Black Swan: Psychiatrists Diagnose Natalie Portman’s Portrayal of Psychosis - ABC News “It was intense and disturbing and fascinating and mysterious,” said Nadine Kaslow, vice-chair of the department of psychiatry at Emory University and psychologist to the Atlanta Ballet. “What was a hallucination and what was real? When people are psychotic, it’s difficult, even as a therapist, to know what’s real and what’s not.”
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This move enshrines Verizon and AT&T as gatekeepers to the expanding world of mobile Internet access, allowing them to favor their own applications while blocking, degrading or de-prioritizing others.
It’s a pitch-perfect pastiche of what those specials used to feel like, complete with the shoddy shot-on-VHS look, totally random guest stars (Vicki Lawrence as “Mama”!) and ill-fitting Christmas storylines.
ShowbizSpy is reporting that Indiana Jones star Harrison Ford wants his character to be killed off in the fifth installment of the action-adventure franchise. According to the report from the gossip website, Ford told George Lucas and Steven Spielberg that he wants Indy to die in the next film, officially passing the hat to his son
You can find it in the works of Chaucer, Burns, Shakespeare and Beckett. Joyce and Mailer weren’t averse to it, DH Lawrence positively loved it and there’s even a few in Samuel Pepys’ Diary. Yes, you were much more likely to happen-upon a ‘c**t’ in an English Lit class than you ever were on TV
Congress passed, by an overwhelming majority, a two year renewal of the Bush tax cuts. The bill is a nice extra Christmas bonus for the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans, and it will only amplify the monumental US budget deficit. The logic behind the bill goes against, not…
executives at Save the Children were seeking a major grant from Coca-Cola to help finance the health and education programs that the charity conducts here and abroad, including its work on childhood obesity.The talks with Coke are still going on. But the soda tax work has been stopped….In interviews this month, Carolyn Miles, chief operating officer of Save the Children, said there was no connection between the group’s about-face on soda taxes and the discussions with Coke. A $5 million grant from PepsiCo also had no influence on the decision, she said. Both companies fiercely oppose soda taxes.
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Breaking? Study Finds Fox News Viewers Are The Most Misinformed
To perhaps nobody’s surprise, a study released this week finds that Fox News viewers are the most misinformed of any news consumers. The University of Maryland study, called “Misinformation and the 2010 Election,” looked at “variations in misinformation by exposure to news sources,” among other things, and specifically newspapers and news magazines (in print and online), network TV news broadcasts, NPR and PBS, Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN. The study found that daily Fox News viewers, regardless of political party, were “significantly” more likely than non-viewers to erroneously believe that: Most economists estimate the stimulus caused job losses (12 points more likely) Most economists have estimated the health care law will worsen the deficit (31 points) The economy is getting worse (26 points) Most scientists do not agree that climate change is occurring (30 points) The stimulus legislation did not include any tax cuts (14 points) Their own income taxes have gone up (14 points) The auto bailout only occurred under Obama (13 points) When TARP came up for a vote most Republicans opposed it (12 points) And that it is not clear that Obama was born in the United States (31 points)
The study also found that as exposure to Fox News increased, so did the misinformation. But Fox News wasn’t the only offender: Daily consumers of MSNBC and public broadcasting (NPR and PBS) were higher (34 points and 25 points respectively) in believing that it was proven that the US Chamber of Commerce was spending money raised from foreign sources to support Republican candidates. Daily watchers of network TV news broadcasts were 12 points higher in believing that TARP was signed into law by President Obama, and 11 points higher in believing that most Republicans oppose TARP.
Read the full report here. [Crack Down On This: A Catalog Of Fox’s Mistakes] The study was released in the wake of leaked memos that show Fox News D.C. Bureau Chief Bill Sammon instructing staffers to cast doubt on climate change, and to parrot GOP talking points on the health care debate.
