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• Takuan commented on Anti "clean coal" short by the Coen brothers
  I don't think nuclear is cheap http://www.polymeme.com/search-index?op0=%3D&filter0=COST+OF+NUCLEAR...
• Ito Kagehisa commented on Anti "clean coal" short by the Coen brothers
  Methane is the best choice where wind, solar and hydro are impractical. http://www.ruralcostarica.com/digester-video.html You can buy methane-powered appliances at your local Mega-Mart (motto: where shopping is a baffling ordeal!) and any place humans live there's at least one natural source of methane....
• apoxia commented on Daydreaming brains are afire
  @ #6 To imply that I think cognitive neuroscience has been "solved" is facetious. From my observations of many MR studies, a lot of people are just doing stuff because they can, which I believe is not good science. Also, MR seems to be extremely experimental to me, and using stats to make millions of comparisons will no doubt lead to lots of areas of activation. Also, if there is a decrease or an increase in activity always leads to the same results: increased activation means working harder, decreased means compensatory mechanisms - even if this goes against your initial...
• Schorsch commented on Daydreaming brains are afire
  Work like this is nearly useless. It has no explanatory power. First: the pretty lights are, fundamentally, blood flow carrying energy to "active" parts of the brain. If you don't know what "active" means, that's ok, neither do the scientists. Second: the whole damn brain is "active," the shiny pictures just show which ones are more active than the whole background. Given that, does it surprise you that a whole lot of places are more active than the background when you're thinking about a whole lot of things, and a more limited set of places are active when you're thinking...
• Amy3 commented on Daydreaming brains are afire
  This study adds to the mounting evidence from neuroscientists and psychologists that daydreaming is our most creative state of mind for idea generation and problem solving. I'm amazed that this thought process has been relatively ignored when it plays such a critical role in our lives. If you're interested in reading more about daydreaming, my book on the topic has just been published: Daydreams at Work: Wake Up Your Creative Powers. I interviewed many people, including prominent daydream researchers. I hope it gets people discussing the topic and contemplating their own daydreams. I've always been a major daydreamer and resented...