Mystery Doctors Master His Comity Christians
Out Of Body Experience: Master Of Illusion by Ed Yong (Nature): Henrik Ehrsson, a neuroscientist in Sweden, does these amazing experiments which really question our senses of selves; in 10 seconds, he can make people think that they have left their bodies, or that they have three hands. Which says very interesting things about the way psychology works.
Standup Comity by Steve Macone (The Morning News): Macone, a stand-up comic, goes to an academic conference on humour, to see what it’s like, whether the academics’ arguments chime with his experience. Comedians are always kind of curious about how jokes work, in a way that the rest of us aren’t - we just like to laugh - and Macone has some interesting things to say about the life of a comedian. [via]
Jews, Christians, And Judaeo-Christians by Geza Vermes (Standpoint): A fascinating look at the very early history of Christianity. Until St. Paul came along, the early Christians were basically little more than a communist Jewish sect, and there’s no evidence that they thought that Jesus was the Son of God. [via]
The Mystery Of Carole Myers by Will Storr (The Guardian): There was a craze in the 80s and 90s amongst some psychotherapists to believe that you could access repressed memories by hypnosis (etc). This is now pretty discredited. But Storr suggests here that such repressed memories may have doomed Carole Myers, who seems to have suffered from schizophrenia. Because her psychotherapists believed her stories about her parents’ Satanic rituals and abuse of her as a child, she maybe didn’t get the help she needed.
All His Children by Robin Romm (The Atlantic): ‘Raul Walters’ started donating sperm in 2004, as a recent college graduate who wanted to finance a year off to write a novel before going to law school. He didn’t think much of it at the time, but a few years later, he probably has 20-something children. And in these days of the internet, with mummybloggers and whatnot, Walters is not going to be able to escape that part of his past. [cheers to Suse]
How Doctors Die by Ken Murray (Zocalo Public Square): Doctors spend a lot of time more-or-less-futilely trying to save lives. But when it’s their time, they very often prefer to die peacefully, turning down the various treatments that may extend their lives for a couple of weeks. And this is because regular people think that it’s worth trying a 5% chance to save a life, but doctors do not - they know that a 1 in 20 chance is probably not worth the pain and suffering involved in the treatment (e.g., chemo is pretty awful - it’s literally poisoning yourself in the hope it poisons the cancer even more). [via]
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