Misc. politics. Gimp. Camcorder. George Carlin on Bankers. Fry & Laurie - Reunited - Part 1/5. Aldous Huxley interview-1958 (FULL) WARHOL BURROUGHS NICO - CHELSEA HOTEL - 1980. Colombian Devil's Breath | VICE News. When VICE initially asked me to go down to Colombia to dig into this scopolamine story, I was pretty excited. I had only a vague understanding of the drug, but the idea of a substance that renders a person incapable of exercising free will seemed liked a recipe for hilarity and the YouTube hall of fame. I even spent a little time brainstorming the various ways I could transport some of it back to the states and had a pretty good list going of different ways to utilize it on my buddies. The original plan was for me to sample the drug myself to really get an idea of the effect it had on folks.
The producer and camera man had flown down to Bogota ahead of me to confirm some meetings and start laying down the groundwork. —VICE Correspondent Ryan Duffy. Escalation. This week in Developmental Psychology class I presented a paper on dating violence in teenage relationships. I'm not going to rehash the paper here, because it's boring and Google-vulnerable, but I wanted to share the most interesting conclusion I found. How much conflict there is in a relationship, or the seriousness of the conflict issues, are not predictors of whether there will be violence. The biggest predictor is the degree to which conflicts in the relationship escalate. The studies I read looked at dating violence, which is not the same thing as dating abuse, although obviously there's lots of overlap.
Dating violence simply means that there's hitting/shoving/slapping; emotional abuse and controlling behavior aren't factored in. The takehome is that we shouldn't be teaching teenagers (and grownups) to avoid conflict. De-escalation means bringing someone down from an irrational, emotionally hyperaroused, screamy-hitty state, but it does not mean appeasement. •Project calmness. Stieg Larsson: Big-Name Sci-Fi Fan | Beyond The Beyond. *A reminiscence by Swedish science fiction devotee Ahrvid Engholm. “A couple of days ago a visited a seminar in Stockholm about the bestselling writer Stieg Larsson. It is held yearly around his death day (Nov 9, 2004; the seminar was Nov 8) but I have somehow managed to miss it until now. :The thing is that I knew Stieg Larsson who was active in science fiction for 10+ years (approx 1969-1980), eg as a prominent fanzine editor (Fijagh, Långfredagsnatt, SFären, Fanac, often together with one Rune Forsgren and of course Eva Gabrielsson), board member of the Scandinavian SF Association (“SFSF”, he was later chairman), even con organiser (eg the disastrous Minicon 5). ” There are plenty of Swedish fans around who also knew Stieg, especially John-Henri Holmberg who was one of the few from skiffy circles Stieg kept contact with after he left to become more involved in political journalism.
“I wrote a lengthy report from the seminar which is available *in Swedish* here: “This is quite common. Nick Miller | What Writing Has Done To Me. John Lennon's Handwritten To-Do List. Tavi Gevinson, TheStyleRookie.com: The Unpredictability of Gen Y. Men Behind the Sun (1988) - Trivia. How to Turn Your Creative Brainstorm into a Completed Project. CIA Officer Explains New World Order’s Demise Welcome to | jonronson.com. Anthony Newley.