Oh The Lack of Humanity!

  I was thinking about how when I get into critical-thinking mode, it's like I'm cranking on my executive functioning*. "Fire up the frontal lobe!" and all that. I was also reading Cracked the other day (I know, it's a crazy phenomenon like putting pants on or not murdering children) and if you check out #4, they mention that psychopaths have most of the higher positions in the work place. Really they should be referred to as sociopaths, but once you get into it it's pretty much tomato tomato (pronounce those two differently in your head. Or out loud, you crazy person you).

  Anyway, in a weird twist of word play and lack of sleep, I realized that those who have the least amount of executive thinking- sociopaths/psychopaths have underdeveloped frontal lobes, which hinders the ability to plan out consequences and understand other people's emotions - have executive positions in the work place. Oh the irony! Oh the amount of time it took to explain a really stupid joke!

*executive functioning-Just so you know what that means**
**I know that it says prefrontal cortex, but thank the gods Nathan covers his ass, because BOOM!

Studying for Psych 242

  On Friday, in preparation for tomorrow's exam, the TA collected the discussion group's questions we had and typed them up. She sent the final document out as a sort of review sheet, though I don't find it helpful because there are no answers to double check that you are right, but oh well. Anyway, I'm surprised she didn't see this and leave it out. Especially since someone else asked How does Plato’s Allegory of the Cave relate to research? :


Who is Plato and what is the deal with his cave?

Quantum Nathan

  Ignoring my obvious lack of physics education beyond the basics of what "quantum" means, I've started a blog. I'm not going to get into the specifics, I just wrote a whole thing explaining what the goal is. Check it out here! That was more fun that it should have been... Your ol' pal here at Mimir's Well is taking his fountain of knowledge and putting it to good use. I'm here to help by being there for you. I'm in both freaking places at once, and it's awesome. I know that it's over at Tumblr, the anti-Blogspot, but I thought It might be a good idea to spread myself to both because I've had some troubles with Blogspot and I've heard good things about Tumblr. Mimir's Well will stay up and active, because if you read the first post you'll see that it's by email only, so it's not like all of my thoughts will move there. Nathan out!

http://dominic-deegan.com/

I suppose this means I'm learning *something*

I'd rather not ruin it by explaining it, so look up "pons" if you don't know what that is.