Campbell believes something similar happens to many people who experience a terrifying physical threat. In that moment, our sense of invulnerability is pierced, and the self-protective mental armor that normally stands between us and our perceptions of the world is torn away. Our everyday life scripts—our habits, self-perceptions and assumptions—go out the window, and we’re [...]
Researchers have demonstrated that though in the short run it appears preferable to act responsibly and choose virtue over vice, over time such righteous behavior generates increasing regret. It has been argued that the passage of time attenuates regret about choosing vice and accentuates regret about choosing virtue because of the decay of indulgence guilt [...]
I cannot live to hear the news from Australia.
The realities of authentication in the computing world (user provides input, user input is compared, comparison results in a Boolean authorized or unauthorized determination, life goes on) have been explored and exploited ad nauseum; increasingly-invasive techniques are met with new methods of evasion. No password is impossible to guess, no fingerprint reader is impervious to [...]
Rage occurs when oxytocin, vasopressin, and corticotrophin-releasing factor are rapidly released from the hypothalamus. This results in the pituitary gland producing and releasing large amounts of the adrenocorticotropic hormone, which causes the adrenal cortex to release corticosteroids. This chain reaction occurs when faced with a threatening situation (Jezova et al., 1995; Sapolsky, 1992). – Rage [...]
First Johnny Rotten sells out, now this… reality is imploding, the entropy of recursive mimesis has gotten out of hand: You can change the channel but you can’t hide. In fact, he’s played a lot of cops. And if there was an award given out to cops for “most humane” treatment of suspects, Seagal would [...]
Apparently the animé series was awesome… not so sure about the movie.
I hate to shill for a sandal commercial, but if you can get past the less-than-obvious “hey you should buy this” subtext you’ll find something worth laughing at. via Creativity Online Beestings hurt for just a little bit, but they’re really just like big mosquito bites. – The Naturist
Call in the Public Relations cleanup crew before this hits the press! When you are the chief executive officer of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals you’d better hope that your organization gets plenty of good press – and the last thing you want in the news is the story of how [...]
Shown on 7 January 2005, Brown traveled to the United States to try to convince five leading figures that he had powers in their particular field of expertise: Christian evangelism, alien abduction, psychic powers, New Age theories and contacting the dead. … Brown made it quite clear with each experiment that if any of the [...]
