January 2011
1 post
December 2010
2 posts
Rare Brain Disorder Prevents All Fear.
fuckyeahmedicalstuff:
A middle-aged woman known as SM blithely reaches for poisonous snakes, giggles in haunted houses and once, upon escaping the clutches of a knife-wielding man, didn’t run but calmly walked away. A rare kind of brain damage precludes her from experiencing fear of any sort, finds a study published online December 16 in Current Biology.
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October 2010
6 posts
September 2010
3 posts
August 2010
7 posts
one forty plus: Intolerance →
I feel like anybody who is against the building of an Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero isn’t contesting that they’re being intolerant, rather they’re arguing (however spuriously) that they’re being justifiably intolerant. It reminds me of another specious debate, “is waterboarding…
July 2010
7 posts
dear nick holmes, whoever you are, you have provided me with more of my blogs than i have. you are a god. and you will never see this post.
the seven wonders are at my undeserving fingertips. who am i to turn down the world?
June 2010
1 post
May 2010
2 posts
“Whenever they say it can’t be done, remind them that they make a jellybean that...”
– John Mayer (via lisamei-ling) (via thatinspiresme)
