Watchmen And Personality Disorders

Following a similar pop-psych analysis of Batman and his foes, here are Alan Moore’s Watchmen, and their personality disorders. Check it out and pitch in your differential diagnoses:
Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias
Adrian draws inspiration from Alexander the Great and the Egyptian Pharoah Ozymandias. Referred to as the “smartest man in the world,” Adrian generally looks down at [...]

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Nikola Tesla – Critical Inventor

Controversial inventor, engineer, and physicist, Nikola Tesla and his thoughts on:
The ultimate power:
To create and to annihilate material substance, cause it to aggregate in forms according to his desire, would be the supreme manifestation of the power of Man’s mind, his most complete triumph over the physical world, his crowning achievement, which would place him [...]

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Nikola Tesla And Electricity

Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла) (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. Tesla was born in the village of Smiljan near the town of Gospić, Austrian Empire (Kingdom of Hungary, Croatian Krajina). He was an ethnic Serb subject of the Austrian Empire and later became [...]

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Psychopathic Personalities: Mental Disease or Competitive Advantage?

This article is reprinted here with permission from a Pinoyexchange post “The Sensible Knave” by PEX user: _armada_
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Imagine – if you can – not having a conscience, none at all, no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what you do, no limiting sense of concern for the well-being of strangers, friends, or even family [...]

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Albert Einstein – Critical Physicist

Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist and author of the theory of relativity, and his thoughts:
On Critical Thinking:
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
On Ethics:
A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a [...]

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The Power Of Suggestion

Found this cool Penn and Teller video on Daniel’s site. It shows the propensity of people to support suggestion (perhaps because they’re being filmed). The suggestion here delves into the healing/medical properties of magnets and snails (which fall under pseudoscience/pseudomedicine):

Magnet and snail facial practitioners prey on the same cognitive biases as [...]

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Poker And Critical Thinking

Poker, especially its variant Texas Hold ‘em is a very popular game around the world these days. Unlike other cards games such as Blackjack which are simply a question of odds, playing poker involves much more complex strategy since you are not playing against a house dealer, but other poker players as well.
The popular explosion of poker has [...]

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Vatican Defends Brazil Excommunicator

A follow-up to our previous post.
From BBC recently, the Vatican’s statement on the excommunication in Brazil:
Cardinal Re, who heads the Roman Catholic Church’s Congregation for Bishops and the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, told La Stampa that the archbishop had been right to excommunicate the mother and doctors.
“It is a sad case but the real [...]

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2004 Hindsight: Democrats On Fannie And Freddie

Here is a collection of 2004 statements of impassioned defense of the mortgage institutions Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and how the Democrats downplayed any notion of crisis.
Notable is 6:05: Democrat Barney Frank, whom we’ve seen in recent news actively involved in the bailout of failed banks and mortage institutions, brushing off any idea of [...]

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More Unheeded Advice: Republicans Warned Us About Financial Crisis in 2002

Ever hear how “no one saw this crisis coming”?
A Fox-News report in September 2008 shows that as far back as 2002, members of the Bush administration as well as Republican senators were raising red-flags on the potential regulatory problems in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with threat of serious repercussions to the financial markets.
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