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Friday, September 26, 2008, 07:00 PM: Truthiness and Agnotology

Does the massive increase in communications technology -- the internet, cell phones, satellite and cable television, internet video like youtube, and so on -- make us more informed? Or does it do the opposite -- spead doubt, confusion, lies, mythology, crackpot conspiracy theories, and the like? Bandwidth will keep increasing and increasing, so what should we expect for the future?

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Alcoholism

How drinking can help you forgot your worries

Alcohol does not make good things nicer but the nasty things less negative. In the case of pleasant experiences alcohol was found to scarcely influence the reward system. The "rosy glasses" that alcohol is said to cause is therefore just a temporary filter for the more sombre issues in life.

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Brains can recover from alcoholic damage if patients stop drinking

New research reveals the brain's capacity to regenerate -- however, the sooner alcoholics abstain from drinking the more they may recover. Researchers used sophisticated scanning technology and computer software to measure how brain volume, form and function changed over six to seven weeks of abstinence from alcohol in 15 alcohol dependent patients (ten men, five women).

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