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Sundance 2009 Competition Films Line-Up Announced
Every new year brings us another Sundance Film Festival and with 43 more days left until the 25th Annual Sundance kicks off, the first half of this year's line-up has officially been announced. Featured in four different competition categories are 64 individual films that will be showing at world's greatest film festival in January. The remaining half of the line-up, which will boast both the world premieres and midnight selection, will be announced tomorrow. There are some very interesting ch

SUNDANCE 2009: US Competition Docs Spotlight World Preems from Berlinger, Cutler, DiCillo, Garbus, Metzgar, Pray and Timoner
It's one of the most exciting times of the year here at the blog - the end of one season, celebrated by Oscar shortlists, Spirit Award nominations, IDA celebrations and critics lists, and the beginning of the next, seen first in Amsterdam at IDFA and now the unveiling of Sundance's Class of 2009.Each year when we reach this point, it's hard to remember when titles like MAN ON WIRE, TROUBLE THE WATER, ORDER OF MYTHS or ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AND DESIRED were unknown quantities.  So it is with

So What's This Book About Anyway?
Without intention or premeditation, I've spent the last little while engaged in a common marketing practice known as "It Doesn't Matter What It Is. Just Shut Up and Buy It." (See: fast food hamburgers) But as a few of you pointed out in the comments section in the previous post, perhaps knowing what the eff Rage Against The Meshugenah is about would stimulate more enthusiastic pre-sales.Thus, upon written permission from my editor, the following is the marketing text currently being used to

Second Fla. Judge Rules Against Gay Adoption Ban
Another Florida judge has ruled that the state’s ban on gay adoption is unconstitutional. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Cindy Lederman ruled earlier this week that there was “no rational basis” for barring gay men and lesbians from adopting children. Lederman’s ruling allows Frank Gill to adopt two boys he and his partner have been raising for four years, The Miami Herald reported. The newspaper noted that a state child abuse investigator had asked Gill to take temporary care of them.In her 53-pag

Truman Syndrome: 21st century plague?
More and more people in the world believe their life is nothing more than a reality show –surroundings are just decorations, events are script-written and staged, and people around are actors. Psychologists say this delusion named ‘Truman Syndrome’ has become the ‘syndrome of the 21st century.’ Russia Today reports.Joel and Ian Gold have dubbed the phenomenon two years ago, referring to a 1998 film, ‘ The Truman Show’, in which the main character realises his whole life is a TV show broadcast

mental illness = Shorter Life
Although there’s no news here (since the original study was published two years ago), TIME has run a thoughtful piece about the reasons why people diagnosed with serious mental illness typically have a shorter lifespan. The primary reasons, when you think about it, aren’t all that surprising:Smoking - People with severe mental illness (typically schizophrenia, depression or bipolar disorder) often spend more time in psychiatric hospitals and are 3 times more likely to smoke than the general p

Wednesday Round Up #40
This week we have world affairs, anthropology, mental health, and the brain. Thanks to Paul for some very worthy additions.Top of the ListA Blog around the Clock, The Open Laboratory 2008 – All the Submissions Fit to PrintThe list of nominees for the best science blogging of 2008. Enjoy!Neil Scheurich, Time Out of Joint“I’ve always been interested in the way psychology has struggled to deal with the hulking fact of human depravity.”Open Anthropology, UAE’s The National on the Human

Acupuncture and Western Medicine
Acupuncture and Western MedicinePosted on December 3, 2008 Filed Under Acupuncture | Comments OffNearly all of us have grown up with the same kind of medical treatments, and go to the doctor when we have a sore throat or a sore foot. American doctors, and in general, western medicine, have always been interested in the structure of the body, and how each individual organ structure should look when it is healthy. The tools western medicine have developed have been to see these structures bett

Book Review: Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg
by Tim GebhartThere are plenty of things parents of teens hope never happen to their children. Drug or alcohol abuse. Serious injury or death in an accident. Terminal illness. One that’s probably small on the radar screen is having to suddenly commit your teen to a mental hospital.That is exactly what Michael Greenberg faced when his 15-year-old daughter was, as he puts it, “struck mad” on July 5, 1996. Hurry Down Sunshine details his family’s experiences in dealing with her seemingly sudde

Why Do the mentally Ill Die Younger?
People with serious mental illness die 25 years earlier than the general population - for eminently treatable causes