HEADSTUFF.ORG

HeadStuff.org is a collaborative hub for the creative and the curious. We all spend so much of our time clicking through reams of content and sometimes not reading anything of interest at all. 9 SONGS WITH LONG TITLES. REALLY, REALLY Or, if you’d prefer, just skip to the end for a playlist full of songs with really long titles. #1. Sufjan Stevens – ‘‘The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You’re Going to Have to Leave Now, or, ‘I Have

Fought the

IS INCEPTION REALLY POSSIBLE? As a working neuroscience researcher, I know that we still understand very little about how the brain works as a whole. Modern neuroscience, as we know it today, sprouted from psychology, with big names such as Sigmund Freud and Ivan Pavlov really paving the way for future generations. The beauty of neuroscience, and all science for that matter, is that nearly every finding raises more PABLO NERUDA'S POETIC STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Pablo Neruda’s Poetic Struggle for Social Justice. September 11 was the anniversary of a violent event which brought about the modern world: the CIA-backed overthrow of Chilean president Salvador Allende in 1973. While the more recent attack on the World Trade Centre was a horrific tragedy and it has shaped many government and public 10 SURPRISINGLY HEALTHY BENEFITS OF GAMING Better Multi-Tasking Skills. Research also indicated that video games may help you make decisions under pressure, and multitask better. Action games are especially well-suited to developing the skills to handle multiple sources of information, take in sensory data more effectively, and make decisions quickly, even under pressure. IRELAND AND MULTICULTURALISM |OUR FIRST PEOPLE OF COLOUR Ireland and Multiculturalism |Our First People of Colour. Thomas Roberts' 1776 painting features a black man, believed to be one of the first in Ireland. Twenty-five years ago, Ireland appeared to be a homogeneous place, with white freckled people everywhere. But things have evolved, and this year has seen an increase in media attention on THE MEANING OF BIRD BOX Netflix’s Bird Box can be viewed as one of the most intelligent movies in the current climate. It is a cleverly disguised science fiction film where art imitates life. The viewer is brought along a metaphorical path submerged into the depths of ignorance as forced behavior. Bird Box sensitively tackles the question of mental health

in society.

THE FIRST CASUALTY IS THE TRUTH Horror aficionado Andrew Carroll recounts the time he watched one of the most disturbing movies he has seen. However, it's not your conventional horror movie. Capturing the Friedmans, a documentary about the insidious inner life of an American family, turns 15 years

old this week.

HERE’S WHY TONY ROBBINS SHOULD DEFINITELY NOT BE YOUR GURU Here’s Why Tony Robbins Should Definitely Not Be Your Guru. I am hungover and am going to take you through the emotional journey that is watching the new Tony Robbins documentary. This means watching it again. While hungover. I am doing this for you so you don’t have to. For a long time, I thought Tony Porter and Tony Robbins were the same ARE VIDEO GAMES NEGATIVELY AFFECTING MARRIAGES? Marriage and Video Games. Last year, a highly publicized study by the company Divorce Online found a correlation between divorce and the popular video game Fortnite. When going through divorce petitions, they discovered that at least 200 of the applications, or roughly 5%, literally had the word “Fortnite” listed as the reason for

divorce.

HEADSTUFF.ORG

HeadStuff.org is a collaborative hub for the creative and the curious. We all spend so much of our time clicking through reams of content and sometimes not reading anything of interest at all. 9 SONGS WITH LONG TITLES. REALLY, REALLY Or, if you’d prefer, just skip to the end for a playlist full of songs with really long titles. #1. Sufjan Stevens – ‘‘The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You’re Going to Have to Leave Now, or, ‘I Have

Fought the

IS INCEPTION REALLY POSSIBLE? As a working neuroscience researcher, I know that we still understand very little about how the brain works as a whole. Modern neuroscience, as we know it today, sprouted from psychology, with big names such as Sigmund Freud and Ivan Pavlov really paving the way for future generations. The beauty of neuroscience, and all science for that matter, is that nearly every finding raises more PABLO NERUDA'S POETIC STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Pablo Neruda’s Poetic Struggle for Social Justice. September 11 was the anniversary of a violent event which brought about the modern world: the CIA-backed overthrow of Chilean president Salvador Allende in 1973. While the more recent attack on the World Trade Centre was a horrific tragedy and it has shaped many government and public 10 SURPRISINGLY HEALTHY BENEFITS OF GAMING Better Multi-Tasking Skills. Research also indicated that video games may help you make decisions under pressure, and multitask better. Action games are especially well-suited to developing the skills to handle multiple sources of information, take in sensory data more effectively, and make decisions quickly, even under pressure. IRELAND AND MULTICULTURALISM |OUR FIRST PEOPLE OF COLOUR Ireland and Multiculturalism |Our First People of Colour. Thomas Roberts' 1776 painting features a black man, believed to be one of the first in Ireland. Twenty-five years ago, Ireland appeared to be a homogeneous place, with white freckled people everywhere. But things have evolved, and this year has seen an increase in media attention on THE MEANING OF BIRD BOX Netflix’s Bird Box can be viewed as one of the most intelligent movies in the current climate. It is a cleverly disguised science fiction film where art imitates life. The viewer is brought along a metaphorical path submerged into the depths of ignorance as forced behavior. Bird Box sensitively tackles the question of mental health

in society.

THE FIRST CASUALTY IS THE TRUTH Horror aficionado Andrew Carroll recounts the time he watched one of the most disturbing movies he has seen. However, it's not your conventional horror movie. Capturing the Friedmans, a documentary about the insidious inner life of an American family, turns 15 years

old this week.

HERE’S WHY TONY ROBBINS SHOULD DEFINITELY NOT BE YOUR GURU Here’s Why Tony Robbins Should Definitely Not Be Your Guru. I am hungover and am going to take you through the emotional journey that is watching the new Tony Robbins documentary. This means watching it again. While hungover. I am doing this for you so you don’t have to. For a long time, I thought Tony Porter and Tony Robbins were the same ARE VIDEO GAMES NEGATIVELY AFFECTING MARRIAGES? Marriage and Video Games. Last year, a highly publicized study by the company Divorce Online found a correlation between divorce and the popular video game Fortnite. When going through divorce petitions, they discovered that at least 200 of the applications, or roughly 5%, literally had the word “Fortnite” listed as the reason for

divorce.

I KNOW THAT FACE

10 hours ago · At long last, cinema is back! To mark the occasion, I Know That Face is releasing this special bonus episode. Co-host Stephen Porzio had the chance to speak with actor Orion Lee about First Cow, the new movie from podcast favourite Kelly Reichardt.Screening at the Irish Film Institute (IFI) now, before hitting streaming service Mubi on July 9, the drama centres on a quiet

American chef and a

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5 hours ago · Mach-Hommy has been mindfully carving out his own lane since his split from Buffalo, NY rap collective Griselda in 2017. His career is the single biggest counterprogramming effort in contemporary hip hop. Mach has no social media presence. CIAN GEOGHEGAN, AUTHOR IN HEADSTUFF 5 hours ago · Mach-Hommy has been mindfully carving out his own lane since his split from Buffalo, NY rap collective Griselda in 2017. His career is the single biggest counterprogramming effort in contemporary hip hop. Mach has no social media presence. HeadStuff.org is a collaborative hub for LITERATURE IN THE TIME OF CORONA: PANDEMICS IN FICTION Sarah Cullen is a PhD student of American literature who hates all films and wants to tell you why. Her research examines representations of night time in nineteenth-century literature and her work on Frederick Douglass will be appearing in the Palgrave MacMillan collection Surveillance, Race, Culture this coming summer.

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NO ENCORE returns with another standalone interview edition. This time in the hot seat – Dublin-based electronica artist Mark O’Brien aka Royal Yellow. Dave Hanratty and Craig Fitzpatrick encounter an ebullient O’Brien, whose debut EP Still : Until is out right now for

your listening

THE SURREALITY OF LOVE Master of None has been tiptoeing away from its comedic roots from the beginning. The first season dove into social commentary and dipped its toe into emotional stuff, but never veered too far outside of a personality-driven comedic format. The second season became enthralled

with arthouse

SHIVA BABY | A GREAT MODERN FARCE WITH A TINGE OF HORROR If you’ve seen any of the chat around Shiva Baby in the run-up to its release on these shores, you might have noticed the idea that it’s a horror film coming up a lot. It is, of course, not a horror film. It’s a comedy with an old-fashioned premise, albeit framed in a unique setting. Rachel GLOBALIZATION AND THE GAMING INDUSTRY Globalization and the Gaming Industry. Just a decade ago, society held extremely negative stigmas about video games. Gamers were considered nerds at best and lazy at worst. However, the preconceptions surrounding gaming have changed, and we can A VERY BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO CHOICE THEORY A Very Brief Introduction to Choice Theory. “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In those choices lie our growth and our happiness.”. I studied Choice Theory during my Psychotherapy degree; it was one of the two main models of psychotherapy that we covered. KA-CHOW! | HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CARS AND CARS 2 1 day ago · Cars turns 15 this year. Cars 2 turns 10. These films, the first two in a trilogy of anthropomorphised, fast-paced, vehicular adventures, have become distinct images in the world of animation. The slick red paint of its protagonist Lightning McQueen –

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The Covid Retreat | Why Yoga Became The Anchor In A Pandemic. It seems like every exercise class under the sun is now being offered online. I’ve seen practically everything on offer, from spinning and aeriel classes to gymnastics and ballet. Friends and family of mine who never did a yoga class before the pandemic have turned to it as an escape. LITERATURE IN THE TIME OF CORONA: PANDEMICS IN FICTION Sarah Cullen is a PhD student of American literature who hates all films and wants to tell you why. Her research examines representations of night time in nineteenth-century literature and her work on Frederick Douglass will be appearing in the Palgrave MacMillan collection Surveillance, Race, Culture this coming summer. THE MEANING OF BIRD BOX Netflix’s Bird Box can be viewed as one of the most intelligent movies in the current climate. It is a cleverly disguised science fiction film where art imitates life. The viewer is brought along a metaphorical path submerged into the depths of ignorance as forced behavior. Bird Box sensitively tackles the question of mental health

in society.

9 SONGS WITH LONG TITLES. REALLY, REALLY Or, if you’d prefer, just skip to the end for a playlist full of songs with really long titles. #1. Sufjan Stevens – ‘‘The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You’re Going to Have to Leave Now, or, ‘I Have

Fought the

10 SURPRISINGLY HEALTHY BENEFITS OF GAMING Better Multi-Tasking Skills. Research also indicated that video games may help you make decisions under pressure, and multitask better. Action games are especially well-suited to developing the skills to handle multiple sources of information, take in sensory data more effectively, and make decisions quickly, even under pressure. THERE IS NOTHING EXCEPTIONAL ABOUT THE ANA KRIEGEL MURDER There is Nothing Exceptional about the Ana Kriegel Murder Trial Except the Verdict. In 2016 a 16 year old Argentinian girl, Lucía Pérez, met up with two men she thought were friends, who she thought she was going to hang out with and smoke some weed. They led her to an abandoned building, brutally raped her, impaled her and left her to

die.

BEAUTY AND MYTH

Canvas is known to have been the preferred material for painting of secular and pagan subjects. The painting depicts the image of Venus being blown gently to shore on a shell by a Zephyr and Chloris. She lands on the island of Cyprus. In this mythical

NATURE VS NURTURE

The importance of nurture – living in a caring environment and being helped through educational, social and emotional barriers – is beyond doubt but that nurture can in reality sometimes trump nature for those with certain genes is new. Epigenetic researchers not only believe that nurture can be affected by childhood but that just like WAKING DREAMS AND CADAVERS Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (originally titled Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus) is often considered to be the first science fiction novel and is a landmark of gothic fiction.First published anonymously in 1818 when Mary Shelley was only twenty years old the story of the novels conception is as fascinating as the hold the Doctor Frankenstein and his monster have held on popular culture THE FIRST CASUALTY IS THE TRUTH Horror aficionado Andrew Carroll recounts the time he watched one of the most disturbing movies he has seen. However, it's not your conventional horror movie. Capturing the Friedmans, a documentary about the insidious inner life of an American family, turns 15 years

old this week.

THE COVID RETREAT

The Covid Retreat | Why Yoga Became The Anchor In A Pandemic. It seems like every exercise class under the sun is now being offered online. I’ve seen practically everything on offer, from spinning and aeriel classes to gymnastics and ballet. Friends and family of mine who never did a yoga class before the pandemic have turned to it as an escape. LITERATURE IN THE TIME OF CORONA: PANDEMICS IN FICTION Sarah Cullen is a PhD student of American literature who hates all films and wants to tell you why. Her research examines representations of night time in nineteenth-century literature and her work on Frederick Douglass will be appearing in the Palgrave MacMillan collection Surveillance, Race, Culture this coming summer. THE MEANING OF BIRD BOX Netflix’s Bird Box can be viewed as one of the most intelligent movies in the current climate. It is a cleverly disguised science fiction film where art imitates life. The viewer is brought along a metaphorical path submerged into the depths of ignorance as forced behavior. Bird Box sensitively tackles the question of mental health

in society.

9 SONGS WITH LONG TITLES. REALLY, REALLY Or, if you’d prefer, just skip to the end for a playlist full of songs with really long titles. #1. Sufjan Stevens – ‘‘The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You’re Going to Have to Leave Now, or, ‘I Have

Fought the

10 SURPRISINGLY HEALTHY BENEFITS OF GAMING Better Multi-Tasking Skills. Research also indicated that video games may help you make decisions under pressure, and multitask better. Action games are especially well-suited to developing the skills to handle multiple sources of information, take in sensory data more effectively, and make decisions quickly, even under pressure. THERE IS NOTHING EXCEPTIONAL ABOUT THE ANA KRIEGEL MURDER There is Nothing Exceptional about the Ana Kriegel Murder Trial Except the Verdict. In 2016 a 16 year old Argentinian girl, Lucía Pérez, met up with two men she thought were friends, who she thought she was going to hang out with and smoke some weed. They led her to an abandoned building, brutally raped her, impaled her and left her to

die.

BEAUTY AND MYTH

Canvas is known to have been the preferred material for painting of secular and pagan subjects. The painting depicts the image of Venus being blown gently to shore on a shell by a Zephyr and Chloris. She lands on the island of Cyprus. In this mythical

NATURE VS NURTURE

The importance of nurture – living in a caring environment and being helped through educational, social and emotional barriers – is beyond doubt but that nurture can in reality sometimes trump nature for those with certain genes is new. Epigenetic researchers not only believe that nurture can be affected by childhood but that just like WAKING DREAMS AND CADAVERS Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (originally titled Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus) is often considered to be the first science fiction novel and is a landmark of gothic fiction.First published anonymously in 1818 when Mary Shelley was only twenty years old the story of the novels conception is as fascinating as the hold the Doctor Frankenstein and his monster have held on popular culture THE FIRST CASUALTY IS THE TRUTH Horror aficionado Andrew Carroll recounts the time he watched one of the most disturbing movies he has seen. However, it's not your conventional horror movie. Capturing the Friedmans, a documentary about the insidious inner life of an American family, turns 15 years

old this week.

NO ENCORE #277

1 day ago · NO ENCORE returns with another standalone interview edition. This time in the hot seat – Dublin-based electronica artist Mark O’Brien aka Royal Yellow. Dave Hanratty and Craig Fitzpatrick encounter an ebullient O’Brien, whose debut EP Still : Until is out right now for your listening SHIVA BABY | A GREAT MODERN FARCE WITH A TINGE OF HORROR 1 day ago · If you’ve seen any of the chat around Shiva Baby in the run-up to its release on these shores, you might have noticed the idea that it’s a horror film coming up a lot. It is, of course, not a horror film. It’s a comedy with an old-fashioned premise, albeit framed in a unique setting. Rachel THE SURREALITY OF LOVE Master of None has been tiptoeing away from its comedic roots from the beginning. The first season dove into social commentary and dipped its toe into emotional stuff, but never veered too far outside of a personality-driven comedic format. The second season became enthralled

with arthouse

KA-CHOW! | HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CARS AND CARS 2 18 hours ago · Cars turns 15 this year. Cars 2 turns 10. These films, the first two in a trilogy of anthropomorphised, fast-paced, vehicular adventures, have become distinct images in the world of animation. The slick red paint of its protagonist Lightning McQueen

–

9 SONGS WITH LONG TITLES. REALLY, REALLY Or, if you’d prefer, just skip to the end for a playlist full of songs with really long titles. #1. Sufjan Stevens – ‘‘The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You’re Going to Have to Leave Now, or, ‘I Have

Fought the

50 QUOTES FROM 50 CLASSICS A helpful list of 50 quotes from 50 literature classics. HeadStuff.org is a collaborative hub for the creative and the curious. We all spend so much of our time clicking through reams of content and sometimes not reading anything of interest at all.

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

In this artist-curated playlist, Jay Moussa-Mann picks her top five songs that tell a story, delving into a selection of favourites from her early childhood right up to her current life as a songwriter. The storytelling in this song is just so good. I have always loved country and this track has all IRELAND AND MULTICULTURALISM |OUR FIRST PEOPLE OF COLOUR Ireland and Multiculturalism |Our First People of Colour. Thomas Roberts' 1776 painting features a black man, believed to be one of the first in Ireland. Twenty-five years ago, Ireland appeared to be a homogeneous place, with white freckled people everywhere. But things have evolved, and this year has seen an increase in media attention on A VERY BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO CHOICE THEORY A Very Brief Introduction to Choice Theory. “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In those choices lie our growth and our happiness.”. I studied Choice Theory during my Psychotherapy degree; it was one of the two main models of psychotherapy that we covered. IS INCEPTION REALLY POSSIBLE? As a working neuroscience researcher, I know that we still understand very little about how the brain works as a whole. Modern neuroscience, as we know it today, sprouted from psychology, with big names such as Sigmund Freud and Ivan Pavlov really paving the way for future generations. The beauty of neuroscience, and all science for that matter, is that nearly every finding raises more

BEAUTY AND MYTH

Canvas is known to have been the preferred material for painting of secular and pagan subjects. The painting depicts the image of Venus being blown gently to shore on a shell by a Zephyr and Chloris. She lands on the island of Cyprus. In this mythical THE MEANING OF BIRD BOX Netflix’s Bird Box can be viewed as one of the most intelligent movies in the current climate. It is a cleverly disguised science fiction film where art imitates life. The viewer is brought along a metaphorical path submerged into the depths of ignorance as forced behavior. Bird Box sensitively tackles the question of mental health

in society.

LITERATURE IN THE TIME OF CORONA: PANDEMICS IN FICTION Sarah Cullen is a PhD student of American literature who hates all films and wants to tell you why. Her research examines representations of night time in nineteenth-century literature and her work on Frederick Douglass will be appearing in the Palgrave MacMillan collection Surveillance, Race, Culture this coming summer. PABLO NERUDA'S POETIC STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Pablo Neruda’s Poetic Struggle for Social Justice. September 11 was the anniversary of a violent event which brought about the modern world: the CIA-backed overthrow of Chilean president Salvador Allende in 1973. While the more recent attack on the World Trade Centre was a horrific tragedy and it has shaped many government and public A VERY BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO CHOICE THEORY A Very Brief Introduction to Choice Theory. “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In those choices lie our growth and our happiness.”. I studied Choice Theory during my Psychotherapy degree; it was one of the two main models of psychotherapy that we covered. SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF RACISM IN THE FILM INDUSTRY ISN'TRACISM IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRYRACISM IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRYRACISM IN AMERICAN FILMRACISM IN AMERICAN FILM Solving the Problem of Racism in the Film Industry isn’t so Black and White. Glitz, glamour and gold statuettes; the bright lights of Hollywood boasted all of these on Sunday as it played host to the 88th Academy Awards. However, underneath the glitter a griminess had risen up to overshadow the ceremony. For the second year in a row, every

THE SELFLESS MYTH

The Selfless Myth | Narcissistic mothers and their daughters. “I was four – nearly five – years old when I realised my mother didn’t love me,” Sarah* recalls. “I’d got lost on the beach, and she came after me. She was annoyed – accusing me of ‘wandering off’, and ‘not paying attention’. I HERE’S WHY TONY ROBBINS SHOULD DEFINITELY NOT BE YOUR GURU Here’s Why Tony Robbins Should Definitely Not Be Your Guru. I am hungover and am going to take you through the emotional journey that is watching the new Tony Robbins documentary. This means watching it again. While hungover. I am doing this for you so you don’t have to. For a long time, I thought Tony Porter and Tony Robbins were the same

BLOOD ON THE LEAVES

Udo Philpp, a reporter stands under a tree at the scene hours after Schleyer’s abduction. Wearing a grey suit, behind him is a plastic cover under which one of the guards lies, killed by Peter Willy Stoll, who had hopped up onto the front of the escort vehicle THE FIRST CASUALTY IS THE TRUTH Horror aficionado Andrew Carroll recounts the time he watched one of the most disturbing movies he has seen. However, it's not your conventional horror movie. Capturing the Friedmans, a documentary about the insidious inner life of an American family, turns 15 years

old this week.

BEAUTY AND MYTH

Canvas is known to have been the preferred material for painting of secular and pagan subjects. The painting depicts the image of Venus being blown gently to shore on a shell by a Zephyr and Chloris. She lands on the island of Cyprus. In this mythical THE MEANING OF BIRD BOX Netflix’s Bird Box can be viewed as one of the most intelligent movies in the current climate. It is a cleverly disguised science fiction film where art imitates life. The viewer is brought along a metaphorical path submerged into the depths of ignorance as forced behavior. Bird Box sensitively tackles the question of mental health

in society.

LITERATURE IN THE TIME OF CORONA: PANDEMICS IN FICTION Sarah Cullen is a PhD student of American literature who hates all films and wants to tell you why. Her research examines representations of night time in nineteenth-century literature and her work on Frederick Douglass will be appearing in the Palgrave MacMillan collection Surveillance, Race, Culture this coming summer. PABLO NERUDA'S POETIC STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Pablo Neruda’s Poetic Struggle for Social Justice. September 11 was the anniversary of a violent event which brought about the modern world: the CIA-backed overthrow of Chilean president Salvador Allende in 1973. While the more recent attack on the World Trade Centre was a horrific tragedy and it has shaped many government and public A VERY BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO CHOICE THEORY A Very Brief Introduction to Choice Theory. “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In those choices lie our growth and our happiness.”. I studied Choice Theory during my Psychotherapy degree; it was one of the two main models of psychotherapy that we covered. SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF RACISM IN THE FILM INDUSTRY ISN'TRACISM IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRYRACISM IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRYRACISM IN AMERICAN FILMRACISM IN AMERICAN FILM Solving the Problem of Racism in the Film Industry isn’t so Black and White. Glitz, glamour and gold statuettes; the bright lights of Hollywood boasted all of these on Sunday as it played host to the 88th Academy Awards. However, underneath the glitter a griminess had risen up to overshadow the ceremony. For the second year in a row, every

THE SELFLESS MYTH

The Selfless Myth | Narcissistic mothers and their daughters. “I was four – nearly five – years old when I realised my mother didn’t love me,” Sarah* recalls. “I’d got lost on the beach, and she came after me. She was annoyed – accusing me of ‘wandering off’, and ‘not paying attention’. I HERE’S WHY TONY ROBBINS SHOULD DEFINITELY NOT BE YOUR GURU Here’s Why Tony Robbins Should Definitely Not Be Your Guru. I am hungover and am going to take you through the emotional journey that is watching the new Tony Robbins documentary. This means watching it again. While hungover. I am doing this for you so you don’t have to. For a long time, I thought Tony Porter and Tony Robbins were the same

BLOOD ON THE LEAVES

Udo Philpp, a reporter stands under a tree at the scene hours after Schleyer’s abduction. Wearing a grey suit, behind him is a plastic cover under which one of the guards lies, killed by Peter Willy Stoll, who had hopped up onto the front of the escort vehicle THE FIRST CASUALTY IS THE TRUTH Horror aficionado Andrew Carroll recounts the time he watched one of the most disturbing movies he has seen. However, it's not your conventional horror movie. Capturing the Friedmans, a documentary about the insidious inner life of an American family, turns 15 years

old this week.

HEADSTUFF.ORG

HeadStuff.org is a collaborative hub for the creative and the curious. We all spend so much of our time clicking through reams of content and sometimes not reading anything of interest at all. THE SURREALITY OF LOVE Master of None has been tiptoeing away from its comedic roots from the beginning. The first season dove into social commentary and dipped its toe into emotional stuff, but never veered too far outside of a personality-driven comedic format. The second season became enthralled

with arthouse

NO ENCORE #276

ACT TWO (8:24): A heated news section takes in Noel Gallagher’s latest malaise, Lil Uzi Vert’s inevitable diamond-based fallout, JAY-Z’s relationship expertise, Sinéad O’Connor’s media remorse, and Justin Timberlake’s contentious legacy. ACT THREE (34:16): London avant-garde outfit Black Midi return with Cavalcade.A chaotic enough record receives the review it deserves.

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

In this artist-curated playlist, Jay Moussa-Mann picks her top five songs that tell a story, delving into a selection of favourites from her early childhood right up to her current life as a songwriter. The storytelling in this song is just so good. I have always loved country and this track has all FROM THE HUNK TO THE HIMBO: HORROR GAMING’S HOTTEST HEROES Horror games often want us to see our hero as either frail or vulnerable in either mind or body or both. It’s why an Outlast or Amnesia game never centers around a bodybuilder. The Decent Men occupy these areas of horror gaming for the most part although you’ll find the odd one in a game like The Evil Within.In more action-oriented games like Resident Evil 4 or Dead Space we have the Hunks. A VERY BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO CHOICE THEORY A Very Brief Introduction to Choice Theory. “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In those choices lie our growth and our happiness.”. I studied Choice Theory during my Psychotherapy degree; it was one of the two main models of psychotherapy that we covered. 9 SONGS WITH LONG TITLES. REALLY, REALLY Or, if you’d prefer, just skip to the end for a playlist full of songs with really long titles. #1. Sufjan Stevens – ‘‘The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You’re Going to Have to Leave Now, or, ‘I Have

Fought the

GREEN GAMING AND ITS IMPACT ON VIDEO GAME Green Gaming and Its Impact on Video Game Companies. Eco-friendly consciousness is seeping into every crack of modern life. Finally, it is reaching the gaming industry as well. Companies like Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft have been slammed for energy-wasteful practices and the use of hazardous materials. Gaming companies are now

making the

FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT'S FOUR POLICEMEN OF WORLD PEACE Roosevelt’s Plan for the Four Policement. Churchill envisioned a rebuilt Britain, France and Germany allied with the U.S., as a counterbalance to the unwieldy Soviet Union. Just as Putin is regarded as a political opportunist by many leaders today, so too was Stalin regarded as such by Churchill back then. Roosevelt saw the three

Allied

5 WAYS BAR TECHNOLOGY IS CHANGING THE WAYS WE DRINK AND 3. Robotic Delivery Systems. T wo bars in the United States are beta testing a new innovation in bar technology to improve the order and delivery of drinks. Tokyo Kitty, a Cincinnati karaoke bar, has incorporated a robot which assists with serving customers. It isn’t a typical robot, but a tray which the bartender loads with drinks that moves through the bar’s ceiling via a pulley system.

BEAUTY AND MYTH

The Birth of Venus was painted in 1484. It was painted with tempera on canvas, a popular and cheap choice for secular work. The canvas was a less expensive painting surface than the wooden panels used in church

and court pictures.

THE MEANING OF BIRD BOX Netflix’s Bird Box can be viewed as one of the most intelligent movies in the current climate. It is a cleverly disguised science fiction film where art imitates life. The viewer is brought along a metaphorical path submerged into the depths of ignorance as forced

behavior.

LITERATURE IN THE TIME OF CORONA: PANDEMICS IN FICTION Sarah Cullen is a PhD student of American literature who hates all films and wants to tell you why. Her research examines representations of night time in nineteenth-century literature and her work on Frederick Douglass will be appearing in the Palgrave MacMillan collection Surveillance, Race, Culture this coming summer. PABLO NERUDA'S POETIC STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE A popular, democratically elected leftist was overthrown in favour of a violent dictator backed by the United States and the continent of Latin America was torn apart by torture, concentration camps and death squads while the corporation-friendly economic policies pushed by the United States on Chile have now become an economic consensus for the whole world, resulting in poverty, inequality A VERY BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO CHOICE THEORY Glasser came to the conclusion that all behaviour is driven from the inside, regardless of external influences. We are all in control of our own choices, and every behaviour is a choice. SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF RACISM IN THE FILM INDUSTRY ISN'TRACISM IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRYRACISM IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRYRACISM IN AMERICAN FILMRACISM IN AMERICAN FILM When answering the rhetorical question of why people are boycotting these Oscars when it is not the first year that only white actors and actresses have been nominated, Rock replied that in previous decades, black people were “too busy being raped and lynched to worry about who got best cinematographer,” and even made allusions to the current epidemic of unjustified police killings in the

THE SELFLESS MYTH

Hazel Katherine Larkin spent half her adult life in Asia, where she wrote for stage, screen, and publication. The first volume of her memoirs, Gullible Travels was published in 2015, and she's planning on publishing the next volume when she's finished her PhD.

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Hazel Katherine Larkin spent half her adult life in Asia, where she wrote for stage, screen, and publication. The first volume of her memoirs, Gullible Travels was published in 2015, and she's planning on publishing the next volume when she's finished her PhD.

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Then at 1am, a frail and disoriented Schleyer was walked up to the apartment. Delirious, he was laid on a mattress next to a double bed. Warned by Boock that any efforts to draw attention to his situation would be shut down immediately, Boock indicated towards a “dungeon”, formerly a cupboard. THE FIRST CASUALTY IS THE TRUTH Horror aficionado Andrew Carroll recounts the time he watched one of the most disturbing movies he has seen. However, it's not your conventional horror movie. Capturing the Friedmans, a documentary about the insidious inner life of an American family, turns 15 years

old this week.

HERE’S WHY TONY ROBBINS SHOULD DEFINITELY NOT BE YOUR GURU Welcome to “ A Date With Destiny ”, a horribly named, 12 hour a day, 6 day seminar costing each attendee over $5,000. Massive lighting rigs and huge screens adorn the walls of the conference theatre and dance music blasts as people rush the doors.

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