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POPSThe Urge To End It All "Quite inadvertently, the British gas conversion proved that the incidence of suicide across an entire society could be radically reduced, upending the conventional wisdom about suicide in the process. At least a partial answer is that many of those Britons who asphyxiated themselves did so impulsively. In a moment of deep despair or rage or sadness, they turned to what was easy and quick and deadly — “the execution chamber in everyone’s kitchen,” as one psychologist described it — and that instrument allowed little time for second thoughts. Remove it, and the process slowed down; it allowed time for the dark passion to pass."
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POPSFather of LSD Albert Hofmann at age One Hundred in 2006. He died on 30 April 2008 at age One Hundred and two.
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POPSLibertarian Paternalism This is a new one on me. From article: "That is not an oxymoron, they insist in their book. Rather it is a corrective to the longstanding assumption of policy makers that the average person is capable of thinking like Albert Einstein, storing as much memory as IBM's Big Blue, and exercising the willpower of Mahatma Gandhi. That is simply not how people are, they say. In reality human beings are lazy, busy, impulsive, inert, and irrational creatures highly susceptible to predictable biases and errors. That's why they can be nudged in socially desirable directions." "A nudge is thus any noncoercive alteration in the context in which people make decisions. The libertarian paternalism behind it is rooted in Thaler's lifelong fascination with the power of small, seemingly innocuous details — the arrangement of food in a cafeteria, the drawing of a small fly in the bowl of a urinal, a pattern of lines on the road — to influence people's behavior. "
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POPSVirsona -- Talk with Artificial Intelligence Virsona is a social media service that provides a real-time chat interface where it looks like you’re having an instant messager conversation,with historical, fictional or public figures like Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Cleopatra, etc. Moreover Virsona is a social media service that allows you to create virtual personas and interact with others.
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POPSSave the Bees!! I knew that bees were going extinct but I I didn't know how much we need them. these explains some and is interesting article.
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POPSYahoo answers: Question on Peace. This Last week I saw a video on youtube (below) that heartened me to ask this question on 'yahoo answers'. Review my question and the answers, (also below) you can vote on the best answer by following this link: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20080530071903AAOUVEB Hmmm.... I wonder why there were so few responses... Maybe, it's one of those questions that have no answers. thinkingblue.blogspot.com
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