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Leftists Continue to Lie About Palin

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:46:50 GMT

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Here we go again at Daily Kos, with another disgusting, transparently false smear against Sarah Palin: Daily Kos: ‘So Sambo Beat The Bitch’ - Sarah Palin...

Progressives! Is there any depth to which they will not dive?

Here’s the article they’re linking to, at “LA Progressive:” Alaskans Speak (In A Frightened Whisper): Palin Is “Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean.”

The charge that Palin has racist attitudes toward Eskimos is based on the word of an anonymous waitress at an unnamed restaurant. Another word for this kind of smear is “lying.”

It’s not even worth debunking, but I’ll just point out that Palin’s husband is of Eskimo descent.

And another Daily Kos hate diary vanishes down the memory hole: Daily Kos: ‘So Sambo Beat The Bitch’ - Sarah Palin...

The Daily Kos administrators better get cracking, because here’s another one: Daily Kos: Did Palin call Barack a Sambo and Hillary a Bitch?

Tags: liberals, democrats, lies, pieces of shit

Individual brain cell recorded

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:08:39 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Scientists have for the first time recorded individual brain cells in the act of summoning a spontaneous memory, revealing not only where a remembered experience is registered but also, in part, how the brain is able to recreate it.

Tags: nyt 06/09/08

Think, but do not eat

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:28:39 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: well the study... i think i'll have a bite first

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Thinking People Eat Too Much: Intellectual Work Found To Induce Excessive Calorie Intake

The details of this discovery, which could go some way to explaining the current obesity epidemic

measured the spontaneous food intake of 14 students after each of three tasks: relaxing in a sitting position, reading and summarizing a text, and completing a series of memory, attention, and vigilance tests on the computer. After 45 minutes at each activity, participants were invited to eat as much as they wanted from a buffet.

The researchers had already shown that each session of intellectual work requires only three calories more than the rest period. However, despite the low energy cost of mental work, the students spontaneously consumed 203 more calories after summarizing a text and 253 more calories after the computer tests. This represents a 23.6% and 29.4 % increase, respectively, compared with the rest period.

Tags: obesity, calories, intellectual work

Brain, Rememering is like Reliving

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:09:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: interesting, what was theoretical is now biologically shown- research about alzheimers and more will be helped by this in future studies.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

For the Brain, Remembering Is Like Reliving

“It’s astounding to see this in a single trial; the phenomenon is strong, and we were listening in the right place,” said the senior author, Dr. Itzhak Fried, a professor of neurosurgery at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Tel Aviv.

Dr. Fried said in a phone interview that the single neurons recorded firing most furiously during the film clips were not acting on their own; they were, like all such cells, part of a circuit responding to the videos, including thousands, perhaps millions, of other cells.

Tags: health, brain, mind, memories, memory, alzheimers, neuroscience

"Google's comic capers: what they really meant to say"

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:42:28 GMT

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Clip Source: www.theregister.co.uk

Google's comic capers: what they really meant to say

The truth behind the speech bubbles

Google publicised its new browser Chrome with a 38-page comic book. It's a gift to satirists, and already, our inboxes are buzzing with slightly less saintly interpretations.

Here's a selection. Naturally, the altruistic nature of the operation gets a bit of a bashing:

As does the, er, "end to end" nature of the gambit:

And this one revives the memory of an ancient diplomatic incident between the Empire of Goo and El Reg:

So can you do better? Remember to be careful:

Brain and Creativity Institute

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:24:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The mission of the Brain and Creativity Institute is to gather new knowledge about the human emotions, decision-making, memory, and communication, from a neurological perspective, and to apply this knowledge to the solution of problems in the biomedical and sociocultural arenas.

Clip Source: www.usc.edu

The Brain and Creativity Institute was founded by Antonio Damasio and Hanna Damasio in 2006. Since ancient times, thinkers and scientists have sought to explain how we perceive, interpret, and shape our existence. However, until very recently, researchers interested in these questions have had to rely entirely on conjecture or indirect evidence. Now, recent technological advances in brain imaging and fresh insights into the functioning of the human brain at the level of systems, cells and molecules, provide extraordinary new opportunities for uncovering the neurological underpinnings for a large array of mental functions – from emotion and decision-making to innovation and creativity.

It is also apparent that emotion, decision-making, memory and communication, are central to our most fundamental socio-cultural endeavors

The Institute is a groundbreaking effort to make use of important new discoveries from the mind and brain sciences and confront pressing issues of our time.

Tags: brain and creativity, antonio damasio

Big Brother Addiction gone but not forgotten - Methadone success story

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:07:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Well it is claimed somewhere that an elephant never forgets. This one may have built up a social memory or more likely a very UNsociable one towards a certain group.

A word of warming to any traders that cross his path in the future..

Clip Source: www.news.com.au

A ONCE drug-addled elephant fed heroin-laced bananas by illegal traders will return home after emerging clean from a three-year detox programme on China's tropical island province of Hainan.

The four-year-old bull elephant, referred to alternately as "Big Brother" or "Xiguang", was captured in 2005 in southwest China by traders who used spiked bananas to control him.

After police arrested the traders and freed Xiguang a few months later, the elephant was confirmed to be suffering from withdrawal symptoms and sent to a wild animal protection centre in Hainan for rehab.

A year of methadone injections at five times the human dosage had helped wean Xiguang off his addiction.

Now clean, Xiguang was expected to arrive on Saturday at a wildlife park in Kunming, capital of the elephant's home province of Yunnan on the mainland.

Xiguang's return would cap a 1500km journey home, and mark another step in the elephant's triumph over addiction.

Tags: elephant, heroin, xiguang, big brother

Ways to Raise Your IQ

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:32:50 GMT

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Clip Source: abundance-blog.marelisa-online.com

Take Deep Breaths.

Keep a Journal.

Learn As Much As You Can.

Learn to Speed Read.

Take Frequent Short Breaks.

Use Acronyms to Remember Information.

Eat breakfast.

Use Your Body to Help You Learn.

Meditate.

Stay Away From Sugar

Cultivate Your Emotional Intelligence.

Use Downtime.

Go for A Jog

Engage All of Your Senses.

Induce Alpha Brain Waves.

Load Up on Antioxidants

Use Your Intuition.

Use a Memory Peg System.

Two other memory systems you can use are:

The Journey Method

The Link Method

Remember = Reliving

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:59:52 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: Very interesting findings.
if it holds true to 'older' memories, then it raises a question; as the neural network molds and reshapes, so does our memories? if so maybe we can only remember who we are, rather than what we were...

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

For the Brain, Remembering Is Like Reliving

spontaneous memories reside in some of the same neurons that fired most furiously when the recalled event had been experienced. Researchers had long theorized as much but until now had only indirect evidence.

For the brain, remembering is a lot like doing (at least in the short term, as the research says nothing about more distant memories).

The researchers were even able to identify specific memories in subjects a second or two before the people themselves reported having them.

“This is what I would call a foundational finding,”

when they recalled a specific one — say, a clip of Homer Simpson — the same cells that had been active during the Homer clip reignited

became active a second or two before people were conscious

Tags: neuroscience, memory

Chrome's inner workings--and an Easter egg

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:09:57 GMT

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Clip Source: news.cnet.com

Google's Chrome browser has as Spartan a user interface as possible, but the browser's Omnibox also turns out to be a window into a much more elaborate view of the browser.

Happy Easter
For you non-programmers, there's an Easter egg, too: type "about:internets" into the Omnibox. I'm not going to be a spoilsport by revealing what happens, but here's a hint: Ted Stevens.

• about:memory shows how much memory the browser--and any other Web browser--is using. Conveniently for Web developers, it also shows how much each Web site in a browser tab is using.

• about:stats shows a wide range of internal measurements such as the time taken to initialize Chrome, load Gears, or perform various operations while running JavaScript programs with Chrome's V8 engine. The page also carries the amusing note, "Shhh! This page is secret!"

• about:network tracks the detailed network activity of using a Web site.

• about:histograms graphs various performance measurements

McCain's High Horse

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:39:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Posted Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2000, at 3:30 AM ET
I little trip down memory lane. Here we go again.

Clip Source: www.slate.com

Oh, please. McCain cheapens his own heroism when he tries to use five years in a North Vietnamese prison camp as a rhetorical get-out-of-jail-free card.

George W. Bush's widely mocked garble about McCain taking his "high horse" on the "low road" is actually, with a bit of untangling, a pretty good image. It's one thing to drop your negative ads and challenge your opponent to do the same. But it's a bit rich to carry on as if no decent person would ever do what you yourself were doing just a few days before.

Making a Video Statement

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:12:34 GMT

clipped by: Imnclady
clipper's remarks: Kowalski is a musician, he uses youtube and MySpace to post videos, hoping someone will listen to its message. One man trying to make a difference on humanity. Human existence and life as we know it is limited by the actions of those in power.

Our children need hope and a purpose ...some like Kowalski use their talents to bring awareness on these issues at hand. This is his purpose and the only way we can help is to make it our purpose also.

Clip Source: blog.myspace.com

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WORLD TRADE CENTER
Category: Art and Photography

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6ZxVQ2CaGM

My brothers and I shot this video a year before this place became a world memory center. It was around 3pm, smoke break for some WTC workers, my brothers danced. The airport scenes are from September 11, 2000. I droped some atmosphere sounds on top.

I wrote and performed/edited this song and shot the red shirt video two years ago, the blue/green shirt video was 8 years ago shot by my brothers and Spitz. "Anti-bin laden" was in between sometime. I spliced them all together and split screened them in a "24" type fashion. I was trying to vent some of my frustrations about the misguided few.

When killing begins, religion ends.

Enjoy the present moment, it's a gift.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6oraJNNIOY

Tags: human rights, freedom, world, earth, war, nuclear weapons, disasters, music, videos

Scientists catch cells in the act of remembering

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:54:50 GMT

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Clip Source: www.iht.com

The recordings, taken from the brains of epilepsy patients being prepared for surgery, demonstrate that these spontaneous memories reside in some of the very same neurons that fired most furiously when the recalled event was first experienced. Researchers had long theorized that this was the case but until now had only indirect evidence.

The new study, experts said, has all but closed the case: Remembering, for the brain, is a lot like doing.

Tags: science, brain, discovery

Google Chrome "about:" Easter Eggs!

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:38:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: haven't tried this yet but article has screen shots of all of them

Clip Source: lifehacker.com

Google Chrome's Full List of Special about: Pages

You already saw Google Chrome's humorous about:internets Easter egg, but reader nettleman points out that Chrome's got several special about: pages that reveal all sorts of interesting information about what's going on behind the scenes. Here's the full list, with screenshots.

about:memory
about:stats
about:network
about:internets
about:histograms
about:dns
about:cache
about:plugins
about:version

Update: Mawin adds that you can also go to two special pages on a per-site basis. view-cache:[URL] shows you some under-the-hood cache details, and view-cache:[URL] shows you the page's markup. (Though you can view source by just right-clicking on a page and choosing, um, "View page source.")

You Mac and Linux users, here are some about: page screenshots:

Tags: google, chrome, software, hidden, easter eggs, web browser

Boos Your IQ

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:29:41 GMT

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Clip Source: www.geniusintelligence.com

There are many reasons why our memories will sometimes struggle to recall the information we need. However, the fault is not with the memory process itself, but instead lies with the way the person has actually used their memory resources to create the problem. Below you will find 9 tips to help put your memory on the right track. These are extremely basic tips and are in no way to be considered an extensive memory improvement program, though you will still go far following this:

When you plan your life, your life becomes planned. So what you plan for is what you will get. Simple as that. After you have set your plan, learn to become organised around it, both physically, mentally and behaviourally.