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maaarine
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Taxometrics: Toward a new diagnostic scheme for psychopathology (Roman Kotov, Thomas Joiner, Norman Schmidt; 2004)
"Taxa are described by sets of objects like biological species or organic diseases but need not be biological in nature.
Dogs, cats, or mice could be considered taxa, and so could surgeons or cathedrals.
Taxa represent meaningful elements in nature that can be discriminated.
In reference to Plato, if we could somehow successfully "carve nature at its joints," what we would be left with is a bunch of taxa.
A taxon is something that naturally exists whether or not we are currently capable of accurately identifying it.
Something is not a taxon when it is an arbitrary category or is dimensional.
For example, many believe that neuroticism is a dimensional personality trait.
If this is true, classifying individuals as neurotic or not neurotic would be arbitrary because there is no "real" underlying category of neurotic.
Instead, some people simply show more or less of this trait.
The term neurotic is used for the sake of convenience and is based on some arbitrary cutoff point on a dimensional measure of neuroticism. (…)
Recognition of the arbitrary nature of diagnostic classification seems prudent because there are undeniably arbitrary elements in this system.
The most obvious example of arbitrariness is the use of cutting scores (i.e., requiring a certain number of available criteria for a diagnosis to be met).
In a system that uses cutting scores, the individual displaying x criteria is assigned a diagnosis, whereas an individual with x - 1 criteria does not receive a diagnosis.
Does having necessarily arbitrary diagnostic boundaries mean that the entities underlying the diagnoses (i.e., the taxa) must also be arbitrary?
If this is so, then the DSM diagnoses could not be representative of taxa that are, by definition, nonarbitrary categories.
As we discuss, having "fuzzy boundaries" or arbitrary diagnostic criteria is not inconsistent with being taxonic. (…)
In other words, despite the DSM's "recognition" of the arbitrary nature of its classification scheme, the division of diagnoses (e.g., bipolar disorder, panic disorder) is assumed to reflect our efforts at carving nature at its joints.
The DSM reflects our current best guess about mental illness taxa."
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution (Cat Bohannon, 2023)
"If a baby is fighting an infection, for example, various signals of that infection, from actual infectious agents like viruses and bacteria to more subtle indicators like the stress hormone cortisol, will be present in the baby’s spit.
When that spit gets sucked up into the mother’s breast, the tissue reacts and her immune system will produce agents to fight the pathogen.
Her milk will carry them into the baby’s mouth, providing extra soldiers to combat the infection and help the baby’s own immune system learn what it needs to fight.
In response to raised cortisol, the milk glands and surrounding tissue will also bump up the dosage of immuno-agents in the daily brew, and it may also send down the line a number of signals to soothe the child.
Some of those signal are hormonal—stuff to directly counteract the inflammatory properties of cortisol.
Some of them are nutritional, with added knock-on effects to change the baby’s mood.
For example, milk produced by a breast that’s nursing a child who’s stressed tends to have differing ratios of sugars and fats, providing extra energy to help the baby’s body fight off any potential invasion.
It can also work as an analgesic, damping the baby’s pain response and helping it rest; after all, quite a lot of healing happens when we’re calm and asleep.
These sorts of responsive features seem to be true across Mammalia, the particular magic potion varying from species to species—different bodies need different sorts of breast-borne chicken noodle soup—but the overall principle holds true.
The resulting effect is so powerful that when many babies grow up, their brains still associate milk-related signals with healing and comfort.
Eating fat-dense and/or high-carb foods, especially if they taste sweet—the sort that many humans tend to seek when feeling stressed or lonely—produces an analgesic effect in a number of different mammals.
For rat and human alike, “comfort food” can dampen the body’s pain response, a kind of grown-up breast substitute."
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i’m just tryna have a nice time despite knowing facts and information
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bit uncomfortable how Biden looks roughly the same age as veterans from D-day
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Belgium is playing against Montenegro (men's football)
they just played national anthems and it turns out that the anthem for Montenegro is dark and sexy
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Nine Eyes of Google Street View
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aujourd'hui en regardant une photo j'ai trouvé qu'une personne avait la même tête qu'une autre personne
et l'expression qui est apparue dans mes pensées fut: elles ont vraiment la même schnëss
je me suis d'abord marrée que ce mot soit sorti de nulle part
puis j'ai pensé à ma mère qui était celle qui utilisait toujours des mots que je supposais dérivés du luxembourgeois ou de l'allemand
bref j'ai googlé une épellation approximative du mot "schnëss", pour en savoir l'origine
je suis tombée sur une discussion d'un forum français intitulée: "Si toi aussi tu viens de ce merveilleux pays qu'est la Moselle"
et putain je crève devant toutes les expressions que ma mère et mes grand-parents utilisaient aussi et qui me paraissent parfaitement normales:
"Si tu dis de qqn qu'il a du 'schpeck'…
Si tu mets des déterminants devant les prénoms des gens…
Si tu 'spritzes' du lave-vitre pour laver tes carreaux ou du liquide lave-glace pour ton pare-brise…
Si tu fermes la lumière…
Si tu prends un 'Stück' et pas un morceau…
Si tu mets un 'stampel' et pas un tampon…
Si tu manges des 'shneck' et pas des 'pains aux raisins'…
Si tu fais de la 'boulibatsch' et pas de la gadoue…
Si tu as déjà dit qu'une personne est une 'quetsche'…
Si tu as de la 'schnudel' qui coule du nez…
Si tu dis 'comment qu'c'est?' et pas 'comment tu vas?'…
Si tu bois du 'schnaps' et pas de 'l'eau de vie'…
Si tu demandes aux gens de fermer leur 'schness' …
Si étant petit tu devais mettre tes 'schlapp' pour ne pas salir tes chaussettes…"
j'ajouterais à cette liste: "schnicker" (picoler), "vreck" (merde!), "nondikass" (merde!), utiliser la "spull" (torchon) pour laver ce qui est "knaschteg" (sale), faire un bon "schlof" (bien dormir)
et des expressions que je n'arrive tellement pas à épeler que google ne sait pas m'aider
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Sydney Smith (Canadian, b. Caledonia, Nova Scotia, based Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) - A Rainy Highway, 2022, Paintings: Watercolor, Gouache
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution (Cat Bohannon, 2023)
"Given that we haven’t any true sense of when these sorts of breasts evolved, it’s even harder to know whether they came about as a reproductive signal to males.
We do know that among today’s Homo sapiens, small-breasted women regularly give birth to perfectly healthy babies and can make plenty of milk, and there’s no evidence that large-breasted women have more babies (or even more sex) than other women, nor do they make more milk.
Among studies that try to parse modern heterosexual male desire, hip-to-waist ratio is a better predictor for whether men will find a woman attractive than the size of her breasts, and this is true across multiple human cultures.
But there’s another knock against that theory: large breasts aren’t a reliable sign of fertility.
In fact, women’s breasts are at their largest not when a woman is most likely to be ovulating but when she is menstruating, already pregnant, or breast-feeding.
Not only is she less likely to be receptive to sexual advances at these times, with breasts often sore and sensitive to touch, but her male admirers would have no luck sowing their oats.
Being sexually attracted to large, swollen breasts does not, by and large, have an immediate evolutionary payoff.
Large breasts can, however, advertise an estrogen-heavy phenotype, particularly when combined with a relatively narrow waist, which may be good for carrying babies in general.
Like any plump female feature, they’re also pretty good flags for being healthy and having a ready food supply."
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