Some days, all I want to do is sit around batshit high and listen to music.
http://www.commoncraft.com/video/wikipedia
Tell professors to go screw and educate themselves when they tell you Wiki isn’t a valid source!
Robert Reich: Why Anyone Should Care that Bill O'Reilly Calls Me A Communist
Bill O’Reilly, the tumescent personality of Fox News, said on his Friday show “Robert Reich is a communist who secretly adores Karl Marx.” (This came after Fox News’ Neil Cavoto called me a “sanctimonious twit” for suggesting the rich should pay more in taxes.)
O’Reilly’s accusation is odd, to…
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Lurking around FB on your phone is super sketch, especially when your fat thumb gracefully smashes “like” on random postings by people you’ve never met.
Using Music To Unlock a Locked Brain
Have you seen this video? If not, grab some tissues and get comfortable, because the water, it just comes out of your face.
Dementia, Alzheimer’s, stroke … the list of horrible neurological impairments goes on and on. These are people whose brains are no longer communicating with the world around them, failing to make sense of the inputs and outputs. But that doesn’t mean that their brains are completely broken.
When we look into the eyes of those suffering from these disorders, we see that the human is still inside, in different ways for different patients. Are they fully vocal and trapped in a body without speech? Do they hear your every word and are unable to respond? For some, like this wonderful clip shows, the brain’s connections between music, emotion, and how we use it to communicate beyond speech might still be intact. Music could be our only way in for some people.
I’ve posted the original video here from MusicandMemory.org. If you’d like to help or donate a new or used iPod, visit their website.
The film “Alive Inside” is playing at NYC’s Rubin Museum of Art beginning next week. For more on the science behind music therapy, check this out. And here’s some Cab Calloway for ya, Henry!!!!!
Ahh, the pure joy of science :)
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The Maddow Doctrine: We Need to Make War Hard Again | Mother Jones
Really interesting review of Rachel Maddow’s book, Drift, about contemporary warfare. It makes such a good point about how we’ve somehow been at war for ten years and counting, but these wars don’t have an impact on every single citizen’s everyday life to the extent that the world wars did and that needs to change.
The CIA and JSOC have become largely unaccountable branches of the military. Drone warfare has lowered the cost of war even further. And the reserves are no longer really reserves. They’re practically full-time soldiers.
And the worst part is that all of this is virtually invisible to most of us. The vast bulk of the civilian population, especially among the college-educated elites who run the country, doesn’t serve in the military and never has. In a lot of cases, we barely even know people who have. When we go to war, there’s no WWII-style rationing to worry about, there’s no draft, and there aren’t even any taxes to pay. It’s all free! Is it any wonder that we fight so many wars?
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