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"Have trouble concentrating on your studies? Try the German learning egg." Those Germans! Always coming up with great feats of engineering. -Via Modern Mechanix- Or course you could always get a pair of 0.50$ ear plugs, but hey if you've got the money ;)...
Posted on January 16, 2008 10:45 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Check out this Discussion led by Charlie Rose with guests Eric Kandel, Aaron Beck, Steven Roose & Peter Fonagy: Here are some interesting home videos of the Freud family as well....
Posted on November 27, 2007 5:07 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Spoof documentary experiments with ghosts. Happy Halloween.
Posted on October 31, 2007 8:00 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Spooky ghost BBC mockumentary.
Posted on October 29, 2007 8:00 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In time for Halloween: Trailer for Central State: Asylum for the Insane. A filmmaker prowls a closed mental institution to "...uncover the mysteries left behind when the facilities closed in 1994." There's lots of shaky handheld camerawork in poorly lit tunnels, and shakier rumours of ghosts, but no exploration into...
Posted on October 26, 2007 8:00 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A torture manual created by psychologists in the 1950s entitled The Manipulation of Human Behavior is freely available online. Included are these scary sounding chapters: 1 The Physiological State of the Interrogation Subject as it Affects Brain Function 19 Lawrence E. Hinkle, Jr. 2 The Effects of Reduced Environmental Stimulation...
Posted on September 10, 2007 11:53 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Video: World's oldest neurosurgeon turns 100.
Posted on August 31, 2007 8:00 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
His middle finger sits in glass in the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza in Florence, Italy.
Posted on July 30, 2007 10:43 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
There's an interesting article over at Neurophilosophy about ' the peculiarities of the Negro brain.' - Which of course don't exist ;) But in any case... I figured I would see what I could turn up in the NY Times before 1900. I didn't find anything that connected with the...
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Posted on July 30, 2007 5:59 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
This weeks article is again from the Book Review section of the NYTimes on April 28, 1890. Admittedly, I'm not very familiar with the history of Physiognomy so I am learning about it a little bit today as I post this. It is essentially Phrenology of the face, even more...
Posted on July 23, 2007 11:56 AM • • 0 TrackBacks