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Cold asylum

New Scientist has a gallery of striking photos taken from Christopher Payne's book that details his photographic tour of abandoned asylums in the US. In both the UK and the US, and, I suspect, in many other countries, there are numerous unused decaying mental asylums that have become obsolete as...

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Mind Hacks — 20 hours ago

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Feliz Día Nacional del Psicólogo en Colombia

Colombia has an official Day of the Psychologist and you might be forgiven for thinking that it's a self-declared promotional event by the psychology association here, but it isn't, the day is established by law. Article 92 of Law 1090 establishes 20th November as the official celebration. Psych...

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Mind Hacks — 20 hours ago

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2009-11-20 Spike activity

Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news: ...

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Mind Hacks — Yesterday

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Time-space fusion

Neurophilosophy has an excellent piece on 'time-space' synaesthesia where affected individuals experience units of time - such as hours, days, or months - as occupying specific locations in space relative to their own body. The image on the right is taken from a BBC News article on time-space sy...

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Mind Hacks — Before yesterday

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Selecting for kuru resistant cannibals

New Scientist reports on a new study on how a gene that gives protection against the deadly brain disease kuru became more common in people exposed to the condition through their cannibalistic tradition of eating the bodies of dead relatives. Kuru is a prion disease, meaning the damage is caused...

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Mind Hacks — Before yesterday

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Lady luck helps gamblers (lose not quite so badly)

A study on male gamblers just published in the Journal of Gambling Studies found that having a girl on your arm does bring 'luck' of sorts, as slot machine gamblers had fewer losses when accompanied by a female. I am tempted to label this the 'James Bond Effect' but in gambling, good fortune is ...

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