May 2012
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Scientists uncover déjà vu mystery  →
miu-sherandhiscollar: In a groundbreaking study, researchers from the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom have discovered a link between the déjà vu phenomenon and structures in the human brain, effectively confirming the neurological origin of this phenomenon. Despite past studies investigating this phenomenon in healthy individuals, no concrete evidence had ever emerged … until now. The...
May 28th
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May 22nd
Vanitas « Ashkan Honarvar →
May 22nd
Potential pot paucity portends program problems |... →
At the risk of being considered a buzz-kill, be forewarned. There may not be enough pot to go around. Recent developments have resulted in a growing concern that the city’s long-delayed medical marijuana program – again deferred and now anticipated to get off the ground sometime around the beginning of next year – will produce insufficient product to meet the needs of the number of patients...
May 21st
Migraine and Music →
Migraine and Music
May 20th
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May 17th
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“Your head is a living forest full of song birds.”
– e.e. cummings (via faeriepetals)
May 15th
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“I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we...”
– David Byrne (via fibrofightclub)
May 14th
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May 14th
Bobby Long : Tour Dates →
bobbylongnews: All Dates in Support of Steve Winwood May 11 - Riverside Theater, Milwaukee, WI: Tickets May 12 - Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis, MN: Tickets May 14 - Peabody Opera House, St. Louis, MO: Tickets May 15 - Chicago Theatre, Chicago, IL: Tickets May 16 - The Fillmore Detroit,…
May 13th
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May 13th
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“dive for dreams or a slogan may topple you (trees are their roots and wind is...”
– ee cummings
May 13th
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May 11th
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Fibromyalgia Fight Club: Speaker: Brian Walitt,... →
fibrofightclub: Speaker: Brian Walitt, MD, “History of Pain and Fatigue Syndromes, V1.0” May 19, 2012 at 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Sully Governmental Center - Room 1, Centreville http://www.cfsnova.com In participation of National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day , The Northern VA CFS/ME, FMS, & OI…
May 6th
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May 6th
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May 6th
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“Having experienced it, I can tell you that depression isn’t really a condition...”
– The Spark : Share a Story (via fibrofightclub)
May 6th
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April 2012
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A Mind-Melting Visualization Of The Universe’s... →
tulpinspiration: THIS AWARD-WINNING VISUALIZATION ANALYZES 240 MILLION LIGHT YEARS OF SPACE TO PEEL BACK THE LAYERS OF INVISIBLE WEBBING HOLDING OUR UNIVERSE TOGETHER.
Apr 30th
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“Beauty has a specific neural correlate. Its activation probably depends on the...”
– thoughts on thoughts » Blog Archive » Neural correlates of beauty
Apr 30th
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“Correlations between personality traits and a wide range of sensory thresholds...”
– PLoS ONE: Agreeable Smellers and Sensitive Neurotics – Correlations among Personality Traits and Sensory Thresholds
Apr 29th
I'm in a USA Today article about migraines! →
thatmword: Check out this article by Kim Painter of USA Today. We spoke last week about the effectiveness of preventative medications for migraines and why some migraineurs don’t take them. As you probably know from my posts on Topamax, I had some very bad reactions to this medicine. I’m really excited to be part of an article that helps spread awareness of migraines and these medicines. What...
Apr 24th
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“While we’ve made huge strides on other fronts, pain treatment has languished in...”
– Why so negative? Part II
Apr 23rd
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“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable...”
– Carl Jung  (via charlottetheharlot)
Apr 22nd
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“It is very different from trauma response, where the past invades the present,...”
– Kaethe Weingarten 
Apr 22nd
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Apr 20th
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“I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I’m drowning...”
– Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies (via libraryland)
Apr 14th
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“It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you...”
– Rob Sheffield, Love is a Mix Tape (via libraryland)
Apr 14th
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In Just by e.e.cummings
in Just- by: e.e. cummings (1894-1962) IN Just-  spring when the world is mud-  luscious the little  lame baloonman   whistles far and wee  and eddieandbill come  running from marbles and  piracies and it’s  spring  when the world is puddle-wonderful  the queer  old baloonman whistles  far and wee  and bettyandisbel come dancing   from hop-scotch...
Apr 14th
“Thoughts seem to be a kind of tremendous magic”
– Incognito - David Eagleman (via ohitsfarah)
Apr 14th
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New Surveys Reveal Striking Differences Between... →
fibrofightclub: The survey shows that people with fibromyalgia inaccurately believe the public views them negatively. Forty-one percent of the general public believes people with fibromyalgia are courageous, while only 17 percent of people who have the condition believe society actually views them this way. “Imagine, for some people living with fibromyalgia, having to deal with a persistent...
Apr 12th
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“It turns out your conscious mind — the part you think of as you — is really the...”
– David Eagleman, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Eagleman (via josecabs)
Apr 11th
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Speaker: Brian Walitt, MD, "History of Pain and... →
fibrofightclub: Speaker: Brian Walitt, MD, “History of Pain and Fatigue Syndromes, V1.0” May 19, 2012 at 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Sully Governmental Center - Room 1, Centreville http://www.cfsnova.com In participation of National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day , The Northern VA CFS/ME, FMS, & OI…
Apr 11th
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The neuroscience of Bob Dylan's genius
Every creative journey begins with a problem. It starts with a feeling of frustration, the dull ache of not being able to find the answer. When we tell one another stories about creativity, we tend to leave out this phase of the creative process. We neglect to mention those days when we wanted to quit, when we believed that our problems were impossible to solve. Instead, we skip straight to the...
Apr 9th
Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tips on How to Write a Great...
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water. Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action. Start as close to the end as possible. Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and...
Apr 9th
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“My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has...”
– Hermann Hesse (via cougarchild)
Apr 4th
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“[In love] one must balance a respect for proof with a fondness for the unproven...”
– From the book, “A General Theory of Love” (via kay-exploring)
Apr 3rd
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Apr 3rd
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“To have pain is to have certainty; to hear about...
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World  by  Elaine Scarry http://amzn.com/0195049969 http://thebrowser.com/recommended/body-pain-by-elaine-scarry http://www.scribd.com/doc/54912961/Elaine-Scarry-the-Body-in-Pain?  ““To have pain is to have certainty; to hear about pain is to have doubt.”  ‘When one hears about another person’s physical pain, the events happening within the...
Apr 3rd
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March 2012
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Mar 20th
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Mar 15th
Migraine and Fibromyalgia – A Connection? | OUR... →
headachedrugs.com Accord­ing to some stud­ies, as many as 75% of treatment-seeking fibromyal­gia patients also expe­ri­ence migraine or ten­sion headaches. While there is no defin­i­tive cor­re­la­tion between the two con­di­tions, migraine and fibromyal­gia share…
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