MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'franz kafka'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:32:29 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3868784&cid=t_233491_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F08%2F15%2Fthreats-hidden-in-the-moral-of-the-story%2F The human mind is always searching for meaning in the world. It’s one of the reasons we love stories so much: they give meaning to what might otherwise be a random series of events. From stories emerge characters, context, hopes and dreams, morals even. Using simple structures, stories can communicate complex ideas about the author’s view of the world and how it works, often without the reader’s knowledge. Two simple stories that illustrate quite different ways of thinking about the world were used in new research published in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. The authors wanted to explore how we react to ideas and narratives that contradict our view of the world (Proulx et al., 2010). The Tortoise and the Hare The first story used in their research... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3868784 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:35:00 +0100 3868784 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3487042&cid=t_233491_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FMNlfbkUiCwY%2F By Jim HarperThere are many interesting facets to this story in the Chicago Tribune—among them Rep. Luis Gutierrez’ signal that he might support having a U.S. national ID. “We need to know who’s working in the United States, and we need to make it easy,” Gutierrez told the paper, referring to the push to create a national ID in immigration reform legislation Congress may consider this year. The story also describes how a UPS worker nearly lost her job because the name she was using—her married name—doesn’t match up with Social Security Administration records. I discussed how electronic employment eligibility verification would plunge Americans into an identity-bureaucracy morass in my paper, “Franz Kafka’s Solution to Illega... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3487042 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:01:29 +0100 3487042 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2814646&cid=t_233491_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F1IC5KoMm7WM%2F This Is Your Brain on Kafka via miller-mccune.com The article is good, but the title alone is worth the click Posted via web from Patti’s posterous Related articles by Zemanta Reading Kafka improves learning, suggests UCSB psychology study (scienceblog.com) Technorati Tags: Franz Kafka, Words of One Syllable Dept. (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2814646 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:37:15 +0100 2814646 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2389659&cid=t_233491_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FjhwD7iG_CAc%2F The Heritage Foundation’s “The Foundry” blog has a post up called “Questions for Secretary Napolitano: Real ID.” Honest advocates on two sides of an issue can come to almost perfectly opposite views, and this provides an example, because I find the post confused, wrong, or misleading in nearly every respect. Let’s give it a brief fisking. Below, the language from the post is in italics, and my comments are in roman text: Does the Obama Administration support the implementation of the Real ID Act? (Hope not . . . .) Congress has passed two bills that set Real ID standards for driver’s licenses in all U.S. jurisdictions. REAL ID was a federal law that Congress passed in haste as an attachment to a military spending bill in early 2005. To me, “REAL ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2389659 Wed, 06 May 2009 12:38:42 +0100 2389659 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2306742&cid=t_233491_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F5jD7vZ_jCwM%2F The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has a new paper out on electronic employment verification systems. Using government estimates, it finds that operating a nationwide worker background check system would cost $10 billion a year. The Chamber is no opponent of requiring employers to check workers’ immigration status — I oppose the policy, preferring to live in a free country — but the paper has a lot of information about the practical impediments to giving the federal government a say in every hiring decision. It also gives the last word to my paper, Electronic Employment Eligibility: Franz Kafka’s Solution to Illegal Immigration. In the paper, I discuss a method for verifying work eligibility under the current immigration law without creating a national identity system. It... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2306742 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:22:10 +0100 2306742