From "Two Hot Girls in the Shower" Holiday Edition
The Neuroscience of Dysfunctional Behavior – Mostly Psychopaths and Sociopaths, Narcissists, Obesity and Addiction
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No mandatory hedge fund redemptions for investors if the fund is domiciled in the Cayman Islands. So… does this mean there won’t be more redemptions? I thought that’s what was coming next, the final run on the shadow banking system. But everyone’s based in the Caymans, so. . .what is this all about? Will...
The recent shoe-throwing incident is entirely understandable from an emotional point of view. Shoe-throwing is a sign of disrespect, an insult of the deepest type. The journalist who threw shoes at the president is a model of self restraint, after what he apparently went through. And, it strikes a populist chord: there is a...
“Alcohol is the source of, and answer to, all life’s problems” Homer Simpson What’s up with alcoholic relapse? Blocking brain receptors related to stress is showing promise in both reducing craving, as well as inducing a protective factor against relapse: happiness. Blocking stress is a promising path, but a thorny one: you don’t want...
Molecule Shuts Down Food Intake and Turns on ‘Siesta Mode‘” is the headline from Howard Hughes Medical Institute. And, another headline from E!, “Oprah Packs on the Pounds. . . and the Guilt!” Oprah, don’t feel guilty! It’s your N-acylphosphatidylethanolamine, a phospholipid released from the gut after a fatty meal that travels to your...
Two items: 1. Via the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, Chinese goose farmers have excess geese since the bottom dropped out of the down market (that’s the feather-down, not the “down” market as in “stock prices sinking”); and, 2. Via the American Chemical Society, feather keratin is ducky for making fibers with sustainable materials (rather...
Rockefeller Center Update 12.03.08: Vanity Fair has a terrific chronology of Mr. Gerhartstreiter, “The Man in the Rockefeller Suit,” Vanity Fair January 2009, by the somewhat redundantly named “Mark Seal” (Is that his real name? Isn’t a seal a sort of mark? Hm.) The article goes through each of the identities, with interviews of...
Feel like making like a flying squirrel off a tall building? Blame your white matter. Feel like sitting around judging people who aren't like you? Blame your white matter for that, too.
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