Monthly Archives: December 2024

John Stossel: The Full Charles Murray: Race and IQ, Government Welfare, and Crime

983,292 views 27 Feb 2024 Many people hate Charles Murray. They call him “dangerous” because he wrote about racial IQ differences. ———— To get our new weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe ———— Angry protestors fail to … Continue reading

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Elon Musk proposes cognitive testing for elected American officials

Elon Musk proposes cognitive testing for elected American officials Source: Mediafax 26.12.2024 14:11 Elon Musk suggested testing the cognitive abilities of American elected officials. The idea came following the health issues faced by Kay Granger. https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.679.0_en.html?gdpr=1#goog_926331203 A member of Congress and … Continue reading

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Yuval Noah Harari: Free Speech, Institutional Distrust, & Social Order | Making Sense #386 Sam Harris

400,195 views 7 Oct 2024 Making Sense Podcast: Episodes This is a preview of the full episode. In order to watch the entire episode and gain access to all full-length episodes of the Making Sense podcast, you can SUBSCRIBE at … Continue reading

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Prof Shibley: @dr_shibley. An attractive story from The Lancet. “Nearly 1/2 of #dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by tackling 14 risk factors starting in childhood, suggests a standing Lancet Commission report.” Among our most read in 2024

23rd December 2024 See new posts Conversation The Lancet @TheLancet

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Waste: Taxes, invidious but listen to former President Reagan … understand that DOGE has done the research. This video had a comment “very wise words from Elon Musk

https://twitter.com/i/status/1871520121212346496 Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think? Peter Hitchens

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Slate : search canisgallicus.com Thread over the decades about the Royal City of Dublin hospital, Upper Baggot Street, a Cinderella hospital which could have such potential in the field of Neurology Mental Illness and becoming a centre of excellence. Recently a young English accent man and his photographer entered through the roof space and filmed a hospital where the last person walking out just said “shut the door”… Back to this article below: On the Shoulders of Giants. Psychiatry neurology need to be like other countries and have a centre of excellence. Our young people and at all age groups deserve this. Aside: Financial Times today 23rd December 2024 writes about the Italian City and community for people who suffer from mental illness. Trieste. Links

What the World Can Learn From an Italian City’s Approach to Mental Health By Kerry Morrison March 13, 202310:30 AM TweetShareComment This article is co-published with Zócalo Public Square. Mental illness haunts me in two different ways. The first surrounds me, living and working … Continue reading

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“Adultery”. What do you think? Imagine where a man has an affair, the woman becomes pregnant, yet the Catholic Church grant him an annulment to remarry. His wife of 14 years, who had been incapacitated through an accident and illhealth, was cast aside and the Catholic Canonical Church was both invasive and complicit, causing an even greater impact on her health. Search canisgallicus.com Annulment

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Neuroscience News: Reading Strengthens Key Brain Regions for Language and Empathy

Neuroscience News @NeuroscienceNew Reading Strengthens Key Brain Regions for Language and Empathy New research reveals that reading ability is linked to distinct brain structures, particularly in the left anterior temporal lobe and Heschl’s gyrus. These regions are crucial for integrating … Continue reading

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Big Think: THE MIT PRESS READER: …”It is notable that even for the most heritable illnesses, such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, the heritability is never 100 percent, and even identical twins are never 100 percent concordant…”

https://8e69f63e0ff1f5844fbe513a1d950156.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-40/html/container.htmlNeuropsych — December 10, 2024 Blaming our genes: The heritability of behavior When it comes to behavior, genetics may play a larger role than you think. Stanley Fields and Mark JohnstonCopy a link to the article entitled Share Blaming our genes: The heritability of … Continue reading

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Visual Silence: Exploring Aphantasia. Comment: it took decades post TBI for me to understand the loss! You are operating in the “now” but you cannot imagine or visualise as you once did. The change becomes the issuse and it is mingled in with deafness in one ear, olfactory sense of smell gone, brocas you can understand the situation but you can’t find the words to express … etc. You realise the 1990’s consultant neurologists knew so very little. There was one neuropsychologist and she assessed losses but again it is decades of change, with real change happening now.

Aphantasics are unlikely to have involuntary visualisations. Credit: Neuroscience News Visual Silence: Exploring Aphantasia FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience December 15, 2024 Summary: A new study reveals that aphantasics, people unable to visualize, are more resistant to involuntary visual thoughts, such as imagining a … Continue reading

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