February 2010
Neuroskeptic: A "Severe" Warning for Psychiatry →
psychotherapy:
A really great write-up that follows up with some legitimate questions about the study/article I posted a few minutes ago from Newsweek…
Imagine there was a nasty disease that affected 1 in 100 people. And imagine that someone invented a drug which treated it reasonably well. Good work, surely.
Now imagine that, for some reason, people decided that 10% of the population need to...
January 2010
"I don't want to be your token gay." →
begaylittlebird:
Dear BGLB friend Eliot Glazer wrote this great response to TheFrisky’s column about gals searching for their “gay bffs.” Be prepared to laugh out loud.
“My teacher says, action is character. I think that means, if we never did...”
– (via fancysweater)
“I promise that you will not for one second be bored during one of my movies. You...”
– Jason Statham
(I certainly do have a fondness for his action movies. They’re rad.)
“Spectators come to the theater to hear the subtext. They can read the text at...”
– Konstantin Stanislavski (via sharkyteeth)
Latest research: Psychodynamic psychotherapy more... →
psychotherapy:
Ah, sweet vindication! As a practitioner of (and strong believer in) psychodynamic therapy, I have to say, this is enormously exciting news. While we have long believed this to be true in our heart of hearts, it hasn’t always been so easy to prove empirically. But now? Read it and weep, Pfizer:
A new study finds psychodynamic psychotherapy is an effective intervention with...
The typewriter ampersand symbol (&) was invented...
ohyeahfacts:
(What Makes Flamingos Pink? Bill McLain)
One Third of Women in the Military are Raped →
angelineasaurus:
In 2003, a survey of female veterans found that 30 percent said they were raped in the military. A 2004 study of veterans who were seeking help for post-traumatic stress disorder found that 71 percent of the women said they were sexually assaulted or raped while serving. And a 1995 study of female veterans of the Gulf and earlier wars, found that 90 percent had been sexually...
Jezebel: Weigh Less, Pay Less: Whole Foods Offers... →
entropicflux:
“If your BMI is above 30, you’ll get to keep the original 20% employee discount, but you’ll paying more than your thinner co-workers, who can knock as much as 30% off. Because if public health research has taught us anything, it’s that reducing people’s buying power totally makes them healthier. Stay classy, Whole Foods.”
Bad, horrible, awful plan. Oh. My. God.
On the surface,...
“The PETA ads purport to say, for example, “treating a nonhuman animal as meat is...”
– Meat and metaphors « Kate Harding’s Shapely Prose (via ilovefat)
Possible New Nonaddictive Anti-Anxiety Drug?... →
psychotherapy:
Those of us who watch the drug development pipeline have been pining for a nonaddictive anti-anxiety drug. Occasionally there are glimmers of hope. One candidate is emapunil, aka XBD-173 or AC-5216. In 2004, there was an article in the British Journal of Pharmacology about this. That article described promising findings, in rats and mice. Now, there is an article in Science...
Watchnicholasscimeca:
Conan bought a Bugatti Veyron, dressed it as a mouse and played the original Rolling Stones ‘Satisfaction’ recording, resulting in expensive royalty fees. NBC had to pay 1.5 million for this tiny comedy bit. Brutal. Awesome.
Part of me finds it hilarious how Conan found ways to stick it to a network that basically fucked him over. But part of me also can’t really laugh...
“I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.”
– William Stafford (via psychotherapy)
Ingrid Newkirk Is The Worst Person In The World →
sharkyteeth:
Read the damn article. It’s a good primer on why I, and most vegetarian/vegans I know, loathe PETA.
I’ve had this open in my tabs and I keep meaning to post this, but since Kara beat me to the punch… WHAT SHE SAID. Seriously, read it, it succinctly covers all the Things That Are Really Fucking Wrong with PETA.
[bright eyes - lover i don’t have to love]
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[James Horner - A Kaleidoscope of Mathematics]
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“Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Many things—such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving...”
– C. S. Lewis
Inconsequential and probably unintentional
fancysweater:
Grindewald, actually the name of a Swiss town located very near the base of the Eiger mountain, the north face of which in German is called the the Eigernorwand (which coincidentally is one of the most difficult to climb and deadliest and has only ever been summited by I believe two British teams) and often shortened to the Eigerwand. Elder wand. Whoomp.
Even though this is Jo...
Haiti text donations to Red Cross pass $5M →
entropicflux:
Numbers breakdown from the article (which takes data from as late as yesterday afternoon, as I understand it):
- $5.1 million total - Average rate of donation is ~$200,000/hour - Verizon customers alone have donated over $1M - For comparison, mobile donations post-Katrina topped out at $400,000 and donations for the 2004 tsunami at $200,000
This excites me, you guys. Advancing...
“It’s so funny to me because usually I’m just saying about a female co-star, ‘We...”
– Robert Downey Jr. (via fuckyeahholmes)