Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-5-2008

[andrewducker]

• America invades Pakistan
  Huzzah!
  (tags: war pakistan USA)
• Did the Romans destroy Europe's HIV resistance?
  And does it make up for the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health?
  (tags: HIV disease history WildSpeculation)
• Angry? Get Distracted
  Fascinating piece on different strategies for dealing with anger. The answer isn't what you'd expect
  (tags: anger emotion psychology)
• Natural birth 'may aid baby bond'
  Mothers who give birth naturally are more responsive to the cry of their baby than those who choose to have a Caesarean, American research suggests.
  Brain scans on 12 new mothers soon after birth found more activity in areas linked to motivation and emotions in those who had a vaginal delivery.
  The contractions which are an essential part of a natural birth trigger the release of the hormone oxytocin, which is thought to play a key role in shaping maternal behaviour.
  (tags: babies oxytocin hormones brains)
• Del Toro booked up until 2017
  Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Hobbit, Hobbit 2: Hobbits in Space, Drood (based on the Dan Simmons novel about Charles Dickens) and hopefully an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness.
  (tags: movies GuillermoDelToro)
• Ten ways to Destroy New York
  A brief filmic countdown
  (tags: movies newyork TheEndOfTheWorld)

Comments

[lizzie-and-ari.livejournal.com]

I wonder how people were angered. I suspect that anger caused by scientists when you know you are participating in an experiment would totally fade with time.

Also, physical exertion like that probably does precisely the thing of bringing the anger to the surface and so of course you feel more angry directly afterwards. But it’s kind of like wearing a face mask and being really spotty the next day, but a couple of days after that you have baby soft skin and all the deep down ming has gone. You can totally get over intial anger within minutes, but if you don’t deal with it, it’s still affecting you.

I would be interested in seeing this experiment where you take people who have genuine anger, where you test them say a couple of weeks after these techniques of anger management to find out (I don’t know how) how much anger they are still harbouring – maybe test stress levels?

Hmm.

Lxxx

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

Yet more good links - I really enjoy these, Andrew, would you go do that post that explains how to do this. Because I am fail and can't get it to work.