{"id":3900,"date":"2010-05-04T18:30:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T22:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3900"},"modified":"2010-05-04T12:18:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T16:18:39","slug":"tuesday-various-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3900","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/01\/100121135859.htm\">Thinking of the Past or Future Causes Us to Sway Backward or Forward<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">University of Aberdeen psychological scientists Lynden Miles, Louise Nind and Neil Macrae conducted a study to measure this in the lab. They fitted participants with a motion sensor while they imagined either future or past events. The researchers found that thinking about past or future events can literally move us: Engaging in mental time travel (a.k.a. chronesthesia) resulted in physical movements corresponding to the metaphorical direction of time. Those who thought of the past swayed backward while those who thought of the future moved forward.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Gene Roddenberry&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookgalaxy.com\/Star_Trek_Is_by_Gene_Roddenberry_11_March_1964.pdf\">original pitch for <em>Star Trek<\/em> (PDF). [<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>] I keep meaning to finally watch the original series, now that it&#8217;s on Blu-Ray, since I&#8217;ve never seen more than bits and pieces. (That way, I&#8217;d also get to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/tvclub\/tvshow\/star-trek,62\/\">Zack Handlen&#8217;s reviews<\/a>. He&#8217;s had some interesting things to say so far <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/tvclub\/tvshow\/star-trek-the-next-generation,102\/\">about <em>The Next Generation<\/em><\/a>.)<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/insight\/article\/793455--for-those-who-cannot-see-erotica-in-3-d\">Erotica for the blind<\/a>? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookninja.com\/\" title=\"Bookninja\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>You&#8217;ve got to give <em>Sita Sings the Blues<\/em> director Nina Paley credit for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackingnetflix.com\/2010\/04\/sita-sings-the-blues-director-turns-down-netflix-streaming-due-to-drm.html\">sticking to her anti-DRM guns<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>And finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctoroctoroc.com\/8-bit-dr-horrible\/watch.html\">Dr. Horrible&#8217;s Singalong Game<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking of the Past or Future Causes Us to Sway Backward or Forward [via]: University of Aberdeen psychological scientists Lynden Miles, Louise Nind and Neil Macrae conducted a study to measure this in the lab. They fitted participants with a motion sensor while they imagined either future or past events. The researchers found that thinking &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3900\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[35,27,14,38,101,34,10,79],"class_list":["post-3900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-games","tag-internet","tag-movies","tag-science","tag-sex","tag-star-trek","tag-various","tag-whedon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}