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The fetus tells the mother when it is ready to be born when its hypothalamus becomes activated — probably releasing oxytocin, which reacts with the mother’s oxytocin receptors – not in the mother’s brain, but in the womb lining cells. Interesting. Stimulation of Fetal Hypothalamus Induces Uterine Contractions in Pregnant Rats at Term Hisashi...
Here's the typical conversation: Technical worker, "Let's develop this technology, it works great and has a market." Boss, "No" What Boss is thinking, "If I say 'yes', I'll be wrong 50% of the time. If I say 'no', I'll be correct 100% of the time. I don't want to take a chance on getting fired, so I'll...
by Shakotte (via Flickr Creative Commons Non-Commercial Attribution License) Well, here it is: lush eyelashes from a glaucoma med. Maybe a cure for baldness. I was thinking about eyelashes two (three?) Thanksgivings ago when my friend’s aunt was telling me about her second husband’s father (now deceased) , “Frank the Eyelash.” He was in...
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Technorati Starts Collecting User’s Thoughts Directly via WTF O’Reilly Radar, CA - Jun 9, 2008 Tammy NYP was a Singaporean teen who had a sex-phonecam-video released by some enemy cheerleaders. It was the hottest search on the internet for a while, … Police: Man Exposes Self At Wal-Mart WSMV, TN - 5 hours ago...
Lying liars who lie in reverse order as they tell their story are easier to detect than those who tell the story chronologically. This is because the increase in cognitive load is too much for the whole thing to go off as smoothly as when the story is told in the order in which...
When you have money, life is good. When you want money, life could be better. Here’s the abstract from Vohs et al (HT Neuroscientifically Challenged who has a great analysis of the whole paper): ABSTRACT—Money plays a significant role in people’s lives, and yet little experimental attention has been given to the psychological underpinnings...
Marry a nice Finnish girl born prematurely. In Finland, very low birth weight girls grow up to be more conscientious, more agreeable, less open to new things, have lower hostility and aggressiveness, and go to sleep earlier than controls. This reminds me of a joke: The mother sends the daughter off into the world...
The recovering alcoholics in my life sometimes act like they’re from Jupiter. (Everyone seems to be a recovering something these days. . . ) Their default position is negative attributional bias -they constantly are attacking based on presumed negative intention of others. They then confabulate to back fill facts to match their mis-reading of...
The new fountain of youth may be an empty cupboard. Starve a little and you’ll live longer, is the new conventional wisdom –when you restrict calories, lots of good things happen to prevent aging. Looking back at the people posting on the lorcaserin post who are on the trial and who don’t feel like...
How could I have missed this? Here’s a brief review of Portfolio.com May 2008 “neurotech” articles and graphics. Starting with the graphic (click to go to the article) – it’s pretty telling: the two “neurotech” areas most associated with “character flaws” are the lowest revenue business areas — obesity and addition. (Graphic is modified...
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