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• Trust Your Memory? Bad Idea

  
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  Elizabeth Loftus is a psychologist and expert on the malleability of human memoryLoftus is most known for her work on memory distortion and false memory implantationHer research could also be used to fight obesity, addiction with false memorie... The post Trust Your Memory? Bad Idea appeared first on ...
  3 days ago

• The 13 Best European Festivals 2013

  
  Nothing But Hope And Passion — Authority: 146
  There are some things Europeans do very well. The Alps. Really old architecture. Fine literature. Socialized health care. However, there is something that they do best, and no it’s not drinking alcohol on the street, it is organizing and hosting excellent music festivals. In some cases, festivals can be ...
  4 days ago

• Album Review: Mother Mars - "Steam Machine Museum"

  
  Heavy Planet Stoner Rock Blog — Authority: 138
  Back in 2011 Mother Mars released the solid stoner rock album "Fossil Fuel Blues", an hour of heavy rock tunes that displayed ample evidence of significant contributions to the stoner world. They are back in 2013 with another 60 minutes of low tuned pleasure with "Steam Machine Museum", demonstrating significant ...
  2 weeks ago

• 123Creative releases BigQ and XL Cream Fuzz effect plugins

  
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  123Creative has announced the release of the BigQ envelope follower/filter and XL Cream Fuzz virtual analog guitar pedal effect plug-ins for Windows. Envelope follower / multifilter. Cutoff (frequency) of filter is controlled by amplitude of input signal. Louder you play more intensive cutoff frequency of filter is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Higher bank capital ratios without eliminating distortions based on perceived risks, would make banks riskier

  
  Tea with FT — Authority: 137
  Sir, John Plender refers both to the draft legislation advanced by US senators David Vitter and Sherrod Brown , and to Anad Admati’s and Martin Hellwig’s “The bankers’ New Clothes” , in order to point out that “ Support is growing for higher bank capital ratios ”, May 8. Plender unfortunately entirely ...
  2 weeks ago

• Insect Eyes Inspire Wide View Camera with Zero Distortion

  
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  Insects like dragonflies, ants, and praying mantises are well-known for their bulging, compound eyes. Scientists have long known that though insect eyes can neither focus nor move, they...
  2 weeks ago

• Are you on the Soft Foot Merry-Go-Round? Watch our Soft Foot Checks and Corrections Video and Jump Off!

  
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  Soft foot is every alignment technician’s worst nightmare and while correcting soft foot may not be easy, it is worth every minute you spend on it, because once done, the alignment of the machines becomes a much easier task. If you want to make aligning your machinery easier, quicker and more accurate, start by ...
  2 weeks ago

• I did not take Simon Kuper for a baby-boomer.

  
  Tea with FT — Authority: 137
  Sir, I have admired many of Simon Kuper articles, and there is no doubt he is a rising star that could help to rejuvenate your paper. That said his “ Smile if you live in Europe ” May 4, left me a bit surprised, as I did not take him for a baby-boomer content with being able to obtain a certainly splendid caffé ...
  2 weeks ago

• FT, how can you learn if you do not want to listen?

  
  Tea with FT — Authority: 137
  Sir, in your editorial “ US spring fails to spread to Europe ” May 4, if it could really be called a “spring”, you write “fixing the banks to help the recovery is the lesson Britain and the eurozone must learn from the US.” The real difference between the US banks and your banks is that the former ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bank regulators make the prospects of the living-hand-to-mouth especially bleak

  
  Tea with FT — Authority: 137
  Sir, Gillian Tett’s “ The cost of living hand-to-mouth ” May 5, is splendidly scary, especially when contrasted with all the how the US is doing great hoopla on FTs first page… especially since there is nothing in the “for our business it has become critical to understand the cycle – when pay [and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Distortion is not free, current low public interest rates are an illusion and could be the highest real rates ever

  
  Tea with FT — Authority: 137
  Sir, during the two years I had the fortune to have a voice as an Executive Director at the World Bank, 2002-2004, there were a lot of discussions on the issue of debt sustainability for poor developing countries. I hated those . They always sounded like a torturer calculating how much he could go on before his ...
  3 weeks ago

• Is the Fed Setting Up the Mother of All Shorts?

  
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  The timing may be tricky, but such severe distortions in valuation as shown in the chart below can often set up special opportunities for investment profits when the eventual reversion to the mean, or norm, occurs.I think it may be more difficult to trade on these sorts of sweeping macro changes now because of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mastiff – Our glorious media and their powerful reputation for accuracy

  
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  Perhaps it’s time Lord Justice Leveson was prosecuted under the Trade Descriptions Act for his infamous claim about the media having a powerful reputation for accuracy.  Consider this example above from The Week .  In the highlighted paragraph there are no less than four factual errors.  In one bloody ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sendy - Coastal Erosion (tracks)

  
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  Heres something Ive been working hard on. Im trying to get that "ear hugging" mix sound to provide some contrast with my typical "sensory bombardment" - or possibly even combining the two. Im very happy how it turned out! You know when you complete a project and besides having the finished result you also feel "I ...
  3 weeks ago

• 0630

  
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  Excursive criticism divulged from a heart fostered amid inequity and uttered from lips born for deceit will be our assailant’s nail chosen for distortion forced through virgin flesh and bent over to ensure the hurt. -William Leed-
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• Regulators, you can even let Libor be the result of a raffle, but please stop distorting and subsidizing the risk-free rate

  
  Tea with FT — Authority: 137
  Sir, I refer to Tom Braithwaite’s and Brooke Masters’ “ Regulators urge speed in replacing the Libor rate ” April 26. By allowing banks to hold much less capital when lending to the “infallible” sovereigns than when lending to “risky” citizens, regulators have completely distorted what is probably ...
  3 weeks ago

• With respect to increased capital requirements for banks, what matters most for growth and stability is how it is required.

  
  Tea with FT — Authority: 137
  Sir, I refer to Alex Barker´s and Tom Braithwaite´s “ EU and Fed clash over US bank move ” April 23. In all the hullaballoo what seems to be ignored, perhaps more by EU than by the Fed, is that with respect to increased capital requirements for banks, what matters the most is how it is required. If bank ...
  4 weeks ago

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