Certainly the Dutch Government could do with some advice from hackers, better yet employ them and let them test your network security. Despite multibillion-dollar investments in cybersecurity, one of its root problems has been largely ignored: who are the people who write malicious code? Underworld investigator Misha Glenny profiles several convicted coders from around the world and reaches a startling conclusion. No related posts. ..read more »

Some research has been done on factors influencing a persons likelihood to play online games. All these motivations found in research doesn't say much about the sources of these motivations. This study looks at how personality traits motivate online game play. This study was done in Korea. In Korea, watching television, going to the cinema, and online gaming are the three major leisure activities. An important finding was that personality traits do not seem to predict online gaming behavior in terms of overall online playing time and years of online gaming. Personality traits are only relevant to the reason why people .....read more »

Last year I expressed my love for the autumn season in a blog post with autumn songs. A lot of suggestions came in the comments. So I decided to include those suggestions in this year's tribute to autumn. Keep those suggestions of autumn songs coming in the comments for another post next year. Andrea Bocelli with his Fiancee "Les Feuilles Mortes' (Autumn Leaves)" This is the wonderful song "Old Irish Blessing" by Denes Agay. A beautiful song that Kate Bush recorded and released as the b-side of the 12'' version of "Cloudbusting". The song is a traditional Irish folk song with new .....read more »

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Now, addiction is not Dr Shock's specialty but I have attended a lecture on this subject a few years ago by one of the authors Robin M. Murray and was very impressed by the subtlety of his research and reasoning. Moreover, I've often been questioned about this subject by our med students just before starting their clerkship psychiatry. The size of the problem: The global number of people in the world who used cannabis at least once in 2007 was between 143 and 190 million persons Highest use in North America, Western Europe, West and Central Africa and Oceania the concentration of psychoactive .....read more »

Optimism is good for you, this feature enhances physical well being, gets you more adjusted and satisfied with life. But what is the relationship between optimism and personality? Of course the big five was used to answer this question. For those of you who don't exactly know what the big five is The Big Five model is an empirically-derived, ‘‘lexical’’ model of personality consisting of the following five major factors identified through analysis of adjectives from the English language: (1) Extraversion/Positive Emotionality, (2) Agreeableness, (3) Conscientiousness, (4) Emotional Stability versus Neuroticism, and (5) Openness/Intellect. Optimism in this research was defined as a .....read more »

TIME photographer Marco Grob describes the making of the portraits and video testimonials for Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience. Related posts: Making the Impossible Possible? Where does Resilience against Depression Reside in the Brain? Making A Brain Cake ..read more »

Impressive memorial and video, no more words required.Related posts: Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial in Washington DC Photos that changed the world 20 Wonders of the Microscopic World ..read more »

Twin Tower Cameos from Dan Meth on Vimeo. From 1969 to 2001, the Twin Towers made countless cameos in Hollywood films. Sometimes featured prominently in the foreground, sometimes lurking in the distance. This montage celebrates the towers' all-too-short film career with songs that capture the passing decades. Related posts: More Photo Fun Autumn Songs 2011 ..read more »

Sloppy science has led to incorrect conclusions about the difference between male and female brains. She shows how data on visual spatial activity are wrongly interpreted, the same for math differences in men and women. More on women and maths here in this blog post Related posts: Gender differences in frontal lobes Why Women Drop Maths Gender Differences in Empathy ..read more »