The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear
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Last Wednesday BBC2 aired part one of a three part series called The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear.
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By Hugo Tugman  If dreams and nightmares are two sides of the same coin, it's frightening how frequently moving to your "dream home" comes up "tails". Some friends have recently exchanged on a new house after nearly a full year of stress.
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By Munz, Tania  LORRAINE DASTON and GREGG MITMAN (eds.), Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. vii+230. ISBN 0-2311.3038-4. Pounds 32.00, $49.50 (hardback).
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Feelings of phoniness appear to alter peopleâs goals in unexpected ways and may also protect them against subconscious self-delusions.
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Electric shock experiments on humans have shown that brain regions linked to fear responses are also highly activated when fears are unlearned, a finding that provides insight into developing drugs for anxiety and other fear disorders.
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Big dreams are once again on the minds of psychologists as part of a larger trend toward studying dreams as meaningful representations of our concerns and emotions.
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What happens when idealism becomes power? That question is the driving force of Jeremy Kaganâs inert yet strangely compelling film âGoldaâs Balcony.â
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By Anonymous  Critical Thinking About Sex, Love and Romance in the Mass Media, Mary-Lou Galician and Debra L. Merskin, eds. Erlbaum, 2007,408 pp., $34.95.  Contributors to this fascinating book examine popular media's roles in perpetuating romantic fantasy and myth.
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If you look into the eyes of someone who is frightened, your brain will pick up on the fear in a split second, well before you can consciously put a name to the emotion, scientists say.
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Henry Jenkins  and his observations on social responsibility in Chinese video game culture.
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"Tornadoes are caused by trailer parks."  Watching Nicolas Sarkozy on stage at a conference of French business leaders here, you see a man with the raw, feral political instincts of a Huey Long or Lyndon Johnson . via The Washington Post
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Pregnant women and those who have recently given birth commonly have dreams in which their baby is in danger, a new study suggests.
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"The Paranoia Switch" (Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux, 202 pages. $26), by Martha Stout: Opponents of the Bush administration have long accused the government of trafficking in fear &#151; using terror alerts, for example, to distract the public and prevent citizens from questioning authority.
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The scares come more from human predicaments than from special effects and blaring music.
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The politics of terrorism has Democrats tied in knots. Each time President Bush raises fears of a possible attack, the political debate shifts from his most troublesome issue (Iraq) to one of his strongest (the war on terrorism) while Democrats fight their impulse to question the president's motives.
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Looking at someone who is scared triggers a brain response that tells you to be afraid too, say researchers.
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&quot;Southland Tales&quot; imagines a Los Angeles on the brink of apocalypse in 2008, when the Internet is under government control, gasoline is replaced by something called &quot;fluid karma&quot; and the Democratic Party has splintered into neo-Marxist cells.