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Cthulhu: Genetic risk and stressful early infancy join to increase risk for schizophrenia Me: Dr. Fuller Torrey says schizophrenia caused by cat shit. Pfffft! Cthulhu: Ah, the Toxoplasmosis link? Yeah, I’m a little wary about that myself. I’d have to see more data on that published than has been. Me: Empirical data shows that sometimes antipsychotics work. Therefore antipsychotics must kill T. gondii. So UNSCIENTIFIC. Me: Same prevalence of T.gondii in Europeans but less schizo. Sad part is, this doc the head of a major bipolar research org. Me: I think it turns people into cat ladies. LOL!! Cthulhu: Yes, that does reek of pseudoscience. It reminds me of quack claims of the “one cause of all disease.” GOD CREAT DISEASE Me: There was graffiti on a bridge abutment that stayed for YEARS. “God creat disease.” Me: Some bitter old drunk thought he was being profound. “God creat disease.” Cthulhu: I think one of humankind’s greatest faults ...

Your private insurance company decides when you die, not the government.

Lamento Di Arianna by Monteverdi (1608) Arianna has been abandoned, left to die on the island of Naxos by her lover Theseus. Arianna’s despair is conveyed most eloquently. The opera itself has been lost to time but this achingly beautiful aria has survived and is still performed. This lament reshaped the nascent genre of opera to include more emotion in the music. It is said that Monteverdi had experienced personal tragedies whose deep pain was his muse. Turn back, my Theseus turn back Theseus, oh God! Turn back to gaze on her who abandoned her country and kingdom just for you, and who will leave her bare bones on these sands as food for fierce and merciless animals.

When life gives you demons, make demonade.

Male mice sing ultrasonic songs. I’d like to hear them. Singing Mice, Songbirds, and More: Models for FOXP2 Function and Dysfunction in Human Speech and Language Although the most widely appreciated vocalizations of mice are audible, it has been known for several decades that mice and other rodents also vocalize at ultrasonic frequencies. In the Holy laboratory, we recorded and analyzed the vocalizations of a sizable population of adult males. When the recordings were computationally shifted into the range of human hearing, these vocalizations were found to be subjectively reminiscent of bird songs. Photo credit: hello! Source Flickr Author patries71

void57 Romney says “middle income,” $200K-250K. Obama says “the middle class,” $19K to $91K. They aren’t even speaking the same language! [ Source ]