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Looking for input and references, reading material. Our brains are wonderful things. It seems to take multiple incidents, file them away, and then create generalized impressions. I have tried to boil them down into two states. Safe and Not Safe. Or in our modern world, Fear or Trust...

Reading up on sleep. Ocean going mammals such as dolphins and whales practice unihemispheric sleep. One side of their brain sleeps at a time, never both at once. Seals sleep this way when they sleep in the water. On land, they sleep like we do. Do reptiles sleep? There is debate. Most...

Bob's your uncle. Take the piss. Cockney rhyming slang. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyming_slang Where did this shit come from? And why is it still around? Faking brits. Does any other language besides english engage in these shenanigans?

Thinking about how humans value work. Postulate: We value those that take responsibility and make decisions for others. We value the work of leaders above all. Discuss.

IMO, Microsoft is pulling shit because some really stubborn people won't buy their new Crapola. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/27/us-cybersecurity-microsoft-browser-idUSBREA3Q0PB20140427 Internet Explorer 6 was released on August 27, 2001, shortly after the completion of Windows XP...

And baseball, and wrestling.... http://www.gamespot.com/articles/twitch-beats-out-espn-wwe-and-mlb-as-largest-live-streaming-site-in-the-us/1100-6419226/ Down with jocks, nerds pwn

I posted awhile back about my new prescription problems. They continue, but this is not about that. My friends are also starting to have problems. The Vietnam vet next door has been taken off his painkillers, another friend of mine just lost her muscle relaxer. These are people that have...

http://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens%20homepage%20materials/Gilens%20and%20Page/Gilens%20and%20Page%202014-Testing%20Theories%203-7-14.pdf It's a good read. Skip down to page Ten for the beginning of the nut and bolts, the data set, ect. The appendices at the end have all the pretty...

http://dabrownstein.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/crop-yield-with-climate-change-world-map.jpg Apparently, this file is too large for the board to handle as an image. The OLD board could take it, this one is a wuss...

The democrats are annoying me with email spam asking for $3 to defeat Koch brothers spending. I can't do that, but I can boycott Georgia Pacific paper products, and do. Since we are in the New US, and vote with every dollar we spend, I think it's important to know who you are voting for when...

I find this disturbing. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2014/03/report-india-world-biggest-buyer-arms-201431755950855624.html Not so much because I didn't know about it, of course, but because of the recent uptick in hostility between Russia and the US. Are we just playing a game to...