Thursday, August 6, 2009

COMO MANTER-SE JOVEM.


RECEBI DA MINHA LINDA AMIGA Ester.
ACHO QUE VALE A PENA AGENTE LER E GUARDAR NO CORAÇÃO.
FALA SÉRI SIM.
PARA NOS MANTER COM UMA SAÚDE MARAVILHOSA, PRONTA PARA CHEGAR AOS 70, 80,90 ANOS, É PRECISO SEGUIR ALGUMAS DICAS.
A MENSAGEM A SEGUIR, FOI UMA CARTA, DE ALGUÉM DE 70 ANOS.
MAS PARA FICAR MAIS FÁCIL A LEITURA, POSTAREI SOMENTE AS DICAS.
QUE ACHO QUE JÁ SÃO DE GRANDE VALIA, PARA A NOSSA VIDA.


COMO MANTER-SE JOVEM


1. Deixe fora os números que não são essenciais. Isto inclui a idade,
o peso e a altura.
Deixe que os médicos se preocupem com isso.

2. Mantenha só os amigos divertidos. Os depressivos puxam para baixo.
(Lembre-se disto se for um desses depressivos!)

3. Aprenda sempre:
Aprenda mais sobre computadores, artes, jardinagem, o que quer que
seja. Não deixe que o cérebro se torne preguiçoso.
'Uma mente preguiçosa é oficina do Alemão.' E o nome do Alemão é Alzheimer!

4. Aprecie mais as pequenas coisas


5. Ria muitas vezes, durante muito tempo e alto. Ria até lhe faltar o ar.
E se tiver um amigo que o faça rir, passe muito e muito tempo com ele / ela!


6. Quando as lágrimas aparecerem
Aguente, sofra e ultrapasse.
A única pessoa que fica conosco toda a nossa vida somos nós próprios.
VIVA enquanto estiver vivo.

7. Rodeie-se das coisas que ama:
Quer seja a família, animais, plantas, hobbies, o que quer que seja.
O seu lar é o seu refugio.

8. Tome cuidado com a sua saúde:

Se é boa, mantenha-a.
Se é instável, melhore-a.
Se não consegue melhora-la , procure ajuda.


9. Não faça viagens de culpa. Faça uma viagem ao centro comercial, até
a um país diferente, mas NÃO para onde haja culpa

10. Diga às pessoas que ama que as ama a cada oportunidade.


O AMOR É TUDO DE BOM.

VIVA O AMOR.



RECEBI ESTE LINDO SELO DA JACQUE E REPASSO A TODO VOCÊS MEUS SEGUIDORES.
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BASTA DIZER 05 CINCO COISAS QUE VOCÊ GOSTARIA QUE SUMISSE DESSE MUNDO.
EU QUERO QUE SUMA:

ÓDIO,

A GUERRA,

A INFIDELIDADE.
A DESONESTIDADE
E A CRUELDADE HUMANA.



VENHA CONHECER ESTE CANTINHO

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Sinal de Liberdade-uma expressão de sentimento

DEIXEI UM MOMO PARA VOCÊ, EM COMEMORAÇÃO AS MINHAS 3.000 VISITAS.
PASSE LÁ
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

A Pureza da Criança..

É com grande prazer, que apresento estas lindas Obras de Artes, encontradas no blog da Miuíka.

A Pureza da Criança, retratada e pintada pelas mãos desse grande pintor.
É muito linda.
Parabéns a Miúka pela lembrança.
Como é bom ser Criança.
Elas trazem a pureza na alma e a inocência no coração.
Vivem tranquilamente. Sem qualquer medo da vida.

Algumas das telas de crianças do pintor... MEET DONALD ZOLAN.



























Estas obras de artes vieram do blog da Miuíka.
Confiram a beleza deste blog.

PASSE AQUIBlog Coletivo-Uma Interação de Amigos, LEVE O SEU CORAÇÃO, COM MUITO AMOR...

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

The "My Brain Crashed" Excuse

An Australian shock-jock is in trouble after attaching a 14 year old girl to a lie detector and getting her mom to ask her about her sex life. Specifically, whether she was a virgin. Live on air.

The girl revealed that she had indeed had sex, at the age of 12 - when she had been raped. Stunned silence followed. Broken when the shock-jock asked, in eight words which have probably cost him his career:
"Right ... is that the only experience you've had?"
A 14 year old girl had just revealed that she had been raped, on live radio, and he asked her about the rest of her sex life (listen). Outrage followed, obviously. But what's more interesting is what he later wrote in his defence: (my emphasis)

"...at the second question the girl said she had been raped when she was 12. We were stunned. To tell you the truth I was floundering around, signalling to the producers and Jackie – down the camera – indicating that we had to get it off air.

I didn’t realise I had said “Have you had any other experiences?”

At the same time I was speaking I was signalling to Jackie that we had to terminate the segment. I went into a slight panic as how to get the thing off the air and I was more focused on making that happen than on what I said."

This is what we might call the "My Brain Crashed" excuse. His explanation for his actions was that the stress of the situation put him into a state of panic such that he said something without being aware of it. Ergo, he was not responsible for it. It's like pleading insanity when accused of a crime. Don't blame me - my mind did it, not me.

Plenty of other public figures have used this excuse, but my favorite is Neale Donald Walsh. Walsh writes books which he claims are records of his conversations with God. If so God is a moron, but, millions of people love them. He used to write a blog for religion site BeliefNet. He was fired last Christmas, however, after posting a mawkish "inspirational" seasonal story about a little girl which turned out to have been plagiarized word-for-word from another author's work. The story was presented as an anecdote about something that Walsh had personally experienced.

The plagiarism was undeniable, but Walsh claimed it wasn't his fault, because -

“All I can say now — because I am truly mystified and taken aback by this — is that someone must have sent it to me over the Internet ten years or so ago,” Mr. Walsch wrote. “Finding it utterly charming ... I must have clipped and pasted it into my file of ‘stories to tell that have a message I want to share.’ I have told the story verbally so many times over the years that I had it memorized ... and then, somewhere along the way, internalized it as my own experience.”

In a telephone interview, Mr. Walsch, 65, ... said he had been retelling the anecdote in public as his own for years. “I am chagrined and astonished that my mind could play such a trick on me,” he said.
Don't blame him - his mind did it.

"My Brain Crashes" excuses seem implausible. But I don't think they are really meant to believed. The point is that they could be true, however unlikely that seems. We can prove that someone did a certain thing at a certain time, but the one thing no-one can prove is that they were concious of it. So claiming to have suffered a freak mental accident is the only way of avoiding admitting that you've done something that everyone knows you've done.

Neale Donald Walsh is a plagiarist. But he is not a confessed plagiarist, and in a strange way, this allows him to retain a shred of dignity. It means he can avoid apologizing. Walsh is obviously a crook, and he knows that we know it. But he wants to avoid being a crook who's also throwing himself at the mercy of the public and begging for forgiveness. Or to put it another way, he's a dick, but he wants to avoid also being a dork.

Is there any chance that these two excuses could actually be true? Stranger things have happened. Psychologists report that normal people can be quite easily made to remember things that didn't really happen, at least under laboratory conditions (ref). And that many things happen in our heads that we are unconcious of is almost an axiom of psychology (ref). But it seems awfully convenient. Ultimately, the only people who know the truth are the perpetrators.

The "My Brain Crashed" Excuse

An Australian shock-jock is in trouble after attaching a 14 year old girl to a lie detector and getting her mom to ask her about her sex life. Specifically, whether she was a virgin. Live on air.

The girl revealed that she had indeed had sex, at the age of 12 - when she had been raped. Stunned silence followed. Broken when the shock-jock asked, in eight words which have probably cost him his career:
"Right ... is that the only experience you've had?"
A 14 year old girl had just revealed that she had been raped, on live radio, and he asked her about the rest of her sex life (listen). Outrage followed, obviously. But what's more interesting is what he later wrote in his defence: (my emphasis)

"...at the second question the girl said she had been raped when she was 12. We were stunned. To tell you the truth I was floundering around, signalling to the producers and Jackie – down the camera – indicating that we had to get it off air.

I didn’t realise I had said “Have you had any other experiences?”

At the same time I was speaking I was signalling to Jackie that we had to terminate the segment. I went into a slight panic as how to get the thing off the air and I was more focused on making that happen than on what I said."

This is what we might call the "My Brain Crashed" excuse. His explanation for his actions was that the stress of the situation put him into a state of panic such that he said something without being aware of it. Ergo, he was not responsible for it. It's like pleading insanity when accused of a crime. Don't blame me - my mind did it, not me.

Plenty of other public figures have used this excuse, but my favorite is Neale Donald Walsh. Walsh writes books which he claims are records of his conversations with God. If so God is a moron, but, millions of people love them. He used to write a blog for religion site BeliefNet. He was fired last Christmas, however, after posting a mawkish "inspirational" seasonal story about a little girl which turned out to have been plagiarized word-for-word from another author's work. The story was presented as an anecdote about something that Walsh had personally experienced.

The plagiarism was undeniable, but Walsh claimed it wasn't his fault, because -

“All I can say now — because I am truly mystified and taken aback by this — is that someone must have sent it to me over the Internet ten years or so ago,” Mr. Walsch wrote. “Finding it utterly charming ... I must have clipped and pasted it into my file of ‘stories to tell that have a message I want to share.’ I have told the story verbally so many times over the years that I had it memorized ... and then, somewhere along the way, internalized it as my own experience.”

In a telephone interview, Mr. Walsch, 65, ... said he had been retelling the anecdote in public as his own for years. “I am chagrined and astonished that my mind could play such a trick on me,” he said.
Don't blame him - his mind did it.

"My Brain Crashes" excuses seem implausible. But I don't think they are really meant to believed. The point is that they could be true, however unlikely that seems. We can prove that someone did a certain thing at a certain time, but the one thing no-one can prove is that they were concious of it. So claiming to have suffered a freak mental accident is the only way of avoiding admitting that you've done something that everyone knows you've done.

Neale Donald Walsh is a plagiarist. But he is not a confessed plagiarist, and in a strange way, this allows him to retain a shred of dignity. It means he can avoid apologizing. Walsh is obviously a crook, and he knows that we know it. But he wants to avoid being a crook who's also throwing himself at the mercy of the public and begging for forgiveness. Or to put it another way, he's a dick, but he wants to avoid also being a dork.

Is there any chance that these two excuses could actually be true? Stranger things have happened. Psychologists report that normal people can be quite easily made to remember things that didn't really happen, at least under laboratory conditions (ref). And that many things happen in our heads that we are unconcious of is almost an axiom of psychology (ref). But it seems awfully convenient. Ultimately, the only people who know the truth are the perpetrators.

GANHEI DA JACQUE-BLOG LINDO!!!!!!

Obrigada amiga, pelo carinho.

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Regras:
1- Linkar quem te deu o selinho:
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2- Responder as perguntas:
- Por que este blog é lindo? Porque é muito delicado e belo
- Qual é a palavra mais linda? Perdoar
- Qual o sentimento mais lindo? Amor.
3- Mandar o selinho para 5 blogs:

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REPASSO AINDA A TODOS QUE SEGUEM, DESDE SIGAM AS REGRINHAS.
COM CARINHO.

TEM UM ABRAÇO MUITO GOSTOSO PARA VOCÊ NO:
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Recadinho da Ester.....

Peço que divulguem!
O Instituto do Câncer de Mama está com uma
importante campanha. Cabe a nós
atendermos sua solicitação e ampará-lo, pois se depender do Governo
(Federal/Estadual/Municipal) será seu fim!!!
Vamos salvar o site do câncer de mama?

Não custa nada.
O Site do câncer de mama
está com problemas, pois não tem o número de acessos e
cliques necessários para alcançar a cota que lhes permite oferecer UMA
mamografia gratuita diariamente a mulheres de baixa renda.

Demora menos de um segundo, ir ao site e clicar na tecla cor-de-rosa que diz 'Campanha da
Mamografia Digital Gratuita'.

Não custa nada e é por meio do número diário de pessoas que clicam que os
patrocinadores oferecem a mamografia em troca de publicidade.

Repassem a pelo menos 10 amigos para que eles repassem a mais 10 ou mais amigos,
ainda hoje!

E assim estaremos ajudando a salvar este site tão importante.
Este gesto fará uma enorme diferença.


GANHEI ESTE MIMO DELA E REPASSO A TODOS VOCÊS QUE ME VISITAM.

Monday, August 3, 2009

Tickling Rats for Science

"Tickling the rat" has got to be a euphemism for something. But it's also a way of studying the neurobiology of depression.

At least that's what Wöhr et al say in a new paper. They started from the fact that when you tickle rats, some of them seem to enjoy it, and express this by making 50 kHz squeaks of joy. But other rats don't like it, and they make a different sound, much lower at 22 kHz. (These sounds are all too high for most humans to hear, but they can be recorded electronically.)

Whether a given rat is cool with being tickled seems to be a fairly stable individual trait. Some do, some don't. And rats which don't like being tickled tend to be generally anxious and neurotic in lots of other ways. They're the Woody Allens of the rat world, maybe.

Wöhr et al decided to see whether these personality differences were related to the rate of hippocampal neurogenesis in the brain. Stress is known to decrease the rate of neurogenesis, and it may be reduced in clinical depression, while antidepressants increase it (more).

After much tickling (ten rats for five days at ten minutes per day), they did indeed find a pretty strong correlation between tickle-liking and hippocampal neurogenesis. What does this mean? Hard to say. The problem is that rates of neurogenesis were measured after all the tickling was over. (This is because you can only measure it by killing the animals and dissecting their brains. Sorry, rat lovers.) Given that the rats who didn't like being tickled probably must have found the procedure very stressful, and given that we know that stress strongly reduces neurogenesis, maybe it doesn't mean very much. But it must have been a lot more fun than most animal experiments.

Before you rush to submit this paper to NCBI ROFL, I already did. Finally, here's a video of someone tickling a rat: YouTube really does have everything.




ResearchBlogging.orgWöhr M, Kehl M, Borta A, Schänzer A, Schwarting RK, & Höglinger GU (2009). New insights into the relationship of neurogenesis and affect: Tickling induces hippocampal cell proliferation in rats emitting appetitive 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations. Neuroscience PMID: 19638303