Growing concerns over side-effects and soaring prescription rates of psychiatric drug Seroquel – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Over and above the disturbing theme, an especially disturbing quote: Seroquel, has become a blockbuster pharmaceutical both in Australia and internationally. Blockbuster…
Month: November 2013
Gender roles and appearance
– Here’s What Happened When One Queer Woman Dressed…. A link that Clare asked me to post particularly for Laura (and Louise?) – interesting image transformation!
Controlling Attention in the Face of Threat: A Method for Quantifying Endogenous Attentional Control – Springer
Controlling Attention in the Face of Threat: A Method for Quantifying Endogenous Attentional Control – Springer. Both the chapter and the book are definitely worth a look – especially Luke, Ian and maybe Norman!
“Fifth type of tedium identified – apathetic boredom”
This doesn’t feel like anything new, but it might be helpful terminology for exploring motivations of problem internet use… http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/269039.php
Car that doesn’t work when the user is not paying attention
http://www.wired.com/design/2013/11/this-car-slows-down-when-youre-not-paying-attention/ This seems pretty cool in concept, but I’d imagine it’s not very practical in reality. Nonetheless, perhaps this could be of interest for the lab, particularly if similar tasks could be run on the simulator?
Proposed metabolite-moderating role of sleep article I mentioned today
Here’s the article I’d brought up in today’s meeting, as well as a review of it in less-physiological terms. It proposes a role of sleep as clearing out metabolites and other cellular waste in a system similar to the lymphatic…
To ride the Moscow subway for free, do 30 squats
To ride the Moscow subway for free, do 30 squats | Crave – CNET. Love it!! (But she’s cheating in her high heels!)
Bitstrips
http://www.hlntv.com/slideshow/2013/11/04/bitstrips-facebook-feed-avatar-comics What, representing yourself with a good ol’ fashioned selfie not good enough for you people any more!? In our eternal quest to precisely capture exactly how we are feeling at any moment and broadcast that sentiment to 500 of…
Elizer Yudkowsky’s Cognitive Science posts
This isn’t directly relevant to the topic of the group, but since I was asked last week to post it, here’s the majority of the works of Eliezer Yudkowsky that I’ve been reading lately. http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences It’s been taking me a good…
Bizarre Japanese inventions signal the future of human loneliness
Bizarre Japanese inventions signal the future of human loneliness. Okay – this is just weird! But possibly also quite interesting in a scarily bizarre way!