Did US Psychiatrists Really Agree That Gays Were Nuts?
Category: Psychology
The issue here is really how "psychiatric condition" was defined in the mid-20th century.
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Dr Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two. This is the world's #1 archaeology blog according to Technorati.
Four Stone Hearth
December 31, 2007
Category: Psychology
The issue here is really how "psychiatric condition" was defined in the mid-20th century.
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December 29, 2007
Category: Blogging
It's been a year now since I started blogging at Sb.
Posted by Martin R at 9:21 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 28, 2007
Category: NOIBN
This was one of those paper mills that used mercury in a big way.
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December 27, 2007
Category: Archaeology
16th and 17th century native American pottery from Kasita/Cusseta near Columbus, Georgia in the US.
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December 26, 2007
Category: Blogging
Google Reader is an excellent blog reader, among whose strengths is that it resides somewhere off your computer. This means that you can read blogs from several machines without having to mark a lot of old entries as read. Nor...
Posted by Martin R at 8:25 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 25, 2007
Category: History
One of the oldest extant buildings is the great church beside the royal castle. Here, Santa was worshipped for nearly three centuries.
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December 24, 2007
Category: Skepticism
A real skeptic always sides with scientific consensus.
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December 23, 2007
Category: Tech
I guess nobody actually gets 24 Mb/s from an ADSL connection.
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Category: Humour
Scandy readers will be very familiar with this. As we learned from "Hatten Är Din", "Ansiktsburk", "Fiskpinnar" and other Turk Hits back in 2000, you can get wonderfully absurd results if you listen to a song in a foreign language...
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December 22, 2007
Category: Archaeology
Two pieces of news to illustrate the state of the academic labour market in Swedish archaeology.
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