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		<title>The waterfall illusion can be transferred between vision and touch</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2010/02/17/the-waterfall-illusion-can-be-transferred-between-vision-and-touch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you look at a waterfall for about 30 seconds, and then shift your gaze to a nearby stationary object, such as a rock or a tree, that object will seem to drift slowly upwards. This well known optical illusion &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2010/02/17/the-waterfall-illusion-can-be-transferred-between-vision-and-touch/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Spiritual Brain: Selective Cortical Lesions Modulate Human Self-Transcendence</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2010/02/17/the-spiritual-brain-selective-cortical-lesions-modulate-human-self-transcendence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The predisposition of human beings toward spiritual feeling, thinking, and behaviors is measured by a supposedly stable personality trait called self-transcendence. Although a few neuroimaging studies suggest that neural activation of a large fronto-parieto-temporal network may underpin a variety of &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2010/02/17/the-spiritual-brain-selective-cortical-lesions-modulate-human-self-transcendence/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Cutaneous Rabbit Illusion Hops Out Of The Body</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2010/02/17/the-cutaneous-rabbit-illusion-hops-out-of-the-body/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IF a rapid series of taps are applied first to your wrist and then to your elbow, you will experience a perceptual illusion, in which phantom sensations are felt along the skin connecting the two points that were actually touched. &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2010/02/17/the-cutaneous-rabbit-illusion-hops-out-of-the-body/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Blind taught to ‘see’ like a bat</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/02/11/blind-taught-to-%e2%80%98see%e2%80%99-like-a-bat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blind British children are to be taught a pioneering bat-style echolocation technique to visualise their surroundings. The children are learning how to build up detailed images of the world around them by clicking their tongue and interpreting the sound as &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/02/11/blind-taught-to-%e2%80%98see%e2%80%99-like-a-bat/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Calming Emotions Through Identification</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/09/17/calming-emotions-through-identification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Psychologists have long believed that people who talk about their feelings have more control over them, but they don&#8217;t know why it works. &#8220;UCLA psychologist Matthew Lieberman and his colleagues hooked 30 people up to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/09/17/calming-emotions-through-identification/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mixed Feelings</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/05/24/mixed-feelings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 17:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For six weird weeks in the fall of 2004, Udo WÃ¤chter had an unerring sense of direction. Every morning after he got out of the shower, WÃ¤chter, a sysadmin at the University of OsnabrÃ¼ck in Germany, put on a wide &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/05/24/mixed-feelings/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism by Hakim Bey</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/04/12/temporary-autonomous-zones-by-hakim-bey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/04/12/temporary-autonomous-zones-by-hakim-bey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHAOS: THE BROADSHEETS OF ONTOLOGICAL ANARCHISM (Dedicated to Ustad Mahmud Ali Abd al-Khabir) Chaos CHAOS NEVER DIED. Primordial uncarved block, sole worshipful monster, inert &#38; spontaneous, more ultraviolet than any mythology (like the shadows before Babylon), the original undifferentiated oneness-of-being &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/04/12/temporary-autonomous-zones-by-hakim-bey/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Anton Wilson Needs Our Help</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/10/04/robert-anton-wilson-needs-our-help/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2006 16:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While we don&#8217;t generally speak our mind here at Nerdshit or try to solicit anything from our readers other than, hopefully, a gradual broadening of your mind and worldview, this is a great exception.  Robert Anton Wilson, the philosopher, writer, &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/10/04/robert-anton-wilson-needs-our-help/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Boy Who Sees with Sound</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/07/17/the-boy-who-sees-with-sound/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was the time a fifth grader thought it would be funny to punch the blind kid and run. So he snuck up on Ben Underwood and hit him in the face. That&#8217;s when Ben started his clicking thing. &#8220;I &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/07/17/the-boy-who-sees-with-sound/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A New DS Game to Please the Brain</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/03/28/a-new-ds-game-to-please-the-brain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nintendo is releasing Brain Age, a DS game based on the research of the Japanese neuroscientist Ryuta Kawashima. Kawashima found that if you measured the brain activity of someone who was concentrating on a single, complex task&#8212;like studying quantum theory&#8212;several &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/03/28/a-new-ds-game-to-please-the-brain/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Physical and Psychological Effects of Meditation</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/03/28/the-physical-and-psychological-effects-of-meditation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A comprehensive study summarizing the scientific research on meditation is available free online from the Institute of Noetic Sciences. The publication (also for sale in book format) is titled &#8220;The Physical and Psychological Effects of Meditation&#8221; (1996) by Michael Murphy &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/03/28/the-physical-and-psychological-effects-of-meditation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Brain Cells Fused with Computer Chip</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/03/28/brain-cells-fused-with-computer-chip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The line between living organisms and machines has just become a whole lot blurrier. European researchers have developed &#8220;neuro-chips&#8221; in which living brain cells and silicon circuits are coupled together. The achievement could one day enable the creation of sophisticated &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/03/28/brain-cells-fused-with-computer-chip/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pentagon Plans Cyber-Insect Army</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/03/21/pentagon-plans-cyber-insect-army/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pentagon&#8217;s defence scientists want to create an army of cyber-insects that can be remotely controlled to check out explosives and send transmissions. The idea is to insert micro-systems at the pupa stage, when the insects can integrate them into &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/03/21/pentagon-plans-cyber-insect-army/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Using the &#8220;Abundance Mentality&#8221; to Cure Procrastination</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/12/27/use-the-abundance-mentality-to-cure-procrastination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2005 18:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The abundance mentality is in my opinion, one of, if not the most important aspect of personal development and growth. Abundance means &#8216;The property of a more than adequate quantity or supply&#8217; and to really take advantage of all that &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/12/27/use-the-abundance-mentality-to-cure-procrastination/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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