Interesting Links for 11-10-2015

[andrewducker]

• New Research Says Overthinking Worriers Are Probably Creative Geniuses
  • (tags: creativity stress thought psychology )
• Zoetrope Cakes!
  • (tags: cake video animation )
• Why can’t we treat mental illness by simply fixing the brain?
  • (tags: mentalhealth brain neuroscience )
• What happens when you mix software documentation and Lovecraft?
  • (tags: lovecraft funny

Comments

[bart_calendar]

A Whole new interpretation of why once you've tried it black you never go back.

[andrewducker]

HAH!

[supergee]

I'm worried that the new research hasn't taken into account the many complex factors to which I have given much consideration.

[andrewducker]

I think someone should post that under every one of my posts :->

[momentsmusicaux]

You should have an abbreviation for it, same as SOEIWEIC.

[momentsmusicaux]

See, 20 years ago I figured nano-technology would eventually be what repaired teeth.
With the stem cell thing, you still need to rip out the bad tooth first!

[andrewducker]

Yeah, still waiting for the nanotech.

Or the one I read about where we'd replace all of the eeeevil bacteria in our mouth with good variants that didn't eat teeth.

[momentsmusicaux]

Well that would be nice. But what would they eat instead? You'd have to pop a small cube of whatever it was, say, ceramic or wood or polystyrene, into your mouth once a day after brushing your teeth to keep them fed.
Though come to think of it, I was under the impression that it's not the bacteria that eat your teeth, it's the acid that they produce, isn't it?

[andrewducker]

Humans have Streptococcus mutans, which is great at converting carbs into lactic acid, which eats teeth.

Most animals have completely different mouth bacteria, which don't produce lactic acid. Which is why they don't have the same tendency to get cavities.

[drdoug]

Saw this and thought of you. Don't mess with crows. If you kill one in sight of another, the survivor will call its mates round so they can remember you and cause you grief in the future. (Also appears to be true if you are a hawk.)

http://www.sott.net/article/303263-The-mystery-of-crow-funerals-solved-Scientists-say-birds-are-trying-to-learn-about-potential-dangers-to-their-own-lives

[andrewducker]

Crows are quite remarkable. Was reading about their cooperation/defection strategies earlier today.

[kalimac]

1) The person I knew most dedicated to drinking black coffee 1) had no other bitter taste preferences; 2) was completely unpsychopathic. She was my mother, so I'd be the first person to know if she were.

2) Have you read a book called Shrinklits? Short poems instead of one-liners, but tremendously funny. The opening couplet of its Beowulf is particularly good: Monster Grendel's tastes are plainish. / Breakfast? Just a couple Danish.

3) Tell the author of "The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics" that what makes Uber surge pricing, or PETA offering to pay water bills if the recipients become vegan, ethically dubious is that they're taunting the people they're not helping.

[momentsmusicaux]

> so I'd be the first person to know if she were.

Well, unless you're equally a psychopath ;)

[kalimac]

Who says a psychopath can't recognize other psychopaths? From what I've read of psychopaths, they'd be very good at it.