Out of Ambit
Psychology / psychiatry
Sooooo glad I wasn’t drinking anything when I read this
I can’t often be bothered to blog about the antic caperings of the various political punditti and pundettes in my native land, but every now and then something comes up that’s just so, so …!!! I was browsing through Wonkette, as I sometimes do, and ran into this in the midst of a transcript of [...]
Simply Beyond Cool: “Man’s brain rewired itself, doctors contend”
I love it when things like this happen. Once again neuroscience gets stood on its ear… Terry Wallis awoke from a coma-like state 19 years after tumbling over a guardrail in a pickup truck and falling 25 feet into a dry riverbed. Now doctors armed with some of the latest brain-imaging technology think they may [...]
But you knew this already, part II: Thinking you’re being watched (even by a poster) makes you act more honestly
And it makes sense, when you think about it… In an interesting experiment a team from Newcastle University found people put nearly three times as much money into a canteen ‘honesty box’ when buying a drink, when they were being watched by a pair of eyes on a poster. …The eyes it seems were more [...]
Well, I always knew this
But then I’m a New Yorker. Reader’s Digest survey finds Big Apple to be world’s politest city The magazine sent reporters “undercover” to 36 cities in 35 countries to measure courtesy. New York was the only American city on the list.the magazine’s politeness police gave three types of tests to more than 2,000 unwitting participants. [...]
Mission Impossible IV: Escape the Embarrassment
Hmm. If when we’re in Japan next year I ever come across one of these portapotties, I’m going to examine it verrrrry carefully before I use it… Now playing: Fretwork – Pavan: ‘Lachrimae Antiquae’ [tags]video, embarrassing, portaloo, portapotty, outdoor toilet[/tags]
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30+ years in print, 50+ novels, assorted TV and movie work, the NYT Bestseller List a few times, blah blah blah. Also: the Young Wizards series, 1983-2010 and beyond.
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