Links With Your Coffee - Thursday
The brain contains neural machinery for recognizing errors, correcting them, and optimizing behavior.The neurotransmitter dopamine plays a major role in our ability to learn from our mistakes. Genetic variants that affect dopamine signaling may partly explain differences between people in the extent to which they learn from errors or negative consequences.
Certain patterns of cerebral activity often foreshadow errors, opening up the possibility of preventing blunders with portable devices that can detect error-prone brain states.
The newspapers are so profoundly overrun with pseudoscience about food that there’s no point in documenting it any longer. They will continue with their Sisyphean task of dividing all the inanimate objects in the world into the ones that either cause or cure cancer, and I will sit at the sidelines, making that joke over and over again.
Anyone who has walked barefoot across a parking lot on a hot summer day knows that blacktop is exceptionally good at soaking up the sun’s warmth. Now, a research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has found a way to use that heat-soaking property for an alternative energy source.Through asphalt, the researchers are developing a solar collector that could turn roads and parking lots into ubiquitous—and inexpensive–sources of electricity and hot water.
Coddled from infancy and raised to be academic machines, China's only children expect the world. Now they're buckling under the pressure of their parents' deferred dreams.
Comments
Re: Obamacans and Elders
Norm, it’s a shame your site is no longer fair and balanced. You get excited to post any negative clip about Obama you can find and you whistle past the positive ones. With regard to Obamacans, check this out from The Nation:
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/344382/republicansforobamaandagainst_mccain
It never has been balanced. If not being balanced makes it not fair so be it. The site simply reflects what I find interesting.
http://slatev.com/player.html?id=1726720502
Obama's New Strategy: "I Know You Are, but What Am I?"
Re: CC licsense upheld in appeal
This is some excellent news. Creative commons has proven itself a viable alternative to the "old IP" paradigm yet again. Good news for content creators, and fellow web-junkies such as myself.
Also, for those who need some McCain bashin' with their coffee, this list ought keep you busy for awhile:
http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/JohnMcCainCivil_Rights.htm
Some personal favs:
Voted against MLK holiday in 1983; now calls that a mistake
Ten Commandments would bring virtue to our schools
Supports Amendment against flag-burning
In summary:
Too bad we live in a country where ~50% of registered voters are openly hostile to the ACLU and their own civil rights
Norm, I’ve always admired your opinions. That’s why I’ve been coming to this site for years. When I hear people, who vehemently do not want to see McCain win, nit picking over the minutia of Obama’s attributes, I’m reminded of the adage: don’t argue about which fabric to reupholster the sofa with while the house is on fire.
This is such an important election and I’m hoping a good and influential man like yourself will come around to extolling Obama’s virtues and together we can achieve representative leadership that is much more in line with our progressive values. (I say that as a fellow Atheist). I think you would agree that a McCain victory would be catastrophic. So, as Obama has said, we need all good hands on deck.
I don't quite understand, the Digby piece I believe you're referring to is simply an analysis of how older voters currently view Obama. It doesn't really make any statements about his many charms, or lack there of. It is simply stating the fact that he is doing poorly with senior voters.
Are you saying that we shouldn't discuss Obama or his campaign unless it is cheerleading?
I think you overestimate the influence of this blog. But if someone reading onegoodmove is influenced by what I post and the comments I make they will vote for Obama. If they are, as some are, simply looking to confirm their biases they will do that with or without me.
Norm, did you happen to see that scumbag Swift Boat author Jerome Corsi (who has a new Obama bashing book out) get his ass handed to him on Larry King Live by Paul Waldman of Media Matters? It’s interesting to say the least!
http://www.observer.com/2008/media/video-corsi-versus-media-matters-larry-king-live-last-night
I think that if someone was influenced by the posts here, they wouldn't vote for either Obama or McCain. They might figure that be it McCain or Obama, there's not that much difference, and if it is McCain, they would just wait out four more years of McCain in order to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2012.
Joe Conason is also concerned about Hillary and her ardent supporters.
Do you remember who Joe Conasn is? Well, he is a huge supporter of the Clintons and wrote the book, "The Hunting of the President: The 10 Year Campaign to destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton"
What does he have to say now?
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