Обзор трёх книг, авторы которых пытаются разобраться, почему в США каждый десятый сидит на антидепрессантах и к чему это приводит: The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?

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Мы живём в удивительном, замечательном мире, но такова человеческая натура, что моментально привыкаем ко всему хорошему и находим чем быть недовольными. Вот, товарищ Louis C. K. меня поддерживает:

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"We took 40 year old data tapes, tape drives that had been in a garage for 30 years, found elderly engineers, and reverse-engineered ancient technology to provide enhanced imagery from the five Lunar Orbiter missions in a fashion - and resolution - inconceivable at the time that the missions were conducted." a talk by Dennis Wingo, via nasawatch

"We don't think of our future normally as experiences; we think of our future as anticipated memories" (http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kahneman_the_riddle_of_experience_vs_memory.html)

What's not to love about the guy ( Read more... )

"Most normal people exhibit cognitive and motivated biases towards: (1) exaggerated personal qualities and capabilities; (2) an
illusion of control over events; and (3) invulnerability to risk [15,16]" (http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4043)

"Depressive realism is the proposition that people ( Read more... )

How long does it take to become fluent in a language? Steve Kaufmann of LingQ.com answers the question.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqIYT37c0TM

Does NFS support directory change notifications? If it does, how do I enable that? I want an NFS folder opened in Nautilus to refresh automatically when its contents are changed on the server.

You're looking for a free sound editor to do a quick cut-and-paste job with a couple of mp3s to use them as ringtones. You google and find Audacity. You see "open source" and think, okay, it probably sucks, but it will have to do ( Read more... )

Severe mood swings offer the unique opportunity to perceive reality from a number of dramaticaly different viewpoints.