of the abyss. Daddy’s little girl … Michael Schofield with his daughter, Janni, in 2006.
The first weeks of Janni's life, my wife, Susan, and I are taking lots of home video, imagining her watching these tapes alongside us and her friends as a teenager, pretending to be mortified, but happy on the inside knowing how important she's been to us from the beginning. About a week into her life, she stops sleeping, aside from 20 to 30 naps within a 24-hour day.
DISCERN Artificial Neural Network - How to Build a Schizophrenic Computer. Schizophrenia is one of the most infamous and mysterious mental disorders.
Attempting to get to the root of the problem, scientists recently came up with an extraordinary solution: They built a schizophrenic computer. In a study published in the online version of Biological Psychiatry in March, researchers altered an artificial neural network capable of learning language and stories, to the point where it started "acting" schizophrenic. 5 Ways To Hack Your Brain Into Awesomeness.
Much of the brain is still mysterious to modern science, possibly because modern science itself is using brains to analyze it.
There are probably secrets the brain simply doesn't want us to know. Ten Psychology Studies from 2009 Worth Knowing About - David DiSalvo - Brainspin. Image by AFP/Getty Images via Daylife Several great psychology and neuroscience studies were published in 2009. Below I’ve chosen 10 that I think are among the most noteworthy, not just because they’re interesting, but useful as well. 1. If you have to choose between buying something or spending the money on a memorable experience, go with the experience. According to a study conducted at San Francisco State University, the things you own can’t make you as happy as the things you do. Philosophers and Their Works.
Does the comfort of conformity ease thoughts of death? - life - 25 February 2011. AS THE light at the end of the tunnel approaches, the need to belong to a group and be near loved ones may be among your final thoughts.
So say Markus Quirin and his colleagues at the University of Osnabrück in Germany. The team prompted thoughts of death in 17 young men with an average age of 23 by asking them whether they agreed or disagreed with a series of statements such as "I am afraid of dying a painful death". At the same time, the men's brain activity was monitored using a functional MRI scanner. To compare the brain activity associated with thoughts of death with that coupled to another unpleasant experience, the team also prompted thoughts of dental pain using statements like "I panic when I am sitting in the dentist's waiting room". Although the threat of dental pain is unpleasant, "it's not a threat of death", Quirin says.
Quirin thinks the work of German philosopher Martin Heidegger could explain the unexpected result. Philip Zimbardo shows how people become monsters ... or heroes. Fake smiling makes you miserable. Top 10 Thinking Traps Exposed. Our minds set up many traps for us. Unless we’re aware of them, these traps can seriously hinder our ability to think rationally, leading us to bad reasoning and making stupid decisions.
Features of our minds that are meant to help us may, eventually, get us into trouble. Here are the first 5 of the most harmful of these traps and how to avoid each one of them. 1. The Anchoring Trap: Over-Relying on First Thoughts “Is the population of Turkey greater than 35 million? 5 Psychological Experiments That Prove Humanity is Doomed. Cracked.com's new book is now on sale.
What follows is one of 22 classic articles that appear in the book, along with 18 new articles that you can't read anywhere else. Psychologists know you have to be careful when you go poking around the human mind because you're never sure what you'll find there. Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature. Human nature is one of those things that everybody talks about but no one can define precisely.
Every time we fall in love, fight with our spouse, get upset about the influx of immigrants into our country, or go to church, we are, in part, behaving as a human animal with our own unique evolved nature—human nature. 5 Ways Stores Use Science to Trick You Into Buying Crap. A big chunk of the world economy runs on human weakness.
Parents: How to raise a creative genius. A combination of heredity and unique characteristics of the individual contribute to creativityParents should cheer on their children but should not be attached to outcomesSome kids will drop an activity if they believe their parents have too many expectations about itCheck out CNN's Geek Out (CNN) -- When Gavin Ovsak started multiplying double-digit numbers in his head in kindergarten, his mother, Cathy, was astonished.
"We were like, where did that come from?