I'm sure many of you have already seen this, but:

Neural correlates of interspecies perspective taking in the post-mortem Atlantic Salmon:
An argument for multiple comparisons correction

Researchers at Princeton University suggest* that consciousness (the mind) can influence the behavior of physical devices known as random event generators.
Maybe some of you have heard about the Mind Lamp - http://www.mind-lamp.com/mind-lamp-research.php - or even have one.
Now there's an LJ community to discuss your experience and thoughts, and to create a software implementation: http://community.livejournal.com/mindlamp

Other software and hardware instruments for the mind-matter interaction research are also welcome.
Those who enjoy computer programming are especially welcome!

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*Just in case, more details are at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem
etc.

Yesterday, it suddenly dawned on me that I can listen to WLAV online. It was fricken awesome! I mean, yeah, it is just a mediocre classic rock radio station, but it hails from GR and that is what matters. They mentioned 'Port Sheldon'. I haven't thought of Port Sheldon since the last time I heard about it in GR. It is strange how something like that can seem significant.

I must say, though, WLAV's morning show is really, really annoying.

PS: I wonder what ever happened to Mel and Frank?

This is probably not the ideal place to get an answer to this question, but I've looked around and asked a lot of other people, and thought I might as well ask for opinions here.

What are some good graduate programs in continental philosophy? I am specifically looking for departments that are all continental or primarily continental. I'm already looking at SUNY Stony Brook, Memphis, NSSR, etc.

And yes, I've seen the epic list of Philosophy Graduate Schools Friendly to Continental Philosophy, but just thought I would fish for a little more information. Has anyone out there attended graduate school for continental philosophy, and, if so, do you have any advice.

Crossposted to Philosophy, Real_Philosophy

With a resounding vote of 7-0, Lorine Niedecker joins the fold!

Considered the sole female poet of the Objectivist movement, Niedecker was noted for demonstrating how the personal could be approached in an objectivist style. Born in 1903, she was inspired by the 1931 Objectivist issue of Poetry to write its editor, Louis Zukovsky, with her poems. Out of this emerged a strong mentorship, yielding an eventual book in 1946, but most of her life was lived on the edge of poverty, and by her own estimation, one ten-year publication period yielded only six publication credits, in part due to her relative, geographical isolation from strong poetry communities. In the 1960s there was a revival of interest in her writing, and she responded in turn, producing a great deal of published work as well as unpublished manuscripts before her death in 1970. She asked for much of her unpublished work to be burned at death, and a friend honoured this request.

Welcome Niedecker!

Now on to the next sucker...

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I found a Superwow CD I bought a long time ago. The label on the CD says

SUPERWOW
superwowband@yahoo
#10 of 100

There's nine tracks on it and they're all really good. I've always really liked their stuff, which is a kind of organic electronica. But, like this Voltage CD (which I think I got at the same show) I don't know any of the track names and I don't have any info about where and when it was recorded.

I tried the email (+ .com) and it bounced. Most of my searches come up with big Christian Rock festival also named "superwow" and some show dates they did with Voltage in 2004.

A quick question for early medieval philosophy specialists: is Boethius' veiw of evil more-or-less the same as Augustine's?

So we have our first writing challenge response, care of the lovely greenmountains (haven't seen pictures of this person, but green mountains! come on! what could possibly not be lovely about that?), which means s/he sucks less than just about everyone else right now. So give greenmountains some love, and respond to her work here already! (woody_wilson, you also suck less because you definitely posted an excellent piece for community revision here.)

In the meantime, I completely forgot about posting a new writing challenge this week, which means the Suck Prize definitely falls on me. But only for the moment! In just a few short lines the supreme suckage falls squarely back on all of you until one of you posts another response. Let's begin, shall we?

1. Read your goddamn LJ friends page. I know it's all about getting comments for yourself, but trust me, this time reading your friends page benefits you in the end.

2. Pick an entry from one of your friends' journals that really speaks to you. I know, I know, they're all pretty whiny (not like your issues, which are all uber-legit, of course). Suck it up for Teh Art.

3. Write a poem inspired by this friend's post. This is easy if you take a particular line from that post as a starting quote, but whatever approach best floats your boat, go with it.

4. Post the damn poem on your LJ, and make sure as hell you refer to this challenge and reference the post in question (alternately, you could make people guess, but that's hella more douche-y than just using their suffering for your gain and then properly attributing the source). If it's a really personal entry you're pulling from, FINE, be anonymous and shit on your LJ, but at least inform the original person in private that your poem came from their post.

5. Why does this last bit matter? Because as poets, you sure as fuck draw from real life from time to time, so it's important to have the ovaries/balls to be honest about that fact, and to learn to stomach whatever response you might get from the person whose existence you're predicating your work on. Maybe it'll teach you about the ugly truth of fetishization, maybe it'll absolve you of any guilt about going down that road in the future. Whatever -- take from the experience what you will. But have the experience already!

So what're you waiting for?

Your time starts NOW.