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The story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays. Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud’s ideas to manipulate the masses.

It’s called The Century Of The Self and was done by Adam Curtis.

It’s over four parts on Google video. Watch the firt part here.

Great short story told throught the art of comics.

http://mumblingidiot.deviantart.com/art/Some-People-137339848

I do like this one:

From sciencedaily.com:

According to research by psychologists at UC Santa Barbara and the University of British Columbia, exposure to the surrealism in, say, Kafka’s “The Country Doctor” or Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” enhances the cognitive mechanisms that oversee implicit learning functions. The researchers’ findings appear in an article published in the September issue of the journal Psychological Science.

Read the full article here.

I came across Matt Elliott’s music on WFMU and really liked it. Listen to a few of his tracks on his MySpace page.

While I was looking at his, an entry on his blog caought my eye: this blog is NOT about 9/11. Although I haven’t really put much thought into the tragedy that was 9/11, some of his comments aroused my curiosity. It’s definitely worth a read. One of the links on his post is from the History Commons site seems very interesting but requires a lot of time to read it properly.

Check it out here.

I just love this song…

The Thirty-Six Stratagems (traditional Chinese: 三十六計; simplified Chinese: 三十六计; pinyin: Sānshíliù Jì) was a Chinese essay used to illustrate a series of stratagems used in politics, war, as well as in civil interaction, often through unorthodox or deceptive means. They were first published in the Western world^{[citation needed]} by the Swiss scholar Harro von Senger after he heard the Chinese proverb “If all else fails, retreat” at Taipei University.

From wikipedia.

Not too sure where/when I came across this - I think it was on one of those tweets #iranelection recently.

Fascinating stuff.

A new report highlights the biggest problems now facing the world. It warns that the environmental crisis is deepening every year. Human consumption is now 30% larger than nature’s capacity to regenerate. By 2015 the number of people suffering climate-related disasters could mushroom to more than 375 million a year. By 2030 as many as 660 million people could be affected, with economic losses rising to $340 billion a year. There are currently 15 wars taking place and the report predicts that 3 billion people will have no access to water by 2025.

Read the full post here. From a tweet by @RenseFeed.

http://www.cosmicboogie.co.uk/

Thanks to max for this one.