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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/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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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2010/02/20100205_spike_act.html" title="&lt;p&gt;Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;left&quot; src=&quot;http://www.mindhacks.com/files/2005/01/spike.jpg&quot; width=&quot;102&quot; height=&quot;120&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Sex addi..." target="_blank">2010-02-05 Spike activity</a><br />');
document.write('Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news: Sex addiction is a feminist victory, according to an article in Slate, apparently because it allows man shaming. Malevolence-based medicine rears its ugly head. The BPS Research Digest covers research finding CBT-based self-help books might do more harm than good for people who worry a lot. The public are asked for their opinion on the recent news that The Lancet retracts the Wakefield autism paper, by The Onion. Neurophilosophy has an...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2010/02/eureka_brain_special.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/times_tms.jpg&quot; width=&quot;176&quot; height=&quot;172&quot; /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Times&lt;/i&gt; has just released its monthly science..." target="_blank">Eureka brain special and more fighting</a><br />');
document.write('The Times has just released its monthly science magazine, Eureka, with a special issue on the brain and all the articles freely available online. There doesn\'t seem to be a way to link to a whole issue, but inside you\'ll find an excellent piece on the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to temporarily switch off bits of the working brain, a profile of neurosurgeon Huma Sethi, an article on commercial brain-computer interfaces, a remarkable piece on how old injuries can \'return\' to af...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2010/02/time_to_think.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/brain_clock.jpg&quot; width=&quot;145&quot; height=&quot;163&quot; /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bioemphemera&lt;/i&gt; has found some wonderfully left-fi..." target="_blank">Time to think</a><br />');
document.write('Bioemphemera has found some wonderfully left-field brain illustrations by Dutch graphic designer Rhonald Blommestijn. The image on the left is a brain made out of clocks. Blommestijn\'s blog is full of strikingly surreal eye-candy that manages both to inspire a feeling of wide-eyed wonder and illustrate scientific themes. They\'re certainly very original takes on the subject and the neuroscience images are particularly vivid. Link to Bioephemera on Blommestijn\'s brain illustrations. Link to Bl...');
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