2013-02-08 Spike activity « Mind Hacks

<base href="data:"><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><i>The New York Times</i> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/sunday-review/raging-again-against-the-robots.html?smid=tw-share" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-bottom-width: 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(225, 212, 57); ">covers</a> the recent upsurge of robots-taking-over-the-world anxiety. To the bunkers!</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The dodgy practice of psychologists trying to <a href="http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/still-profiteering-from-anxiety.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-bottom-width: 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(225, 212, 57); ">patent</a>therapeutic techniques is covered by <i>Neuroskeptic</i>.</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><i>The Humanist</i> discusses the explosion of the unhelpful concept of <a href="http://thehumanist.org/july-august-2012/you%E2%80%99re-addicted-to-what/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-bottom-width: 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(225, 212, 57); ">sex addition</a>.</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Forensic psychology nerds: <i>In The News</i> covers the latest in the debate on the<a href="http://forensicpsychologist.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/showdown-looming-over-predictive.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-bottom-width: 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(225, 212, 57); ">accuracy</a> of violence risk assessments.</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><i>The Bangkok Post</i> on the <a href="http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/health/334826/technology-damages-brain" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-bottom-width: 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(225, 212, 57); ">bizarre</a> Thai government announcement that calculators, phones "and even karaoke machines" could damage memory, lead to Alzheimer's disease. Bryan Adams covers, screaming fits. 80s hair metal, unfortunately lycra incidents.</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">People without an amygdala can experience <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/neurophilosophy/2013/feb/03/neuroscience-health" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-bottom-width: 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(225, 212, 57); ">fear</a>. <i>Neurophilosophy</i> covers an intriguing new study.</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><i>Wired Danger Room</i> on the cost of war to the US: currently, <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/02/cost-of-war/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-bottom-width: 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(225, 212, 57); ">at least</a> 253,330 brain injuries, 129,731 cases of PTSD – and counting.</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><i>Missouri Public Radio</i> on how <a href="http://kbia.org/post/former-army-psychologist-larry-james-speaks-mu-audience-about-potential-hire" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-bottom-width: 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(225, 212, 57); ">ex- Abu Ghraib</a> chief psychologist Larry James wants to launch a national gun violence prevention center. Presumably, by waterboarding assault rifle owners.</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Short-term exercise boosts <a href="http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/short-term-exercise-boosts-body-image.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-bottom-width: 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(225, 212, 57); ">body image</a> without making any physical difference. The <i>BPS Research Digest</i> on the short-term psychological effects of exercise.</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><i>Scientific American</i> has an important piece on the science of what life events can trigger <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=triggers-of-depression" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-bottom-width: 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(225, 212, 57); ">depression</a>.</p><div style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; ">After a nonsense article on 'girls and the science gap' two neuroscientists write a stirling <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2013/feb/08/pseudoscience-stereotyping-gender-inequality-science" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-bottom-width: 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(225, 212, 57); ">reply</a> on why pseudoscience and stereotyping won't solve the problem in<i>Notes and Queries.</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; text-align: left; "><a href="http://mindhacks.com/2013/02/09/2013-02-08-spike-activity/">http://mindhacks.com/2013/02/09/2013-02-08-spike-activity/</a></div>

2013-02-08 Spike activity « Mind Hacks

Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:The New York Times covers the recent upsurge of robots-taking-over-the-world anxiety. To the bunkers!The dodgy practice of psychologists trying to patenttherapeutic techniques is covered by Neuros…

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