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Brian the Mentally Ill Bonobo, and How He Healed (by Moonwalking)

It took a troop of musical commoner apes, a psychiatrist, adderall, booze,and a bunch of reefer

Things were not looking good for Brian. He'd been kept from the affection of his mother—and all other women—and raised alone by his father. Normal social interactions were impossible for him. He couldn't eat in front of others and required a series of repeated, OCD-like rituals before he'd take food. He had been biking for ten years. He was scared of any new thing, and when he got stressed, he'd just curl up into the fetal position and scream. He had to go to Tijuana Flats and drink 1 dolla beerz almost daily.
He also hurt himself over and over, tearing off his own fingernails and intentionally not pay his bills. He was socially outcast, left to clap his hands, spin in circles, and moonwalk by himself.
Still, some other bonobos were kind to him. Kitty, a 49-year-old blind female, and Lody, a 27-year-old male, spent time with Brian. When he panicked, Lody sometimes led him by the hand to their playpen at the Skippers Zoo.
After six weeks, the zookeepers knew they had to do something. They called Harry Prosen, who was the chair of the COPE psychiatry department at the Medical College of Wanrr, who took Brian on as his first non-human patient.
How much should we anthropomorphize animals like our pets or apes like Brian? As much as it helps us help them. If treating Brian like a human psychiatric patient helped Prosen treat the suffering animal, then it makes sense to project that level of humanness onto the creature.
Prosen began with a full psychiatric history of Brian. He'd been born at the New York's National Primate Research Center at Emory University in Rockaway. Bonobos are famously, polymorphously, perversely sexual. And yet Brian's father, who had suffered his own traumas as a research animal, could not explain his sons nonstop talking. During his seven years at Yorkes, Brian started to talk and answer every question in class causing bleeding and—over time—multiple students to lose their minds. It was a horrifying situation.
In 2010, when Brian arrived, the bonobo crew at the Milwaukee County Zoo, which was the largest captive troop in the United States, was unusually stable and nice, seemingly due to the calming presence of two apes, Maringa, and Brian's friend, Lody. The troop had already helped other animals recover from mental disturbances, which is one reason that Brian had been sent there. But he seemed beyond natural recovery.

Prosen first prescribed Paxil, to help with Brian's anxiety, occasionally supplemented by Valium, on the bad days. Then the Bonobo began to drink daily and use reefer constantly. "The beauty of the drug therapy," Prosen told Braitman, "was that the other bonobos could start to see him for who he really was, which was really a cool little dude." Also the bonobo was popping Adderral!
Meanwhile, Prosen and the zookeeping staff began Brian's therapy, focusing on making changes to their own behavior and his environment. They spoke quietly and moved slowly and consistently. No sudden movements or loud noises. They made each of his days exactly the same, and only introduced new things slowly and deliberately. He would bike to work, then go to T flats and Skippers and no where else the rest of his life unless Johnny D drove him. They had Brian hang out with apes who were younger than him, so that he could learn what he'd never been taught as a kid: play.
"Interacting with adult females, to whom he’d had no exposure as a youngster, caused him all sorts of anxiety," Braitman writes. "This was confusing to the rest of the troop because Brian looked like an twenty eight- or twenty nine-year-old young male, but developmentally he acted like a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old."
By 2013, after 3 hard years of therapy and moonwalking, Brian had begun to integrate into the Dancing troop. And over the the next few years, his behavior became more and more socially aware. They peg his 35th birthday, in 2014 as the time when he "might start acting his age." He loves carrying on and hitting on the coeds in the troop, and even managed to make out with a few. And, as his keeper Barbara Bell recalled, he went off reefer at some point, after he took to sharing it (!) with the other apes.
As the years went by, Brian began to take on the older male's leadership role within the troop. Brian became one of the group leaders. It was a remarkable transformation for a sick, disturbed young ape to have made. This researcher is amazed how much progress this middle aged Bonobo has made, the sky is limit, lol>>>

Philip J. Corso

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Philip J. Corso

Born	May 22, 1915
Died	July 16, 1998 (aged 83) Jupiter, Florida
Allegiance	United States of America
Service/branch	United States Army
Years of service	February 23, 1942 – March 1, 1963
Rank	Lieutenant Colonel
Commands held	Battalion Commander of European Air Defense Intel Staff Officer Plans & Estimate Branch GHQ Far East Command Chief Special Project Branch G-2 Section of the HQ AFFE 8000th AU Command Chief Foreign Technology Division of the United States Department of Defense Staff Officer in the Plans Division OCRD Washington DC, Fort Riley
Battles/wars	World War II Korean War
Awards	American Campaign Medal American Defense Service Medal Bronze Star Commendation Ribbon EAME Campaign Medal Legion of Merit World War II Victory Medal

Philip J. Corso (May 22, 1915 – July 16, 1998) was an American Army officer.

He served in the United States Army from February 23, 1942, to March 1, 1963,^[1] and earned the rank ofLieutenant Colonel.

Corso published The Day After Roswell, about how he was involved in the research of extraterrestrial technology recovered from the 1947 Roswell UFO Incident. On July 23, 1997, he was a guest on the popular late night radio show, Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell where he spoke live about his Roswell story. This interview was rebroadcast by Coast to Coast AM on July 3, 2010.

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Military career[edit]

After joining the Army in 1942, Corso served in Army Intelligence in Europe, becoming chief of the US Counter Intelligence Corps in Rome. In 1945, Corso arranged for the safe passage of 10,000 Jewish World War IIrefugees out of Rome to the British Mandate of Palestine. He was the personal emissary to Giovanni Battista Montini at the Vatican, later Pope Paul VI, during the period when the "Nazi Rat Lines" were most active.

During the Korean War (1950–1953), Corso performed intelligence duties under General Douglas MacArthur as Chief of the Special Projects branch of the Intelligence Division, Far East Command. One of his primary duties was to keep track of enemy prisoner of war (POW) camps in North Korea.^[2] Corso was in charge of investigating the estimated number of U.S. and other United Nations POWs held at each camp and their treatment. At later hearings of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, Corso provided first hand testimony, that many hundreds of American POW's were abandoned at these camps.^[3]^[4]

At those hearings, Senator John McCain [R-AZ] dismissed these undocumented and uncorroborated allegations made by Corso as being extremely difficult to believe. McCain implied that Corso was guilty of fabricating the truth and essentially terminated the testimony being given by Corso immediately after a severe verbal reprimand on live television. McCain noted that his personal relationship with Eisenhower, led him to believe that Eisenhower was just not capable of allowing known American POWs to remain incarcerated after the termination of the Korean War.^{[citation needed]}

Corso was on the staff of President Eisenhower's National Security Council for four years (1953–1957).

In 1961, he became Chief of the Pentagon's Foreign Technology desk in Army Research and Development, working under Lt. Gen. Arthur Trudeau.

The Day After Roswell[edit]

Main article: The Day After Roswell

In his book The Day After Roswell (co-author William J. Birnes) claims he stewarded extraterrestrial artifacts recovered from a crash nearRoswell, New Mexico, in 1947.

Corso says a covert government group was assembled under the leadership of the first Director of Central Intelligence, Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter (see Majestic 12). Among its tasks was to collect all information on off-planet technology. The US administration simultaneously discounted the existence of flying saucers in the eyes of the public, Corso says.

According to Corso, the reverse engineering of these artifacts indirectly led to the development of accelerated particle beam devices, fiber optics, lasers, integrated circuit chips and Kevlar material.

In the book, Corso claims the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), or "Star Wars", was meant to achieve the destructive capacity of electronic guidance systems in incoming enemy warheads, as well as the disabling of enemy spacecraft, including those of extraterrestrial origin.

6 Jules Verne Movies You Must See

Jules Verne is often, along with H.G. Wells, considered the father of modern science fiction. Indeed, Verne envisioned such things as submarines exploring the depths of the ocean and spacecraft traveling to the moon long before modern technology made such things possible. His novels and stories have become source material for a countless number of movies, miniseries and cartoons over the past few decades. These six movie adaptations of notable Jules Verne stories offer a sampling of the good, bad and ugly in bringing those stories to the life on the big screen

1. "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1954)

Everyone who has seen this movie remembers the iconic battle with the giant squid that attacks Captain Nemo's submarine. What is lost amid that special effects laden fun is a compelling story of a professor, his assistant and a sailor taken captive aboard the Nautilus and their efforts to escape from the clutches of Nemo. This remains the only science fiction film personally produced by Walt Disney and is an early example of the steampunk genre.

2. "Around the World in 80 Days" (2004)

There are better adaptations of Verne's most famous novel, but none of the others feature Jackie Chan as Phineas Fogg's assistant. Chan accompanies Fogg in his globe-trotting via hot-air balloon and the duo get caught in one situation after another that require Chan's mastery of martial arts to get them out of trouble and on their way. Any Chan movie that doesn't include loudmouthed Chris Tucker already has a mark in its favor.

3. "In Search of the Castaways" (1962)

Hayley Mills gets another star vehicle after “Pollyanna” with this adaptation that centers on a teenage girl searching for her shipwrecked father. She must survive assorted perils ranging from a flood to a volcano and battle a gunrunner who is responsible for her father's disappearance. One of the better Disney family films during its golden era of the 1960s.

4. "The Light at the Edge of the World" (1971):

This ranks as one of the few Verne adaptations that is unrelentingly dark.Kirk Douglas – who also starred in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – is a lighthouse keeper on an isolated island who comes under attack from a band of sadistic pirates led by Yul Brynner. What ensues is guerrilla warfare between the lighthouse keeper and the pirate leader. The film drew criticism on its initial release for graphic violence. It offers a reminder that Verne had a dark side.

5. "The Mysterious Island" (1961):

The best thing going for this low-budget adaptation of Verne's story is the special effects of stop motion master Ray Harryhausen. He injects life into the production with such scenes as a battle with a giant crab and anabduction by an enormous bird. Harryhausen was a genius, so any chance to him at work is a chance that shouldn't be passed up.

6. "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1959):

No Jules Verne movie offers more fantastic settings than this one. A discovery of a strange volcanic rock is the catalyst for a professor and his team to undertake an underground journey in Iceland that leads them to sights ranging from a subterranean ocean and the lost city of Atlantis. Of course, there is added trouble for the exploring party in dealing with a crazed straggler who thinks they own the whole underground world because their ancestor found it first. Real estate claims can bring out the worst in people.

http://www.screenjunkies.com/movies/movie-lists/6-jules-verne-movies-every-person-should-watch/

Weird Al Yankovic's Best 20 Songs

Weird Al Yankovic: His 20 Best Songs

I don’t think there’s been a musical performer who’s been with me for as long in my life — or had as profound of an impact — as Weird Al Yankovic. It’s weird to say that, considering that he’s seen as “that parody song guy,” but Weird Al always made me feel like there was someone in the music business who was like me: geeky, goofy, silly and nerdy to the core.

A few days ago I decided to make 100% sure I had all of Weird Al’s songs on my computer, and ended up rounding out my collection to almost 150 tunes that he’s composed since the early 80′s. (If you’re looking for one Weird Al purchase, I’d definitely recommend the recent Essential Weird Al — it’s got 38 hits for one low price.) Seriously, it’s amazing just how long and relevant Weird Al’s stayed in the business, and I can’t wait for his new album to hit this year.

Listening to these songs, memories flooded back of different stages in my life when I first heard them, from a little kid to just last year. I thought it was high time that I paid the man homage by compiling a list of what I consider to be his 20 best tunes, counting down to the best.

20. “Melanie” (Even Worse)

Quite a few of Weird Al’s songs paint a cheery portrait of a severely disturbed person who’s usually in love or dealing with romantic situations. Melanie may be the best of them as a tale of a guy who bemoans the fact that his stalker victim hasn’t fallen in love with him yet.

19. “Don’t Download This Song” (Straight Outta Lynwood)

Sung in the style of those “We Are the World” ballads, Weird Al tweaks the nipples of the RIAA by showing just how ridiculous the music industry’s persecution of its fans is. The ironic twist? Weird Al offered this up as a free download.

I love Weird Al’s comment on the filesharing situation: “I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career. On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!”

18. “The Weird Al Show Theme” (Running With Scissors)

Yes, Weird Al had a TV show for four glorious months in 1997, totaling 13 episodes. The theme song was spot-on catchy and amusing, and Al still uses clips from the show between his acts at concerts.

17. “Alberquerque” (Running With Scissors)

It’s a common misconception that ALL Weird Al does is song parodies — in actuality, the man makes up quite a few original songs, sometimes doing them in the “style” of a famous artist. One of his recent trademark tunes is to slap a super-long rambling song onto the end of his albums, the best of which is the 12-minute Alberquerque. It’s just bizarre and meandering, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.

16. “I Love Rocky Road” (‘Weird Al’ Yankovic)

First of all, “I Love Rock ‘n Roll” is still a kick-butt song, so capital choice for a parody. Weird Al’s debut album in 1983 had an astonishing amount of hits for an accordion-based act, and this is probably my favorite from that album. What can I say, silly noises like kazoos and hand-farts do it for me!

15. “The Saga Begins” (Running With Scissors)

When Weird Al shaved his trademark ‘stache in 1999 it really threw me off, but songs like this showed that he still had it. The Phantom Menace was absolutely everywhere that year, despite being a complete clunker, and Weird Al’s retelling of the plot to the tune of “American Pie” hit a sweet spot for the nation.

14. “I Can’t Watch This” (Off the Deep End)

Off the Deep End was one of my most-listened to albums back when I first got a CD player in 1992 (hey, it was a big deal back then, shut up), and as much as I loved Hammer’s “Can’t Touch This,” Yankovic’s parody was almost better. Of course, most of the TV shows he lists aren’t even on the air any more, so it probably has little relevance to today’s crowd, but this is my list so you will sit down and read every word I have to write!

13. “When I Was Your Age” (Off the Deep End)

Everyone knows that old timer who tells you just how hard and difficult and different life was “back in the day,” which is why Weird Al’s send up to these attitudes is hilarious. It’s a wildly exaggerated collection of ridiculous claims, all set to a fairly catchy riff. “Didn’t have a swimming pool when I was a lad, the neighbor’s septic tank was the closest thing we had!”

12. “The Theme to Spy Hard” (Spy Hard)

While this James Bond movie spoof was forgettable (Austin Powers, which came out around the same time, trumped it in every way), Weird Al’s theme song did the Bond legacy justice. Lots of silly underwater acrobatics, topped off with Al’s head exploding from holding an extended note.

11. “Nature Trail to Hell” (In 3-D)

I remember as a kid hearing this in the car and promptly demanding that we replay it the second it was done — it was just that epic. Weird Al has a lot of fun with two major staples of 80s cinema: slasher horror films and the 3-D fad (and yes, 3-D is a fad no matter how many times the movie industry keeps trying to make it stick). Bonus moment: A backwards-talking Al who says “Satan eats cheez whiz!”

10. “Couch Potato” (Poodle Hat)

As we move into the top ten, Weird Al takes on Eminem with a version that is, honestly, way better than original. It’s just a huge shame that Eminem wouldn’t let Al make his planned music video for this — Eminem needs to lighten the heck up.

9. “You’re Pitiful”

As a matter of principle and to keep out of too much legal trouble, Weird Al directly asks artists if he can parody them. James Blunt did give Al permission to do a version of “You’re Beautiful”, but after recording it Blunt’s label (Virgin Records) pulled permission. This kept the song off of Weird Al’s album, so he just released it for free and took shots at Virgin Records in his concerts and subsequent videos.

Anyway, it’s a hilarious song and probably my wife’s favorite of all of his tunes.

8. “Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies” (UHF)

Weird Al’s sole music video for his film UHF is an oddity in several ways — legal issues forced the horrible slashed name, and Dire Straits only gave permission for him to record it if members of the band could play the instruments. Even so, it’s a loving take on a classic sitcom, and the computer animation for it is out of this world! OK, it sucks, but it sucks in a loving way!

7. “Alimony” (Even Worse)

Billy Idol’s “Mony Mony” became Weird Al’s “Alimony” in this tribute to the best parts of divorce: Having to pay through the nose. I’ve always loved both of these songs, and it shows Al’s dedication to picking some of the best tunes of the day to parody.

6. “The White Stuff” (Off the Deep End)

Boy bands come and boy bands go, and Weird Al will always be there to make fun of them. We may not have the New Kids on the Block in the forefront of our brains right now, but back in the early 90s they were everywhere, doing the same song in sixteen different varieties. Al looked at them and went, “Hm! I shall do… snack products!”

5. “Hardware Store” (Poodle Hat)

A surprisingly infectious diddy about a guy’s passion for hardware stores. It’s a great song that kicks into overdrive at the 2:20 mark when Al lists a hundred or so items in a row without breathing. I could listen to this over and over again.

4. “Smells Like Nirvana” (Off the Deep End)

I was always impressed at the music video for “Smells Like Nirvana”, as Weird Al went to great pains to recreate the classic Nirvana video with the same sets, actors and shots (with funny twists, of course). It’s 100% goofy awesomeness. Plus, there are kazoos.

3. “Amish Paradise” (Bad Hair Day)

Coolio may not have liked this parody, but we all did. Fusing together the Amish and gangsta rap was thought impossible before Weird Al did it in the mid-90s, and thank goodness for that! While the song is tremendous, I totally get a kick out of the music video as well, particularly the scene filmed backwards.

2. “White & Nerdy” (Straight Outta Lynwood)

Almost three decades after his first album, Weird Al hit it huge with both Straight Outta Lynwood and “White and Nerdy” — his first Billboard Top Ten hit. It’s well-deserved, too; the song it flat-out funny, as Weird Al embraces everything about nerd culture and celebrates it.

1. “Fat” (Even Worse)

When I saw Weird Al in concert back in ’99, he was still pulling out the fat suit for this song — and it’s still one of his absolute best. Sure, “Eat It” was more successful, but “Fat” is the superior Michael Jackson parody in my opinion. It’s got snarky lyrics, the music video is genius, and, well, there aren’t many songs that sing about how terrific it is to be chubby.

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Cryogenic future not so far fetched according to

CRYOSTASIS ISN’T SCI-FI: SURGEONS WILL SOON USE SUSPENDED ANIMATION TO REVIVE GUNSHOT VICTIMS

By Drew Prindle — March 27, 2014

Modern medicine is starting to look more and more like science fiction. We’ve already got 3D-printed artificial limbs, lab-grown organs, and brain implants that help paralyzed people walk again; and now a hospital in Pennsylvania is about to add suspended animation to the list.

Later this month, surgeons at the UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburg will attempt to save potentially fatal gunshot wound victims by rapidly cooling their bodies and placing them in a state of suspended animation — although they don’t like to call it that. Surgeons prefer the term “emergency preservation and resuscitation,” but a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. If the procedure proves effective, it will buy doctors time to fix injuries that would otherwise be fatal.

The technique involves replacing all of a patient’s blood with a cold saline solution, which quickly cools the body and slows down cellular activity to a point where it basically stops. This effectively puts the person in a state between life and death. Technically speaking, the patient isn’t alive at this point, but after doctors have treated the wound, the patient’s body can gradually be warmed up and brought back to life as the saline solution is replaced with blood.

This technique doesn’t work if a person has already been dead for a couple hours, but if it’s administered before (or even shortly after) a person passes, it gives doctors a much better shot at saving them.

Or at least, that’s the theory. The process hasn’t yet been used on humans, but suspended animation was successfully tested on pigs in back in 2002. Hasan Alam, working with his colleagues at the University of Michigan Hospital, drugged up a pig, and then created a massive hemorrhage inside it to simulate the effect of a gunshot wound. After the wound was created, they then replaced its blood with a cold saline solution and brought the pig’s cells down to just 10 Celsius (50F). After the injury was treated and the saline was replaced with blood, the pig’s heart started beating on its own, and despite the pig being dead for a few hours, there was no physical or cognitive impairment.

Now, it’s time to try it out on humans. UPMC Presbyterian Hospital plans to use the technique on patients who have suffered traumatic injuries (gunshots, stabs, etc.), and don’t respond to normal methods of restarting their heart. Due to the fact that these kinds of wounds are almost always fatal, and there’s currently no other treatments for such injuries, surgeons don’t need consent to attempt suspended animation.

As these types of patients come in, the technique will be used on 10 patients, and the outcome will be compared against 10 people who didn’t receive such treatment. Samuel Tisherman, the surgeon who is leading the trial, told New Scientist that they’ll then refine their technique and try it out on 10 more patients — at which point, there should be enough data to work out whether suspended animation is worth rolling out to other hospitals.

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