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Rabu, 30 Juni 2010

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Suvanabhaumi Airport Rail Link

The State Railway of Thailand have confirmed that the rail link to the new airport will go in to service from 23rd August 2010.

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The works of Sigmund Freud were enormously influential in 20th century psychiatry, but they've now been reduced to little more than a fringe belief system. Armed with the latest version of my PubMed history script, and inspired by this classic gnxp post on the death of Marxism, postmodernism, and other stupid academic fads I decided to see how this happened.

As you can see, the number of published scientific papers related to Freud-y search terms like psychoanalytic has flat-lined for the past 50 years. That represents a serious collapse of influence, given the enormous expansion in the amount of research being published over this time.

Since 1960 the number of papers on schizophrenia has risen by a factor of 10 and anxiety by a factor of 80 (sic). The peak of Freud's fame was 1968, when almost as many papers referenced psychoanalytic (721) as did schizophrenia (989), and it was more than half as popular as antidepressants (1372). Today it's just 10% of either. Proportionally speaking, psychoanalysis has gone out with a whimper, though not a bang.

The rise of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), however, is even more dramatic. From being almost unheard until the late 80's, it overtook psychoanalytic in 1993, and it's now more popular than antipsychotics and close on the heels of antidepressants.

What's going to happen in the future? If there is to be a struggle for influence it looks set to be fought between CBT and biological psychiatry, if only because they're pretty much the only games left in town. Yet one of the reasons behind CBT's widespread appeal is that it hasn't thus far overtly challenged biology, has adopted the methods of medicine (clinical trials etc.), and has presented itself as being useful as well as medication rather than instead of it.

One of the few exceptions was Richard Bentall's book Madness Explained (2003) in which he criticized psychiatry and presented a cognitive-behavioural alternative to orthodox biological theories of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Bentall remains on the radical wing of the CBT community but in the coming decades this kind of thing may become more common. Only time will tell...

The Fall of Freud

Selasa, 29 Juni 2010

I want to see a video of an angler fish eating

Search: anglerfish eating

Why: On "How the Male Angler Fish Gets Completely Screwed" on Oatmeal (I won't post the whole thing because it's so big):

Answer: Well I can't find anything, probably because the angler fish lives just about on the bottom of the ocean. But this is a kind of neat compilation of bioluminescent sea monsters:

But how do they even know that eating thing is true? I bet someone just made it up.

Source: :(

The More You Know: Maybe look at this informative graphic. Click on it, plz:

Angelic Layer Anime

Has a crocodile ever really terrorized a village?

Search: giant crocodile terrorize

Why: You might guess that it's because I watched Dinocroc vs. Supergator this weekend,

but it's not. It's because Leigh was talking about Rogue (which I have not yet seen, but you better believe that I plan to).

Answer: Omg yes! Very recently! From May 24, 2010:

Crocodiles terrorize Kenya village, gobbling up human prey
Villagers in Kenya are literally being eaten alive as crocodiles in the Tana River target human prey with devastating success. People in the village Bilisa say crocodile attacks are on the rise and have claimed 6 lives in the last year.
The crocodiles usually go after women who come to the river for water. Dhiramu Batefu of was gobbled up two weeks ago, while she was collecting water for her family.
"[The crocodile] splashed her with water and grabbed and pulled her into the deep water," said Batefu Hanti, the victim's husband.
After snatching its prey and dragging them underwater, the crocodile always resurfaces for a moment with the victim in its mouth, villagers say.
The crocodile problem has been made worse by the village's broken borehole, or water well, which used to allow villagers to get water without going to the river.
"We are asking well-wishers to repair for us the borehole," villager Mzee Dube Molu said. "Crocodiles will finish our people."

Yiiiipes!! And in 2008:

Raging, Gargantuan Crocodile Terrorizes Australian Workers
A huge crocodile has been terrorizing road workers in the Gulf of Carpentaria after a rival male was shot and beheaded by trophy hunters. Wildlife rangers revealed the 5.8m crocodile had become highly aggressive in the aftermath of the illegal killing three weeks ago of its smaller rival.

Officers said the big croc has since been stalking and lunging at construction crews working on a bridge on the Albert River near Burketown.

“He is a monster and he is very upset,” said Carpentaria Land Council ranger coordinator Kevin Anderson. “He has been hanging around the bridge and snapping and lunging at anything in the water. Those workers need eyes in their backsides.”

Mr Anderson said the huge bull croc became enraged when the dead body of the killed crocodile, a rival male living upstream, floated through his territory.

Workers at the construction site used a large crane to pull the dead 4.4m reptile from the water. It had a bullet wound in its side. Later that night, an unknown “trophy hunter” cut off its head.

“The big croc, twice the size of the one that was killed, will now fight and kill at least three other male crocs as they try to take over the territory.”

Meanwhile, the 4.3 meter crocodile believed to have taken tourist Arthur Booker near Cooktown two weeks ago will probably go to a crocodile farm. Under the state’s crocodile management plan no animal involved in an attack is allowed to be put on display.

“It will not be released back into the wild,” a spokeswoman said. “As it is an iconic animal, the crocodile will not be harmed or killed.”
Shooting this crocodile was a mistake - his angry, massive, brother has sworn a blood oath of revenge against Australians

Alligators occasionally terrorize towns, too!

Source: NY Daily News, Fear Beneath

The More You Know: But Rogue is based on the true story of Sweetheart, a giant crocodile in 1970s Australia who hated the sound of outboard motors so much that he just chewed them up. He was like 70 or 80 years old and 5.5 meters long. That's great big! Now he's stuffed in a tacky museum and ready to pose with you!

Club Mistys

Club Mistys is on Facebook....

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Bubble Bobble 2

Location: Stutong Park, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
Date taken: 19^th June 2010
Camera equipment: Nikon D300 + Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8D + Micro-Nikkor 200mm f/4D + Nikon Speedlight SB-800 + Nikon Speedlight SB-900

Celebrity Wallpaper - Brad Pit

New Pattaya Post Office

I received a card in my mail box last week advising me that I had registered mail to collect from the Post Office. In the past, this has always meant a trip to the Naklua Post Office but this card clearly stated that I had to go to the new Pattaya City Post Office. Where?

One phone call later I found out that the new Pattaya City Post Office is on Sukhumvit about 1km from the Floating Market. You have to drive on Sukhumvit towards Sattahip until you reach the Floating Market. You then take a u-turn and drive approx. 1km back towards Pattaya. You will see the new Post Office on your left side. Look out for the flags.

Hard to figure a stranger location for a new P.O. for the residents of Pattaya. In fact, the Naklua P.O. will be closer for many. Hard to figure but could have much to do with who formerly owned the land now occupied by the new P.O.

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Out Of Africa

We did it to the Scots so it was bound to come back and haunt us.....

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Senin, 28 Juni 2010

Are citizen's arrests a real thing?

Search: citizen's arrest

Why: And can I make one? And how?

Answer: Sure! In many/most countries, a private citizen has the right to detain a suspected criminal until law enforcement personnel can assume custody.

The practice can be traced back to English common law during the Middle Ages, although each country or state can modify the rules of engagement. During the earliest days of modern justice systems, performing a citizen's arrest was a much more common practice. Merchants would routinely detain shoplifters and thieves caught in the act, often bringing them directly to a local constable's office for trial.Now, the practice is less common because a) there are more policemen and b) criminals are better armed. Some reasons to not perform a citizen's arrest:

You could get seriously injured or dead.
If you make a mistake and detain an innocent suspect, you could be srsly fckd.

But if you so choose, you can make a legal citizen's arrest based on immediacy. Ex:

You witness a mugging and then detain the mugger.
You witness a scenario with serious potential for crime, e.g. a masked man walking toward a car with a crowbar.

This would still be true even if the 'crime' turned out to be a misunderstanding. If someone sees a man climbing through a broken window, he cannot be held responsible for false arrest if the man turns out to be the owner of the building who lost his keys.

But your best bet is just to observe the details of the suspect and the crime scene, like a license plate number, physical description, type of weapon, number of times he bludgeons that hobo, etc. Then you can tell the police and make a signed statement with intent to press charges.

Source: WiseGeek

The More You Know: Do you know the difference between e.g. and i.e.? A quick review:

e.g. - exempli gratia, "for example"

I watched several movies this weekend, e.g. Heathers, Dinocroc vs. Supergator, Beetlejuice, and at least half of Oldboy.

i.e. - id est, "that is"

My imminent new favorite movie, i.e. Roger Corman's Sharktopus, still does not have a goddamn release date.

Jabulani Football

The Jabulani football gets in everywhere.......

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Club Blu Cow Girl party

More photos from the Club Blu Cow Girl Party last Friday.

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Hanging Around in Salisbury

The very reason I took a journey to Salisbury was to visit the legendary Stonehenge. So, I bought a return train ticket which made my wallet £29.50 thinner.

The journey took around one and a half hour, passing Basingstoke.

Immediately after I have arrived at Salisbury train station, I bought another return bus ticket to the Stonehenge, costing me another £17.50. Fortunately, that included the entrance fee.

After spending a few morning hours at the Stonehenge, I returned to 'The city in the countryside' to have a proper lunch. I ordered a cottage pie at Market Inn and it was quite nice.

I spent the rest of the afternoon roaming around the historic streets and alleyways looking at the charming half-timbered buildings. This felt like being brought back to the medieval time.

The Poultry Cross marks the point where poultry trading took place some five hundred years ago. This is the only remaining stone cross in the Market Place.

I also went to see the dome painting over the Chancel Arch of St. Thomas's Church. It is the largest of its kind in England. It was done in around 1475 but was white-washed over, only to be rediscovered and restored in the 19^th century. This painting depicts Jesus sitting before the New Jerusalem, raising the good to heaven and sending the bad to hell.