Another article I just found about a mysterious culture-bound syndrome that has afflicted some 300 children in the Sudan. It’s called “nodding syndrome”:
Martha suffers from a strange affliction called “nodding syndrome,” apparently unique to southern Sudan. Its young victims tend to nod vigorously at the sight of food. The condition often progresses to severe seizures, […]

This article on MSNBC talks about how video games don’t trigger emotional responses in people, and how getting them to do so is the “holy grail” of the industry. I think that’s completely bunk. I’ve had emotional involvement and attachment to video games as long as I can remember. Whether it was going to Toys […]

Goddamn. There are two great sounding opportunities on craigslist’s rideshare in new york city. One for driving somebody’s car to San Diego, and the other one for driving somebody’s car all the way down to Florida. Either one sounds great, but I’m not quite ready to set out yet. Just want a few weeks of […]

Last night was the first night in weeks that I was able to fall asleep almost immediately upon laying down. And at a reasonable hour. Normally, I have been staying up super late, and all efforts to go to sleep usually turn into anxious over-excited tossing and turning for hours. But last night, after everything […]

I don’t really get what this means, but it sure sounds cool:
A long-sought new form of matter has been created for the first time. The matter, called a fermionic condensate, consists of atoms that are ordinarily forbidden to exist in the same quantum state but have been tricked into it by linking into pairs.

Lisa was totally right! This article about three blind brothers in Israel who are crazy good at computers and phone phreaking (like hacking, but with phones) is totally and utterly amazing. The quote Lisa had was a good one, which I’m also gonna grab:
He and his sightless brothers have devoted their lives to proving they […]