Interesting Links for 15-01-2012
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andrewducker- A terribly informative piece on same-sex marriage and Canada
- Myths about Memory. Dammit! I believed some of these!
- 16 Things Atheists Need Christians to Know
- Waah! Women appear in computer games now! Waaah!
- Goths up trees
- Bill Gates is Better Than Batman
- Unions criticise Labour for supporting a pay freeze for the public sector
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Date: 2012-01-15 07:28 pm (UTC)WTF is that all about? I don't really understand what their problem is...
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Date: 2012-01-15 11:25 am (UTC)What you shouldn't believe is this article. I'm utterly baffled that the author seems to disbelieve the existence of retrograde amnesia. It's not common, and it doesn't work like it does on TV, but it does exist.
Photographic or eidetic memory is less clear, but the author is vastly overstating the case that it doesn't exist. I've read about Solomon Shereshevskii and some of the other alleged eidetikers, and the data on some of them seems solid. It's far less common than having a trained memory, but it seems to exist.
Yet another sadly unsurprising case of bad science journalism.
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Date: 2012-01-15 12:13 pm (UTC)
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Date: 2012-01-15 12:30 pm (UTC)It's true innit, groups of people really do form communities on the interwebz where they can build self-supporting mechanisms to support their cracked out belief systems.
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Date: 2012-01-15 09:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-15 10:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-15 12:25 pm (UTC)
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Date: 2012-01-15 06:56 pm (UTC)It does sometimes seem to me that many of my friends list (and other people living in the liberal bubble) don't seem to know how unpleasant a lot of people really are.
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Date: 2012-01-15 10:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-16 08:11 am (UTC)
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Date: 2012-01-16 08:11 am (UTC)How come nobody's called them on their bollocks?
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Date: 2012-01-16 09:19 am (UTC)Then again, given some of their sigs...
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Date: 2012-01-17 03:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-15 05:06 pm (UTC)At least Gates seems like he's helping, even when the foundation is investing in some of the most horrible shit on the planet.
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Date: 2012-01-15 06:39 pm (UTC)2) Carnegie and Rockefeller are exceptionally poor comparisons unless you also debit the lives they took making their billions.
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Date: 2012-01-15 08:11 pm (UTC)FYI - I cross-posted the link, giving proper credit of course.