'Hell Bound'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
It is reminiscent of Jon Stewart's treatment of "Crossfire,"
"I follow a show of puppets making crank phone calls! You're on CNN!"
ION, Mr. Customer, when you ask the tech support person "Why weren't we informed of this change to procedure?", don't be surprised when the tech person mutters to themselves--where you can't hear her--"Because we don't like you, we only want your money, and your mother dresses you funny", and then her cube neighbor snorts loudly.
why would it be the Bar?
It wouldn't. Bench, maybe, but not bar.
Justice Kennard is very talky today.
So, Science is getting better at figuring out what is going on in our brains:
New research unlocks the genius of George W. Bush:
In two studies led by Assistant Psychology Professor Michael Inzlicht, participants performed a Stroop task – a well-known test of cognitive control – while hooked up to electrodes that measured their brain activity.
Compared to non-believers, the religious participants showed significantly less activity in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), a portion of the brain that helps modify behavior by signaling when attention and control are needed, usually as a result of some anxiety-producing event like making a mistake.
The stronger their religious zeal and the more they believed in God, the less their ACC fired in response to their own errors, and the fewer errors they made. "You could think of this part of the brain like a cortical alarm bell that rings when an individual has just made a mistake or experiences uncertainty," says lead author Inzlicht, who teaches and conducts research at the University of Toronto Scarborough. "We found that religious people or even people who simply believe in the existence of God show significantly less brain activity in relation to their own errors. They're much less anxious and feel less stressed when they have made an error."
"We found that religious people or even people who simply believe in the existence of God show significantly less brain activity in relation to their own errors. They're much less anxious and feel less stressed when they have made an error."
Interesting!
They're much less anxious and feel less stressed when they have made an error.
That is very interesting indeed. I wonder if that spools out into behavioural differences.
Part of the mystery is solved. The Calfiornia Bar Association is housed in the next building over.
What they are boycotting is still a mystery, but, man, that guy has strong lungs.
So. We were being gaslighted. Lit. Whatever.
Someone had been running something in the background that was in direct competition to our system.
Now to try AGAIN.
Trader Joe's stops selling King Arthur flour, so King Arthur flour creates recipe for Candy Cane Joe-Joe's.
Am I crazy, or does that entry not have the measurements for the ingredients in the recipe?
Recipe is here: [link]
The King Arthur blog always does a long writeup/walkthrough, with a link to the recipe on their recipe site. Annoying as heck, although I love their baking pron.