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Two nights ago, my kids performed in their respective bands at the big field house at the high school. It was all-school band night, an event that happens every year. This year, though, things were different. Unbeknownst to most of the performers, the band leaders for the three schools involved in the event had decided to mix up the kids. Sixth grade trumpeters sat with high school trumpeters. Fifth grade clarinet players sat with 8th grade clarinet players.
Lisa Jo Rudy on Authentic Inclusion
So there I was last week at the neighborhood filling station (probably more accurately described as a gasoline-and-sundries emporium). Inside, should I have desired sustenance, awaited Cheez-Its, Fritos, beef jerky, energy drinks -- all the basic food groups. Avoiding that cornucopia of salty, sugary temptation, instead I stood at the pump, tickled by the great privilege of, for once in a long while, paying fewer than four dollars per gallon to fill my car's tank. Quick back story: I was under a lot of stress. Work stress. "We're not going to pay you for the 100 hours of work you've done in the past seven business days" stress.
PANIC!
One quick reminder to sign up for November's support group call if you haven't already. There are still some spots open. I am very hesitant to allow guest posts because I get requests almost daily and usually it is for someone trying to sell their product or get exposure. But this story was really interesting to me because of her extreme lack of compassion for anyone suffering with anxiety and how she has made a 180 degree change.
The Reality of Anxiety
Six years ago, when I was climbing out of my severe depression, I read Julia Cameron’s bestselling book, “The Artist’s Way.” It helped me move from a place of insecurity to one of courageous creativity — laying out my innermost thoughts unto a new blog I started writing called “ Beyond Blue .” So when I received Cameron’s latest book, “The Prosperous Heart,” I was intrigued and started to read. She attempts to address the practical side of the creative life. To be honest, I’m not sure she succeeds. But that could be my jaded disposition at the moment.
Beyond Blue
Penis size. One of those topics that’s the source of many a joke, or shores up boasts around masculinity and sexual prowess. It’s integral to all those spam emails that clog your inbox. And it’s an issue that causes a great deal of distress to men and their partners. Only we rarely address the latter issue in any meaningful way. Over the past decade of offering advice to men, the question I’ve been most commonly asked is ‘what’s the average penis size?’
Dr Petra Boynton - Sex educator, Agony Aunt, Academic
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Book Review: What the Plus! Google+ for the Rest of Us by Guy Kawasaki Google+ seemed to get off to a running start, but more recently has been termed a “ghost town” by some pundits. Experience with the service suggests less than robust usage by consumers, despite the large number of registered users.
Frontier Psychiatrist - Mental Illness for the Masses
The writer Will Self came to talk at a conference I organised in November 2010. Here is a transcript of a conversation we had. I started off by asking him about the Quantity Theory of Insanity , which was one of his first published works. WS: The story was written in 1990, more like twenty years ago. All sorts of things came together in that story, but the most significant things were an exposure to the psychiatric ward at the Royal Free hospital in the 1980s. At that time one of the consultants there was the father of somebody I’d been to school with.A dissociative galaxy cluster is a cluster of galaxies that just can't keep it together any longer. This may sound like an unnecessary anthropomorphication of galaxies, but it is actually a description of galaxy clusters which have collided and experienced stratification of their constituent parts. In the standard and successful model of cosmology the largest scale structures in the universe, like super clusters of thousands of galaxies, form via the merger of filamentary structures compose........ Read more » Dawson, W., Wittman, D., Jee, M., Gee, P., Hughes, J., Tyson, J., Schmidt, S., Thorman, P., Bradač, M., Miyazaki, S.... (2012) DISCOVERY OF A DISSOCIATIVE GALAXY CLUSTER MERGER WITH LARGE PHYSICAL SEPARATION . The Astrophysical Journal, 747(2).
Posts - Research Blogging
As readers of this blog are aware, proposals to expand the sexual disorders in the American Psychiatric Association's upcoming DSM-5 have generated significant controversy among forensic psychologists and psychiatrists. Now, forensic psychologists are banding together to urge APA President John Oldham to reject the proposed diagnoses of pedohebephilia , paraphilic coercive disorder and hypersexual disorder . The text of an open letter drafted by Richard Wollert , an Oregon psychologist with extensive experience in sex offender treatment and evaluation, follows.
In the news by Karen Franklin PhD
Harvard Law School just published an interview with Jon Hanson. We’ve posted it in full below. Director of the Project on Law and Mind Sciences at Harvard Law School (PLMS), Professor Jon Hanson has long combined social psychology, economics, history, and law in his scholarship. After PLMS hosted several conferences featuring leading mind scientists and legal scholars, Hanson collected the work of many of the contributors in a book he edited, “ Ideology, Psychology, and Law ” (Oxford University Press).
The Situationist
We're Only Human
Wray Herbert has been writing about psychology and behavioral science for many years. He has been a staff writer and editor for Science News , Psychology Today , US News & World Report , and Newsweek. He is currently a contributor to Huffington Post and Scientific American Mind . His work has also appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine , the Washington Post , and many other national publications. Recent Posts I’m pretty busy.The last decade has brought record-high home foreclosures as part of the economic crisis that has gripped the United States. It is evident that these mortgage failures have affected more than... Read More→ Remove your opinion about that which appears to give you pain and you stand painless. — Marcus Aurelius Pain is inevitable.
Brain Blogger
Channel N: Brain and behavior videos
- What happens during laughter? It has to do with breathing, as neuroscientist Sophie Scott explains, as well as emotions, and the voice. Studying the mechanisms of laughter, she discovered it’s a social, universal expression not just in humans but even chimpanzees and rats. Brain scans revealed the areas of the brain active during laughter (interestingly, similar to yawning, another socially contagious expression). Her lab also examined polite, posed laughter vs. uncontrollable mirth, and revealed how we tell the difference. “It Gets Better?The Neurocritic
What do zucchini and hammers have in common? Both might be processed by the dorsal stream. The primate visual system is divided into ventral ("what") and dorsal ("where") visual streams that are specialized for object recognition and spatial localization, respectively ( Mishkin et al., 1983 ; Haxby et al., 1991 ). Goodale and Milner (1992) conceptualized the two pathways as "vision for perception" and "vision for action":Mind Hacks
I’m writing a fortnightly column for BBC Future , about everyday brain quirks (as I’ve mentioned previously ). My marvellous editor has told me I can repost the columns here, with a three day delay. There’s a bit of a backlog, including Why can smells unlock memories? , Why you’re bad at names and good at faces , and Why we need to sleep? , but you’ll have to visit the site for them.Interesting Articles