Organ trafficking and transplantation pose new challenges. The Center for Public Integrity | Investigative journalism from a nonprofit newsroom. The Pocket Notebooks of 20 Famous Men. Differences in Conservative and Liberal Brains - 2012 Presidential Election - ProCon.org. WIPO boss: the Web would have been better if it was patented and its users had to pay license fees. Last June, the Swiss Press Club held a launch for the Global Innovation Index at which various speakers were invited to talk about innovation. After the head of CERN and the CEO of the Internet Society spoke about how important it was that the Web's underlying technology hadn't been patented, Francis Gurry, the Director General of the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), took the mic to object.
In Gurry's view, the Web would have been better off if it had been locked away in patents, and if every user of the Web had needed to pay a license fee to use it (and though Gurry doesn't say so, this would also have meant that the patent holder would have been able to choose which new Web sites and technologies were allowed, and would have been able to block anything he didn't like, or that he feared would cost him money). This is a remarkable triumph of ideology over evidence. Here's the video; Gurry's talk starts at 0:49:50. Intellectual property is a very flexible instrument. This FitBit Hack Cuts the Power to Your Gear If You Dont Work Out. So much love for commitment devices and quantified self lately!
Love it! At risk of sounding like a broken record in my comments on similar things lately, like "GymPact Anywhere" and "Sadistic Apps That Force you to Get Stuff Done" ... Beeminder (which integrates with Fitbit) accomplishes something similar but with more flexibility: you can adjust your commitment (number of steps per week) at any time with a one-week delay.
So you can change your mind about the threshold for invoking the penalty, but not out of laziness, unless you're particularly forward-thinking about your laziness. Danny of Beeminder. Combining QuantifiedSelf with IoT for effective motivation | Building Internet of Things. This post is about combining QS (a Fitbit activity tracker), with IoT (using activity information retrieved online to control a Belkin Wemo switch) for effective motivation.
Let me explain briefly how and why: I got this Fitbit tracker mostly out of curiosity for it as a gadget, and for experimenting with the Fitbit API. Initially I have been using it quite often – and that made me walk more and climb up more stairs than usual, to meet my daily goals and earn some badges – but quickly I got bored of it and started neglecting its usage and became less active. So then I thought, badges earning is not working for me, there must be a way to force myself to become more active. There are great platforms for motivating people to keep healthy and exercise more, but obviously in my case I needed something more drastic. At the same time I had been playing with a Belkin Wemo switch and have found a way (using some good online resources) to control it outside the iOS app.
Downloads & Drivers - N-trig. How to Remove an Ingrown Hair: 5 steps (with pictures) Steps Method 1 of 6: Exfoliating 1Exfoliate the area. Twice a day, scrub the ingrown hair gently. This will help to remove any dead skin cells, dirt, and oils that might be trapping the ingrown hair. It may also physically nudge the tip of the hair out of your skin. Method 2 of 6: Acne medication Method 3 of 6: Compress 1Apply a warm, moist compress to the area for a few minutes. Method 4 of 6: Sharp device 1Use a sterile needle, tweezers or a rotable medical device for ingrown hairs to gently tease the hair out of the skin. Method 5 of 6: Keeping the skin clear of ingrown hairs 1Wash the area around the (formerly) ingrown hair with warm water and a moisturizing soap. Method 6 of 6: Warm milk and bread compress 1Warm up small amount of milk.
Tips If you can't see the hair initially, leave the warm, moist compress in place for a while longer.If it burns or has reddish bumps after, use a moisturizing cream to spot away redness. Ad Warnings. Science. The Incidental Economist. The Myers-Briggs Personality Test. A critical look at the world's most popular psychological metric, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. By Brian Dunning, Skeptoid Podcast Episode 221, August 31, 2010 Today we're going to delve into the murky depths of Jungian psychology, and examine one of its most popular surviving manifestations.
The Myers-Briggs test is used all over the world, and is the single most popular psychometric system, with the full formal version of the test given more than 2,000,000 times a year. But is it a valid psychological tool, is it just another pop gimmick like astrology, or is the truth somewhere in between? The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, called MBTI for short, more properly owes the bulk of its credit to the great Swiss analytical psychologist Carl Jung.
In 1921, Jung published his book Psychological Types, in which he laid out all the same concepts found in the MBTI, but he had them organized quite differently. The test does have some severe inherent problems. Dk4 Science. Myers-Briggs and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Tests Are Used in Family Therapy. Used and New: The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life. Test My Brain. Best Online Psychology Tests. Want to know what’s really going on in your own head? The mental health Web site PsychCentral offers a list of the best online psychology tests. Some of these are used to collect data for research experiments, while others are skill tests or quizzes that offer personal insights. Here are a few of the best. 1. The Stroop Test. A fun test that measures how fast and flexible a thinker you are by using color-coded words. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
And for even more insight, take PsychCentral’s own Sanity Score quiz, which is designed to assess aspects of your mental health, including your risk for depression, anxiety and other emotional disorders. For additional tests and more information about online psychology assessments, read the full PsychCentral article by clicking here. Top Ten Online Psychology Experiments. Hundreds of online psychology experiments are going on at any given time, many cool and amusing to take part in.
They’re great for researchers due to the ease and low cost of finding subjects, and because of that, more data. There are drawbacks, though. The University of Essex’s Department of Psychology points out: “… factors may cause the data to become less clear, for example: everyone uses different types of computers and monitors; we can’t be sure they have understood the instructions properly and we have no idea who is actually doing the experiments.”
Debate is ongoing but the popularity of online studies keeps growing too. By design these studies are ephemeral, disappearing from the web once a deadline is reached or enough data collected. In this Top Ten list we’ve chosen to focus on experiments that are long-term, or if data is no longer collected you can still do the experiment for fun. And they are fun! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Sandra Kiume is a mental health advocate. Borderline Personality Disorder: Mental Illness on Rise? Doctors used to have poetic names for diseases. A physician would speak of consumption because the illness seemed to eat you from within. Now we just use the name of the bacterium that causes the illness: tuberculosis. Psychology, though, remains a profession practiced partly as science and partly as linguistic art.
Because our knowledge of the mind's afflictions remains so limited, psychologists — even when writing in academic publications — still deploy metaphors to understand difficult disorders. And possibly the most difficult of all to fathom — and thus one of the most creatively named — is the mysterious-sounding borderline personality... Subscribe Now Get TIME the way you want it One Week Digital Pass — $4.99 Monthly Pay-As-You-Go DIGITAL ACCESS — $2.99 One Year ALL ACCESS — Just $30! How do I keep track of everything? - trackingsymptoms health monitoringdevice. What is the easiest and most convenient way to keep track of my physical and emotional health in great detail? I don't have a great memory and want something that reminds me to record various information throughout the day. I have a couple of chronic illnesses that I need to keep track of and I never remember to write stuff down when it happens. Ideally this would be a program on a device that I carry with me where at different points in the day it alerts me to enter information, and then tracks this information and displays it on a calendar or chart.
I suspect this might end up being an application on an iPhone or a Blackberry, but I am somewhat clueless in this realm and I don't know where to start. I need to also be able to enter information about symptoms as they happen and for that information to also be charted on a calendar and displayed in various graphs. Things it needs to track: All I have now is an old Nokia cellphone and a couple of paper notebooks I always forget about. Looking for an app recommended on the green. How to develop a Firefox extension. There are more recent development guides in the add-ons section of the Mozilla Developer Network.
Please use those instead. Reposted with permission from Robert Nyman: Admit that you have always wanted to know how to develop a Firefox extension but never had the time to learn. Here I will walk you through and at the end of the article we will have created a fully functional Firefox extension! Our objective We will create a Firefox extension to find all links in the current web page, highlight those which have a target attribute and alert you how many links it found. What you need – setting up the developing environment First, let’s start with setting up your development environment. Create a different development profile The first step is to create a different profile in Firefox, since you will do some settings and changes that you probably don’t want for your regular profile.
Profile manager on Windows Profile manager on Mac Profile manager on Linux Configuration settings for Firefox install.rdf. The story of Schroedinger's cat (an epic poem) NFC Scale. Traumatized Children: How Childhood Trauma Influences Brain Development. Sandy was four years old when I met her. Nine months earlier, she was found covered in blood, lying over her murdered mother’s naked body, whimpering incoherently. But now, her eyes studied my face, my hands, and my slow movements - only partly attentive to the few words I spoke. She was justifiably suspicious as I joined her on the floor in coloring. For many minutes we colored together in silence. Sandy broke the rhythm by silently directing me to use a specific color. But soon I had to ask her about what had happened. "What happened to your neck?
" I repeated the question. Again I asked. Sandy stood up, grabbed a stuffed animal, held it by a tuft of hair and slashed at the neck of the animal with the crayon. She threw the animal to the floor, ran to the radiator, climbed up and jumped off - again and again. An acquaintance of her mother came to their apartment. The assailant cut her throat - twice.
Sandy was alone - her world forever changed. Traumatized Children. Need For Closure Scale. Emotional stroop test. In psychology, the emotional Stroop task is used as an information-processing approach to assessing emotions. Related to the standard Stroop effect, the emotional Stroop test works by examining the response time of the participant to name colors of negative emotional words. For example, depressed participants will be slower to say the color of depressing words rather than non-depressing words. Non-clinical subjects have also been shown to name the color of an emotional word (e.g., "war", "cancer", "kill") slower than naming the color of a neutral word (e.g., "clock", "lift", "windy").[1] See also[edit] References[edit] Jump up ^ Gotlib, Ian H.; McCann, C. Douglas (1984). Algom, D.; Chajut, E.; Lev, S. (2005).
Why Are Women So Unhappy? I saw Justin Wolfers a few weeks back, and I joked with him that it had been months since I’d seen his research in the headlines. It didn’t take him long to fix that — he and his partner in life and economics, Betsey Stevenson, made the news twice last week. The first time was in the form of an op-ed here in the New York Times pointing out that the media had totally misinterpreted newly released statistics on divorce. While the reports had trumpeted the new data as evidence that Americans today are more likely than ever to get divorced, Stevenson and Wolfers show that this pattern is purely an artifact of a change in data collection methods. In fact, fewer people today are getting married, but the ones who do are more likely to stay together. In addition, Stevenson and Wolfers released a new study, “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness,” that is bound to generate a great deal of controversy.
By almost any economic or social indicator, the last 35 years have been great for women. I guess even Psychology Today has limits : Pharyngula. Among the many reasons that I detest evolutionary psychology, one has a name: Satoshi Kanazawa. He has a blog on Psychology Today called The Scientific Fundamentalist, and earlier he published this charming article: Why Are Black Women Rated Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women?. Don’t bother trying to follow the link, the article has mysteriously disappeared from the site…although you can still find a copy here, if you really must.
I’m a little surprised that it’s gone. After all, Psychology Today had no problem with his loving look at American politics in which he wanted Ann Coulter for president, because she would have nuked the Middle East on 12 September 2001. That’s just the kind of guy he is. In order to make his determination that black women are ugly, he draws on The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) which I now learn to my surprise has a subjective component in which the people doing the survey make judgments about the subjects’ appearance.
Collaborative on Health and the Environment :: ICEH. ICEH History In 1999, when the Institute for Children's Environmental Health (ICEH) initially surveyed the rapidly expanding field of children's environmental health, we noted a number of government agencies, research institutions and citizen-based organizations undertaking important and often effective initiatives on a wide range of concerns. Some groups were working on legislation and regulatory policies that take into account children's unique susceptibilities to exposures. Others were spearheading scientific research on the health effects that different chemicals may have on neurological development and other biological systems. Some organizations were underscoring consumer issues and catalyzing grassroots campaigns to eliminate exposures in low-income communities, while others were working to ensure greater corporate accountability for the possible health impacts of their products and support for the production of less-toxic alternatives.
Activities PCHE Founded, October 1999. The Reason We Reason. Ode to the L.A.S.E.R. Tales from the Laser Beam. New particle find turns physics upside-down - Science, News. 50 years ago, the laser beam was born... - Science, News. The science of love: look into the eyes - Science, News.