'Remarkable' student passes degree after losing memory
"A student who lost 21 years of her memory because of a severe brain disease has gained a degree in psychology, it emerged yesterday. Academics at Lancaster University said Leanne Walker's 2.1 degree was a "remarkable" achievement."
[From The Independent]
"A student who lost 21 years of her memory because of a severe brain disease has gained a degree in psychology, it emerged yesterday. Academics at Lancaster University said Leanne Walker's 2.1 degree was a "remarkable" achievement."
[From The Independent]
A disgusting moral position
I've always found it slightly bemusing when people talk about morals because I find it difficult to put my finger on what they actually are. Occasionally they seem simply to be a method for avoiding giving a meaningful reason for a line of thinking. Here Paul Bloom outlines a psychological argument that relates morals to disgust. As the author acknowledges, this is not a precise parallel, but it does provide some useful insights.
[From The Guardian]
I've always found it slightly bemusing when people talk about morals because I find it difficult to put my finger on what they actually are. Occasionally they seem simply to be a method for avoiding giving a meaningful reason for a line of thinking. Here Paul Bloom outlines a psychological argument that relates morals to disgust. As the author acknowledges, this is not a precise parallel, but it does provide some useful insights.
[From The Guardian]
Olympics: Performing may help your performance
A story refuting the old advice that sportsmen should abstain from sex before their events. The evidence is currently only anecdotal, so this story is not incredibly scientific. Still, as far as I'm aware the old abstinence advice was 98% old wives tale as well. Either way, I imagine the effect of sex is heavily dependent on how close to your event you are making the O face.
[From The Scotsman]
A story refuting the old advice that sportsmen should abstain from sex before their events. The evidence is currently only anecdotal, so this story is not incredibly scientific. Still, as far as I'm aware the old abstinence advice was 98% old wives tale as well. Either way, I imagine the effect of sex is heavily dependent on how close to your event you are making the O face.
[From The Scotsman]
Mollycoddled men 'more successful'
According to the psychiatrist Dr Sebastian Kraemer, tough love is not the way to treat baby boys. He claims that the old fashioned idea that boys should not have too much care lavished on them, is wrong. On the press release on the Royal College of Psychiatrists website he points out that in many respects males are in fact more vulnerable in early life than females.
[From BBC News]
[From the RCP website]
According to the psychiatrist Dr Sebastian Kraemer, tough love is not the way to treat baby boys. He claims that the old fashioned idea that boys should not have too much care lavished on them, is wrong. On the press release on the Royal College of Psychiatrists website he points out that in many respects males are in fact more vulnerable in early life than females.
[From BBC News]
[From the RCP website]