| Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-25-2008 |
[Nov. 25th, 2008|03:30 pm] |
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A great example of the law of leaky abstractions, and how something that seems impossible might just be unlikely.
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Nor, by the looks of things, is it very useful.
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Using traditional abstinence-based treatment models the clinic has had very high success rates treating people who also show other addictive behaviours such as drug taking and excessive drinking.
But Mr Bakker believes that this kind of cross-addiction affects only 10% of gamers. For the other 90% who may spend four hours a day or more playing games such as World of Warcraft, he no longer thinks addiction counselling is the way to treat these people.
"This gaming problem is a result of the society we live in today," Mr Bakker told BBC News. "Eighty per cent of the young people we see have been bullied at school and feel isolated. Many of the symptoms they have can be solved by going back to good old fashioned communication."
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A report on two feminist evolutionary develpment/psychology books. Fascinating stuff.
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More than 5,000 gigs over 35 years - and some damned impressive memories.
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10 story horse heads will help operate the lock on the Forth-Clyde canal near Falkirk
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Spend three hours a day watching TV, you're normal. Spend it playing a game online with friends over the world, and you're an addict.
I know which I'd rather do, and I don't do online games.
True - but I think it's talking about people who have real problems, who cannot stop, even though they want to.
I love the Clydesdale horse near the M8 and I'm looking forward to seeing the Kelpies in place. :D
Oh. Those gigs.
I'd thought '5 Tb isn't that bad, is it?'
Meet the Kelpies, Scotland's giant addition to the UK sculptural skyline
10 story horse heads will help operate the lock on the Forth-Clyde canal near Falkirk
That's just awesome all around.
On the subject of Feminist Evolution
Darwin, Social Darwinists and various sociobiologists since have stated that women are subservient and inferior by nature and used evidence from primate studies to demonstrate this.
No they didn't the value judgements are applied afterwards (except in the case of social Darwinists but they have more to do with extreme libertarian views then evolutionary science) what these studies show is that men and women are different and suggest that this is down to evolution rather then culture. It's worth noting that the only sentient difference between evolution and culture as a means of explaining behaviour is that people assume we are blank slates and human nature can therefore be changed. There is no, as often seems to be the line of argument, reason to assume that saying something has arisen via natural selection is "good" or unchangable because it is "natural" as equally there is no reason to assume that people are a blank slate at birth.
Human societies are often highly unequal - institutions like clitoridectomy, purdah and foot-binding are all intended to minimize female sexual pleasure and independence - but there is nothing 'natural' about any of this; on, in fact, the contrary.
This kinda further suggests that the author is committing the "natural is good" fallacy. Which any sociobiologist, evolutionary psychologist, ethologist and the like will tell you is blatantly false. Nature is nasty and brutish despite how much we want to believe in the doctrine of the "noble savage" to an extent so are we. | |
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