or in his won words
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Last Sunday night, I heard an interesting broadcast at Ö1 on the way back from St. Moritz “Nach dem Willen Gottes. Religion, Erziehung und Gewalt. Gestaltung: Sebastian Fleischer” while couldn’t find the song played during the last 30 seconds.
Finally, here is it, although the Nick Cave version on youtube is still another one than at the Ö1 broadcast. An email clarified it:
Continue reading God is in the house
We have an interesting discussion here in Germany, how many sloppy citations are being allowed in a dissertation. Does plagiarism only start with central text passages? We all have signed a form like
Ich versichere, dass ich die Arbeit ohne fremde Hilfe und ohne Benutzung anderer als der angegebenen Quellen angefertigt habe und dass die Arbeit in gleicher oder ähnlicher Form noch keiner anderen Prüfungsbehörde vorgelegen hat und von dieser als Teil einer Prüfungsleistung angenommen wurde. Alle Ausführungen, die wörtlich oder sinngemäß übernommen wurden, sind als solche gekennzeichnet.
which is rather clear: “I used only the cited references and nothing else.” Continue reading Plagiarism or sloppy citation?
What’s possible and what’s unlikely to be possible: sportsscientists.com discusses the recent watt burst of the TdF winner at the Verbier climb. Continue reading VO2max of 99.5ml/kg/min and 440 Watt?
Finally, here is a technical solution to a proposal that I made here earlier
Ok, we are aware that recovery is always possible with cut & paste into other applications or printing a text -so we may better think about some watermarked graphics. “Don’t ever say anything on e-mail or text messaging that you don’t want to come back and bite you.”
515 citations of an article in 5 years – it is timely to revisit “Does Rejection Hurt? An fMRI Study of Social Exclusion” by Eisenberger in Science magazine. I was refered to that study by “Lob der Schule” (an excellent book).
Participants were scanned while playing a virtual ball-tossing game in which they were ultimately excluded. Paralleling results from physical pain studies, the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) was more active during exclusion.
These are bad news for all victims of workplace bullying or university harassment – their brains will react like under stimulation of physical harm leading to aggression as found in many studies
A wide variety of studies with animal as well as human subjects demonstrate that pain often gives rise to an inclination to hurt an available target, and also, at the human level, that people in pain are apt to be angry.
So, the final aggression of the victim is used to further isolate it – a vicious circle.
Rolling Stones
Blues Brothers
10.1.2019 revisited
The facts seem to be now largely accepted, see an article in Psychology Today: Is Social Pain Real Pain? and the 2012 review by Eisenberger. More recently some authors even think that “The salience of self, not social pain, is encoded by dorsal anterior cingulate and insula“.
“the possibility does not necessarily lead to materialization”
An AJHG paper that is already resting some longer time on my desk says that
Nonsense SNPs introduce premature termination codons into genes and can result in the absence of a gene product … Continue reading Forget about genes I