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document.write('<p class="rss-title"><a class="rss-title" href="http://www.mindhacks.com/" target="_blank">Mind Hacks</a><br /><span class="rss-item">The blog of the O\'Reilly book \'Mind Hacks\'</span></p>');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2010/02/a_varied_diet.html" title="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; class=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/files/2010/02/foreignbodies.jpg&quot; width=&quot;262&quot; height=&quot;197&quot; /&gt;A 1964 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/141..." target="_blank">A varied diet</a><br />');
document.write('A 1964 article from the Archives of Surgery discusses how to treat psychotic patients who may have ingested inedible objects. It reports on one remarkable case where the following list of objects was found in one patient\'s stomach. They also helpfully provided a photo of all the objects laid out on a table. Nickels (173), Pennies (161), Quarters (3), Dimes (26), Military buttons (22), Insignia clasps (5), Nails (50), Staples (5), Screws (16), Metal bolt (1), Metal nuts (4), Overall buckles (...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2010/02/brain_skulls_on_the_.html" title="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;left&quot; class=&quot;left&quot; src=&quot;http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/files/2010/02/brainskulldress.jpg&quot; width=&quot;107&quot; height=&quot;190&quot; /&gt;You wait ages for a neuroscience-themed dress to appear (and b..." target="_blank">Brain skulls on the front, splatters on the back</a><br />');
document.write('You wait ages for a neuroscience-themed dress to appear (and believe me, I have) and then two come along at once. After my discovery of neuro streetwear for the female fashonista last week, comes a brain themed tutu dress for the riotgrrl neuroscientist. The description is actually quite poetic: Brain skulls on the front, splatters on front and back. Distressed style: Imagery has unique cracks, splatters, smears, asymmetry, fading. Adjustable halter straps tie behind your neck for customiza...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2010/02/one_hundred_years_of.html" title="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OneHundredYearsOfSolitude.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; class=&quot;right&quot; alt=&quot;Image from Wikipedia. Click for source&quot; src=&quot;http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/files..." target="_blank">One Hundred Years of Memory Loss</a><br />');
document.write('Neurology journal Brain has a fantastic article on the close parallels between the effects of semantic dementia, a degenerative brain disease that causes the loss of memory for the meaning of words and objects, and the novel A Hundred years of Solitude where a magical disease affects villagers\' memory for \'the name and notion of things\'. The novel is by the Nobel-prize winning Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez and is famous for founding the magical realism style of fiction where fantastic...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2010/02/nine_legendary_hypoc.html" title="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;left&quot; class=&quot;left&quot; src=&quot;http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/files/2010/02/tormented_hope.jpg&quot; width=&quot;143&quot; height=&quot;143&quot; /&gt;ABC Radio National\'s &lt;i&gt;Late Night Live&lt;/i&gt; has a ..." target="_blank">Nine Legendary Hypochondriacs</a><br />');
document.write('ABC Radio National\'s Late Night Live has a fascinating discussion with the author of a new book on nine famous hypochondriacs: James Boswell, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Alice James, Daniel Paul Schreber, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould and Andy Warhol. I\'m not sure Daniel Paul Schreber is necessarily the best example of someone with hypochondria is he is famous for writing a personal account of being genuinely mentally ill and floridly psychotic. However, I\'ve not read t...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2010/02/bonuses_generate_mor.html" title="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; class=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/files/2010/02/arielysketch.png&quot; width=&quot;135&quot; height=&quot;98&quot; /&gt;The engaging behavioural economist &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.m..." target="_blank">Bonuses generate more heat than light</a><br />');
document.write('The engaging behavioural economist Dan Ariely has just become a columnist for Wired UK and in his first article he describes how the promise of performance-related pay often backfires leading people to do more but perform worse. To see the effect of bonuses on performance, Nina Mazar (assistant professor of marketing, Toronto University), Uri Gneezy (professor of economics and strategy, University of California, San Diego), George Loewenstein (professor of economics, Carnegie Mellon, Pennsylv...');
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