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04-24-2016 , 02:15 PM

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JayTeeMe

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Entertainers who have died during a performance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._a_performance

damn, they just show that on the news?

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04-24-2016 , 02:43 PM

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damn, they just show that on the news?

It seems so. I guess they thought that because it doesn't actually show the moment of death, it's ok. But watching it gave me the creeps and I wish I hadn't.

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04-24-2016 , 02:50 PM

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Reminds me of a story by Ambrose Bierce, who was an awesome short story writer and wrote the devil's dictionary. It was about a soldier who fell out of a tree and died during the civil war and how sickening it was even to the people who had seen so much death.

(I don't remember the title, but he has a collection of civil war stories. It's probably in there. )

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04-24-2016 , 02:56 PM

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Unethical human experimentation in the United States

Excellent addition.

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04-24-2016 , 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by jalfrezi

But watching it gave me the creeps and I wish I hadn't.

Sorry about that. It didn't have that effect on me, and I tend to be squeamish about watching such things.

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04-25-2016 , 01:42 AM

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No need. I knew what was involved and had to see it for myself.

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04-25-2016 , 01:54 AM

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Unethical human experimentation in the United States

MKULTRA stuff is insane and it should mention the Unabomber.

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04-25-2016 , 03:42 AM

#2983

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An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_O...l_Creek_Bridge

Last edited by abracadabrab; 04-25-2016 at 03:45 AM. Reason: Upon rereading your post, don't think this is it

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04-25-2016 , 03:47 AM

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An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_O...l_Creek_Bridge

Yeah, it's not (I see your edit). That's the one that has a Twilight Zone episode.

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04-25-2016 , 08:40 AM

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serra_Pelada

I read about the above this weekend. The pictures are pretty crazy

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04-25-2016 , 12:41 PM

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Those pictures remind me of the Smashing Pumpkins music video for Bullet with Butterfly Wings. Gonna read the article and see if that was an influence.

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04-25-2016 , 01:22 PM

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color

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Impossible colors or forbidden colors are supposed colors that cannot be perceived in normal seeing of light that is a combination of various intensities of the various frequencies of visible light, but are reported to be seen in special circumstances.

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Some people may be able to see the color "yellow–blue" in this image by letting their eyes cross so that both + symbols are on top of each other

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04-25-2016 , 02:24 PM

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I recall seeing those photos of the mine as a kid, and freaking out for quite a while about them.

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04-25-2016 , 02:33 PM

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Maybe it has something to do with being older (I'm 48), but I can't cross my eyes and get those crosses to overlap. I'm pretty sure I would have been able to do that when I was younger.

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04-26-2016 , 12:02 AM

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Maybe it has something to do with being older (I'm 48), but I can't cross my eyes and get those crosses to overlap. I'm pretty sure I would have been able to do that when I was younger.

I'm a 28yo with perfect vision and I can't cross my eyes and focus on the screen at the same time, which I think would be required to overlap the crosses.

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04-26-2016 , 12:53 AM

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Unethical human experimentation in the United States

kind of wish I hadn't read all of that. getting dosed with strong psychedelics without knowing/consenting is horrible to think about, and that's probably the least offensive thing in that article.

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04-26-2016 , 05:26 PM

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Cotard Delusion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotard_delusion

The Cotard delusion (also Cotard's syndrome and walking corpse syndrome) is a rare mental illness in which an afflicted person holds the delusion that they are dead, either figuratively or literally; yet said delusion of negation is not a symptom essential to the syndrome proper.[1] Statistical analysis of a hundred-patient cohort indicates that the denial of self-existence is a symptom present in 69% of the cases of Cotard's syndrome; yet, paradoxically, 55% of the patients present delusions of immortality.[2]

[The patient's] symptoms occurred in the context of more general feelings of unreality and [of] being dead. In January 1990, after his discharge from hospital in Edinburgh, his mother took him to South Africa. He was convinced that he had been taken to Hell (which was confirmed by the heat), and that he had died of septicaemia (which had been a risk early in his recovery), or perhaps from AIDS (he had read a story in The Scotsman about someone with AIDS who died from septicaemia), or from an overdose of a yellow fever injection. He thought he had "borrowed [his] mother's spirit to show [him] around hell", and that she was asleep in Scotland.[9]

There are lots of these that are fascinating, look up Capegras delusion

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04-26-2016 , 05:43 PM

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A lot of that is in Oliver Sach's stuff obv. I recently read The Man Who Wasn't There: Investigations into the Strange New Science of the Self by Anil Ananthaswami and it was into that and other related phenomenon. My daughter (16yo) read it too and predictably developed all kinds of delusions and syndromes.

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04-27-2016 , 02:27 AM

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras_delusion

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The Capgras delusion (or Capgras syndrome) (/kæpˈɡrɑː/, US dict: kăpgrâ′)[1] is a disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, or other close family member (or pet) has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor.

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04-27-2016 , 04:11 AM

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I love Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat inspired me do (well, start) a Psychology degree. Anyone with even a passing interest in these delusions and the like should give him a read.

I'm looking forward to reading his autobiography, On the Move: A Life, which is meant to be very good.

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04-28-2016 , 02:40 AM

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TMWMHWFAH inspired me to go on a bender reading about a dozen books along those lines.

A psychology (I guess) book I really recommend that I don't think is super widely known is Love at Goon Park. That's my number one parenting book recommendation. (Don't let that comment dissuade you if you don't have kids. It's not really a parenting book.)

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04-28-2016 , 03:20 AM

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras_delusion

A lifelong friend of mind who recently has had all kinds of paranoia problems thought I had been replaced for quite some time. I had been out of town for over a year, and he told me all about this guy that had pretended to be me and had been in his life.

Was not sure how to deal with this.

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04-30-2016 , 12:45 PM

#2998

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Persecution of Albinos

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pers..._with_albinism

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05-03-2016 , 10:25 AM

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Did Charles Darwin plagiarize the theory of natural selection?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Matthew

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05-03-2016 , 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by esad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color

I can't get that to work, but crossing my eyes is pretty painful. Not sure why, but I really can't see any of the odd optical illusion stuff without reading what it is supposed to do and putting a lot of effort into seeing it. 3D movies aren't much of a joy either. IDK.

I find tetrachromacy fascinating:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy

Not in the article, but apparently it is suspected that girls with dichromate fathers are more likely to be tetrachromates.

I also find color blindness an interesting subject:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness

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