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POPSThe language you speak affects your personality A study of bilingual women suggests that when you switch from speaking one language to another, your personality and your perceptions change as well. I've experienced this myself switching between German and English.
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POPSThe Tyranny of Niceness Related to passive-aggression as a cultural descriptor rather than an individual pathology. Fear of authority, chronic anger, bitterness, and the masochistic self-disempowerment of submission (see Fromm).
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POPSThe side effects of Ritilin "How many future Beethovens, Thomas Jeffersons, Ernest Hemingways, Martin Luther Kings and Maya Angelous are we currently drugging into stupors in our schools and nation? Men and women of greatness are probably the least likely to sit still and do the normal schoolwork directed at the average student. How many non-drugged kids would have never become famous, but would have been able to hold a job at Wal-Mart, get married, have kids, go bowling, collect the next Beanie Babies, attend church, and enjoy life but are now doomed to become drug addicts, felons, and just plain psychotic?"
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POPSVirtual World Therapeautic For Addicts "His VR environments, developed with a company called Virtually Better, feature different scenarios that an addict may find challenging: a bar with imbibing patrons, a house party with guests drinking and smoking, a convenient store with cigarettes and alcoholic beverages within reach, a designated smoking section outside of a building or a room with an arguing couple. The environments use actors in each scene as opposed to computer-generated characters. In addition, the study added another layer of realism. A device sprayed the air with scents the participant may encounter in the various scenarios--cigarette smoke, alcoholic beverages, pizza or aromas associated with the outdoors." "This study shows us the value of using virtual reality as a tool for assessing and treating addictions. Future studies should explore the importance of environmental settings and other cues on cravings and relapse," Bordnick said.
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POPSELECTRODES IN THE BRAIN...hope for severe depression Sounds so much better then 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo Nest'. I love progress. To read the full article: http://www.everydayhealth.com/publicsite/ShowArticle.aspx?IsP=news/614/news614847.xml&dp=2008/04/28&q1=&cen=&xid=nl_EverydayHealthEmotionalHealth_20080430
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POPSAutism: A Unique type of Mercury Poisoning Children with Autism tend react to Mercury. Their bodies see this, and many other substances as an allergen. This provokes an allergic response which we know known precedes an immune response. Eliminating an allergy to Mercury is simple and parents of autistic children can be taught how to do this procedure in the comfort and privacy of their own homes. Please don't dismiss this. DNA Allergy Reprogramming has already made incredible changes in autistic children. I feel I have a duty and a responsibility to share this with you as this is not talk - this is a solution!
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POPSIntelligence and rhythmic accuracy go hand in hand “All in all, this suggests that a factor of what we call intelligence has a biological basis in the number of nerve fibres in the prefrontal lobe and the stability of neuronal activity that this provides,” says Fredrik Ullén.
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POPSThe Lonely Crowd
<<<By the 1940s, the other-directed character was beginning to dominate society. Today the triumph of this type of social personality is complete. If one applies the outer-direction criteria to everyday actors as portrayed in modern culture, for example, Death of a Salesman or How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, or the classic How to Win Friends and Influence People, the other-directed person is easy to identify. This defined the middle class that no longer had the material need to cling to past life standards to form a cohesive society. But since the other-directed could only identify themselves through references to others in their communities (and what they earned, owned, consumed, believed in) they inherently were restricted in their ability to know themselves. Riesman's book argues that although other-directed individuals are crucial for the smooth functioning of the modern organization, the value of autonomy is compromised. The Lonely Crowd also argues that so
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POPSMental Care Falls Short for Vets While its easy to remember those soldiers who are injured physically, there are many more that are suffering mentally. Not that one trauma is any worse or better than the other, more attention needs to be paid to the thousands of veterans that are suffering mentally and facing substandard care.
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