Field Guide to the Loner: The Real Insiders Miina Matsuoka lives by herself in New York City. She owns two cats and routinely screens her calls. But before you jump to conclusions, note that she is comfortable hobnobbing in any of five languages for her job as business manager at an international lighting-design firm. She just strongly prefers not to socialize , opting instead for long baths, DVDs, and immersion in her art projects. She does have good, close friends, and goes dancing about once a month, but afterward feels a strong need to "hide and recoup." Loners often hear from well-meaning peers that they need to be more social, but the implication that they're merely black-and-white opposites of their bubbly peers misses the point. Contrary to popular belief, not all loners have a pathological fear of social contact. James McGinty, for one, is a caseworker who opted out of a career as a lawyer because he didn't feel socially on-the-ball enough for the job's daily demands. Solitary Pleasures
Bipolar kids: Victims of the 'madness industry'? - health - 08 June 2011 Read full article Continue reading page |1|2|3 THERE'S a children's picture book in the US called Brandon and the Bipolar Bear. Brandon and his bear sometimes fly into unprovoked rages. The thing is, if Brandon were a real child, he would have just been misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder. Also known as manic depression, this serious condition, involving dramatic mood swings, is increasingly being recorded in American children. The problem is, this apparent epidemic isn't real. How did this strange, sweeping misdiagnosis come to pass? Freudian slip The answer to the second question turned out to be strikingly simple. I met Spitzer in his large, airy house in Princeton, New Jersey. The trips were respite from Spitzer's "very unhappy mother". Spitzer grew up to be a psychiatrist at Columbia University, New York, his dislike of psychoanalysis remaining undimmed. DSM is simply a list of all the officially recognised mental illnesses and their symptoms. He paused. DSM-III was a sensation.
Video: Inside Job Technological singularity The technological singularity is the hypothesis that accelerating progress in technologies will cause a runaway effect wherein artificial intelligence will exceed human intellectual capacity and control, thus radically changing civilization in an event called the singularity.[1] Because the capabilities of such an intelligence may be impossible for a human to comprehend, the technological singularity is an occurrence beyond which events may become unpredictable, unfavorable, or even unfathomable.[2] The first use of the term "singularity" in this context was by mathematician John von Neumann. Proponents of the singularity typically postulate an "intelligence explosion",[5][6] where superintelligences design successive generations of increasingly powerful minds, that might occur very quickly and might not stop until the agent's cognitive abilities greatly surpass that of any human. Basic concepts Superintelligence Non-AI singularity Intelligence explosion Exponential growth Plausibility
Bananas and Monkeys Original source unknown. (But the story appears to have some basis in fact.) Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result - all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Now, put away the cold water. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted. Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. Most of the monkeys that are beating him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey. After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water. And that, my friends, is how company policies are made. Return to Jim Huggins' Humor Page
How to Get a Conversation Back on Track Sound symbolism In linguistics, sound symbolism, phonesthesia or phonosemantics is the idea that vocal sounds or phonemes carry meaning in and of themselves. Origin[edit] In the 18th century, Mikhail Lomonosov propagated a theory that words containing certain sounds should bear certain meanings; for instance, the front vowel sounds E, I, YU should be used when depicting tender subjects and those with back vowel sounds O, U, Y when describing things that may cause fear ("like anger, envy, pain, and sorrow").[1] Saussure himself is said to have collected examples where sounds and referents were related. Types of sound symbolism[edit] Margaret Magnus is the author of a comprehensive book designed to explain phonosemantics to the lay reader: Gods of the Word. Onomatopoeia[edit] This is the least significant type of symbolism. Clustering[edit] Words that share a sound sometimes have something in common. Iconism[edit] Magnus suggests that this kind of iconism is universal across languages. Old Chinese[edit]
TasteKid | Find similar music, movies, books The Observatory House (16 Pics Every house should come standard with a rooftop pool. Located in Roca Blanca, Mexico, the Observatory House was designed by Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco and built by architect Tatiana Bilbao. The design of the house was inspired by the Jantar Mantar Astronomical Observatory, which was built in Delhi in 1724. Via Fubiz
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