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Ah yes, the "unbiased" brain story. http://rockinconservative.com/2011/04/12/a-tale-of-two-brains/

I"m too lazy to formulate my own words at this time, so I found someone with words that match my sentiments:

I believe people have rights to legally designate in contract law who can visit them in hospitals, who can be named as insurance beneficiaries and the raft of other considerations sought for gay and lesbian couples. Call the arrangement civil unions if you wish.

But that's not the same as defining any union a marriage.

My fear — based on secular, more than religious precepts — is that watering down marriage could eventually rob society of the stabilizing and other beneficial effects of an institution now relentlessly under attack. Perhaps this argument is too ethereal to be grasped or accepted in an age of radical individualism. But it's an argument that is understood by plenty of Americans willing to state it, although it puts them in danger of being painted as haters.

--Dennis Byrne


Where I disagree with Byrne is that this nightmare world is wrought by "radical individualism". It's the herd, the mob, the petty tyrants, behind these farcical ideas.


>> ^bareboards2:

“Using data from MRI scans, researchers at the University College London found that self-described liberals have a larger anterior Cingulate Cortex – a gray matter of the brain associated with understanding complexity. Meanwhile, self-described conservatives are more likely to have a larger Amygdala, an almond shaped area that is associated with fear and anxiety.”
So @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/quantumushroom" title="member since June 22nd, 2006" class="profilelink">quantumushroom, next time you feel a strongly conservative stance coming on, you might consider teasing out what is irrational fear versus a well-founded fear. And maybe, just maybe, try some critical and thoughtful analysis of the situation.
You know, like, considering science.
Why ARE you so afraid of gays and lesbians? And please don't say you aren't -- every time you trot out that 4% number, you are broadcasting "fear of the other."

But this pales in comparison to the power of the dark side!

>> ^spoco2:

@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/Yogi" title="member since May 15th, 2009" class="profilelink">Yogi yeah, the idea of safety here is for the staff. People who work at the hospital need to know the power of these things.

“Using data from MRI scans, researchers at the University College London found that self-described liberals have a larger anterior Cingulate Cortex – a gray matter of the brain associated with understanding complexity. Meanwhile, self-described conservatives are more likely to have a larger Amygdala, an almond shaped area that is associated with fear and anxiety.”

So @quantumushroom, next time you feel a strongly conservative stance coming on, you might consider teasing out what is irrational fear versus a well-founded fear. And maybe, just maybe, try some critical and thoughtful analysis of the situation.

You know, like, considering science.

Why ARE you so afraid of gays and lesbians? And please don't say you aren't -- every time you trot out that 4% number, you are broadcasting "fear of the other."

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>> ^Kalle:

And yet another reason why i dont get magnets .. I just dont understand them...


Fucking magnets how do they work?!

>> ^Ornthoron:

>> ^deathcow:
I put a big aluminum bar directly in one once, and got to move it around... its weird. Even aluminum responds.

Not in the same way as iron, though. Aluminum is not ferromagnetic, and is therefore not attracted to the MRI magnet. But if you move it around in the magnetic field you will induce an electrical current in the aluminum. This electrical current sets up its own small magnetic field, and it's this new field's interaction with the field from the MRI that you can feel when you move the bar around. The interaction stops as soon as you hold the bar still again.


Awesome reply. Your science embiggens my mind.

>> ^Sagemind:

So imagine if the patient neglected to remove a tongue piercing or worse yet - Nipple or genital piercings...
Nuf said!

This is exactly why they always ask you a lot of questions before they put you in one of these machines, for instance about whether you have a pacemaker, or whether you work with metal regularly. Just a tiny grain of metal dust can really wreak havoc with your body if it's logded in some critical place such as, say, your eye.

>> ^Ornthoron:

>> ^deathcow:
I put a big aluminum bar directly in one once, and got to move it around... its weird. Even aluminum responds.

Not in the same way as iron, though. Aluminum is not ferromagnetic, and is therefore not attracted to the MRI magnet. But if you move it around in the magnetic field you will induce an electrical current in the aluminum. This electrical current sets up its own small magnetic field, and it's this new field's interaction with the field from the MRI that you can feel when you move the bar around. The interaction stops as soon as you hold the bar still again.


Thanks! interesting.

There are research magnets as well. I know guys that mess around with them all the time. At my old school, they had just gotten the new research magnet, and fired it up. Someone must have been really concerned about safety when they built the building because for some reason they decided to put a fire extinguisher in the room. Whoops.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^spoco2:
So, this is a decommissioned MRI, and they have a blog all about things to do with MRIs and safety. There are other videos of the same ilk which are obviously aimed for display at the hospitals themselves.
MRIs are very dangerous, and people don't necessarily know that, being that it's an 'invisible' danger.

MRIs aren't exactly roaming the wild. The only time you would be in close contact with one if you're not in the medical field is if you're in a very skimpy gown. I don't really think they're all that dangerous if you can't really play with them or anything.

>> ^deathcow:

I put a big aluminum bar directly in one once, and got to move it around... its weird. Even aluminum responds.

Not in the same way as iron, though. Aluminum is not ferromagnetic, and is therefore not attracted to the MRI magnet. But if you move it around in the magnetic field you will induce an electrical current in the aluminum. This electrical current sets up its own small magnetic field, and it's this new field's interaction with the field from the MRI that you can feel when you move the bar around. The interaction stops as soon as you hold the bar still again.

I think you'd be surprised at what a few boards can handle...>> ^bmacs27:

What happens when those 2x4s snap like a toothpick?

Put two MRI machines next to each other! (you might want to stand back)

I have always wondered about various metallic objects and MRI machines. But the two times I have ever been in close contact with them, the the jerk nurses made me remove all metal.

But now I know it's because they knew I would have too much fun.

>> ^spoco2:

@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/Yogi" title="member since May 15th, 2009" class="profilelink">Yogi yeah, the idea of safety here is for the staff. People who work at the hospital need to know the power of these things.


That makes sense to me because I was one of the kids who actually got scared watching those instructional videos at school.