X | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 18 2008 | brain, psychology, religion, paranoia
Quoted: In psychiatry, monomania (from Greek monos, one, and mania, mania) is a type of paranoia in which the patient has only one idea or type of ideas. Emotional monomania is that in which the patient is obsessed with only one emotion or several related to it; intellectual monomania is that which is related to only one kind of delirious idea or ideas. In colloquial terms, the term monomania is often attached to subcultures that to the general public appear esoteric. However, the differences between monomania and passion can be very subtle and difficult to recognize.
- X | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 02 2008 | science, brain, video, skateboarding
Quoted: T. Hawk talks with blind skateboarder Tommy Carroll. This kid is amazing, truly inspirational.
- X | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 18 2007 | science, news, brain, future
Quoted: If you went around saying that in a couple of decades we'll have cell-sized, brain-enhancing robots circulating through our bloodstream, or that we'll be able to upload a person's consciousness into a computer, people would probably question your sanity.
- X | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 13 2007 | brain, future, science, tech
Quoted: Transhumanists advocate the improvement of human capacities through advanced technology. Not just technology as in gadgets you get from Best Buy, but technology in the grander sense of strategies for eliminating disease, providing cheap but high-quality products to the world’s poorest, improving quality of life and social interconnectedness, and so on.
- X | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 24 2007 | video, brain, news, blindness
click to playThis blind teenager can use echolocation to live an amazingly normal life. Crazy...
- X | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 20 2007 | best, science, news, interesting, brain
Quoted: This theory puts forward the notion that depressed individuals actually have more realistic perceptions of their own image, importance, and abilities than the average person.
- X | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 15 2007 | video, tedtalks, brain, science, technology, jiae
click to playQuoted: The brain isn't like a powerful computer processor. It's more like a memory system that records everything we experience and helps us predict, intelligently, what will happen next.
- X | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 04 2007 | brain, optical, illusion, vision
cool illusions
redotting courosa again
- X | Shared With: Everyone - May 23 2007 | game theory, science, brain, puzzles
![The Traveler's Dilemma -- [ GAME THEORY ]: Scientific American](http://i.faves.com/01/be/4c65/c3fe4b3b/67d47d0a790127bf82_5.jpg)
I had never heard of the Travelers dilemma before, but it is an interesting problem.
Quoted: Scenarios of this kind, in which one or more individuals have choices to make and will be rewarded according to those choices, are known as games by the people who study them (game theorists). I crafted this game, "Traveler's Dilemma, in 1994 with several objectives in mind: to contest the narrow view of rational behavior and cognitive processes taken by economists and many political scientists, to challenge the libertarian presumptions of traditional economics and to highlight a logical paradox of rationality.
- X | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 18 2007 | test, brain, science
I totally pwned this test. I scored higher than average in every single test. Sweet. Oh, and my brain leans to the male side 50%.
Angles- 19/20
Spot the different- 57%
Hands- Right
Empathising- 11
Systemizing- 16
Eyes- 9/10
Fingers: Right- 0.92, left 0.96 (albeit with a crappy ruler)
Faces- I prefer more feminine
3D Shapes- 12/12
Words- 13
Ultamatum- 49 (haha)Comment your scores if you do the test.
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