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• Searching the Brain for the Roots of Fear

You are taking a walk in the woods ― pleasant, invigorating, the sun shining through the leaves. Suddenly, a rattlesnake appears at your feet. You experience something at that moment. You freeze, your heart rate shoots up and you begin to sweat ― a quick, automatic sequence of physical reactions. That reaction is fear.

A week later, you are taking the same walk again. Sunshine, pleasure, but no rattlesnake. Still, you are worried that you will encounter one. The experience of walking through the woods is fraught with worry. You are anxious.

• The Corporate State Will Be Broken

I spent Friday morning sitting on a wooden bench in a fourth-floor courtroom in the New York Criminal Court in Manhattan. I was waiting to be sentenced for “disturbing the peace” and “refusing to obey a lawful order” during an Occupy demonstration in front of Goldman Sachs in November.

• 30 famous writers talk about God

Here is the latest video compilation [25:40] by Dr Jonathan T. Pararajasingham, a British neurosurgeon. I’ve previously posted two of his compilations, “20 voices of belief” (academics and theologians) and “100 voices of unbelief” (academics). Here are 30 famous writers expressing their atheism. My favorite is Ian McEwan, who perfectly expresses the gulf between scientific and religious “ways of knowing.”

Supreme Court holds warrantless GPS tracking unconstitutional

All nine justices of the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that police officers violated the Fourth Amendment rule against unreasonable search and seizure when they attached a GPS device to a suspect's car and tracked it for 28 days without a warrant. But the court was split down the middle on the reasoning. Four justices focused on the physical trespass that occurred when the police attached the device, four focused on the violation of the suspect's "reasonable expectation of privacy," and the final justice, Sonia Sotomayor, endorsed both theories.

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• Birds Learning to Share tip to Frank

• Basketball fans with religious ties offered cheaper tickets at Cal U

  Church affiliation got fans a $2 discount at California University of Pennsylvania's basketball games on Friday night.

While the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education does not ban religious promotions at its 14 universities, a civil liberties advocate called it "discriminatory," and officials at other universities said they would not offer discounts to religious groups.

Cal U offered the discount at yesterday's matchup of its women's and men's basketball teams against Millersville University as part of "Faith and Family Night."

• Bird Bites Cat Story - Video

• Facilitated Communication – Again – in the HuffPo

• Generic Drugs: Are they Equivalent?

With healthcare costs continuing to rise, generic drugs are looking more attractive than ever. The prospect of getting the same drug at a lower cost is tempting to anyone with a large drug bill — patient or insurer alike. The savings are massive: Lipitor lost patent protection last month — it was a $10 billion drug, and the generic versions are priced at a fraction of the original cost. In 2012, Plavix and Seroquel, two other blockbusters, will lose patent protection too — that’s another $10 billion in drug costs that will shrink. This “patent cliff” will shrivel about $255 billion in worldwide patented drug sales over the next five years. If you’re taking a prescription drug and not already on a generic, you probably will be soon. And depending on where you live, you may be automatically switched to a generic version of your prescription drug as soon as it’s available.

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By creating a convenient ecosystem, China's Foxconn draws in employees who earn 31 cents an hour working for 35 hours straight, thereby saving American companies money.

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We're back !! I'm with a new host and Google is now reporting no malware. Thanks for your patience. I've also changed how the system handles comments. In the past someone could just register and it would automatically approve the comments. Now after registration the comments are held for approval, when I see that the comment is coming from a legitimate commenter I flag them as trusted and from then on their comments will appear when posted. I've already changed the status of many regulars to trusted and will get to the rest as they post their first comments.

• Do "dwarf" birds exist?

It seems a photo I posted on ID Frontiers started a conversation that culminated in David Sibley, bird expert and author of numerous guides on bird identification and birding, writing an article on "dwarf" birds.

• UK scientists find 'lost' Darwin fossils

• Science and the Chattering Classes (tip to Geoff)

Pity the poor rationalist in polite company. Inevitably, diet has come up, and if the party is in Southern California, chances are somebody was "detoxifying." But to speak out against the anti-scientific orthodoxy that prevails among large segments of the educated class is to paint a stripe down your back and make yourself the skunk at the garden party.

• U.S. researcher accused of fraud in studies on red wine compound

A University of Connecticut researcher who studied the link between aging and a substance found in red wine has committed more than 100 acts of data fabrication and falsification, the university said on Wednesday, throwing much of his work into doubt.

• More Left Brain / Right Brain Nonsense

This is one of those memes that refuses to die. It's a zombie-meme, the terminator of myths, one of those ideas of popular culture that everyone knows but is simply wrong - the idea that individuals can be categorized as either left-brain or right-brain in terms of their personality and the way they process information. Related to this is the notion that any individual can either engage their left brain or their right brain in a particular task.

• Weekly Ezine for Democrats

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Do to some malware issues and lack of support from my current host I'm in the process of moving the site to a new hosting service. Stay tuned.

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I've turned off comments while checking the site for malware. I've had a lot of problems with spam and I'm trying to determine if there is actually some malware or something else. If your browser or software is reporting problems please send me as detailed an explanation as you can. I've checked a number of reports some have made, but can't duplicate them myself trying a variety of different browers. Sometimes there is a problem on a users computer that gets reported as a problem on the site.

Oh and Happy New Year to all of you, this will be the 11th year for onegoodmove.

And here are a few links I found interesting, perhaps you will too.

• Strains, sprains and pains

What do you think would happen if you gave a bunch of "complementary and alternative medicine" practitioners access to a big pot of money -- say, up to $10,000 per patient -- and let them treat patients virtually without restriction, hampered only by a fee schedule. No utilization review, no refusal based on a treatment's being "experimental" -- none of the usual foils which trip up CAM practitioners in the health insurance field.

Think they'd run up the bill? Yes, they would.

In fact, that's exactly the scenario playing out in Florida right now with the state's no-fault auto insurance.

• [Lordy, is it 2012] already?](http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/mcintyre/blog/2012/01/lordyisit2012already.html)

• Winners: National Geographic photo contest

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