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My mind on my money and my money on my mind
This is an excerpt from quite possibly the geekiest forensic pathology article I have ever read. Three pathologists discuss the physics of how a Mexican coin ended up in the brain of a dead shooting...
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A serotonin chat-up line worthy of appreciation
In response to my throwaway comment about a finding a suitable chat-up line for someone with the molecular structure of serotonin tattooed on their butt, I am eternally grateful to the commenter...
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Viktor Frankl and Man’s Search for Meaning
I’ve just finished reading the wonderful Man’s Search for Meaning, a 1946 book written by psychiatrist and neurologist Viktor E. Frankl, where he discusses his experiences and observations as a Nazi...
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Dr Mezmer’s Dictionary of Bad Psychology
The Devil’s Dictionary was a famously satirical book by Ambrose Bierce where he lampooned almost everything, in alphabetical order. He famously defined the brain as “an apparatus with which we think we...
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Evolution of the troubled mind
I just listened to a recent edition of ABC Radio National’s All in the Mind on evolutionary approaches to mental illness. While the topic isn’t new, it’s interesting that the two clinicians try to...
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Encephalon 44 wants you!
The 44th edition of the psychology and neuroscience writing carnival Encephalon has just been released by the ever-excellent Cognitive Daily. What with the flurry of recent interest in neuroscience...
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Hofmann gone to the great Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
At 9 am this morning, Albert Hofmann, chemist and creator of LSD, died in his home in Switzerland. Hofmann died at the grand old age of 102 and saw the psychedelic drug he called his “problem child”...
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Does economics make you selfish?
Philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel has been investigating whether ethics professors are more moral than other people, and it turns out, they’re possibly less. He’s now turned his attention to economics and...
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Doctor Who Hears Voices torrent online
The recent UK TV docudrama, The Doctor Who Hears Voices, that we discussed previously has appeared on torrent servers and seems available for download. I’ve not yet seen the programme or fully...
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Solar powered EEG headset
The New Scientist Tech Blog has an interesting article on a new prototype EEG machine that, like all others, is designed to read electrical activity from the brain. The novelty is that it is totally...
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