While the West buys into the Mindgym, and its associated book, Russia is whipping up an interesting treatment for depression.
If a depressed individual receives a physical punishment, whipping that is, it will stir up endorphin receptors, activate the “production of happiness” and eventually remove depressive feelings.
Russian scientists recommend the following course of the whipping therapy: [...]
I love this quote:
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
More data processing quotes here.
Josef Mengele was not alone:
The director of research for the Berlin-based project was Dr Heim. She told The Guardian last night: “It was formerly believed that scientists in Germany were oppressed by the Nazi regime, that there were only a few guilty people. But in truth, these doctors were in paradise.
“The distinction between politics [...]
This blog may have an infection.
Welcome news. A pharmacist who supplied Harold Shipman with some of the opiates he used to kill patients has been cleared.
A pharmacist who supplied heroin to the British serial killer GP Harold Shipman, who was unaware he was using it to murder patients, has had proceedings against her halted by her regulatory body.
Ghislaine Brant, 47, [...]
Are you yawning now?
Well, it could be a sign you are in love, or you could even be lucky enough to be having a mini-orgasm, according to scientists, as they say.
Yesterday I walked up five of the seven 3000 feet Carneddau in Wales. We had planned to do all seven, but a lack of time meant we sensibly decided not to descend Pen Y Ole Wen in the dark with head torches.
Here’s a gallery of pictures from the walk.
From yesterday’s walk, the moon from Carnedd Llewelyn.
Norman Geras isn’t a smoker, and nor am I, but he has a problem with the Guidance for a smoke-free NHS which states that “Staff cannot smoke in buildings (or grounds) owned by the Trust, (or in leased cars belonging to the Trust) or when they are on Trust duty”. It advises other staff to [...]