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Steve Higgins is sometimes a Psychologist, sometimes a Neuroscientist, and sometimes even a Human Factors Engineer. He works for the U.S. Government. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in Psychology.
Category: History
"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 ;)...
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Category: Video
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....
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Category: Humor
Spoof documentary experiments with ghosts. Happy Halloween.
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Category: Video
Spooky ghost BBC mockumentary.
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Category: Popular Culture
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...
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Category: Psychology
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...
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Category: Culture Wars
His middle finger sits in glass in the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza in Florence, Italy.
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Category: History
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...
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Category: Academia
Everyone thinks the printing press led to increased literacy among the average man in the middle ages, but that just might not be the case. Dr Marco Mostert a historian from Utrecht University is instead suggesting that the availability of cheap paper was the main reason more reading material became...
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Category: History
Hat Shape = Political Views or as the NYtimes puts it "a man's private political views, by examining his beaver"
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