{"id":1019,"date":"2010-02-19T22:47:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T21:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2010-03-02T22:46:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T21:46:04","slug":"links-for-february-2010-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2010\/02\/19\/links-for-february-2010-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for February 2010, part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: solid #BBBBBB 1px; font-size: 11px; background-color: #eeeeee; padding: 0px 7px 0px 7px;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wim_Hof\">Wim Hof<\/a> is reportedly the only non-monk to master <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tummo\">Tummo<\/a>, the ability to control your own body temperature to withstand extreme cold<\/li>\n<li>Benson, Herbert; Lehmann, John W.; Malhotra, M. S., Goldman, Ralph F.; Hopkins, Jeffrey; Epstein, Mark D. (1982) <a href=\"http:\/\/lib.semi.ac.cn:8080\/tsh\/dzzy\/wsqk\/Nature\/295-234.pdf\">Body temperature changes during the practice of g Tum-mo yoga. <\/a> Nature 295, 234 &#8211; 236 (21 January 1982). &#8220;The subjects in the current experiment exhibited a capacity to warm fingers than had previously been recorded during hypnosis and after biofeedback training&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Havard Gazette: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/2002\/04.18\/09-tummo.html\">Mind controls body in extreme experiments<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Wikipedia: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Biofeedback\">Biofeedback<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/18505901?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&#038;ordinalpos=2\">Dogs can smell cancer<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/16484712?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&#038;ordinalpos=7\">amazing<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Software: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehackingmovie.com\/2009\/05\/18\/typewriter-minimal-text-editor-freeware\/\">Use your computer to simulate a typewriter<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Proulx, T., &#038; Heine, S. J. (2009). <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.interscience.wiley.com\/journal\/122525255\/abstract\">Connections From Kafka: Exposure to Meaning Threats Improves Implicit Learning of an Artificial Grammar. <\/a><i>Psychological Science, 20<\/i>(9), 1125-1131.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/neuro\/journal\/v12\/n9\/pdf\/nn0909-1077.pdf\">Drug treatment combined with skill-specific training proves effective in animal model of rehabititation after complete spinal cord severance<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Vaughan Bell: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2244198\/pagenum\/all\/\">A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>PhDcomics: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics\/archive.php?comicid=138\">&#8216;What is&#8230;the thesis?&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creawriter.com\/\">creawriter<\/a> is a full screen disrraction free text editor for windows, inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ommwriter.com\/\">Omniwriter<\/a> for Mac<\/li>\n<li>Mindhacks.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindhacks.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/on_the_brain_train.html\">Vaughan on the Rough Guide Book of Brain Training<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Web resources for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaronlanier.com\/gadgetwebresources.html\">Jaron Lanier&#8217;s &#8220;You Are Not A Gadget&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wings.buffalo.edu\/AandL\/english\/courses\/eng201d\/asmallgoodthing.html\">A Small, Good Thing by Raymond Carver<\/a><\/li>\n<li>IoP Maudsley Debartes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iop.kcl.ac.uk\/podcast\/rss\/Maudsley_Debates\/Institute_of_Psychiatry-A_Born_Again_Brain.mp3\">A Born Again Brain<\/a> (podcast)<\/li>\n<li>YouTube: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fKBr0WqkA3s&#038;feature=youtube_gdata\">This is the only scene I remember from Flash Gordon. It still haunts me when I put my hand into something<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/entertainment\/movies\/feature\/1999\/06\/15\/brin_main\/\">Morality in Star Wars and Star Trek<\/a> &#8211; most science fiction as &#8216;a new kind of storytelling that often rebels against those very same archetypes Campbell venerated. An upstart belief in progress, egalitarianism, positive-sum games \u2014 and the slim but real possibility of decent human institutions.&#8217;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapaper.com\/\">instapaper.com<\/a> stores things for you to read later (and synchs with your iPhone)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story\/144204\/our_lives_are_filled_with_worthless_crap_that%5Cu0027s_destroying_the_earth:_here%5Cu0027s_what_you_can_do\">&#8216;Our Lives Are Filled With Worthless Crap That&#8217;s Destroying the Earth: Here&#8217;s What You Can Do&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dark-mountain.net\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/20\/defusing-the-apocalypse\/\">Dark Mountain response to John Gray&#8217;s review of their manifesto<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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