reading paul ricoeur at the moo and...
Tue, 1 Jul 2008 21:59:54 -0700 (PDT)
time and narration 2 and can some1 explain this to me? especially the
greimas part? ...
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150 volts
Tue, 1 Jul 2008 15:11:29 -0700 (PDT)
NYT
July 1, 2008
Mind
Decades Later, Still Asking: Would I Pull That Switch?
By BENEDICT CAREY
Some of psychology?s most famous experiments are those that expose the
skull beneath the skin, the apparent cowardice or depravity pooling in
almost every heart.
The findings force a question. Would I really do tha ...
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Fooling yourself?
Tue, 1 Jul 2008 15:07:56 -0700 (PDT)
NYT
July 1, 2008
Findings
Deep Down, We Can?t Fool Even Ourselves
By JOHN TIERNEY
In voting against the Bush tax cut in 2001, Senator John McCain said
he ?cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of
the benefits go to the most fortunate.? Today he campaigns in favor of
extending that same t ...
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Recipes for scientific discovery
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:01:58 -0700 (PDT)
Sweat, luck and eureka: Recipes for scientific discovery
Every week thousands of academic articles heralding discoveries in
medicine and science are vetted and validated before being published
in no-nonsense journals with names such as "Acta Crystallographica,"
"Methods in Enzymology," or "Macromolecules".
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How a bat perceives but perhaps not what it is like to be a bat?
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:38:32 -0700 (PDT)
What It's Like to Be a Bat
Not many people think about what it's like to be a bat, but for those
who do,
it's enlightening and potentially groundbreaking for understanding
aspects of
the human brain and nervous system.
Cynthia Moss, a member of the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
program at the
Universi ...
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heidegger and irony
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:42:33 -0700 (PDT)
i just shat a shit. ...
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Religious beliefs and politics
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:08:59 -0700 (PDT)
Religious beliefs significantly tied to national political
participation
A study recently published in Social Science Quarterly explores the
effects of religious behaviors and beliefs on political participation
and finds that religious beliefs play a more significant role than
church attendance or religious tra ...
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Epigenetics - the nature of nurture...
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:19:33 -0700 (PDT)
The Nature of Nurture
by Sally Lehrman, from California
Darlene Francis is talking about the frontal cortex, decision making,
and high-stress profiles in rats when she suddenly shifts the focus to
poor, single, inner-city moms?that is to say, stressed-out humans.
Working with rodents, the behavioral neuroscient ...
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Itching
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
This is fun:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/30/080630fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all ...
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Early predictors of behaviour problems
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:31:44 -0700 (PDT)
Study says parenting style and baby's temperament predict challenging
behavior in later childhood
The way mothers interact with their babies in the first year of life
is strongly related to how children behave later on. Both a mother's
parenting style and an infant's temperament reliably predict
challenging beh ...
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