Wiki. OLD. World's shortest explanation of Gödel's theorem. The jobless young: Left behind. Why I Go Home: A Developer Dad’s Manifesto. NASA Announces Design for New Deep Space Exploration System. Personality disorders: One of the most controversial & misunderstood areas of mental health. Ask the average person what they associate with personality disorders and you get a blank stare or description of a human chameleon capable of changing from normality to social menace in the blink of an eye.
In reality, the majority of people with a personality disorder are a greater danger to themselves than others, with high rates of self-harm and attempted suicide as a way of managing often turbulent emotions. Most of us recognise our moods and feelings and manage them until they pass, while many people with personality disorders have a tendency to get stuck in these emotional states which increase in intensity, resulting in behaviour that many of us find unusual.
These limiting patterns of behaviour and response become engrained like a scratched record, producing great feelings of anxiety and frustration. Forget Tar Sands, Canada Geothermal >1 Million X Electricity Needs. Clean Power Published on September 14th, 2011 | by Andrew Photo credit: Leah Hennel, Calgary Herald Canada’s sitting on “massive” geothermal resources, according to news reports, more than 1 million times its current electricity consumption.
“As few as 100 projects could meet Canada’s energy needs,” notes the Geological Survey of Canada research team whose 322-page report will be presented at a geothermal industry conference in Toronto Thursday, Sept. 15. Better yet, the 12-scientist team found that geothermal heat reservoirs found across “large swaths of British Columbia, Alberta, the Yukon and Northwest Territories” lie close to the surface, making them easier to reach and tap into. Being social with sex workers: how not to be a jerk.
Al-Qaeda Is Winning - Daveed Gartenstein-Ross - International. Their ability to land large-scale attacks like that of September 11 might be eroded, but the group has another strategy: using our strengths against us Reuters A decade after the attacks of September 11, 2001, national security opinion leaders are converging around the ideas that the threat of terrorism has been substantially reduced over the past 10 years, and that al-Qaeda is on its death bed. "Al-Qaeda is sort of on the ropes and taking a lot of shots to the body and the head," White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan told the Associated Press on August 31.
Defense secretary Leon Panetta said in July that the United States is "within reach" of "strategically defeating" the jihadi group, and the Washington Post has confirmed that his assessment is shared by many analysts. Full text: bin Laden's 'letter to America' In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, "Permission to fight (against disbelievers) is given to those (believers) who are fought against, because they have been wronged and surely, Allah is Able to give them (believers) victory" [Quran 22:39] "Those who believe, fight in the Cause of Allah, and those who disbelieve, fight in the cause of Taghut (anything worshipped other than Allah e.g.
Satan). So fight you against the friends of Satan; ever feeble is indeed the plot of Satan. " North Dixie Drive (2011. Most of you have no idea what Martin Luther King actually did. I remember that many years ago, when I was a smartass home from first year of college, I was standing in the kitchen arguing with my father.
My head was full of newly discovered political ideologies and black nationalism, and I had just read the Autobiography of Malcolm X, probably for the second time. A bit of context. My father was from a background, which if we were talking about Europe or Latin America, we would call, "peasant" origin, although he had risen solidly into the working-middle class. He was from rural Virginia and his parents had been tobacco farmers. Is it time we all gave up meat? If you share the typical British appetite, you will have worked your way through more than 1.5kg of meat this week as part of your annual 80kg quota of flesh-eating.
That leaves you behind your typical American counterpart – working his or her way to 125kg a year – but still near the top of the international league of carnivores. The case for cutting our meat consumption has long been a compelling one from whichever perspective you look at it – human health, environmental good, animal welfare, fair distribution of planetary resources. But it has never been a popular idea. The number of people in this country claiming to be vegetarian or partly vegetarian has stayed stable over the last decade, at around 4.8m.
We remain culturally programmed to desire big protein hits in animal form. Scientists squeeze light past quantum limit › News in Science (ABC Science) News in Science Monday, 12 September 2011 Stuart GaryABC Tiny ripples The race to discover gravity waves may be getting closer to the finish line with scientists successfully squeezing light using quantum mechanics.
The detection of gravity waves is one of the Holy Grails of astronomy and astrophysics. It will allow researchers to study the inner workings of exploding stars and colliding black holes. Einstein's general theory of relativity predicts these massive astronomical events generate tiny fluctuations, causing the fabric of space-time to expand and contract - like ripples on the surface of a pond. These yet to be discovered waves require the most sensitive detectors ever built, but up until now they've not been sensitive enough.
A pill to make you smarter? Drug grows brain cells. NPG's policy on authorship : Nature. To the dismay of many (yet to the delight of a few), Nature Publishing Group announced today that its flagship journal, Nature, will no longer accept submissions from humans (Homo sapiens).
The new policy, which has been under editorial consideration for many years, was sparked by a growing sentiment in the scientific community that the heuristics and biases inherent in human decision-making preclude them from conducting reliable science. In an ironic twist of fate, the species has impeached itself by thorough research on its own shortcomings. The ban takes effect on 12 September and will apply to those who self-identify as human. Authors will be required to include, in addition to the usual declaration of competing financial interests, the names of all humans consulted in preparation of the submitted work. Other journals are likely to adopt a similar policy. Kids' Cognition May be Harmed by Fired-Up Cartoons - in Pediatrics, General Pediatrics from MedPage Today. A few minutes of watching "SpongeBob SquarePants" appeared to have negative effects on executive function in 4-year-olds, researchers reported.
In a randomized controlled study, kids who watched the fast-paced cartoon about sea creatures for nine minutes did less well on tests of attention and cognition than those who spent the same amount of time drawing, according to Angeline Lillard, PhD, and Jennifer Peterson of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The Mysterious Plain of Jars. Article created on Monday, September 12, 2011 Often referred to as a south-east Asian version of Stonehenge, the Plain of Jars is one of the most enigmatic sights on Earth.
Vietnam: Drug Addicts Forced to Produce 'Blood Cashews' Lucerne yields up explosive secrets. Dialogue: Conservative and Advanced Speakers. School support for ADHD children may be missing the mark: Inattention, not hyperactivity, is associated with educational failure. New research from the University of Montreal shows that inattention, rather than hyperactivity, is the most important indicator when it comes to finishing a high school education.
"Children with attention problems need preventative intervention early in their development," explained lead author Dr. Jean-Baptiste Pingault, who is also affiliated with Sainte-Justine Mother and Child University Hospital. The researchers came to their conclusion after looking at data collected from the parents and teachers of 2000 children over a period of almost twenty years. Some real Shock and Awe: Racially profiled and cuffed in Detroit. Tutorial 48.1 Airflow in Birds. Can probiotic yogurt cure your psychiatric ills? I saw this paper going around the internet early last week, and I was immediately very interested. Neuroscience vs philosophy: Taking aim at free will. Savage Love by Dan Savage - Seattle Columns - Savage Love - Dan Savage. August 12, 2010 By Dan Savage A long while ago, you wrote an incredible piece of general advice for teenage boys.
Stop Coddling the Super-Rich. The Forced Suicide of Field Marshall Rommel, 1944. A Higgs Setback: Did Stephen Hawking Just Win the Most Outrageous Bet in Physics History? Large Hadron Collider proton-proton collision in which two energetic electrons and two energetic muons are observed—the type of event that the decay of a Higgs boson might produce, although there are other explanations as well. © 2011 CERN. Photo Gallery. The main yard and the pool. Are jobs obsolete? Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist. What Women Want. It's an age old question – one that most men spend their lives trying, unsuccessfully, to figure out. Questions linger 18 months later: How did Columbia College student Jay Polhill wind up dead 20 miles from his dorm? - chicagotribune.com.
August 22, 2011|By Annie Sweeney, Tribune reporter. A speech by the late David Foster Wallace. The 'miracle' treatment that's bringing the brain-damaged back to life. Autism's Lone Wolf. The He Hormone. When Roommates Were Random.