May 2011
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April 2011
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Bering in Mind: Being Suicidal: What it feels like... →
In considering people’s motivations for killing themselves, it is essential to recognize that most suicides are driven by a flash flood of strong emotions, not rational, philosophical thoughts in which the pros and cons are evaluated critically. And, as I mentioned in last week’s column on the evolutionary biology of suicide, from a psychological science perspective, I don’t think any scholar...
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The Clickable (Audio) IPA - International Phonetic... →
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March 2011
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“In 2005, a survey was conducted in thirty-four countries measuring the...”
– Sam Harris - Letter to a Christian Nation (via contemplatingmadness)
February 2011
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Hobbies
Sabotaging everything
Board games
White Coat: Random Facts About Goose Bumps (Not... →
white-coat:
What causes you to get goose bumps? Whatever the stimuli (scary movie, creepy moment, etc.) the result is always the same. Your hair follicles are controlled by tiny muscles called erector pili which are innervated by your sympathetic nervous system. So when you get scared or cold or creeped out…
Autostraddle — Trans Etiquette 101: No Offense,... →
xxboy:
My most recent column for Autostraddle addresses when it is appropriate to ask trans people trans-related questions and the best ways to go about it.
Original illustration for Autostraddle.com provided by and copyright Michelle Mishka Colombo 2011
“One need not be a chamber to be haunted,
One need not be a house;
The brain...”
– Emily Dickinson (via spectralradiance)
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i'm just really tired.
emilyswash:
if you are cis: try, for one day, to take notice every single time someone uses a gendered pronoun or word to describe you. you will be amazed how many times it happens. i’m not asking you to imagine how it would feel it it were wrong, just to see how impossible it is to avoid.
“In real life I am daffodils. I am a morning dew. I am the laughter of children....”
– Hugh Laurie on SNL (via fantasma)
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The Baltimore Sun: MD Senate approves same-sex... →
Maryland’s Senate passed a landmark measure Thursday evening that would allow same-sex couples to wed, pushing the controversial issue to the House of Delegates, which appears nearly evenly split on the issue.
The Senate voted 25 to 21 to approve the Civil Marriage Protection Act after two days of largely restrained and respectful discussion. Senators on both sides of the issue characterized...
Living With Geese →
studyofnature:
Novelist and gozzard Paul Theroux ruminates about avian misconceptions, anthropomorphism and March of the Penguins as “a travesty of science.”
By Paul Theroux, Smithsonian magazine
Interesting read!
Conventional Wisdom of How Neurons Operate... →
newsbytes:
Neurons are complicated, but the basic functional concept is that synapses transmit electrical signals to the dendrites and cell body (input), and axons carry signals away (output). In one of many surprise findings, Northwestern University scientists have discovered that axons can operate in reverse: they can send signals to the cell body, too.
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Mark E J...
