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elephants on acid, bizarre experiments
finally, i seem to have broken my ‘inability to stay focused’ issue. thank god :s my reading list was suffering due to it, as i couldn’t concentrate on reading long enough to actually finish a book. as much as i enjoy reading, that was becoming increasingly annoying. how did i work this miracle? vitamins, exercise, and cutting back caffeine, i think. only things i really increased/changed. whatever it is, it’s working :D seems to be helping my depression as well (yay for less anxiety), though my sleep pattern is erratic again. as long as i ~get~ sleep, that’s okay with me.
just finished reading 
, which was absolutely a hilarious read. it’s a collection of bizarre experiments actually done. elephants on acid. medical clowns used to increase the chances of pregnancy among women having invitro fertilization (it worked!). chimps raised as humans. some of the experiments seem to have served absolutely no purpose other than to show the odd things that scientists can come up with to study, others were extremely valuable:
linking is ~bad~, m’kay?
the long arm of the law now reaches out to slap a 26 year old who ran the website www.tv-links.co.uk for doing nothing more than ~linking~ to possibly pirated material.
from the guardian:
A 26-year-old man from Cheltenham was arrested on Thursday in connection with offences relating to the facilitation of copyright infringement on the internet, Fact said.
The arrest and the closure of the site - http://www.tv-links.co.uk - came during an operation by officers from Gloucestershire County Council trading standards in conjunction with investigators from Fact and Gloucestershire Police.
what kind of brain do you have… or, how to drive yourself nuts for an entire evening…
from dan harlow:
Does the above image of a spinning dancer (found via and article in Perth Now) demonstrate which side of your brain is the more dominant? According to the article most people will see this dancer moving counter-clockwise because they apparently use more of the left side of their brain and tend to be more logical and practical. People who see the dancer moving clockwise (like me) are right brain dominant and tend to be more risk taking and imaginative.
several days ago, i watched this image for several hours on and off and couldn’t see her spinning anything BUT clockwise. today? she’s all counter-clockwise :o the first time that i watched her, i was working on a website design (right-brained?). today, i’ve some paperwork, weblog entries, etc, to do (left-brained?). i wonder if we’re all a bit of each every now and again.
interesting, how our minds work. this actually ties with the book i’m reading, at the moment, 
. i’ve a huge stack of books that i need to read and hit a period where i just had no interest in reading much of ~anything~. then one day, i picked this book back up and it caught my attention right off the bat. it’s been interesting so far.
the author begins by comparing the human mind with artificial intelligence (robots) and the difficulty in programming a robot to understand something we all just ~know~...like… what a bachelor is. say you program the robot with the definition of a bachelor: “an adult male who has never been married”. then, wanting the robot to send out invitations to eligible bachelors for your party, you give it the following list. how does the robot, using the definition of bachelor, correctly identify which people to invite?
reading the list, common sense tells you that ~none~ of the men are “eligible bachelors”. yet. how do we know that? what exactly is “common sense”? how is it defined?
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