For booklovers only

'There's no such thing as too many books'

So I don't feel as stupid after all

I've always been amazed by people who can write or think on their laptop/desktop and don't need any paper to do so. I, on the other hand, do the 'dated' thing of thinking on paper...I cannot make as much sense of things when I read it on screen than when I read it on paper

Till I came across this article, I was rather embarrassed of being the only tech-age nincompoop I know...this does not completely reassure me, but hey at least I have some perspective to my problem...can't get away with it for much longer though, sigh!

Word of the day

Kerfuffle

A post on nothing

All you need to on nothing

Neuron-inspired architecture

http://grinding.be/2009/04/23/sky-terra-cities-in-the-skies/

Can't help but agree

Considering everyone's focusing on the number of variables, methodology, complicated statistics, etc. to deem the 'publishability', (ok, that's a poor attempt at a neologism), of a study, Paul Rozin takes a step back to assess how psychology and observation of human nature have changed over the years.

Here's the link to the pdf of the full text

For someone special

Dipti Nair,

You're an awesome person...the loveliest of them all...thanks for taking such good care of me :)

Given enough time, I think almost all of us will meet criteria to have a psychiatric problem...here's why

I guess it's just me...but I don't know why everything people do these days adds up to some underlying psychiatric condition

Love her madly- The performance

This mad trio sure seem to be enjoying themselves

Loved their lil performance, worth a laugh

On Nature-Nurture

Discover magazine features an article on the influence of positive and negative experiences on behaviour, at a molecular level.

Go ahead and share some love

Boook Long

http://community.livejournal.com/pearlswine/546595.html

Hahaha!

Herd Behaviour

So apparently herd behaviour starts fairly early

Here's a link to the blogpost that covers three separate studies that suggest this disconcerting thought

One Random Fact

I found this one particularly intriguing

It's at least sparked off a new thread that I can look into

'You cannot snore and dream at the same time.'

More fun random facts available here

Human Empathy to the Rescue

Lovely video on human empathy being the potential saviour in these troubled times

Fictitious Memory

Uneasy thought this

The more vivid a memory is in our minds, the higher the possibility that one may actually be making things up as they go along

Moral of the story: the next time someone starts a conversation with 'i remember when', don't completely get taken in by they have to say?!

Anchored in your beliefs?

Here's an excellent article by Jonah Lehrer on anchoring and its effects on decision making
Certainly gives me some perspective

Boredom can't be too bad

So I do have hope... that one spark of genius is yet to express itself in my otherwise perpetually bored, unispired state

The Psychology of Success

No, I am not one those new age gurus
But this is one of the better mantras in man's quest for success

Could I have been anyone other than me?

YouTube - Dave Matthews Band Dancing Nancies ( Live in Central Park 2003 )

My tryst with death...almost

I can't move, I think I'm tied up
I've been blindfolded, but I know I'm in a dark room
I struggle in my chair in a desperate attempt to free myself, but nothing!
The ropes are so tight that I feel the blood rushing towards my feet
My feet are heavy and they just refuse to move
Suddenly I hear this heavy breath, I feel these heavy hands on my neck
The hands are trying to decide which side would be good
My heart is beating faster, and I'm thinking to myself, 'be done with it already...break it Break it BREAK IT'
I feel the hands turning my head from one side to another, still undecided
The wait is excruciating
And then it stops; the silence, deafening
The hands let go of my neck, and I relax a little
Only then it comes back unexpectedly, and in a fraction of a second...

JERK!!!!!! SHRIEK!!!!!

It's over!
For the first time, I open my eyes...slowly
Waiting to see what the other side looks like (excited almost)
I open my eyes to a couple of amused/surprised/worried faces
And then Arthur, the 6.43 a.m. coach driver for Oxford Tube bends down, undoing my seat belt and hands me a glass of water:
'Surely miss, that dream could not have been as nasty as that crick in the neck is going to be'

Still trying to decide if what I feel now, in retrospect, is mortifying or just plain embarrassing!

You just got to love the human brain

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100420/tuk-migraine-gives-woman-foreign-accent-45dbed5.html

This story certainly has made migraines more exciting
Oooh...I can't wait to have my next migraine! :)

A popular nursery rhyme featuring Freud's trio ©

Business principles 101

'I' and 'S' went up the hill
To make a lot of money

'I' went mad
Gave 'S' the sack

And 'e' came tumbling after