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It’s all in your HEAD, MAN! Interesting video shared by everyone’s fave Broseph, Joseph Lee :)

It’s all in your HEAD, MAN! Interesting video shared by everyone’s fave Broseph, Joseph Lee 🙂

Originally shared by Joseph Lee

The Placebo Effect

You’ve all heard of the Placebo effect. If you take something with no know therapeutic value, but you believe will help you, you generally feel better. But this video points out some interesting facts that I was unaware of, such as the strength of the placebo effect and how it varies depending on presentation (larger and shiner are always the best option), and also the fact that you can become dependent on placebos. People have actually exhibited withdrawal symptoms after being taken off them. Watch the fascinating video to find out more! #placebo

The Strange Powers of the Placebo Effect

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfRVCaA5o18
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From the video vault at Hangout Conversations w/matthew rappaport:

From the video vault at Hangout Conversations w/matthew rappaport:

FINALLY! Episode 2 w/Mike Stenger is up, yo

(thanks a heap, YouTube, for being pretty much OFF line for uploads much of last night—or at least AT THE TIME BJ wanted to upload it)!

It’s our biggest (maybe even our best) video in that, the size of it was rendered to be lots less tiny than those of the past (forgive me, I’m new at this video editing stuff). Plus, it’s the first show we recorded using Hangouts with Extras (which, if you haven’t checked out by now…you should get ON IT).

Anyhoo… the show was a great one, we had a coffee-slurpin’ good time and Mike was an awesome guest. Now we’re proud to share the results of the show w/everyone on G+!

What’s this Hangout Conversations nonsense, you ask?

Check our site out and learn more…view upcoming & past shows, chat live with us while we’re on air (next show’s on THURSDAY @8pm ET/5 PT w/ some random guy named Peter McDermott), at:

http://www.hangoutconversations.com

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVJ2LRovUsM
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So there’s this guy… matthew rappaport

Originally shared by Peter G McDermott

So there’s this guy… matthew rappaport

Maybe you’ve heard of him?

Well, this guy, matthew rappaport likes to have conversations. I know, don’t ask me why. But he likes to have them in hangouts. So, if you want to see ME hanging out with HIM. Tune in, Thursday Night at 8pm ET on hangoutconversations.com to get the full scoop. We’ll talk about will.i.am . Daria Musk Michael Mozart and Crispin Glover, among other things. You NEED to be there though. I’m not saying that as a selfless promotion, I’m saying that because matthew rappaport TOLD ME TO!

In the mean time, here’s a message from Elmo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1u8N45t1TU
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(via Aloha Arleen Boyd)

(via Aloha Arleen Boyd)

Originally shared by Ebby Amir

By popular demand, we’re rolling out a feature that lets you disable comments and lock your posts before sharing to the Google+ stream. Watch the video to see how it works, and let us know what you think in the comments!

Video Transcript

Hi! My name is Ebby and I’m an engineer on the Google+ Sharing team.

One of my favorite parts about Google+ is how circles help me control who I share things with. And if I want to go a step further, I can do things like disable comments, or lock my post to make sure no one reshares it.

We’ve heard from many of you that you want these disable and lock options before you share, not after. So today I’m happy to say that we’re doing exactly that. Let me show you how it works.

Say I want to share this picture from my friend’s party. As usual, I choose the circles I want to share with. But as I hover over the sharebox, you’ll notice I can now disable comments and lock the post — before sharing to the Stream.

We hope these features help you feel even more secure about sharing on Google+. We’ll keep listening, and rolling out more improvements in the coming weeks and months, so let us know what you think!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5b2fFN0t5A
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Nice list of cool peeps to recommend and follow :) You should do it!

Nice list of cool peeps to recommend and follow 🙂 You should do it!

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Watch this film, circle these folk.

Did you see the enchanting Midnight in Paris? I loved it. Set in one of the world’s most beautiful, walkable, livable, lovable cities – to quote my father, who I am missing much at the moment. It is full of art, romance, and a call to stop longing for things past and move forward. And that’s just what I must do, in ways big and small…

I have loved keeping ‘summer hours’ and having the time to indulge my G+ addictions. However, having settled my kids in school, with them finally doing full days, there is a pile of websites and other business communications to be written, that I can no longer avoid. So I must hie me hence to my freshly spic-and-spanned office, to produce copy.

Posts and hanging out will have to be better planned, but that’s probably a good thing. If nothing else, I will savour them more. Last night’s hangout was a stand-out, with some hangout stalwarts, some of whom have been around from the beginning of limited beta (for me, it was early July).

Some of the highlights: Trey’s tales of shooting and trouble-shooting, circling the globe and circle struggles!; lively discussion about Occupy Wall Street and Mozie (Michael Mozart) reporting as a citizen, since there has been so little coverage; artists, Daria and Samantha sharing what they are doing; David, back from Hawaii, sunburnt and ready to serve!

So, here is my roll-call in terms of people to circle, if you haven’t already. If I don’t mention you, I am trying to do this in a measured, honest way. I aim to talk about people I know and want to recommend in a loose order of priority for me, with all the personal and really, inconsequential, reasons that entails.

Shout-out to matthew rappaport, movie guy and a very prolific poster and hanger-outer with his own show (just check his page or do a search, okay? I need to go upstairs!) He has a keen sense of fun and irreverence, along with un-usual suspects, Joseph Lee and Bobbi Jo Woods. Amanda Blain – I’m mentioning you, since you’ve just sprung to mind. This woman is Ms Hangouts. She needs no introduction, yet there is so much I could say about my fellow Canadian. Just check her out.

Trey Ratcliff – intrepid HDR art photographer. He was one of the first people I circled. He was too prolific a poster to ignore, especially in the early days of the field trial – smart on his part, and indicative of creative and business opportunities here, and smart on Google’s part as photos are a big part of what they do and what this integrated environment is going to look like for us users.

Michael Mozart – Mr YouTube and someone else you cannot ignore. A fountain of info and ideas.

Samantha Villenave – a bright star of what I would call the new wave of artists hitting this place at a rate of knots, and showing everybody how it’s done. She hangs out from her cozy studio en Provence, painting, drawing and making surprise doodles, if you’re lucky (the last portrait in my scrapbook bar on my profile is her work).

Daria Musk – effervescent as ever, talking about her projects (that woman works hard!) and, to our great glee, pulling out her guitar and serenading us.

Peter McDermott – a guy with a voice – and face! – for radio and podcasting. He is an example of enthusiasm, entrepreneurship and networking round here, and an all-round worthwhile guy to circle and hang out with.

David Bennett, whom I mentioned in the last post. He gets plussed ad infinitum, so I’ll give him a break, as he gets back on top of what can only be an enormous workload. He represents the ‘tech heavies’ that populated the place three months ago (a little different because he works ‘here’).

This is the best of Google Plus. It isn’t always fun, and maybe I will address that in a future post, but it is stimulating and stretching. A slice of life on steroids. Go suck the marrow of yours! Live deliberately..

Originally shared by Phil Edwards

http://www.liveforfilms.com/2011/10/04/woody-allen-and-owen-wilson-talk-about-midnight-in-paris/