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Earo

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:12:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Aa' i'sul nora lanne'lle

Earo

Nurruis oialë eressië hrestassen,
ar i taurë falmaryalinen sa quáta
i únótimë rondoli an i quetta
Hecateo lavë yára lammanta halda tien.

Rimbë lúmi sa hirna moica indossë
sa i ampitya hyalma úva colda
aurissen yallo lantaina
írë vilyo vaiwar leryainë mettassë.

Ai ellë! yaron hendun mauya sérë,
á meryata earo látienen.
Ai ellë! yaron hlarië quátina rómanen
var arrimba úvanima lírinen
á harë felyo assassë intien,
an ortallë vë earello quen tullë.

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So-Called British "Adult Humour" : disgusting decadence

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:07:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Such puerile rubbish could have come from the barbaric Kingdom of Northumbria. I hope all decent people are horrufied.

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Buster Gonads was a character with a very large pair of testicles which he would put to good use in numerous situations…

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Viz Top Tips

EXPERIENCE the thrills of a skiing holiday without the expense. Simply sellotape two planks of wood to your feet, sit in your freezer for three hours, then run into a tree as fast as you can.

FOOL

your friends into thinking you use expensive butter by simply using cheap margerine and ripping holes in the bread.

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Delicate Line between Genius and Madness

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:05:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A similar issue concerned psychiatrist Kay Radfield Jameson (see her Unquiet Mind), although she eventually found medication important.

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WHERE do you draw the fine line between brilliance and madness? That is the question raised by hotshot television producer Adam Boland, who has spoken for the first time about his diagnosis with bipolar disorder.

Bipolar disorder is the mental illness characterised by huge swings in mood and energy levels.

"When you're on a high, you feel you can do anything," says Boland, 32, director of morning television at the Seven Network. "Things that would normally take a week get done in an hour. There's no stopping you. It's an exciting state to be in."

"The question of medication is a really tricky one," he said yesterday. "It makes you normal, and while that shouldn't be seen as a bad thing, I have an issue with just being normal."

Boland believes the drugs blunt his creative edge.

He now has counselling instead of taking tablets and accepts that, along with the highs, he is subject to bouts of debilitating depression. "You have to trade off the downside because the upside is so good."

Tags: genius, creativity, bipolar, medication

Marigolds: start of a Lunar ecosystem?

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:01:06 GMT

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Marigolds could be growing on the moon by around 2015, if an ambitious effort by scientists pays off.

In what marks an important step towards helping lunar colonists grow their own food, a Ukrainian team, working with the European Space Agency, ESA, has shown that marigolds can grow in crushed rock very like the lunar surface, with no need for plant food.

The research was presented at the European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna, by Dr Bernard Foing of ESA, director of the International Lunar Exploration Working Group, and father of the SMART-1 moon probe, who believes it is an important milestone because it does away with the need to bring bringing nutrients and soil from Earth.

As well as marigolds, he says that tulips, cabbages and arabidopsis (a weed, the most studied plant on the planet) could be grown on the moon.

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Bad Habits Increase Risk of Alzheimers

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:58:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I hope it goes without saying that a risk increase is not to be confused with causes which are many and still largely unknown. These are longitudinal studies rather than laboratory research.

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Heavy drinkers and smokers develop Alzheimer's disease six to seven years earlier than those who do not smoke or drink, US researchers claim.

Around 700,000 people currently suffer from dementia in the UK

A study of 900 people aged over 60 found early onset was most likely in those who also had a high-risk gene.

A second US study found people with high cholesterol in their early 40s are one and a half times more likely to develop Alzheimer's.

It's possible that if we can reduce or eliminate heavy smoking and drinking, we could substantially delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease for people and reduce the number of people who have Alzheimer's at any point in time

Dr Ranjan Duara

"High mid-life cholesterol increased the risk of Alzheimer's disease regardless of diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, smoking and late-life stroke," said researcher Alina Solomon.

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Alternative Medicine Guides by Prince of Wales

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:34:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Since the stuff HRH promotes has been round for hundreds of years, surely if it works it is no longer 'alternative'? Isn't it rather the case that these wonderful traditonal (usually organic, natural and holistic) therapies are challenged by the alternatives of modern mumbo jumbo stuff based on mere science, and other near supernatural belief systems?

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The Prince of Wales is being challenged today to withdraw two guides promoting alternative medicine, by scientists who say that they make misleading and inaccurate claims about its benefits.

The documents, published by the Prince and his Foundation for Integrated Health, misrepresent scientific evidence about therapies such as homoeopathy, acupuncture and reflexology, say the authors of a new evaluation of alternative treatments.

In a letter to The Times, Edzard Ernst, Professor of Complementary Medicine at the University of Exeter, and Simon Singh, a science writer and broadcaster, call on the Prince to recall the publications, one of which was produced with a £900,000 grant from the Department of Health.

Free will or free won't?

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:11:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A well written (apart from some typos towards the end), balanced and thoughtful piece on Mind/brain and free will/decision making, with a handful of Buddhism thrown in for good measure (which there should be, given the nature of the blog). The only bit which I balked at, but which has a grain of truth, was the comment that the scientists found a particular result because it was the one they wanted to find. Certainly often true, but in this case I am not sure that it is an entirely fair criticism.

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How Much Control Do We Have Over Decisions and Opinions?

It doesn't look good for free will, but then (as they point out), complex decisions might be more within our control. The prefrontal cortex is considered the seat of executive function (among other things), and if there is a place in the brain where we make decisions, it is likely in the PFC.

The cool thing about GWT is that it explains how the brain can engage whole series of networks while the "mind" is engaged in some other task. This view allows that the brain is an integrated system, not merely a collection of autonomous sub-routines.

A related topic to decision-making is how we form opinions. Pysorg.com looked at some new research into how our opinions are formed as a result of our environment more than our internal beliefs. In Physicists model how we form opinions, Lisa Zyga examines the role of cultural context in forming our opinions.

Tags: consciousness, mind, brain, free-will