August 2009
39 posts
Phrase used only on television
“…In fact, I’m counting on it.”
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Fregoli Delusion →
bestofwikipedia:
The Fregoli delusion is a rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise. The syndrome may be related to a brain lesion, and is often of a paranoid nature with the delusional person believing themselves persecuted by the person they believe is in disguise. It is similar to the...
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LESS THAT ONE ONE-HUNDRETH OF A PERCENT DIFFERENCE... →
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The sharks and cats are now within half a percentage point of one another (in terms of tumblarity). That is shockingly close!
The only possible explanations are that Tumblr is rigging the contest to keep it exciting or that the dual stabilizing factors of zeal for the underdog and complacency among the supporters of the front runner keep the numbers very close to equal. Either scenario would...
"A research team found that they could alter...
Subsequent studies showed that heavier clipboards led to participants placing more importance on the university listening to student opinions, and that participants were more likely to link their opinion of whether Amsterdam was a great city to the competence of the mayor. A final study found that visitors who were stopped in the street and asked their opinion on a controversial subway were more...
Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers... →
psychotherapy:
Further research by Benedetti and others showed that the promise of treatment activates areas of the brain involved in weighing the significance of events and the seriousness of threats. “If a fire alarm goes off and you see smoke, you know something bad is going to happen and you get ready to escape,” explains Tor Wager, a neuroscientist at Columbia University. “Expectations...
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How could it turn out that the tumblarity of these... →
It’s really unlikely!
But isn't that EXACTLY WHAT WE WANT!?
One of the leading progressive voices in the House of Representatives declared on Thursday that a co-operative approach for health insurance coverage was such a vague entity — and political non-starter — it might as well be a “medical unicorn.” [#]
Inskeep: I just want you to know that as a citizen I'm a little confused by the positions you take because you are giving me a very nice, nuanced position here.
Steele: It is not nice and nuanced. I'm being very clear
Inskeep: You are giving me, nevertheless, a nuanced position.
Steele: What's nuanced? What don't you understand?
Inskeep: What nuanced means is you are not doing it absolutely black and white. You are saying you recognize that the government has a role to play here... but when you and your party come to the actual rhetoric it seems more along the lines of absolutes. It's between a patient and the doctor.
Steele: I'm sorry. I don't accept your premise. And you known, you have your view and you can say it as much as you want
Inskeep: I'm not saying nuanced is a bad thing sir.
Steele: I'm being very clear. I want to have an open debate. I want to put ideas out there. I want the people to understand what this is going to look like when it is all said and done. Seriously, I'm not trying to be nuanced. I'm not trying to be cute. I'm trying to be very clear. I'm not saying the government doesn't have a role to play here. It does. It is managing a Medicare program so it has a role to play.
Health Care: Whatever!
So I don’t really understand how the current legislation or any of the ideas currently in circulation are really supposed to help anything. Requiring continuity of coverage, preventing discrimination based on existing conditions, and (above all) forcing plans to include preventitive care all make a good deal of sense to me. That last one, especially, is the only thing that really stands out...
Nick Carr is not amused by your new video game
But, like paint-by-number, Rock Band is also a metaphor. As even a cursory glance at our cultural touchstones will tell you, we live in an Age of Vampires, and The Beatles™: Rock Band™ is nothing if not vampiric. Take another gander at that YouTube trailer. What’s creepy about the game isn’t the faux guitar necks with the color-coded digital frets (that’s just rock-by-number)....
"Could Greenpunk be the new Steampunk?" →
No. Wait, what?
"There are approximately ten times as many... →
msmandrake:
@keyholz
We are mostly nonhuman!
Perseids Tonight →
Egyptian Psychiatrist Warns Against Growing Danger... →
Does anyone think it’s funny that Bill Clinton is going to North Korea to save Al Gore’s reporters?
“Today we made the decision to close this stretch of ill-gotten, illegally accumulated sand,” said Patricio Patron, Mexico’s attorney general for environmental protection. “This hotel was telling its tourists: ‘Come here, I have sand … the other hotels don’t, because I stole it.’” [#]
