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Niels Gerson Lohman
Huffington Post 2013-10-16 14:24:00
After a year of traveling, I had planned a last, short trip. I was going to take the train from Montreal to New Orleans. The travels I had been undertaking earlier this year had brought me to places that were meant to form the background of my second novel. This trip, however, was for my dad. He, a trumpet player, loved New Orleans and had died a year ago. It felt like the first sensible trip I undertook this year. I had been searching for ways to forget about the last hours at his deathbed. He had been ill for 15 years and his body just would not give up. It was a violent sight. I had decided the trip to New Orleans would put an end to those memories. Usually, I barely plan my trips in advance. But this time I had booked everything: my train tickets, hotels and my flight back to Montreal, from which I would depart back to Amsterdam. In total the trip was supposed to take three weeks. The confirmations and tickets I had printed and tucked away in a brown envelope I had bought especially for the trip. I like things to be neatly arranged. At home, in Amsterdam, my house enjoys a slight version of OCD. |
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Kristan T. Harris
CudahyNow 2013-10-15 22:07:00
Could the SNAP EBT (Food Stamp) disaster that occurred across 17 states last weekend have been a planned drill rather than system failure? This letter sent out by the USDA makes your brain turn. A USDA letter has surfaced that has been sent to states across the nation. States are being told to "stop the supplemental nutrition assistance program for the month of November, pending further notice." Which could mean that if Congress doesn't reach a deal to get federal government back up and running somebody at the Whitehouse decided you will not get your benefits. Worse yet, they have not sent anyone a letter letting people across the nation know their benefits are going to be postponed. Would the government really wait until the very last-minute to make you aware of your loss of benefits? Lets not forget other sensible cuts that could happen for example programs like the Department of Homeland Security, The NSA, The TSA, fusion centers, unconstitutional spying programs, cameras on the street corners and armored vehicles for our local colleges are not happening. I bet all those bills are still being paid. Why can't we cut there? |
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Lee Rogers
Blacklisted News 2013-10-16 00:47:00
The on-going disaster of the Affordable Care Act otherwise known as Obamacare is undoubtedly the most poorly planned implementation of any government program in American history. This law which forces people to buy health insurance or face a fine is one of the dumbest ideas ever conceived but it is the implementation of it that has been even dumber. The implementation has been so horrible that one has to question if this was done intentionally to plunge the entire healthcare system into chaos. This might sound counterintuitive but it really isn't. The reason for the Obama regime to do something like this is that it would give them the pretext to justify a complete government takeover of America's healthcare system. This would be presented as the false solution to a problem that they created in the first place. If this wasn't part of a broader conspiracy, the only other explanation for the piss poor implementation is that the Obama regime put mentally retarded criminals in charge of its drafting, planning and execution. There are so many facets to this but the Affordable Care Act should really be called the Unaffordable Care Act because it is actually increasing the cost for existing insurance policies. The amount of regulations, taxes and fees the law requires insurance companies to comply with forces them to pass on additional costs to customers. Both individuals and businesses have been severely impacted by this. Since the law has gone into effect it has caused businesses to hire more part time workers and less full time workers. This is because the law only forces businesses to provide health insurance for full time workers but not part time workers. By mandating that businesses shell out more money to provide health insurance for full time workers it discourages them from bringing on more full time help. Many businesses simply can't afford these additional costs and especially not with Obamacare dramatically increasing the cost of health insurance. |
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Tom Bevan
Unlike the real world, where managers and employees are judged on
results and held accountable for their performance, in Washington, D.C.,
loyalty and partisanship almost always come first. Accountability comes
later, if it comes at all.Real Clear Politics 2013-10-11 00:26:00 This happens in every administration, and President Obama's is no different, as we've seen with the fatal mistakes made regarding the Fast & Furious gun program and in the assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. Democrats, claiming to see these as partisan witch hunts designed to hurt the administration politically, circled the wagons. Obama stood loyally by Eric Holder and Hillary Clinton Loyalty is generally a good thing, in politics, as in life. But Kathleen Sebelius and her agency's rollout of Obamacare is different. Sebelius' department had 3½ years to prepare to implement the Affordable Care Act. No one ever suggested that commandeering one-sixth of the American economy would be an easy task. (Many Republicans suggested the opposite and were dismissed as killjoys for their efforts.) But after the debacle of the last two weeks, liberals and Democrats - not conservatives or Republicans - should be calling for Sebelius's head. The administration's handling of the implementation of Obamacare over the past three years has been a slow-moving train wreck: a mixture of embarrassing delays, hard-to-justify waivers, and assorted bad news about the unintended consequences of the law. Some of this was Sebelius's fault, some of it was not. The crowning blunder came 10 days ago with the rollout of healthcare.gov website, the centerpiece of the administration's effort to sign individuals up for coverage through the government-run health care exchanges that are at the heart of the legislation. To say this was vitally important to the overall success of the law is an understatement. It is the aspect of Obamacare that the president himself has said is utterly essential - and backed up those words by letting the federal government shut down rather that give in to Republican demands to gut it. Nonetheless, its premiere was a giant flop - and Kathleen Sebelius is responsible. |
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Jose DelReal
Politico 2013-10-14 00:04:00
President Barack Obama is risking "impeachable" offenses with the way he is handling the debt limit debate, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said in a post on her Facebook page Monday. "Defaulting on our national debt is an impeachable offense, and any attempt by President Obama to unilaterally raise the debt limit without Congress is also an impeachable offense," Palin wrote. In her statement, Palin also accused the president of "scaremongering" on the debt ceiling. She suggested that a default could be averted by paying interest on the debt through daily revenues collected by the United States, an idea that has been recently touted by several conservative voices on the right. "It's also shameful to see him scaremongering the markets with his talk of default. There is no way we can default if we follow the Constitution," she said, also adding that the president was trying to "furlough reality" when talking about the debt limit. Palin was in Washington on Sunday, when she visited the World War II Memorial and protested the government shutdown's impact on veterans. She will visit Iowa next month for the Faith & Freedom Coalition's fall fundraiser. Jose DelReal is a POLITICO fellow. | |
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Comment: Sarah Palin is in no way qualified to comment
on the Constitution, or reality, for that matter. Her presence at the
veterans' protest can only be grandstanding for her own political goals.
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France 24
2013-10-15 20:06:00
France's safety watchdog said on Tuesday it was standing by existing recommendations for mobile phones, wifi and cellphone relay antennas, saying their emissions had "no demonstrated impact" on health. The National Agency for Health, Food and Environmental Safety (Anses) said that, in lab tests, electromagnetic emissions had had a "biological" effect on cells, although evidence for this was "limited." But it saw no grounds for recommending any changes to existing laws as there was "no demonstrated impact" on health. It said, though, it would make a recommendation that children and big users of mobile phones limit their exposure to the devices. |
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France 24
2013-10-15 20:00:00
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff announced Sunday that her government was creating a secure email system to try and shield official communications from spying by the United States and other countries. "We need more security on our messages to prevent possible espionage," Rousseff said on Twitter, ordering the Federal Data Processing Service, or SERPRO, to implement a safe email system throughout the federal government. The agency, which falls under Brazil's Finance Ministry, develops secure systems for online tax returns and also creates new passports. |
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Paul Davidson and Barbara Hansen
USA Today 2013-10-13 19:49:00
Hospitals are cutting thousands of jobs, undercutting a sector that was a reliable source of job growth, even through the recession. Hospitals, a reliable source of employment growth in the recession and its aftermath, are starting to cut thousands of jobs amid falling insurance payments and inpatient visits. The payroll cuts are surprising because the Affordable Care Act (ACA), whose implementation took a big step forward this month, is eventually expected to provide health coverage to as many as 30 million additional Americans. "While the rest of the U.S. economy is stabilizing or improving, health care is entering into a recession," says John Howser, assistant vice chancellor of Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Health care providers announced more layoffs than any other industry last month - 8,128 - largely because of reductions by hospitals, according to outplacement firm Challenger Gray and Christmas. So far this year, the health care sector has announced 41,085 layoffs, the third-most behind financial and industrial companies. |
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Brandon Bailey
Mercury News 2013-10-16 14:29:00
Living the fantasy of every homeowner who's faced the prospect of a nuisance project next door, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has bought four homes adjacent to his own 5-bedroom crash pad in one of Palo Alto's toniest neighborhoods. Zuckerberg paid top dollar -- more than $30 million in total -- for the four residential properties located next door and behind his own home. But he has no plans to build a Taj Mahal on the land, according to a person with knowledge of the transactions, who said Zuckerberg is leasing the existing homes back to the families that live there. |
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RT.com
2013-10-16 11:42:00
Moscow police detained some 380 people during the mass rioting in a southern district of the city. A mixed crowd of nationalists and locals attacked a warehouse run by natives of the Caucasus, blaming a migrant for the fatal stabbing of a local. Authorities lifted the emergency plan codenamed "Volcano" after midnight, several hours after public order had been restored. The plan, put into effect in the afternoon, involved sending scores of riot police to the scene of the clashes, and placing police officers across the city on high alert. By midnight the streets were practically deserted, except for police officers and a couple of bystanders discussing the day's events. Meanwhile the 380 detained during the unrest were being interrogated in a criminal case over hooliganism - thus far as witnesses, police said. A crowd of people on Sunday broke into a vegetable warehouse in the southern district of Biryulyovo, hurling rocks, smashing up stalls and vending machines. While the police estimated the crowd at about 350 people, witnesses at the scene suggested the number of rioters could be as many as 1,000.
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Jocelyn Maminta
WTNH TV 2013-10-10 23:52:00
In the midst of major changes in health care, UnitedHealthCare has sent thousands of pink slips to Connecticut doctors. Termination letters went to physicians caring for Medicare patients. Those letters were sent out to doctors caring for 'Medicare Advantage' patients. It's a plan, marketed to Seniors to provide additional services through UnitedHealthCare. A mix of primary care and specialty doctors are affected by it. And it comes at a questionable time. Open enrollment for Medicare starts next Tuesday, and it's still not clear at this time as to which doctors are still in the United network. The Connecticut State Medical Society is fighting back. The biggest concern is patient access to healthcare. "What the government is looking for is to manage better care by adding a patient centered medical home so that you have a doctor who is totally invested with taking care of every aspect of the patient and coordinating it. This is clearly not a patient centered decision," said Dr. Michael Saffir, President of CT State Medical Society. |
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Bill McCleery and Jill Disis
Indy Star 2013-10-14 20:27:00
An apparent fight over when to quit watching football turned deadly Sunday when a Morgan County man fatally shot his teenage son, authorities say. David Carrender, 49, was arrested on a preliminary murder charge after his son, 19-year-old Wyatt Carrender, was shot to death in the family's Martinsville home. Morgan County Sheriff Robert Downey said the Carrenders had been out watching football games at a restaurant or bar when they started fighting over whether to return home. The son wanted to go home. The father did not. The argument continued after the pair returned home, Downey said. "It appears the father retrieved a handgun and shot his son, it appears, six times." |
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Jacob Chamberlain
Greenwald, Snowden in daily contact to reveal massive trove of revelationsCommon Dreams 2013-10-15 00:00:00
When it comes to the "shock" inspired by the recent National Security Agency revelations, the worst is yet to come, said Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who has been working with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden on the leaks. "There are a lot more stories," Greenwald told a large crowd at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference currently taking place in Rio de Janeiro. "The archives are so complex and so deep and so shocking, that I think the most shocking and significant stories are the ones we are still working on, and have yet to publish."
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Carter Evans
CBS News 2013-10-15 19:56:00
There's nothing new about predictions that the end of the world is upon us. But there's plenty new about how some people are preparing for it. What began as a pipe dream for Ron Hubbard has become big business...underground "We call this the backyard bunker," Hubbard said as he showed us one of his survival shelters. These days, the fear market is booming. "I can't build them fast enough right now," he said. "It's better to have a shelter 10 years early than five minutes late." |
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The Raw Story
2013-10-10 00:00:00
Brazil-based US reporter Glenn Greenwald said Wednesday he would publish documents from intelligence leaker Edward Snowden focused on France and Spain. Greenwald, a Rio-based correspondent for Britain's Guardian newspaper, also said that if Brazil wanted more data on alleged US snooping into its affairs it should offer Snowden asylum. Snowden, a former US spy agency contractor wanted by Washington, is currently at an unknown location in Russia after Moscow granted him temporary asylum. Brazil did not respond to a Snowden request for asylum as he sought refuge following his first explosive disclosures detailing the US government's digital dragnet. Testifying before a Brazilian congressional panel, Greenwald accused Washington and its allies of waging a "war against journalism and the process of transparency." "I am learning now that the United States is using this surveillance system to punish the journalistic process," said Greenwald, who, without elaborating, added he was working on material relating to France and Spain. "We are undertaking high-risk journalism. We shall continue doing so until we publish the last document I have," Greenwald told senators investigating allegations that Washington spied on Brasilia. "I am not holding onto relevant documents nor hiding information. All that I had regarding surveillance against Brazil, and now France - I am working with French and Spanish newspapers - I publish. I don't hold onto it," he said in Portuguese. Greenwald said governments, including Brazil's, appeared to be grateful for the disclosure of alleged US spying on them "but they are not disposed to protect the person who passes on the data." |
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David Edwards
The Raw Story 2013-10-15 00:00:00
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) on Tuesday amped his recent impeachment rhetoric by claiming that President Barack Obama was "getting close to a high crime and misdemeanor." Fox News host Alisyn Camerota pointed out to Gohmert that after two weeks of a government shutdown, Republicans were basically guaranteed to lose on their core goal of repealing, defunding or delaying the president's health care reform law. "A majority in the House should be sign to the Senate that we need to negotiate," Gohmert opined. "We have sent over compromise after compromise after compromise with ourselves. Our own leadership proposed yet another compromise and [Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid said all of the sudden, he thinks that's a slap at bipartisanship." "He wouldn't know bipartisanship if it came up and slapped him and said, we're bipartisan," he added. "So, I don't need to hear any crap from Harry Reid about bipartisanship. He doesn't know bipartisanship, nor does the president." Gohmert also repeated his recent warning that if Republicans force the U.S. to default on its debt by refusing to raise the debt ceiling then it "would be an impeachable offense by the president." |
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Alice Baghdjian
Switzerland
will hold a vote on whether to introduce a basic income for all adults,
in a further sign of growing public activism over pay inequality since
the financial crisis.Reuters 2013-10-15 17:56:00 A grassroots committee is calling for all adults in Switzerland to receive an unconditional income of 2,500 Swiss francs ($2,800) per month from the state, with the aim of providing a financial safety net for the population. Organizers submitted more than the 100,000 signatures needed to call a referendum on Friday and tipped a truckload of 8 million five-rappen coins outside the parliament building in Berne, one for each person living in Switzerland. |
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Tia Ghose
LIveScience 2013-10-16 06:54:00
Herod the Great, the king of Judea who ruled not long before the time of Jesus, seems to have eluded historians once again. In 2007 archaeologists announced they had found the great king's tomb, a surprisingly modest mausoleum that was part of the Herodium, a massive complex built by Herod on a cone-shaped hill in the desert outside Jerusalem. But what everyone thought was his final resting place may not be. The modest structure is too small and modest for the ostentatious king; its mediocre construction and design are at odds with Herod's reputation as a master planner and builder, archaeologists now say. |
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Zak Smith
Something bad is happening in the ocean. No one's certain what's causing it, but in the past three months more than 550 bottlenose dolphins have stranded along the Atlantic Coast
and there's no indication that the strandings are letting up. While
researches rush to catalog data on the dolphins' deaths, larger
questions loom - is the Atlantic coastal ecosystem broken, and are
humans the cause?Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) 2013-10-16 09:25:00 Yes, dolphins strand all the time, but not like this. As shown below in the figure from the National Marine Fisheries Service, strandings have skyrocketed this year, especially in Virginia and fanning out north and south, with large numbers in Maryland, New Jersey and North Carolina.
It would be easy to finger the morbillivirus, which has ravaged bottlenose dolphin populations in the past and is showing up in the necropsies conducted on these dolphins. |
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US Geological Survey
2013-10-16 11:51:00
Event Time 2013-10-16 10:31:00 UTC 2013-10-16 20:31:00 UTC+10:00 at epicenter Location 6.487°S 154.928°E depth=54.1km (33.6mi) Nearby Cities 64km (40mi) WSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 73km (45mi) WSW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea 378km (235mi) SE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea 539km (335mi) ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea 642km (399mi) WNW of Honiara, Solomon Islands Technical Details |
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Associated Press
2013-10-16 01:54:00
A typhoon caused deadly mudslides that buried people and destroyed homes on a Japanese island Wednesday before sweeping up the Pacific coast, grounding hundreds of flights and disrupting Tokyo's transportation during the morning rush. At least 14 deaths were reported and more than 50 people were missing. Hardest hit was Izu Oshima island about 120 kilometers (75 miles) south of Tokyo. Rescuers found 13 bodies, most of them buried by mudslides, police and town officials said. Dozens of homes were destroyed, and more than 50 people are missing. "We have no idea how bad the extent of damage could be," town official Hinani Uematsu said. One woman from Tokyo died after falling into a river and being washed 10 kilometers (6 miles) downriver to Yokohama, police said. Two sixth-grade boys and another person were missing on Japan's main island, Honshu, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said. More than 350 homes have been damaged or destroyed, including 283 on Izu Oshima, it said. | |
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Comment: Had the rain fallen as snow it would have been 8 meters of snow in a 24 hour period, instead 80 cm of rain fell.
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| Fire in the Sky |
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The Telegraph, UK
Divers have recovered part of a meteorite, weighing 570 kilograms, which exploded in Chelyabinsk, Russia earlier this year. 2013-10-16 13:25:00
The fragment is the largest to be retrieved so far following the Chelyabinsk meteorite that exploded over the southern Urals city on February 15. Pieces of the meteorite - the largest recorded strike in more than a century - crashed to the bottom of Lake Chebarkul in Russia's Chelyabinsk region. Divers searched for the fragments in the lake for two months before finding the meteorite chunk. "It is beautiful, its gorgeous," said Nikolai Mizulin, director of the dive company that retrieved the 570 kilogram piece of rock. More than 1,600 people were injured by the shock wave explosion as the meteor landed. The force of the shock wave was estimated to be as strong as 20 Hiroshima atom bombs The dramatic footage of the meteorite falling to earth was filmed by witnesses. |
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Sarah McDonnell
Schizophrenia patients usually suffer from a breakdown of organized
thought, often accompanied by delusions or hallucinations. For the first
time, MIT neuroscientists have observed the neural activity that
appears to produce this disordered thinking.Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2013-10-16 14:49:00 The researchers found that mice lacking the brain protein calcineurin have hyperactive brain-wave oscillations in the hippocampus while resting, and are unable to mentally replay a route they have just run, as normal mice do. Mutations in the gene for calcineurin have previously been found in some schizophrenia patients. Ten years ago, MIT researchers led by Susumu Tonegawa, the Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience, created mice lacking the gene for calcineurin in the forebrain; these mice displayed several behavioral symptoms of schizophrenia, including impaired short-term memory, attention deficits, and abnormal social behavior. In the new study, which appears in the Oct. 16 issue of the journal Neuron, Tonegawa and colleagues at the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory recorded the electrical activity of individual neurons in the hippocampus of these knockout mice as they ran along a track. Previous studies have shown that in normal mice, "place cells" in the hippocampus, which are linked to specific locations along the track, fire in sequence when the mice take breaks from running the course. This mental replay also occurs when the mice are sleeping. These replays occur in association with very high frequency brain-wave oscillations known as ripple events. In mice lacking calcineurin, the researchers found that brain activity was normal as the mice ran the course, but when they paused, their ripple events were much stronger and more frequent. Furthermore, the firing of the place cells was abnormally augmented and in no particular order, indicating that the mice were not replaying the route they had just run. This pattern helps to explain some of the symptoms seen in schizophrenia, the researchers say. |
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Kris Gunnars
Authority Nutrition 2013-10-16 12:51:00
Few things have been debated as much as "carbohydrates vs fat." Some believe that increased fat in the diet is a leading cause of all kinds of health problems, especially heart disease. This is the position maintained by most mainstream health organizations. These organizations generally recommend that people restrict dietary fat to less than 30% of total calories (a low-fat diet). However... in the past 11 years, an increasing number of studies have been challenging the low-fat dietary approach. Many health professionals now believe that a low-carb diet (higher in fat and protein) is a much better option to treat obesity and other chronic, Western diseases. In this article, I have analyzed the data from 23 of these studies comparing low-carb and low-fat diets. All of the studies are randomized controlled trials, the gold standard of science. All are published in respected, peer-reviewed journals. The Studies Most of the studies are being conducted on people with health problems, including overweight/obesity, type II diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Keep in mind that these are the biggest health problems in the world. The main outcomes measured are usually weight loss, as well as common risk factors like Total Cholesterol, LDL Cholesterol, HDL Cholesterol, Triglycerides and Blood Sugar levels. |
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| Science of the Spirit |
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The Concordia University
If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands! That's easy enough for
children to figure out because the emotion matches the movement. But
when feelings and reactions don't align, can kids tell there's something
wrong? New research from Concordia University proves that they can -
as early as 18 months.2013-10-16 15:52:00 In a study recently published in Infancy: The Official Journal of the International Society on Infant Studies, psychology researchers Sabrina Chiarella and Diane Poulin-Dubois demonstrate that infants can detect whether a person's emotions are justifiable given a particular context. They prove that babies understand how the meaning of an experience is directly linked to the expressions that follow.
The implications are significant, especially for caregivers. "Our research shows that babies cannot be fooled into believing something that causes pain results in pleasure. Adults often try to shield infants from distress by putting on a happy face following a negative experience. But babies know the truth: as early as 18 months, they can implicitly understand which emotions go with which events," says psychology professor Poulin-Dubois. |
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Robert Perkins
Surprising USC study shows that brains process the pain of villains more than the pain of people we like.University of Southern California 2013-10-16 15:36:00 Counterintuitive findings from a new USC study show that the part of the brain that is associated with empathizing with the pain of others is activated more strongly by watching the suffering of hateful people as opposed to likable people. While one might assume that we would empathize more with people we like, the study may indicate that the human brain focuses more greatly on the need to monitor enemies closely, especially when they are suffering. "When you watch an action movie and the bad guy appears to be defeated, the moment of his demise draws our focus intensely," said Lisa Aziz-Zadeh of the Brain and Creativity Institute of the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. "We watch him closely to see whether he's really down for the count, because it's critical for predicting his potential for retribution in the future." Aziz-Zadeh, who has a joint appointment with the USC Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, collaborated with lead author Glenn Fox, a PhD candidate at USC; and Mona Sobhani, formerly a grad student at USC and who is now a post-doctoral researcher at Vanderbilt University, on a study that appears in Frontiers in Psychology this month. The study examined activity in the so-called "pain matrix" of the brain, a network that includes the insula cortex, the anterior cingulate, and the somatosensory cortices - regions known to activate when an individual watches another person suffer. |
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Brett Smith
RedOrbit 2013-10-16 00:51:00
According to a new study in the journal Nature Communications, researchers from Stanford University have used brain monitoring in 'real-life' situations to reveal the region of the brain responsible for numerical processing. The researcher said that unlike previous approaches, their research could lead to "mind-reading" technology that would allow a patient who cannot speak to communicate by simply thinking. They also speculate that their findings have the potential for more dystopian outcomes - technology that spies on or even controls a person's thoughts. "This is exciting, and a little scary," said Hank Greely, a committee chair at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, who did not participate in the study but was "very impressed" by the findings. "It demonstrates, first, that we can see when someone's dealing with numbers and, second, that we may conceivably someday be able to manipulate the brain to affect how someone deals with numbers." The techniques used in previous studies, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), are somewhat limited by their capacity to examine brain activity in real-life settings and to catch the exact timing of nerve cells' firing patterns. "This is not real life," study author Josef Parvizi said about the method of past studies. "You're not in your room, having a cup of tea and experiencing life's events spontaneously." |
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