January 2010
5 posts
Mind Reading, Brain Fingerprinting and the Law
Brain fingerprinting purportedly tests for ‘guilty knowledge,’ or memory of a kind that only a guilty person could have. Other forms of guilt detection, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), are based on the assumption that lying and truth-telling are associated with distinctive activity in different areas of the brain. These and other potential forms of ‘mind...
Faux Friendship - The Chronicle Review
The past should stay in the heart, where it belongs. via chronicle.com more facebook hating. Posted via web from Will’s posterous | Comment »
Robert Sapolsky: The uniqueness of humans
via ted.com (start at 5min) Posted via web from Will’s posterous | Comment »
End of a Year - Beleaders
Beleaders by End Of A Year Download now or listen on posterous 03-end_of_a_year-beleaders.mp3 (4301 KB) From the music-no-one-else-likes department comes the band End of a Year from Troy, NY. I’ve always associated my time in Troy with 80’s post-hardcore (i.e. Embrace). It must be something inspired by the architecture and climate. These...
Financial Wealth in the U.S.
via beforeitsnews.com With a framework constructed through the analogy of capitalism as a democracy where votes are cash, securing the interest of Additional, still operating within this analogy and citing the same source (in turn citing Wolff 2009), that the 20% financial minority (90% of the population) holds 73% of the debt and This is a far cry from the meritocracy (American mythos)...