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Medicine

Brain Surgery Linked To Sensation of Spirituality 380

the3stars writes "'Removing part of the brain can induce inner peace, according to researchers from Italy. Their study provides the strongest evidence to date that spiritual thinking arises in, or is limited by, specific brain areas. This raises a number of interesting issues about spirituality, among them whether or not people can be born with a strong propensity towards spirituality and also whether it can be acquired through head trauma." One critic's quoted response: "It's important to recognize that the whole study is based on changes in one self-report measure, which is a coarse measure that includes some strange items."
Robotics

The Best Robots of 2009 51

kkleiner writes "Singularity Hub has just unveiled its second annual roundup of the best robots of the year. In 2009 robots continued their advance towards world domination with several impressive breakouts in areas such as walking, automation, and agility, while still lacking in adaptability and reasoning ability. It will be several years until robots can gain the artificial intelligence that will truly make them remarkable, but in the meantime they are still pretty awesome."
Space

Submission + - George Takei now an Asteroid (msn.com)

ineedbettername writes: "In recent news, the International Astronomic Union has decided to rename the asteroid "1994 GT9" to 7307 Takei in honor of George Takei, the actor who played Sulu in Star Trek. He now joins the ranks of other famous sci-fi figures in space, such as 4659 Roddenberry, 68410 Nichols, Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov."
User Journal

Journal Journal: And my work is done 17

The great conservative harrassment experiment has pretty much run its course. I was able to get in a few well-deserved jabs at the goose-step set. Some of them were annoyed so much that they decided to start a mod-bombing campaign against me and those who posted in my journal.

So, I'm declaring that this little experiment is over. I am satisfied that I proved quite conclusively that conservatives would kill you if they could.

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Journal Journal: Example of the mod-bombing

Here's a comment that was modded up when it was posted, and days later has been modded down as flamebait. It wasn't flamebait, as anyone who knows the history of Hubble's gyroscopes will attest to.

comment is here

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Journal Journal: One asshole with mod points

As an experiment, I refrained from posting for the weekend. Just as I suspected would happen, one idiot with mod points went through and assigned negative numbers to some of my posts. Looks like three comments were modded down, though they were already at +4 or +5. Then two other people were modded down just for posting in my journal.

This is what the right-wingers do for fun, when they aren't lying or swindling, that is.

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Journal Journal: Seen on Slashdot. I didn't write it. 3

"I'm a Republican (a poem)"

Oh, I'm a Republican
I got a small schling
I like to bomb niggahs
and make a lot o' bling

I got a bunch o' friends
in high up places
They helps me get dem
government graces.

You think I'm smart
I just know who's who
I couldn't run a fruit stand
without the red white & blue

I fancy myself
A brilliant tactician
But neither me nor m'buddies
Could even pass basic trainin'

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Journal Journal: The true face of the right wing 18

This is a pile of hate mail that was sent to Margaret Cho because she said some bad things about the fuehrer.

----- Original Message -----
From: chris
To: margaret@margaretcho.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 6:01 PM
Subject: hi

Fuck you you oriental cunt. you are not even an american. You are soooo stupid. Go fuck yourself and go back to Asia you slanted eye whore.

User Journal

Journal Journal: Right Wingers are a bunch of cowards 10

First, welcome to all my new friends. Except for my freaks list, I strive to implement tit-for-tat. This cannot last forever, since the number of friends is capped at 200, I believe. A subscription will take it somewhat higher, but after that, I won't be able to befriend all of my fans.

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Journal Journal: Conservatives Hate Free Speech 52

This article on Kuro5hin is an interesting read, and it reflects a lot of what I've discovered about my right-wing friends here on Slashdot.

The truth of the matter is that conservatives don't want to hear anything that might make them think. It bothers them when someone has an opinion that does not toe their party line, and they do their best to censor or remove that offending opinion.

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Journal Journal: Putting the X in Xmas 3

I'm going on my Xmas vacation now, and won't be posting on /. until after the New Year. I'll be spending all of my time with my family and children, just as all good liberals do.

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