It all started when a user named bigwizzle45 called someone else an idiot.
To which someone replied: Says the guy under the name of "bigwizzle"
To which bigwizzle replied: Are you implying I'm an idiot becaus of my user name?
From the utube discussion thread of the video Celebrate!, by Kool and the Gang.
K says: sounds like disturbed
T says: not even close to disturbed...this is like a soft 1 inch cock compared to the hardcore 12 inch black dick that is disturbed.
Z says: i asume u mean the old disturbed, the new disturbed sucks major hardcore! but sickness disturbed is more like a 20 inch somali dick that is going through your ears ass hole!
M says: they were better before but theyre still good now. dont noe why u think they suck. regardless, distubed in general is a rock hard black cock with throbbing veins leaking pre ejaculatory fluids ready to blast a load of jizz onto bands like these.
To which Z replies: the new shit SOUNDs like the old stuff music wise but the lyrics r rly panseyish. dont get me wrong i saw em live and it was a great show! but the new songs arnt very distrbing and they lack the sickness!!!!
Said by music lovers of a Fingers Eleven video - “Good Times”, from their Album: Finger Eleven, released 2003.
The bottom line of Bonanno, a clinical psychologist atColumbia University in New York is "that people are often much more resilient than we're led to believe". This is confirmed by studies of Londoners after the Blitz and New Yorkers after 9/11 which showed that few people suffer serious reactions to traumatic events.
This stands in contrast to the average of 8% of people that develop PTSD, which according to Wikipedia follow after events such as violent assault, kidnapping, sexual assault, torture, being a hostage, prisoner of war or concentration camp victim, experiencing a disaster, violent automobile accidents or getting a diagnosis of a life-threatening illness. Children may develop PTSD symptoms by experiencing bullying or sexually traumatic events like age-inappropriate sexual experiences.
All of which make me wonder if the experiences of people who find it difficult to cope with death may not be identical to those suffering of PTSD? In my own mind I ponder that the ability to "go on" is a common observation in people that cope well with bereavement and trauma.
In some people it is nothing but tenacity, in others you find it cast by tough determination, but in the scientific community it is called resilience. Resilience describes all the different reasons why some people can just stand up and dust themselves off and include the way in which the qualities combine to make a person more resilient. All, except one reason.
Just like guilt and forgiveness, resilience is a quality left moot by acceptance. Just like forgiveness, acceptance is a choice that can only be made by yourself, although it helps if you've got faith. According to earlier research, experience with the earthquake victims in NWFP & AJK clearly demonstrated the positive effects of faith & resilience. The findings echo that of others who show how faith in God Almighty, or some sort of divine existence is a major factor in strengthening resilience and promoting recovery from traumatic stress disorders.
By acknowledging the "Hand of God" we allow ourselves to see the "Hand of God" in our lives. From this perspective we have only one choice, even in the face of trauma and bereavement. To "go on" in faith isn't difficult at all, it is the only choice there is.
Until not too long ago, most people believed human morality was based on scripture, culture or reason. Some stressed only one of those sources, others mixed all three. None would have thought to include biology. With the progress of neuroscientific research in recent years, though, a growing number of psychologists, biologists and philosophers have begun to see the brain as the base of our moral views. Noble ideas such as compassion, altruism, empathy and trust, they say, are really evolutionary adaptations that are now fixed in our brains. Our moral rules are actually instinctive responses that we express in rational terms when we have to justify them.
(Photo: Religious activist at a California protest, 10 June 2005/Gene Blevins)
Thanks to a flurry of popular articles, scientists have joined the ranks of those seen to be qualified to speak about morality, according to anthropologist Mark Robinson, a Princeton Ph.D student who discussed this trend at the University of Pennsylvania’s Neuroscience Boot Camp. “In our current scientific society, where do people go to for the truth about human reality?” he asked. “It used to be you might read a philosophy paper or consult a theologian. But now there seems to be a common public sense that the authority over what morality is can be found by neuroscientists or scientists.”
This change has come over the past decade as brain scan images began to reveal which areas of the brain react when a person grapples with a moral problem. They showed activity not only in the prefrontal cortex, where much of our rational thought is processed, but also in areas known to handle emotion and conflicts between brain areas. Such insights cast doubt on long-standing assumptions about reason or religion driving our moral views. “A few theorists have even begun to claim that that the emotions are in fact in charge of the temple of morality and that moral reasoning is really just a servant masquerading as the high priest,” University of Virginia psychologist Jonathan Haidt, one of the leading theorists in this field, has written.
But according to Mark Robinson, "The question of authority is a big one. Who is the ultimate authority on these issues about the fundamental nature of human morality?”
Our societies have become obsessed with time and timekeeping, both in the workplace and at home. Jet travel manipulates our experience of day-night cycles and seasons, while biomedical science races to increase our lifespan yet further. At the other end of the spectrum, new technologies adapt our minds to the ever-briefer scales of micro and nano.
A recurring theme in the book is how the human capacity to manipulate our environment ushers in new complexities to the basic biology of time. For example, while other animals age and die on a strict schedule, humans do everything in their power to control that timing. And the book is full of interesting thoughts: consider the different temporal experience of wild blueberry bushes, which live 13,000 years, and mayflies, which fulfil their earthly purpose in a lifespan of hours.
Did someone say, "What!? I didn't know that?"?
Weeks before NASA's LCROSS mission crashed into the moon, some scientists involved with the mission were predicting very little, if anything, would be seen from the impact – despite a well publicised observing campaign.
Others now say the $79 million mission was ill conceived and will not deliver a meaningful result even if it manages to find evidence for water on the moon.
LCROSS ended on Friday morning when a two-tonne Centaur rocket hit the floor of a perpetually shadowed crater near the lunar south pole.
It was in the early 1900’s, just after the discovery of the lie detector that we first became aware that plants are more than just compost, and that they seem to display some kind of prescience. As much as I guess by accident, but profound in its implication we found that somehow a plant knew who was going to harm it, and who was going to care for it. The finding that plants “knew” things that people intend never gained a big following, but that doesn’t change the fact that they do…
Altruism has long been a subject of interest to scientists. Superficially at least, evolutionary theory suggests altruism shouldn’t exist. Evolution occurs because some genes in a population are usually more advantageous than others. The favorable genes spread through the population because their bearers are able to out-reproduce other individuals, gradually changing the whole group’s characteristics. This doesn’t seem to allow for altruism, as presumably only those who help themselves ultimately get ahead in the evolutionary race.
Now I wonder how that would work with apes? Oh wait, threy groom each other all the time, don't they ;-?
So what exactly is an out-of-body experience? A definition has recently emerged that involves a set of increasingly bizarre perceptions. The least severe of these is a doppelgänger experience: you sense the presence of or see a person you know to be yourself, though you remain rooted in your own body. This often progresses to stage 2, where your sense of self moves back and forth between your real body and your doppelgänger. This was what Brugger's young patient experienced. Finally, your self leaves your body altogether and observes it from outside, often an elevated position such as the ceiling. "This split is the most striking feature of an out-of-body experience," says Olaf Blanke, a neurologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.
Surprisingly pleasant
Some out-of-body experiences involve just one of these stages; some all three, in progression. Bizarrely, many people who have one report it as a pleasant experience. So what could be going on in the brain to create such a seemingly impossible sensation?
Brain signals have shown that calves do appear to feel pain when slaughtered according to Jewish and Muslim religious law, strengthening the case for adapting the practices to make them more humane.
The findings increase pressure on religious groups that practice slaughter without stunning to reconsider. "It provides further evidence, if it was needed, that slaughtering an animal without stunning it first is painful," says Christopher Wathes of the UK Farm Animal Welfare Council, which has long argued for the practice to end.Representatives for both faiths responded by claiming that stunning itself hurts animals.
A spokesman for Shechita UK says that the throat cut is so rapid that it serves as its own "stun", adding that there is abundant evidence shechita is humane.
If you're looking for help from a chimp, don't forget to say please. Captive chimpanzees readily help others obtain an out-of-reach snack, but only if they beg for it, a new study shows.
Researchers have long debated whether chimpanzees act altruistically. In the wild, the great apes exchange grooming duties, and occasionally food such as meat, but whether these transactions fit the definition of altruism is controversial.
In dozens of trials involving six pairs of chimpanzees, one of the chimps consistently offered the tool to the other. But help often came only after the chimp in need reached out its hands or made a ruckus.Such requests may be necessary because chimpanzees don't fully understand the desires of others, Yamamoto says.
It just goes to show, you are never too old to learn! 
If you thought the library is only good for one thing, I can tell you are definitely wrong. As witness to my claim I call on lovers everywhere to say "Aye" if they snogged in the isles. But who would have thought its good for exercise!?
With library shifts easily running eight hours and over, does that time have to be wasted sitting or stacking books? The short answer is “no.” The long answer is: “check out these top 50 exercises you can do at the library, office, or just about anywhere.”
As hundreds of telescopes and observers watched, a NASA mission to search for water on the moon has achieved its grand finale with a pair of high-speed crashes into the lunar surface according to the article in New Scientist.
At the Ames Research Center near Palo Alto, California, scientists and engineers with the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) peered in silent concentration as successive images of the crater Cabeus grew larger on their screens. there was no telltale flash to be seen from the expected collision of a 2366-kilogram booster rocket into the permanently shadowed crater, located near the moon's south pole.
"I think we're all a little bit disappointed that we didn't see anything," David Morrison, director of NASA's Lunar Science Institute, told New Scientist. "But 90 per cent of the data has not yet been seen."
Our nervous systems are hardwired to detect and process faces rapidly and efficiently, oftentimes with very scarce details available. The pictures in the accompanying slide are often referred to as Mooney faces, after cognitive psychologist Craig Mooney, who used similar images in his research on perception. Mooney faces illustrate how little visual information it takes to “see” a face.
A fetus in the second and third trimester has highly sensitive taste buds that, through "practice meals" of amniotic fluid, get to experience whatever Mom is eating. Fetuses remember flavors from this time in the womb and seek them out after birth. This process explains why adopted infants, when swept off to a new culture, years later innately prefer their native cuisine — even though they may never have actually eaten it in the conventional sense, he says.It makes me wonder what other sensory preferences we develop before birth?
On the use of coca:
Paolo Mantegazza also believed that drugs and certain foods would change humankind in the future, and defended the experimental investigation and use of cocaine as one of these miracle drugs (its addiction potential was not known at the time). When Mantegazza returned fromSouth America , where he had witnessed the use of coca by the natives, he was able to chew a regular amount of coca leaves and then tested on himself in 1859. Afterwards, he wrote a paper titled Sulle Virtù Igieniche e Medicinali della Coca e sugli Alimenti Nervosi in Generale ("On the hygienic and medicinal properties of coca and on nervous nourishment in general"). He noted enthusiastically the powerful stimulating effect of cocaine in coca leaves on cognition:
"... I sneered at the poor mortals condemned to live in this valley of tears while I, carried on the wings of two leaves of coca, went flying through the spaces of 77,438 words, each more splendid than the one before...An hour later, I was sufficiently calm to write these words in a steady hand: God is unjust because he made man incapable of sustaining the effect of coca all life long. I would rather have a life span of ten years with coca than one of 10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 centuries without coca."
On racial supremacy:
In a time when the popular and official science and culture in Italy were still under heavy influence of theRoman Catholic Church , Mantegazza was a staunch liberal and defended the ideas of Darwinism in anthropology, his research having helped to establish it as the "natural history of man". From 1868 to 1875 he maintained a correspondence withCharles Darwin , too. Mantegazza's natural history, however, must be considered to be from a racist/social Darwinist perspective, evident in his "Morphological Tree of Human Races." This tree maps three principles: a single European metanarrative marshals all of the world's many cultures;human history is imagined as progressive, with the European human as the pinnacle of progress and development; lastly, a ranking of different races onto a hierarchical structure. If one envisions a tree, the Aryan race is the topmost branch, followed by Polynesians, Semites, Japanese, and moving downward to the bottommost branch, the "Negritos." Mantegazza also designed an "Aesthetic Tree of the Human Race" with similar results.
Packing heat may backfire. People who carry guns are far likelier to get shot – and killed – than those who are unarmed, a study of shooting victims in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has found.
It would be impractical – not to say unethical – to randomly assign volunteers to carry a gun or not and see what happens. So Charles Branas's team at the University of Pennsylvania analysed 677 shootings over two-and-a-half years to discover whether victims were carrying at the time, and compared them to other Philly residents of similar age, sex and ethnicity. The team also accounted for other potentially confounding differences, such as the socioeconomic status of their neighbourhood.
Now this is good research!
ONE nation's thirst for groundwater is having an impact on global sea levels. Satellite measurements show that northern India is sucking some 54 trillion litres of water out of the ground every year. This is threatening a major water crisis and adding to global sea level rise.
According to the research could be pushing up global sea levels by as much as 0.16 millimetres each year. That's 5 per cent of total sea level rise, which may just be enough to change the whole ecology of the sea.
Have you ever!
It sounds kind of obvious, and a little trite: the world would be a better place to live in if we were all a bit kinder to each other. But how can we make that happen?
This is fast becoming a valid scientific question. Psychologists and neuroscientists are exploring how to increase people's capacity for empathy and compassion, with two ongoing studies claiming that meditation not only increases compassionate feelings but also improves physical and emotional health.
But you don't have to be a Buddhist monk or an expert on brain plasticity to help increase global compassion. There is evidence that altruistic acts spread through social networks. In other words, if you are kind to a friend, they are more likely to be kind to someone else they know.
WILL these hands ne'er be clean?" asks Lady Macbeth, as she obsessively tries to wash away the guilt she feels for her role in the murder of King Duncan. Her feelings of self-disgust, we are led to believe, have manifested themselves as a sensation of physical dirtiness.
It is not only in the language of playwrights such as Shakespeare that complex emotions like guilt, grief or loneliness are compared to physical sensations. These metaphors crop up in everyday phrases, too, in many languages. In English, for example, we talk of being "left out in the cold" when we feel socially excluded, a sentiment echoed in the Japanese saying "one kind word can warm three winter months".
At face value, these connections seem purely symbolic. In real life, loneliness doesn't really send us shivering, and guilt doesn't really make us feel dirty. Or do they? Recent research has found that these physical sensations can often accompany our emotions. It works the other way too - by provoking a feeling of disgust, a scene from the film Trainspotting shaped the way subjects in an experiment made moral judgements.
Far from protecting us and our children, the war on drugs is making the world a much more dangerous place.
SO FAR this year, about 4000 people have died in Mexico's drugs war - a horrifying toll. If only a good fairy could wave a magic wand and make all illegal drugs disappear, the world would be a better place.
Dream on. Recreational drug use is as old as humanity, and has not been stopped by the most draconian laws. Given that drugs are here to stay, how do we limit the harm they do?
The evidence suggests most of the problems stem not from drugs themselves, but from the fact that they are illegal. The obvious answer, then, is to make them legal.
WILL these hands ne'er be clean?" asks Lady Macbeth, as she obsessively tries to wash away the guilt she feels for her role in the murder of King Duncan. Her feelings of self-disgust, we are led to believe, have manifested themselves as a sensation of physical dirtiness.
It is not only in the language of playwrights such as Shakespeare that complex emotions like guilt, grief or loneliness are compared to physical sensations. These metaphors crop up in everyday phrases, too, in many languages. In English, for example, we talk of being "left out in the cold" when we feel socially excluded, a sentiment echoed in the Japanese saying "one kind word can warm three winter months".
At face value, these connections seem purely symbolic. In real life, loneliness doesn't really send us shivering, and guilt doesn't really make us feel dirty. Or do they? Recent research has found that these physical sensations can often accompany our emotions. It works the other way too - by provoking a feeling of disgust, a scene from the film Trainspotting shaped the way subjects in an experiment made moral judgements.
Entanglement is the idea that in the quantum world, objects are not independent if they have interacted with each other or come into being through the same process. They become linked, or entangled, such that changing one invariably affects the other, no matter how far apart they are - something Einstein called "spooky action at a distance".Entanglement may also provide a nearly uncrackable method of communication. Quantum cryptographers can send "keys" to decode encrypted information using quantum particles. Any attempt to intercept the particles will disturb their quantum state - an interference that could then be detected.
In April 2004, Austrian financial institutions performed the first money transfer encrypted by quantum keys, and in June, the first encrypted computer network with more than two nodes was set up across 10 kilometres in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.
Quantum computers are another long-term goal. Because quantum particles can exist in multiple states at the same time, they could be used to carry out many calculations at once, factoring a 300-digit number in just seconds compared to the years required by conventional computers.
But particles of matter interact so easily with others that their quantum states are preserved for very short times - just billionths of a second. Photons, on the other hand, maintain their states about a million times longer because they are less prone to interact with each other. But they are also hard to store, as they travel, literally, at the speed of light.
In 2001, scientists managed to stop light in its tracks, overcoming one practical hurdle. And the first quantum logic gate - the brains behind quantum computers - was created with light in 2003.
WHAT does a drop of water have in common with a black hole and an atom? Well, levitating water droplets can now simulate the dynamics of both cosmological and subatomic objects.
"The breakthrough in this work is the ability to reproduce, in a simple table-top experiment, 100 years of theoretical work in fluid dynamics," says Vitor Cardoso of the University of Mississippi.
OPPOSITES always attract, right? Not quite. A new experiment has shown that a drop of water with positive electrical charge can be made to "bounce off" a negatively charged object.
William Ristenpart of the University of California at Davis accidentally applied a strong electric field to a beaker filled with oil and water. At first the mixture erupted into a turbulent mess, but as he turned down the voltage Ristenpart saw droplets of waterMovie Camera suspended in the oil bouncing between the electrode at the top of the beaker and the oil-water boundary below. The droplets were positively charged, so why didn't they merge with the negatively charged body of water?
Ristenpart thinks that positive ions drain out of the droplet and
negative electrons come in through the bridge, so the droplet, now
negatively charged, is drawn up to the positive electrode, where it
regains its original positive charge, and so on.
Not everyone will like the idea of working longer days or taking a pay cut in exchange for a 3-day weekend, but it appears most do. Rex Facer at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, questioned 151 human resources directors working for large cities across the US. Where city employees had been offered flexitime or 4/10 regimes, 64 per cent said the alternative work schedule improved morale, and 41 per cent said it improved productivity - though 9 per cent said the opposite.
“I’m not saying that spotted hyenas are smarter than chimps,” Drea said. “I’m saying that these experiments show that they are more hard-wired for social cooperation.”
Just like us!
Have you ever sat down to work on a crossword puzzle only to find that afterwards you haven’t the energy to exercise? Or have you come home from a rough day at the office with no energy to go for a run?
A study published Sept. 29 in the research journal Psychology and Health reports that if you use your willpower to do one task, it depletes you of the willpower to do a totally different task.
A study reports that if you use your willpower to do one task, it depletes you of the willpower to do a totally different task, such as exercising.
“Cognitive tasks, as well as emotional tasks such as regulating your emotions, can deplete your self-regulatory capacity to exercise,” said Kathleen Martin Ginis of McMaster University in Ontario, lead author of the study. “You only have so much willpower.”
Subliminal messaging is most effective when the message being conveyed is negative, according to new research.
Subliminal images – that is, images shown so briefly that a viewer doesn’t consciously notice them – have long been the subject of controversy, particularly in the advertising field. Studies have hinted that people can unconsciously pick up on subliminal information intended to provoke an emotional response, but limitations in the designs of the studies have meant that the conclusions weren’t considered definitive.
A new study by Nilli Lavie of University College London and colleagues, indicates that people can process emotional information from subliminal images and that information of “negative value” is better detected than information of “positive value.”
According to the American inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil believe that in around 20 years we will have the means to reprogramme our bodies' stone-age software so we can halt, and then reverse, ageing.
"Ultimately, nanobots will replace blood cells and do their work thousands of times more effectively. Within 25 years we will be able to do an Olympic sprint for 15 minutes without taking a breath, or go scuba-diving for four hours without oxygen. Nanotechnology will extend our mental capacities to such an extent we will be able to write books within minutes. Heart-attack victims – who haven't taken advantage of widely available bionic hearts – will calmly drive to the doctors for a minor operation as their blood bots keep them alive."
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Love has inspired countless works of art, from immortal plays such as Romeo and Juliet, to architectural masterpieces such as the Taj Mahal, to classic pop songs, like Queen's “Love of My Life”. This raises the obvious question: why is love such a stimulating emotion? Why does the act of falling in love – or at least thinking about love – lead to such a spur of creative productivity?
One possibility is that when we’re in love we actually think differently. This romantic hypothesis was recently tested by the psychologists Jens Förster, Kai Epstude, and Amina Özelsel at the University of Amsterdam. The researchers found that love really does alter our thoughts, and that this profound emotion affects us in a way that is different than simply thinking about sex.
The clever experiments demonstrated that love makes us think differently in that it triggers global processing, which in turn promotes creative thinking and interferes with analytic thinking. Thinking about sex, however, has the opposite effect: it triggers local processing, which in turn promotes analytic thinking and interferes with creativity.
