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Tue, November 27, 2007 - 10:53 AM
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Last night on a whim I decided I needed to know which of the 4 premium silver tequilas in the house I really liked most: Herradura, Corzo, Hacienda del Cristero, or Sammy Hagar's Cabo Wabo. I had tried all these before, but never under test conditions. My hunch was that I would like the Herradura the best and the Cabo the least. To find out I would need to enlist the help of two brilliant research assistants: my housemates Mi... read more 
Lieutenant Walter Haut, a public relations officer at Roswell air base recently died. The man who spent his career denying that anything alien crashed near Roswell on July 8, 1947, left an affidavit to be opened after his death. In it, he paints a different picture of what happened that day, complete with a spacecraft, alien bodies, and a military cover up.
Wed, July 4, 2007 - 2:10 PM
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On the cover up, Haut says "One of the main concerns discussed at the meeting was whether we should go public or not with the di... read more 
What is waterboarding?
Tue, May 22, 2007 - 3:16 PM
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Waterboarding is the top rung of the ladder of "enhanced interrogation techniques" used by the CIA on terrorism suspects. ABC news named several other enhanced interrogation techniques employed by the CIA, all of which the CIA claims do not violate the terms of the Geneva convention: * Forcing prisoners to listen to Eminem's Slim Shady album. This music is allegedly so foreign to the Arab prisoners, it causes mental disorientation (I would have gone with Slipkno... read more 
I figured this had to be an April Fool's joke, but we're talking about Michael Jackson here, and somehow it's easier to believe that the man has eccentric and abhorrent ideas and an increasing sense of desperation to exhume his musical career than to imagine he has a sense of humor.
Tue, April 3, 2007 - 12:37 PM
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Inspired by the book Zanesville by Kris Saknussemm, which featured giant celebrity robots malfunctioning and running amok in Las Vegas, Jackson is supposedly considering having a 50 foot robot constructed in h... read more 
Today a 44 pound block of ice fell from the sky onto a building in Madrid. Police say they have no idea where it came from. Scientists suggest that it might have formed from a "sudden freeze" in the upper atmosphere.
Thu, March 15, 2007 - 1:26 PM
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How it got to be 44 pounds before the law of gravity took notice is something we might like to know before declaring this incident "explained." This isn't the first time Spain has been the unwitting target of heavenly ice blocks - in 2000 several blocks of ice fell on t... read more 
In early February Barack Obama said "We ended up launching a war that should have never been authorized, and should have never been waged, and on which we've now spent $400 billion, and have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted."
Thu, March 1, 2007 - 12:23 PM
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This statement seems to represent the views of the vast majority of Americans who now see the war as a colossal mistake waged in light of "faulty intelligence" and/or outright deception on the part of the Bush administration. Given that S... read more 
Sunday at KPIG we had a singer-songwriter by the name of Chuck Brodsky. He played a song called "Doc Ellis' No-No" commemorating one of baseball's most improbable stories, the 1970 game where Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter on Acid.
Wed, February 14, 2007 - 2:08 PM
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Dock woke up on what he thought was a fine Thursday morning in LA and decided to drop some LSD with his girlfriend, as he often did on his days off. She made him some coffee and started reading the newspaper, which said that Dock was pitching that... read more
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Re: Dopamine, Paranormal Belief, and the Detection of Meaningful Stimuli
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John, are the examples you give really examples of magical thinking or just of induction? There may be a case to be made for the efficacy of magical thinking; perhaps it's a way to trigger the placebo effect and get healing action out of substanc...
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Re: Constant Light Linked to Symptoms of Depression
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It's not torture, it's enhanced mindfucking.
discussion post on Mon, October 26, 2009 - 10:03 PM
Constant Light Linked to Symptoms of Depression
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"Ohio State University researchers found that mice kept in a lighted room 24 hours a day had more depressive symptoms than mice that had a normal day-night cycle. The study also found that mice that lived in a constantly lit room, but could take r...
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discussion post on Sat, October 24, 2009 - 10:41 PM
Re: Dopamine, Paranormal Belief, and the Detection of Meaningful Stimuli
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Solari, I think there has been quite a bit of work done on links between cognitive disorders and magical thinking. Schizophrenia and schizotypal disorder (mild schizophrenia) definitely come up in this research, as well as temporal lobe epilepsy....
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discussion post on Thu, October 15, 2009 - 3:12 PM
Re: Wanted to explore the following further
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Jason,
You're asking some odd questions here and I think they may stem in part from a common misunderstanding of how evolution works. It sounds like you're thinking according to a principle like: if structure/behavior X evolved, then X must h... read more discussion post on Thu, October 15, 2009 - 10:20 AM
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