Ten Passed Technologies: the elegance and beauty of technologies gone by. MIT Tech Review

Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood: a neurodevelopmental perspective on A.A. Milne. Pooh and his fellow adventurers are rife with unrecognized neurodevelopmental and psychospcial problems. Many could benefit from mental health treatment. Canadian Medical Association Journal

Researchers Document Brain Damage Linked to Child Abuse And Neglect. One theory of the host of symptoms that follow an early history of abuse gives primacy to the idea that traumatic, as opposed to nontraumatic, memories are encoded and stored differently. Now, a spate of research shows direct effects on the developing brain of the trauma victim.

U. Illinois professor finds correlation between soup and personality

Who owns fandom? “Independent Web
sites devoted to
pop culture icons
like “The X-Files”
and “Star Trek”
used to flourish on
the Net. Now
they’re an
endangered
species.” Salon

Thanks to David Brake for pointing me to this: Cancer diary man dies. “In China, a cancer sufferer who became a
literary sensation after publishing a
controversial diary of his last months on the
Internet, has died in a Shanghai hospital.

The death of Lu Youqing, 37, was reported on
the same Shanghai-based website which had
chronicled the last months of his life.” BBC