Word: wiredness
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We seem wired to attack our hair under traumatic conditions, possibly because forcibly extracting hair is painful; it can divert attention from stress to the more immediate matter of how to solve a pressing problem. For chronic hair pullers, that diversion turns into addictive psychological relief. Some people with trichotillomania...
Returning home one spring five years ago from a secret visit to Beijing in his armored, fully wired train car, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il got an unnerving, firsthand demonstration of the potential downside of technology. A huge explosion ripped through the Ryongchon border station, and some officials initially...
Wired: Online Activists Attacking Government Sites, June 15, 9:44 p.m. IRT
Regardless of the outcome, the journey has been exhilarating, and through it I feel an emotional connection to the cosmos that I don’t think I could have acquired any other way. My intuition tells me that this particular odyssey will arrive at a promised land, perhaps confirming...
About drinking your own urine - you talk in the book about people who hallucinate while running or become disoriented and exhausted. You say running is really easy, but obviously ultra-running is an extreme sport. It's very hard, and people go through a lot. Why do you think people...