Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
William S. Burroughs
Paranoia
2012-05-11 13:31
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2012-05-11 13:23
Porzuciłem wiarę, gdyż w okopach wszystkie dogmaty i teorie chrześcijaństwa wydały mi się dość komiczne, a nie miałem rodziny, która by mnie wsparła. Muszę przyznać, że przyjaciele, którzy widzieli mnie w tym trudnym czasie, rzadko mnie opuszczali. Było ich pięćdziesięciu trzech (któż może się pochwalić tak licznym gronem?): pięćdziesiąt dwie karty i butelka whisky.
Stephen King, Szkieletowa Załoga
Famous people
2012-02-12 16:10
I suppose it’s no surprise that over the past decade the number of “famous” people in the press has tripled. You read that right: tripled. Thanks to reality TV and the Internet, both of which have provided all kinds of new (if somewhat ridiculous) avenues for celebrity, the boundaries of what it means to be “famous” have expanded beyond our wildest imaginations.
Brandwashed (Martin Lindstrom)
Junk food
2012-02-11 16:08
When the researchers compared the brains of the junk-food-addicted rats to the brains of rats hooked on heroin and cocaine, they found that the addictive effects of the junk food actually lasted seven times longer. “While it took only two days for the depleted dopamine receptors in rats addicted to cocaine or heroin to return to baseline levels, it took two weeks for the obese rats to return to their normal dopamine levels,”
Brandwashed (Martin Lindstrom)
Wall Street is a slot machine
2012-02-10 16:04
The inherent randomness of the market was first proposed by the economist Eugene Fama in the early 1960s. Fama looked at decades of stock-market data in order to prove that no amount of knowledge or rational analysis could help anyone figure out what would happen next. All of the esoteric tools used by investors to make sense of the market were pure nonsense. Wall Street was like a slot machine.
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The danger of the stock market, however, is that sometimes its erratic fluctuations can actually look predictable, at least in the short term. Dopamine neurons are determined to solve the flux, but most of the time there is nothing to solve. And so brain cells flail against the stochasticity, searching for lucrative patterns. Instead of seeing the randomness, we come up with imagined systems and see meaningful trends where there are only meaningless streaks. “People enjoy investing in the market and gambling in a casino for the same reason that they see Snoopy in the clouds,” says the neuroscientist Read Montague.
How We Decide (Jonah Lehrer)