Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-3-2009

[andrewducker]

• Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Share Genetic Roots
  A trio of genome-wide studies â“ collectively the largest to date â“ has pinpointed a vast array of genetic variation that cumulatively may account for at least one third of the genetic risk for schizophrenia. One of the studies traced schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, in part, to the same chromosomal neighborhoods.
  (tags: psychology science health genetics schizophrenia medicine)
• Movie to be made from computer game "Asteroids"
  Possibly the stupidest thing I've heard all week.
  (tags: gaming movies EpicFail)
• Why bankers aren't worth it
  Since 2000, rising leverage fully accounts for movements in UK banks' ROE [return on equity] - both the rise to around 24% in 2007 and the subsequent fall into negative territory in 2008.
  (tags: banking economics)
• Solo life ups gene dementia risk
  People who have a particular gene flaw and live alone in middle-age are at highest risk of developing dementia, researchers suggest.
  (tags: genetics age dementia)
• People are not rational
  No, they aren't. Well worth reading
  (tags: people rationality communication psychology)
• Treat killing like a disease to slash shootings
  While violence interruptors work on the streets to intercept and defuse disputes before anyone gets hurt, outreach workers work in parallel to get the same message to the community, through schools and key members such as clergy.
  
  Shootings and killing fell by between 41 and 73 per cent, with drops of 17 to 35 per cent the result of direct interventions by CeaseFire. Retaliation murders fell by 100 per cent in 5 of the 8 communities covered.
  (tags: crime science society sociology violence)
• Investigators Determine Air France Disaster Caused By Plane Crash
  "We can now say, with complete confidence, that Air France Flight 447 was brought down by an unscheduled and unforeseen plane crash," lead French investigator Michel Villon stated. "Indeed, a survey of all the evidence indicates that this terrible tragedy was the direct result of a large airliner falling suddenly from the sky, dropping 30,000 feet, and colliding with the Atlantic Ocean at extremely high speeds."
  
  "This is devastating news, to say the least," Villon continued. "Hopefully our findings here will help bring some closure to the families most affected by this horrible event."
  (tags: parody funny theonion)
• 11 hot things you MUST see at Comic-Con in San Diego this month
  Anyone want to give me the airfare?
  (tags: scifi TV movies jamescameron trueblood)
• Indian court decriminalises homosexuality in Delhi
  Huzzah!
  (tags: homosexuality india)

Comments

People aren't rational

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

Go read The Psychology of Military Incompetence....

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

The dementia risk is apparently even higher from grief than from being alone.

In re "People are not rational", which might as well be labeled "People are not convenient":Open Minds says that people have sensory input and processing channels which access the conscious, subconscious, and unconscious minds. I haven't figured out how to work with it, but it's one of the rare self-help books where a high proportion of the review are from people who got good results from it.

I'm pretty sure the idea that there are sensory modes which cause automatic space-out (sometimes with unconscious processing) is sound, and heaven help you if you insist in communicating in a way which doesn't work for the person you're expecting to listen.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the People Are Not Rational link; it's particularly apropos at the moment. =)

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

From the Christian Science Monitor:

A Coup in Honduras? Nonsense!