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Those are tears, not a goatee ;)

Congrats, Jesse!!!

Love and peace,
YG

Congrats on the gig; see you over at SciAm :)

No one buys or reads that magazine. It's the world's biggest snore...with 80's pictures and editors who are so lazy they can only find writers on PT's blogs. How else do you think they found you? Sitting at a bus stop in Belfast? Not likely.

However brilliant your observations on the human psyche, please don't suffer from the illusion that anyone will actually buy the rag to read you. When a tree falls in the middle of the forrest, does it make a sound? When Jesse get's published in SA American Brain, did he actually say anything? Spose we'll never know.

Thanks YG and Brad. Bob, stop being a jackass.

Bob, Scientific Mind is the best psych & neuroscience magazine hands down. Please tell me what you read - dumb air-headed magazines like Psychology Today?? Ive been reading SM for a couple of years, and its always been fascinating. Yeah it has 80's pics but so do the latest Psychology textbooks. Who cares about the pics anyway, you are not reading a Playboy!
Jesse, congrats on being part of the mag. I cant wait to read your articles on there.

because I think its a great way to find interesting and up to date info about psych and neuroscience. I found psychology today first but after looking around in SCIAM I think I'm going to spend more time there. I agree with the previous poster a great deal. I'll come back for psychology today occasionally to check on the psych careers blog though!

I just heard your piece on NPR and wanted to tell you the following story that happened to me -- About 4 years ago, my wife suddenly started having a problem swallowing. It started out small but within a short while developed into a problem she could not ignore. A trip to our local hospital revealed what appeared to a tumor. The radiologist confirmed an esophageal cancer. We had it confirmed by two other radiologists before trying to proceed to the next step. The results looked pretty grim. Typically esophageal cancer is terminal within one year, even with treatments. Our primary physician called our home late one evening after reviewing the results of the radiology tests to let us know how sorry he was. At the time we had adopted two Chinese children from China and the thought of raising them without their mother terrified me. They were old enough to know something was wrong but young enough that we did not want to tell them until my wife had had a biopsy. Needless to say our Thanksgiving that year was quiet and tearful and the thought of Christmas quickly approaching with this issue had brought me to despair. One evening in mid-December I had snuck outside on a beautiful star lit evening to ask God for a sign that my wife was going to be okay. I was raised as a Roman Catholic but you could say I was not actively practicing my faith. Yet here I was asking God for that sign and telling Him that I did not believe I could move on without my wife and the sorrow it would bring our children. Realizing that I was being selfish I then asked God to forgive me for asking and told Him that I did not need a sign for Him to help my wife. In that moment as I was looking up I saw a door open in the middle of the sky. It opened to reveal a pure bright witness like nothing I had ever seen. It only lasted for second and the closed leaving me standing there astonished by what I had just witnessed. It appeared to be the Door to Heaven and I have never doubted the existence of God and Heaven since. When my wife went for the biopsy a couple of days later the physician called me aside to tell me that there was no tumor in her throat. Our primary physician could not believe it and ran tests to confirm. But I had already known.