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- Historic cases in psychologyNovember 15
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Over the next month, I'm running a series on All in the Mind excavating a handful of historic cases in behavioural research. (The broadcast but not the podcast editions. See below.) There's the wild boy who sparked the curiosity of the French scientific establishment; the man whose hole in the head revealed that many parts make a whole in the brain stakes; there's a gruesome New York murder witnessed by many but not prevented by any; and... a little lad whose fear of horses meant something considerably more to Dr. Sigmund Freud.
For those of you who have studied psychology, these are all iconic cases in the psychology text books.
Thanks to the BBC's Claudia Hammond and Marya Burgess for sharing their efforts from Radio 4's occasional Case Study program. We're broadcasting the series but BBC copyright arrangement
- Obama on S + T - watching eyeNovember 7
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Let's see now...things to watch include:
http://www.change.gov/agenda/technology/ (this site went live on Thursday)
http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/issues/FactSheetScience.pdf
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/technology/
Just sharing the links, not analysis...yet.
And if you want to see that speech again - here. As for the headlines it got - check out his extraordinary mosaic of 100s of newspapers here. That's quite somethin' ...
- The voices in your head...November 6
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I've been interested to hear varying reports that 2-10% of us regularly experience voices inside our head that aren't our own. How we pin that figure down is another question. And of course it also prompts the question: what contents of the psyche - voices, thoughts, neuronal utterances - aren't your own? What's stray and what isn't? What's 'normal' and what isn't? In the behavioural stakes, the question of what's abnormal and what's not has always been a contentious one. As we've seen with the main diagnostic manual used by psychiatrists - the DSM - categories and classifications of mental illness come and go. As much as its argued that document is objective - each edition of the DSM has been powerfully affected by the social values and cultural mores of the profession and of the time (for example, homosexuality used to be included. Tis no more).
This weekend's show features a roundtable with 3 people pushing the boundaries on this front. Dr Rufus May, Dr Sandr
- Aspergers or not - do a testNovember 6
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So, what result did you get for:
What was your intention...the dollar, the cup, the drink?
Courtesy of Associate Professor Edouard Machery at the University of Pittsburgh. Here's more on his work from a New York Times piece on the 'new new philosophy'.
- Superhuman candidates, and hitting the WIDE OPEN ROAD.November 3
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What are they? Superhuman?Obama and McCain.
How do they look so AWAKE and with it with so little shut-eye, and such a cracking schedule? When do they eat or exercise, rest to recuperate, stay vaguely healthy?
Mere mortals would look like haggard zombies ready for death after just a few days of their life. Well, I would in any case.
It's weird. Maybe they're cyborgs, or into serious augmentation? Can't imagine how else they do it.
If you need distraction from the next 24 hours of horse-racing, Bali bomber executions, and election mania-- almost too much isn't it -- be sure to check out the new ABC Radio National/Triple J music series, Wide Open Road. This is a MUST for Australian music lovers (think The Saints, The Triffids, The Birthday Party, Hunters and Collectors, Midnight Oil and more). Nostalgia plus plus for our truly wonderful musical heritage. Love it.
The 4 part radio doco series unravels "how Australian contemporary music has been shaped by our unique environment"..."exploring the way the landscape and the socia
