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Are classical music competitions judged on looks? 27 Aug 2013 | 01:07 pm
Looking at the evidence behind a recent news story The headlines The Los Angeles Times: People trust eyes – not ears – when judging musicians Classic FM: Classical singers judged by actions not voi...
A detangler for the net 26 Aug 2013 | 10:14 pm
I’ve just finished reading the new book Untangling the Web by social psychologist Aleks Krotoski. It turns out to be one of the best discussions I’ve yet read on how the fabric of society is meshing w...
Super-recogniser officers policing Europe’s biggest party 26 Aug 2013 | 01:01 am
The Guardian are reporting that the London Metropolitan Police have deployed ‘super recogniser’ officers to Notting Hill Carnival to pick out known criminals from the crowd. This is curious because t...
Period architecture, majestic views, history of madness 25 Aug 2013 | 04:54 pm
Regular readers will know of my ongoing fascination with the fate of the old psychiatric asylums and how they’re often turned into luxury apartments with not a whisper of their previous life. It turn...
A technoculture of psychosis 23 Aug 2013 | 12:07 pm
Aeon Magazine has an amazing article on the history of technology in paranoid delusions and how cultural developments are starting to mirror the accidental inventions of psychosis. It’s by the fantas...
The deafening silence 22 Aug 2013 | 08:59 pm
All silences are not equal, some seem quieter than others. Why? It’s all to do with the way our brains adapt to the world around us, as Tom Stafford explains A “deafening silence” is a striking absen...
The deafening silence 22 Aug 2013 | 08:59 pm
All silences are not equal, some seem quieter than others. Why? It’s all to do with the way our brains adapt to the world around us, as Tom Stafford explains A “deafening silence” is a striking absen...
Don’t panic but psychology isn’t always a science 21 Aug 2013 | 01:12 am
Every so often, the ‘is psychology a science?’ debate sparks up again, at which point, I start to weep. It’s one of the most misplaced, misfiring scientific discussions you can have and probably not f...
Car crash attraction 18 Aug 2013 | 01:46 pm
A curious case report from a 1960 edition of American Journal of Psychiatry describing a man who gets turned on by being injured by ‘an automobile operated by a woman’. The patient, a man in his late...
What makes the ouija board move 15 Aug 2013 | 01:22 pm
The mystery isn’t a connection to the spirit world, but why we can make movements and yet not realise that we’re making them. Ouija board cups and dowsing wands – just two examples of mystical items ...
