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OBSESSION OBSESSION OBSESSION OBSESSION OBSESSION OBSESSION OBSESSION OBSESSION

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Health, Science & Technology • 16 Comments • 9 years ago

Obsession Photo by: AISPIX An obsession is a persistent (continuous) and recurring thought that a person is unable to control. A person suffering from obsessive thoughts often has...

Lack of a dislike button on Facebook protects narcissists and special snowflakes

Via: dean-moriarty • Health, Science & Technology • 12 Comments • 9 years ago

http://computingforever.com/2015/10/12/lack-of-a-dislike-button-on-facebook-protects-narcissists-and-special-snowflakes/ Lack of a dislike button on Facebook protects narcissists and special...

The Sweetest Sip: Drinking From A Tree At The Sugar Bush Camp (healthy food)

Via: kavika • Health, Science & Technology • 9 Comments • 9 years ago

Courtesy Tamie Rodenwald A young camper pours maple sap into a bucket. The Sweetest Sip: Drinking From a Tree at Sugar Bush Camp Alysa Landry 3/28/16 Everything depends on the...

Robert De Niro pulls anti-vaccination film from Tribeca film festival

Via: community • Health, Science & Technology • 5 Comments • 9 years ago

Actor and co-founder of festival says he ‘did not believe film contributes to or furthers the discussion I had hoped for’ A controversial film about the discredited link between autism and...

De Niro Defends Screening of Anti-Vaxxer Film

Via: community • Health, Science & Technology • 2 Comments • 9 years ago

(Newser) – Robert De Niro says he's not anti-vaccination—he's just in favor of screening an anti-vaccination documentary made by a disgraced medical researcher. The actor is defending his...

For first time, drone delivers package to residential area

Via: community • Health, Science & Technology • 7 Comments • 9 years ago

By SCOTT SONNER From Associated Press March 25, 2016 6:42 PM EST RENO, Nev. (AP) — A drone has successfully delivered a package to a residential location in a small Nevada town in what...

Twitter taught Microsoft’s AI chatbot to be a racist asshole in less than a day

Via: community • Health, Science & Technology • 8 Comments • 9 years ago

It took less than 24 hours for Twitter to corrupt an innocent AI chatbot. Yesterday, Microsoft unveiled Tay — a Twitter bot that the company described as an experiment in "conversational...

How Facial Recognition Might Stop the Next Brussels

Via: spikegary • Health, Science & Technology • 1 Comments • 9 years ago

Facial Recognition Might Prevent the Next Brussels Keeping terrorists away from crowded spaces requires recognizing them before they get there, which is no easy task....

Breaking Boundaries: Ultrasound Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease

Via: community • Health, Science & Technology • 1 Comments • 9 years ago

With society’s elderly population growing, the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) with its associated cognitive deterioration will affect an increasing number of lives. Symptoms of memory...

Doctors can really piss you off sometimes.

Via: community • Health, Science & Technology • 32 Comments • 9 years ago

This morning (Saturday) my wife woke up feeling great. Had her usual insomnia, but nothing serious. I took care of the livestock (the dogs). Made sure they had food and water. Made sure they went...

Mathematical! It's the Pi Day Collection

Via: 1stwarrior • Health, Science & Technology • 7 Comments • 9 years ago

http://www.designbyhumans.com/forum/dbh-news/1245702/mathematical-its-the-pi-day-collection/ The Guinness World Record for the most memorized digits of pi is held by Rajveer Meena, for...

The Big Business of Organ Donation and Hospital Termination (And What You Need to Know)

Via: perrie-berlin-halpern • Health, Science & Technology • 23 Comments • 9 years ago

Part I A child lays in a hospital as her parents are told she is brain dead. The hospital personnel come to parents of the child and ask them if they can do something good for some other people...

Why daylight saving time can be bad for your health

Via: perrie-berlin-halpern • Health, Science & Technology • 1 Comments • 9 years ago

(CNN) Daylight saving time is Sunday, and losing sleep after clocks "spring forward" an hour could be more than just an annoyance. This small time shift can significantly raise the risk of...

‘There is no DNA test to prove you’re Native American’

Via: 1stwarrior • Health, Science & Technology • 25 Comments • 9 years ago

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129554-400-there-is-no-dna-test-to-prove-youre-native-american/ DNA testing is changing how Native Americans think about tribal membership. Yet...

Persistent Robot Goes About It's Business

Via: johnrussell • Health, Science & Technology • 9 Comments • 9 years ago

Does The Catholic Church Accept Evolution ?

Via: johnrussell • Health, Science & Technology • 5 Comments • 9 years ago

I was in Catholic grammar school, well, a fairly long time ago. We were always taught, by the good nuns, that God created man in His likeness, but we were also taught that the Bible version of...

We Thought We'd Be Living in Space (or Under Giant Domes) By Now

Via: xxjefferson51 • Health, Science & Technology • 2 Comments • 9 years ago

The International Space Station is known for a distinct lack of personal space, with crews packed into phone booth-sized beds and assaulted by continuous light, sound and surveillance. But if...

What Dying Looks Like in America's Prisons

Via: pj • Health, Science & Technology • 5 Comments • 9 years ago

What Dying Looks Like in America's Prisons 8 hours ago I drove the four and a half hours to Rome, New York, the night before I was scheduled to visit the prison hospice...

Schools Are Doing a Terrible Job Teaching Your Kids About Global Warming

Via: johnrussell • Health, Science & Technology • 10 Comments • 9 years ago

Mother Jones Schools Are Doing a Terrible Job Teaching Your Kids About Global Warming The first-ever survey of climate education isn't pretty. —By Tim McDonnell Oksana...

Why Do We Believe Lies Even After They Are Proven Wrong?

Via: pj • Health, Science & Technology • 102 Comments • 9 years ago

Why Do We Believe Lies Even After They Are Proven Wrong? By Janice Wood Why does some misinformation “stick” in the public consciousness? Researchers at The University of Western...

Breakthrough: Scientists detect gravitational waves, just as Einstein predicted 100 years ago

Via: community • Health, Science & Technology • 7 Comments • 9 years ago

In an announcement that electrified the world of astronomy, scientists said Thursday that they have finally detected gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space-time that Einstein...

Twitter Nerd-Fight Reveals a Long, Bizarre Scientific Feud

Via: community • Health, Science & Technology • 1 Comments • 9 years ago

The editorial in the February issue of the scientific journal Cladistics didn’t exactly drop with a bang. Cladistics has around 600 subscribers—almost half of which are libraries or...

Better-looking students get better grades

Via: perrie-berlin-halpern • Health, Science & Technology • 2 Comments • 9 years ago

Better-looking students get better grades — but not in online classes Two economists knew that appearance matters: Studies had shown all sorts of benefits linked to attractiveness, everything...

This toad isn't eating a bug; the bug is eating it!

Via: bob-nelson • Health, Science & Technology • 5 Comments • 9 years ago

Absurd creature of the week: This toad isn't eating a bug; the bug is eating it! original article by Matt Simon , Wired...

Doctors should screen all adults for depression, task force recommends

Via: pj • Health, Science & Technology • 1 Comments • 9 years ago

Doctors should screen all adults for depression, task force recommends By Carina Storrs, Special to CNN Updated 11:05 AM ET, Tue January 26, 2016 Watch this video - click link to get...

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