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Don't you love the phenomenon I have hereby dubbed INTERNET ONE-DICKMANSHIP ( Read more... )

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As the world awaits the next Harry Potter Book, I'm left feeling as uninspired as by the hype about Star Wars Episode III, which also left me cold, and which I haven't even seen yet. I suspect my reading of Half-Blood Prince will be similarly delayed ( Read more... )

I'll wager a great deal of the much-vaunted calmness the British people are showing in the face of the bombing can be attributed to the refusal of their publicly-owned broadcasting company to engage in ominous music, panicmongering graphics, and "Are YOU at risk?" rhetoric. That sort of stuff is left to the tabloids, and nobody believes them ( Read more... )

OK, I have been double-tagged by the "5 favorite songs today" meme so here goes ( Read more... )

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These are insights derived from studying the emotion of disgust for the past 5 years, posted at the request of motel666.

Your one-stop book is William Ian Miller's The Anatomy of Disgust. In psychology, some of the preeminent researchers on the topic are Paul Rozin and Jon Haidt ( Read more... )

OK, I am putting these in one entry. Respond to one, or both challenges ( Read more... )

Ten bands/artists you couldn't live without ( Read more... )