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Heavy Drinkers Have Smaller Brains

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:54:26 GMT

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The more alcohol an individual drinks, the smaller his or her total brain volume, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Brain volume decreases with age at an estimated rate of 1.9 percent per decade, accompanied by an increase in white matter lesions, according to background information in the article. Lower brain volumes and larger white matter lesions also occur with the progression of dementia and problems with thinking, learning and memory. Moderate alcohol consumption has been associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease; because the brain receives blood from this system, researchers have hypothesized that small amounts of alcohol may also attenuate age-related declines in brain volume.

Although men were more likely to drink alcohol, the association between drinking and brain volume was stronger in women, they note.

Tags: alcohol consumption, brain volume, dementia

Why knowledge about emotion has accumulated so slowly ??

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:21:31 GMT

clipped by: einbar
clipper's remarks: "In this paper I argue that despite the general importance of emotion in the science of the mind and the ever increasing pace of research on emotion, knowledge about emotion has accumulated more slowly than for other comparable concepts, such as memory or attention, because the acceptance of these commonsense assumptions are not warranted by the available empirical evidence. I then consider what moving beyond a commonsense view might look like and what it would mean for the scientific study of emotion." Lisa Feldman Barrett

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As common sense has it, emotions are triggered automatically, happen to people, and cause them to act in specific and diagnostic ways. An offense triggers anger. A death triggers sadness

The given quality of a person’s own experience, and the way that emotion seems to control behavior without awareness, is usually taken as proof that emotions are automatic responses to things that happen in the world over which people have little control. Knowledge, expectations, and beliefs seem to have little impact on emotion, although they can regulate a response once it has been triggered. As a consequence, people assume that emotions can overcome them, rapidly overriding whatever else they might have been doing, thinking, and feeling.

Clip Source: books.nap.edu

In this paper I argue that despite the general importance of emotion in the science of the mind and the ever increasing pace of research on emotion, knowledge about emotion has accumulated more slowly than for other comparable concepts, such as memory or attention

Air Pollution Pollutes Brains as Well!?

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:56:02 GMT

clipped by: nedhamson1
clipper's remarks: Heavy air pollution has and is endangering the future of your children and our society as well as others.

Clip Source: www.sciencenews.org

Mexico City’s air pollution may be undermining neural and mental functioning in some children

Mexico City wears a thick coat of air pollution that clogs lungs and takes a toll on hearts and blood vessels. But that’s just the beginning — the metropolis’s dirty air may have contributed to brain inflammation and intellectual deficits in at least some school-age children, a new study suggests.

Among healthy children aged 7 to 18, lifelong Mexico City residents scored lower than their peers from Polotitlán — a Mexican city with low levels of air pollution — on tests of memory, flexible thinking, novel problem-solving skill and the ability to monitor and change one’s behavior during challenging tasks, scientists report in an upcoming Brain and Cognition. These tests make up part of standard IQ measures for school children.

Tags: global warming, green, pollution, dumb and dumber

Antisocial Behavior May Be Caused By Low Stress Hormone Levels

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:27:58 GMT

clipped by: Kelika
clipper's remarks: "The differences between participants with severe antisocial behaviour and those without were most marked under stressful conditions. While the average adolescents showed large increases in the amount of cortisol during the frustrating situation, cortisol levels actually went down in those with severe antisocial behaviour.

These results suggest that antisocial behaviour may be more biologically-based than previously considered, just as some individuals are more vulnerable to depression or anxiety due to their biological make-up."

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Levels of cortisol in the body usually increase when people undergo a stressful experience, such as public speaking, sitting an exam, or having surgery. It enhances memory formation and is thought to make people behave more cautiously and to help them regulate their emotions, particularly their temper and violent impulses.

The new research, funded by the Wellcome Trust, shows that adolescents with severe antisocial behaviour do not exhibit the same increase in cortisol levels when under stress as those without antisocial behaviour. These findings suggest that antisocial behaviour, at least in some cases, may be seen as a form of mental illness that is linked to physiological symptoms (involving a chemical imbalance of cortisol in the brain and body).

Reduced levels of the 'stress hormone' cortisol has been linked to antisocial behaviour in male adolescents. (Credit: iStockphoto)

Tags: stress, mental health

John Lennon's Birthday

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:56:44 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: Remember? Keep his vibe alive!

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Today is the anniversary of John Lennon's birthday. He would have been 68. His memory and his mission of peace lives.

Imagine Peace

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IMAGINE PEACE

Think PEACE, Act PEACE, Spread PEACE.

The Promise

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:01:35 GMT

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Clip Source: www.peaceinspiration.com

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Promise is most given when the least is said. ~George Chapman

When a man takes an oath… he’s holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then - he needn’t hope to find himself again.

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. ~Denis Waitley

Tags: nietzsche, arendt, promise

Human Cells Memory Capacity vs Digital

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:37:50 GMT

clipped by: joejoepmc
clipper's remarks: Makes the old saying I feel like a million bucks... seem so SMALL!

The sugar code is literally how your cells talk to eachother. A dense forest exists on healthy cells that is made up of glycoproteins - essentially simple sugars called saccharides. Our modern diet lacks the abyndance of these and thus scientists are trying to uncover the secrets of manufacturing these synthetically. The theory is - the faster and more complete your cells communicate the healthier you will thus become. You may add these necessary sugars into your diet and thus not stress your bodies own emergency processes by taking a product called Ambrotose, the worlds first complete glyconutrient supplement

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Holographic storage

has broken a storage density record by writing 64.3 gigabytes of data onto a single square inch of disc space

Clip Source: www.cell-to-cell-health.com

"The Celera Corporation completed the mapping of the human genome on April 6, 2000. It is estimated that 3 billion bits of information can be transferred through the genes.

17 tredecillion bits of information that can be transferred through the sugar code.

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

human genome contains no less than 3 billion bits of information encased inside the DNA of every nucleus, of every single cell in the entire body.

serenity prayer

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:53:01 GMT

clipped by: jlemat

Clip Source: www.cptryon.org

The Serenity Prayer

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.

--Reinhold Niebuhr

In loving memory of
Fr Bertram Griffin -- 1932-2000
Requiescat in Pace

Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will direct your paths.

Proverbs 3, 5-6

Human Skull USB Drive

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:57:29 GMT

clipped by: CarnivalBorn

Clip Source: www.geekalerts.com

If you’re looking for a storage device to match last year’s Crystal Skull Mouse, this 2GB USB 2.0 compliant flash memory shaped like a human skull might be just the ticket.

Features:

USB 2.0 High Speed

Plug and Play, Hot-Swapped capability

Mass storage compliant

Support: Windows Vista, XP, 2000 and Mac OS

Dimensions: 57.8 x 34 x 37mm (approx.)

Weight: 42g

The Human Skull USB Drive is available from the USB Geek website for $19.

Must see Video re: housing crisis

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:28:56 GMT

clipped by: Antara
clipper's remarks: lol........would be funny if not so sad

Clip Source: www.moonbattery.com

September 30, 2008

Still More Documentation on the Roots of the Mortgage Crisis

Just to keep it out there as long as possible before it goes down the memory hole, here is more video documentation regarding who tried to prevent the mortgage crisis and who prevented them from preventing it:

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If the lefties running the media are able to spin this crisis to benefit the Democrats who caused it, we will know that the Fourth Estate is the most powerful branch of our government — even before installing its puppet in the White House.

Tags: dems, housing crisis, politics, economy, responsibility, truth, moonbattery.com

Tool to align translations and create TMs

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:43:05 GMT

clipped by: ginstrom
clipper's remarks: A free tool to align source and translation files and create translation memories

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Align Assist Translation File Alignment Tool

Align Assist is an "alignment tool." It aligns source and translation files to create a translation memory (TM).

Tags: tm, align, translation memory

Spy Sunglasses With Built-In Video Camera & 2GB Expandable Memory

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:27:31 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: If you see anyone wearing such a thing, ask them to take them off.

Clip Source: www.thinktechno.com

Sometimes, I feel like James Bond overdoes the spyglass thing. But this cool piece, however features present day technology with a futurist touch. It features a cool hidden cam, polaroid lenses, while the built in 2gigs will suffice most spying runs but the expansion slot for Micro SD Card might come handy if the realtime recording pushes the storage limit.

The Cordless Eyewear Spy Video Audio Recorder is available from Brando for $186.

Sarah Palin: Good Guy or Bad Guy?

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:56:01 GMT

clipped by: arnaz
clipper's remarks: I throw up a little every time I see a McCain/Palin bumper sticker.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/161204/page/1

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McCain says that he always puts country first. In this important case, it is simply not true.

Can we now admit the obvious? Sarah Palin is utterly unqualified to be vice president. She is a feisty, charismatic politician who has done some good things in Alaska. But she has never spent a day thinking about any important national or international issue, and this is a hell of a time to start. The next administration is going to face a set of challenges unlike any in recent memory. There is an ongoing military operation in Iraq that still costs $10 billion a month, a war against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan that is not going well and is not easily fixed.

This is nonsense—a vapid emptying out of every catchphrase about economics that came into her head.

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Tags: elections, election 08, mccain, palin, economy, crisis, video

Wow! What a book lover???

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:56:55 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee
clipper's remarks: impressed...

Clip Source: www.futilitycloset.com

Posted in Literature, Oddities by Greg Ross on June 14th, 2008

Florentine scholar Antonio Magliabechi (1633-1714) has been described as a literary glutton. His house was choked with 40,000 books and 10,000 manuscripts, and he spent hours each day in the Medici library.

The negligent Magliabechi reportedly once forgot to draw his salary for a full year, but his head was "an universal index, both of titles and matter." When the Duke of Florence asked him for a particular volume he replied, "Signore, there is but one copy of that book in the world; it is in the Grand Signore's library at Constantinople, and is the eleventh book in the second shelf on the right hand as you go in."

That memory made him a human search engine for writers of the time

Surrounded by books, he lived to be 81, and in his will he left his library to the public.

12 Board Games to test & Increase Your Intelligence

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:37:42 GMT

clipped by: boozich

Clip Source: muzich.blogspot.com

Monopoly

Go: A strategic board game involving tactics, observation and cunning. Originating in China

Settlers of Catan: This dice-rolling and trading game was really one of the first German-style board games

Mancala: Belonging to a sub-genre of games usually referred to as “count and capture” games

Arimaa: Invented in 2002 by an AI computer engineer,

Inspired by the defeat of chess legend Garry Kasparov at the “hands” of the computer Deep Blue

rensei: This strategy and observation game

Shogi: The most popular “chess” variant that’s native to Japan

Mahjong: Also known as Mah-jongg by the American association, this is a tactics, observation and memory-based game