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Not sure how I feel about this. Wired has a report today that Dr. Michael Mithoefer and nurse Anne Mithoefer have gotten a $500,000 grant to see if soldiers with PTSD can be treated by giving them Ecstasy. Don’t want to be a prude here, but isn’t Ecstasy largely not understood, and what is understood [...]
Journalist Lisa Katayama recently had her brain scanned and wrote an article for Popular Science describing the experience. Basically, scientist can stick you in an fMRI, present you with a simple black-and-white shape, and then, “reading” your visual cortex, recreate a shaky, pixelated version of that image. Depending on your outlook, your reaction may be [...]
Feast your eyes upon devils feasting on sinners: Manuscripts like this are enough to make me want to take out another round of student loans and go back to graduate school. They come from The Hours of Catherine of Cleves, a circa 1440AD manuscript that gave readers a matins-to-compline set of prayers in accordance with [...]
I love literature; I’ve pretty much devoted my life to its creation and study; I’ve no regrets. And yet. Sometimes, when perusing the pages of the New York Times, it’s not the stories about writers and their cock-eyed theories that make my heart well with amazement and joy. (Take a look at this utterly homophobic [...]
GeekDad posted today about three “monsters”: three recently discovered members of the animal kingdom that range from the cool to the terrifying to the gorge-inducing. In that order: Cool: The Spanish ribbed newt. This little darlings have a gobsmacking defense mechanism: they can invert their ribs, aiming the pointy ends outward to perforate the palette [...]
I arrived about 10:40am; it was immediately apparent that I totally misjudged how big the crowd was going to be for this year’s contest. Thousands! I started things off right with a Nathan’s cheese dog. I know this stuff is going to kill me, but damn was that a good dog. 10:45 — Today, it [...]
And if you don’t believe me, watch this video from Wired of a mouse being forced to run to its left. So what you’re watching is a mouse that has had its brain modified by neuroengineers. It was modified through the use of genetically engineered viruses that they injected directly into the mouse’s skull (so [...]
WARNING: POST CONTAINS NAKED PHILOSOPHER! At some point in our society we reached this weird moment where hyper-educated people (like myself) engage in and take puerile humor in doing things like making a vulgar dress-up doll game out of people like Seit und Zein philosopher and Nazi sympathizer Martin Heidegger. I especially like the crotchless [...]
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