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Γονείς στο web-Μέρος Ι

September 12, 2009 Fun, Kids 1 Comment

Είναι μπλόγκερς, Έλληνες, ενεργητικότατοι στο web και ..πρώτα από όλα και πάνω από όλα..είναι γονείς.

Μας μιλούν για την ζωή τους, τη ζωή των παιδιών τους και μας προσκαλούν συχνά να “ζήσουμε” μαζί τους.. ό,τι αυτοί θέλουν να μοιραστούν.

Κυρίες και Κύριοι.. meet some Greek [web] parents

Ο Σπύρος [Spy]

[πρέπει να είναι το πρώτο μπλογκ που "συντάσσεται" από βρέφος:-]

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Ο Χρίστος [philos]

- με τον Γιώργο και τον μικρό του που θα μας θυμώσει πολύ που δεν βρήκαμε το όνομα του [για αυτό help us:-]

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Η Νατάσσα [Νατασσάκι]

- με τον Αστεράκη

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Η Άσπα [Aspa online]

- με την Εβίτα και την Εβελίνα

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Ο Θόδωρος [theocoach]

- με τον Δημήτρη

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Φαντάζεστε πόσα θα έχουν να συζητήσουν με τα παιδιά τους όταν εκείνα έρθουν πραγματικά στο Web;

I heart Anna Torv!

A virtual trip inspired by Anaxagoras

Our Plan To Save Annie Leibovitz's Finances

By John Cook, 6:21 PM on Tue Sep 8 2009, 8,309 views (Edit, to draft, Slurp)

Annie Leibovitz has been sued—again--for passing off another photographer's work as her own. She allegedly stitched a portrait she took onto a background he took and passed it off as her own shot. Which gave us an idea! Italian photographer Paolo Pizzetti sued Leibovitz last week for copyright infringement.

According to Bloomberg, Leibovitz hired Pizzetti last year to scout locations for a calendar she was shooting for the Italian coffee company LavAzza. Leibovitz did indeed shoot photos for the calendar, which was supposed to be themed "The Italian Espresso Experience," but she couldn't actually make it to Italy to photograph the models. No problem—she just shot her models in New York and then pasted them onto photos taken in scenic Italian backgrounds. No muss, no fuss, the check cleared.

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By Lauren Davis, 4:40 PM on Thu Aug 20 2009, 4,049 views (Edit, to draft, Slurp)

Social and romantic rejection can cause very real and unpleasant pain. But it's not because we've internalized centuries of poetry and sappy movies; a new study finds there is an actual neurological mechanism at work.

A team of psychologists at the University of California, Los Angeles, conducted a study to determine the relationship between a pain susceptibility gene OPRM1 and emotional pain. They polled 122 participants about their emotional and physical reactions to social situations, especially social exclusion. They also created a virtual social exclusion scenario in which 31 of the participants were excluded during a ball-tossing computer game while researchers monitored their brain activity.

They found that the same variation of the OPRM1 pain gene that has been linked with high susceptibility to physical pain also correlates to high susceptibility to emotional pain. When participants with this rare variation were excluded from the computer game, there was greater activity in the pain-related regions of their brains than in the brains of people with more common variations of the gene.

This suggests that the gene may be responsible for a neurological mechanism that triggers pain receptors when an individual feels social rejection. And study co-author Naomi Eisenberger suggests that such a mechanism may have driven some humans to form evolutionarily beneficial social groups:

Because social connection is so important, feeling literally hurt by not having social connections may be an adaptive way to make sure we keep them. Over the course of evolution, the social attachment system, which ensures social connection, may have actually borrowed some of the mechanisms of the pain system to maintain social connections.

Still no word, though, on whether a person can, in fact, die of a broken heart.

Why a broken heart really does hurt [Telegraph via Reddit]

Now we know why Moby's heart feels so bad!