This is an interesting and depressing story about ITER and fusion reactors. It doesn’t seem likely that the project will ever succeed with it’s current bureaucratic structure.
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Now Antidepressant-Induced Chronic Depression Has a Name: Tardive Dysphoria | Psychology Today.
This is a rather disturbing read and should give pause to anyone thinking of taking antidepressants. The pharmaceutical industry should be called to task to answer to this information, though their response is all but assured to be naught but denial of such effects or even knowledge of such a possible outcome. The prerequisite to line their pockets makes the testimony of any representative of large business suspect (at best). I hope that additional information is forthcoming on this subject, we are the proverbial blind being led by the blind. Our understanding of the brain is woefully inadequate to our desire to control, or even just to tweak, it.
FMS: Feature [Part I: Igor Stravinsky on Film Music].
In some sense it is fascinating to see an artist rail against the progression of art and the coming new paradigm. It is also a bit famiar, the old guard dismissing a new medium. The rebuttal is perfect, as is Stravinsky’s reported remarks on it:
What’s with Raskin? Why does he attack me?
Wood: Is It What's For Dinner? on Vimeo.
This is a good way to present science ideas to the general public. I can see this specific technique getting old, but the general idea of Kickstarter style video presentation might see more micro funding opportunities.
Via MeFi.
Breaking Madden: The Super Bowl, in which the machine bleeds to death – SBNation.com.
My god this is beautiful and disturbing.