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Nothing to say this morning (other than the rather odd dichotomy of waking to find it looking and sounding like spring (birds were singing! And what wonderful sunshine!)... with 3" of snow on the ground. Though it's supposed to be 50F today so ithe snow is quite the temporary thing.
Winteriscoming.net speculates from the 15 minute "Game of Thrones: Foreshadowing" thing the other day (it's speculation not spoilers) (At least no more spoilery than the Foreshadowing trailer/interview itself was.
i09: Your Brain No Longer Knows the Difference Between Emoticons and Emotion :(
"A new study published in Social Neuroscience says that the brain has begun processing a typed emoticon with the same signals that previously only accompanied processing a real, emoting human face..."
Star Wars Stitched into a Bayeux Tapestry
A PublicMind study by Farleigh Dickinson University found that it was better to watch no news at all than it was to watch FOX News. Researchers asked respondents questions about domestic policy. People who watched FOX News got 1.04 out of 5 questions right, while people who watched no news at all got 1.22 questions right. The most informed people were NPR listeners, who got 1.51 questions right. They were followed by Sunday Morning talk viewers and Jon Stewart watchers...
Are Internet Trolls simply sadists?
In yet another instance of science belatedly confirming what common sense has already told us, a new paper from researchers at three Canadian universities concludes that Internet trolls aren’t just mean — they’re sadists and psychopaths...
On fleeting urge, I downloaded this song from Amazon:
Winteriscoming.net speculates from the 15 minute "Game of Thrones: Foreshadowing" thing the other day (it's speculation not spoilers) (At least no more spoilery than the Foreshadowing trailer/interview itself was.
i09: Your Brain No Longer Knows the Difference Between Emoticons and Emotion :(
"A new study published in Social Neuroscience says that the brain has begun processing a typed emoticon with the same signals that previously only accompanied processing a real, emoting human face..."
Star Wars Stitched into a Bayeux Tapestry
A PublicMind study by Farleigh Dickinson University found that it was better to watch no news at all than it was to watch FOX News. Researchers asked respondents questions about domestic policy. People who watched FOX News got 1.04 out of 5 questions right, while people who watched no news at all got 1.22 questions right. The most informed people were NPR listeners, who got 1.51 questions right. They were followed by Sunday Morning talk viewers and Jon Stewart watchers...
Are Internet Trolls simply sadists?
In yet another instance of science belatedly confirming what common sense has already told us, a new paper from researchers at three Canadian universities concludes that Internet trolls aren’t just mean — they’re sadists and psychopaths...
On fleeting urge, I downloaded this song from Amazon:
