Ever Dream This Man? How To Identify And Protect Yourself From Psychopaths. The War on Boobies – Sanford Blog. Marshall McLuhan. Scientist Control The Dreams Of Rats ,Humans Could Be Next. (Before It's News) Researchers successfully manipulate rat DREAMS… and human dreams could be next When Lab Rats Dream Researchers have figured out how to manipulate the dreams of sleeping rats using audio cues that conjure a specific memory from the previous day IMAGE BY Janet Stephens via vious day.
IMAGE BY Janet Stephens via Wikimedia By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:22:47 EST, 5 September 2012| UPDATED:00:44 EST, 6 September 2012. List of people with synesthesia. This is a list of notable people who have, or had, the neurological condition synesthesia.
Following that, there is a list of people who are often wrongly believed to have had synesthesia because they used it as a device in their art, poetry or music (referred to as pseudo-synesthetes). Finally, there is a short list of people who have received a speculative, posthumous diagnosis of synesthesia, or who are thought to possibly be synesthetes based on second or third hand sources. Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Nicholas Carr. Illustration by Guy Billout "Dave, stop.
Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” Debate Research: The Internet is Making Us Stupid. The Internet, I recently argued, is making us stupid.
This may seem a strange stance for someone who blogs and runs a social media team, but I put forward this point of view in a debate organized by Intelligence Squared in Hong Kong. Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia co-founder, and Kaiser Kuo, now working at Chinese Internet giant Baidu, argued against myself and Jeremy O’Grady, the founding editor of The Week and founder of Intelligence Squared. BBC Nature - Virgin births discovered in wild snakes.
12 September 2012Last updated at 00:45 By Jeremy Coles Reporter, BBC Nature.
An autistic savant spent 20 years designing an entire city on paper. How the Internet is making us stupid. The common thread in these disabilities is the division of attention.
The richness of our thoughts, our memories and even our personalities hinges on our ability to focus the mind and sustain concentration. Only when we pay close attention to a new piece of information are we able to associate it “meaningfully and systematically with knowledge already well established in memory”, writes the Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel.
Such associations are essential to mastering complex concepts and thinking critically. Is There a "Gay Gene"? Scientists make monkeys smarter using brain implants. Could you be next? It's the end of the world as we don't know it. When do we get to euthanize the medical ethicists who say murdering newborn babies is good for society? One of world's oldest cats Miez Maz mistakenly put down by vet in Switzerland. Miez Maz, one of the oldest pet cats in the world, was put to sleep at the age of 33 when a vet mistook him for a sick stray.
Elderly Miez Maz was picked up by a passer-by after escaping from his home in Tagerwilen, Switzerland. According to reports in the Swiss town, he had been living contentedly in a local train station where employees were feeding him and taking care of him. Afternoon reading News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - io9. About. Technoccult is a general interest blog for weirdos.
It was launched in January of 2000 by Klintron (aka Klint Finley) to organize and share information he found interesting and exciting. Contrary to popular belief, it was not named after the future corporation mentioned in the Grant Morrison comic The Invisibles. Klint came up with the name independently, before he had ever read a single issue of the Invisibles. Enslaved worker ants fight back through acts of sabotage. What's particularly fascinating about this discovery is that the enslaved ants are not the ones passing the "destroy enemy pupae" genes to the next generation.
Instead, this characteristic is arising and being reenforced among the free ants. [Puts on evolutionary biologist wizard's hat] Ahem. While learned behavior is certainly possible, I wouldn't completely exclude genetic causes, or at least a genetic predisposition towards this behavior. When talking about genetics and evolutionary adaptation, it is vitally important to understand that all evolution cares about is the survival of genes rather than the survival of individual organism. Scientists Create Nearly-Living Crystals.
Three billion years after inanimate chemistry first became animate life, a newly synthesized laboratory compound is behaving in uncannily lifelike ways.
The particles aren’t truly alive — but they’re not far off, either. Exposed to light and fed by chemicals, they form crystals that move, break apart and form again. “There is a blurry frontier between active and alive,” said biophysicist Jérémie Palacci of New York University. “That is exactly the kind of question that such works raise.” Former pilot and 9/11 conspiracy theorist shoots and kills 2 teen children, then himself. Slaying victims Alex and Macaila Marshall with their father, Phillip Marshall. Phillip (alternately, "Philip") Marshall, 54, a career airline pilot who claimed to have once served as a contract pilot for the CIA and DEA during the Iran-Contra affair, shot and killed his two teenage children, and the family dog, then killed himself.
The apparent murder-suicide was discovered at the family home in an upscale gated golfing community in Murphys, California. According to local news reports, teen friends of Alex Marshall, 17 (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), and Macaila Marshall (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), 14, noticed the siblings had not been active via text or social media updates since Thursday and went by the house on Saturday to check on them. The last posts made by either child to Instagram and Facebook were dated Thursday night.
George Orwell. Huxley. Have computers taken away our power? It was amateur footage of an event involving an early video game called Pong that gave Adam Curtis the idea for his new documentary series. Can you really go back in time, or visit the future? In this weekly series, Life's Little Mysteries rates the plausibility of popular science fiction concepts. Islamophobia vs. Racism. Picture: KSheer (CC) According to the FBI’s database of Hate Crime Statistics, in 2010 (the latest year for which numbers are available) there were 160 hate crime incidents involving anti-Islamic bias in the United States. Such incidents have seen a marked rise following the September 11th terrorist attacks of 2001 and have recently made headlines with various incidents around the country, ranging from arson attacks on mosques to pig parts being thrown at the site of a proposed Islamic center.
Fortean Bureau of Investigation. Ancient Builders Created Monumental Structures that Altered Sound and Mind, Say Researchers. Psychopathic Personality Traits Linked With U.S. Presidential Success, Psychologists Suggest. Street art spurs politicians to act on potholes in Russia. How Wealth Can Reduce Compassion. The Ten Percent Solution. How Humans Lost Our Chance at a Third Eye. Scientists reveal genetic mutation depicted in van Gogh's sunflower paintings. In addition to being among his most vibrant and celebrated works, Vincent van Gogh's series of sunflower paintings also depict a mutation whose genetic basis has, until now, been a bit of a mystery. In a study published March 29 in the journal PLoS Genetics, however, a team of University of Georgia scientists reveals the mutation behind the distinctive, thick bands of yellow "double flowers" that the post-Impressionist artist painted more than 100 years ago.
"In addition to being of interest from a historical perspective, this finding gives us insight into the molecular basis of an economically important trait," said senior author John Burke, professor of plant biology in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. What’s The Difference Between A Prostitute And A Politician? Cockroaches Strapped With Steering Wheels. Finally, someone has designed a way to convert one of the world's biggest pests into something useful. Using an electronic interface, a group of researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a method to steer and remotely control cockroaches.
ISLAMOPHOBIA; AS AMERICAN AS MOM’S APPLE PIE. I often focus on organizations and individual right-wing activists outside the U.S. government that have stoked anti-Muslim sentiment here. But the U.S. government itself is just as culpable in promoting a McCarthyist climate of fear where every Muslim-American is considered a “terror threat” and Islam is turned into the new bogeyman of the day. Dissonant music brings out the animal in listeners. Hunter S. Thompson Essay. “Open Letter To The Youth Of Our Nation” 1955 « Hunter S. Thompson Books. Electronic Musician HipGnosis Talks About Mind-Altering Music. Mobile: Could 'advanced' dinosaurs rule other planets? Scientists want debate on animals with human genes. Mystery of human consciousness illuminated: Primitive consciousness emerges first as you awaken from anesthesia. Reports of Contact with Entities in the DMT Space.
Genetically Engineered Babies Are Moral Duty, “Ethics” Guru Claims. 2. How Wealth Can Reduce Compassion. Personality Possession and Prophecy.