To test his theory, Persinger designed a bizarre-looking cap studded with wire coils. Blindfolded volunteers don the headdress and enter a dark room. Then Persinger turns on the juice. The helmet creates a mild electromagnetic field that penetrates deep inside the wearer's right temporal lobe. This field interferes with the normal electrical ( Read more... )

~.: We had a guest speaker in my class today. She spoke about drugs and addiction. We talked about meth. These are the faces of meth. Some discretion is advised for this site (it's just 12 images of before and after pictures of meth users, but some of these really and literally start falling apart). Not necessarily NSFW, but it might depend on ( Read more... )

~.: I think I know what I want to go to grad school for: I want to get a religious studies degree (though I may need more undergraduate coursework -- I shall have to research this). According to the University of Oklahoma's website (first hit on Google), there are thousands of jobs that utilize a religious studies degree, especially in conjunction ( Read more... )