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veato
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:17 am Posts: 5550 Location: Nottingham
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I thought the last series started to pull it back a bit but I agree after a fantastic first season it went completely down hill.
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Mon Feb 24, 2014 12:58 pm |
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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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The New Trailer For Mike Judge’s First HBO Series SILICON VALLEY!! - NSFW http://www.aintitcool.com/node/66287
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Mon Feb 24, 2014 5:06 pm |
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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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Mon Feb 24, 2014 5:09 pm |
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm Posts: 17040
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Fantastic Horizon this evening on the work of Daniel Kahneman, the only psychologist ever to win a Nobel prize after his theories on how we make decisions were found to have profound implications in Economics. It basically showed how we miss things that are important, aren't actually that different from monkeys, and how 'light regulation' on our financial centres was a certain recipe for disaster. And there's also a demonstration on the phenomemon of confirmation bias that would scare the bejesus out of you. For some reason it's on again at 11:20 this evening and on iPlayer for the rest of the week. Very, very much worth viewing/recording. It will make you a better person. Although then you'll be subject to The Psychologist's Curse : knowing why humans make all sorts of bad decisions but also knowing that as a human being yourself, you're still going to make those bad decisions anyway  .
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Mon Feb 24, 2014 10:28 pm |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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Horizon's just awesome. The Mars mission episode was especially good.
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Mon Feb 24, 2014 10:49 pm |
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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I thought that the Placebo one was also very good.
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Tue Feb 25, 2014 12:10 pm |
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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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Tue Feb 25, 2014 2:41 pm |
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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm Posts: 12251
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It relied a lot on anecdotal evidence and not much real science to back it up. It took an hour to tell us pretty much what we already knew - placebos can work. Not the best Horizon I’ve seen recently.
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Tue Feb 25, 2014 4:39 pm |
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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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You do get the odd Horizon that takes an hour where half would have done, if even that long 
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Tue Feb 25, 2014 5:05 pm |
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
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I'm sorry Paul, but that's just wrong. It pretty much assumed people knew what the placebo effect was and then spent most of the hour showing us - using admittedly small scale studies - that the received wisdom about what it is and how it works isn't necessarily true. There are two generally accepted facts about the placebo effect :- 1) The placebo effect is purely mental. No, as the evidence of actual chemical changes in the brain of the man with Parkinson's showed. 2) The placebo effect requires misdirection i.e. it's basically 'fooling' the patient. No, as the evidence of the trial where subjects were told it was a placebo but who still seemed to have a beneficial effect from the 'treatment' showed. Admittedly, I'm not entirely sure of the relevance of the last section about how bedside manner affects outcomes - I'm of the opinion that's pretty much obvious and not entirely related to the placebo effect. But the idea that it spent an hour telling people what they already know is bunk. It spent most of the hour telling people the things they already know about the placebo effect are probably wrong.
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Tue Feb 25, 2014 5:08 pm |
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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm Posts: 12251
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Wed Feb 26, 2014 12:32 pm |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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Disney to Spend $200 Mil on Marvel Series for Netflix Set to Film in New York http://variety.com/2014/biz/news/disney ... 201121502/ 
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Thu Feb 27, 2014 12:15 am |
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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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Mr Norton has some great guests tonight if you wanna google it.
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Fri Feb 28, 2014 7:50 pm |
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Amnesia10
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Has he taken from Naomi Campbell of any object that can be thrown? 
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Fri Feb 28, 2014 8:19 pm |
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jonbwfc
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm Posts: 17040
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Channe 4 seems to be running a "James Corden Night". They can sod right off.
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