- Wim Hof is reportedly the only non-monk to master Tummo, the ability to control your own body temperature to withstand extreme cold
- Benson, Herbert; Lehmann, John W.; Malhotra, M. S., Goldman, Ralph F.; Hopkins, Jeffrey; Epstein, Mark D. (1982) Body temperature changes during the practice of g Tum-mo yoga. Nature 295, 234 – 236 (21 January 1982). “The subjects in the current experiment exhibited a capacity to warm fingers than had previously been recorded during hypnosis and after biofeedback training”
- Havard Gazette: Mind controls body in extreme experiments
- Wikipedia: Biofeedback
- Dogs can smell cancer. amazing
- Software: Use your computer to simulate a typewriter
- Proulx, T., & Heine, S. J. (2009). Connections From Kafka: Exposure to Meaning Threats Improves Implicit Learning of an Artificial Grammar. Psychological Science, 20(9), 1125-1131.
- Drug treatment combined with skill-specific training proves effective in animal model of rehabititation after complete spinal cord severance
- Vaughan Bell: A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook.
- PhDcomics: ‘What is…the thesis?’
- creawriter is a full screen disrraction free text editor for windows, inspired by Omniwriter for Mac
- Mindhacks.com: Vaughan on the Rough Guide Book of Brain Training
- Web resources for Jaron Lanier’s “You Are Not A Gadget”
- A Small, Good Thing by Raymond Carver
- IoP Maudsley Debartes: A Born Again Brain (podcast)
- YouTube: This is the only scene I remember from Flash Gordon. It still haunts me when I put my hand into something
- Morality in Star Wars and Star Trek – most science fiction as ‘a new kind of storytelling that often rebels against those very same archetypes Campbell venerated. An upstart belief in progress, egalitarianism, positive-sum games — and the slim but real possibility of decent human institutions.’
- instapaper.com stores things for you to read later (and synchs with your iPhone)
- ‘Our Lives Are Filled With Worthless Crap That’s Destroying the Earth: Here’s What You Can Do’
- Dark Mountain response to John Gray’s review of their manifesto
Links for February 2010, part II
February 19th, 2010 § 0 comments
