LOCATION:
Merlot Restaurant, The Oasis, Surabaya, Indonesia


SCHEDULES OF MY PERFORMANCES THERE:

SATURDAY - MAY 28, 2011

At 7 - 9 PM

SUNDAY - MAY 29, 2011
At 7 - 9 PM

COME AND ENJOY!

Depression Forces Our Mind to be More Focus

Why do people get depressed? At first glance, the answer seems obvious: the mind, like the flesh, is prone to malfunction. Once that malfunction happens — perhaps it’s an errant gene triggering a shortage of some happy chemical — we sink into a emotional stupor and need medical treatment. But this pat explanation obscures a lingering paradox of depression, which is that the mental illness is extremely common. Every year, approximately 7 percent of us will be afflicted by the god-awful mental state that William Styron described as a “gray drizzle of horror . . . a storm of murk.” Obsessed with our pain, we will retreat from everything. We will stop eating, unless we start eating too much. Sex will lose its appeal; sleep will become a frustrating pursuit. We will always be tired, even though we will do less and less. We will think a lot about death.

In recent years, a small cadre of researchers has begun exploring this apparent paradox, trying to understand why states of such extreme sadness are so widespread. (The prevalence of depression exists in stark contrast with every other mental illness – schizophrenia, for example, is seen in less than 1 percent of the population.) I wrote about two of these researchers, Andy Thomson at the University of Virginia and Paul Andrews of Virginia Commonwealth, in the Times Magazine last year. The startling speculation behind their theory revolves around the purpose of rumination, the thought process that defines depression. (The verb is derived from the Latin word for “chewed over,” which describes the act of digestion in cattle, in which they swallow, regurgitate and then rechew their food.) In recent decades, psychiatry has come to see rumination as a dangerous mental habit, because it leads people to fixate on their flaws and problems, thus extending their negative moods. The bleakness of this thought process helps explain why, according to the Yale psychologist Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, people with “ruminative tendencies” are more likely to become depressed. They’re also more likely to become unnerved by stressful events: for instance, Nolen-Hoeksema found that residents of San Francisco who self-identified as ruminators showed significantly more depressive symptoms after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

Read more at Wired

Left-handed Has More Interesting Facts

15% of human population in this Mother Earth are left-handed and the rests are right-handed people. But did you know that left-handed people are unique?

#1 Left-handed people are more prone to insomnia, allergies, migraines, and the other things than right-handed people.

#2 Left-handed people are more damaged or impacted by fear than right-handed people.

#3 Left-handed people use right side of their brain (Creativity, visual, constructing, etc.) most and right-handed people use left-side of their brain (Logic, numerical, etc.) most.

#4 Left-handed people have more creativity.

#5 Left-handed people have more extreme intelligence than right-handed people.

#6 Left-handed people tend to have a higher portions of mentally retarded people and they also have a higher tendency to be people with high IQ'S (reach over 140).

May Magic Weeks at Merlot

LOCATION:
Merlot Restaurant, The Oasis, Surabaya, Indonesia


SCHEDULES OF MY PERFORMANCES THERE:

SATURDAY - MAY 7, 2011

At 7 - 9 PM

SUNDAY - MAY 8, 2011
At 7 - 9 PM

COME AND ENJOY!

3-D Map of 3 Billion Year Old Universe

Using light from 14,000 distant yet powerful cosmic beacons, astronomers have pieced together the largest and most detailed 3-D map of the ancient universe.

Previous versions plotted the locations of galaxies within 7 billion light-years of Earth. The new version, however, charts clouds of hydrogen in a swath between 10 billion and 12 billion light-years away — farther in distance and deeper in time than any 3-D map before it.

The hydrogen clouds could help answer some of astronomers’ more profound questions about the universe, including the nature of dark energy.

“We’re looking for a bump in the data that may tell us how fast universe is expanding,” said cosmologist Anže Slosar of Brookhaven National Laboratory, one of the researchers who presented the map May 1 at the American Physical Society meeting in Anaheim, California. “We don’t have enough data to see the bump yet, but we expect to get there in a few years.”

Read more at Wired