If you have ever thought of yourself as an introvert or extrovert; if you’ve ever deployed the notions of the archetypal or collective unconscious; if you’ve ever loved or loathed the new age; if you have ever done a Myers-Briggs personality or spirituality test; if you’ve ever been in counselling and sat opposite your therapist rather than lain on the couch – in all these cases, there’s one man you can thank: Carl Gustav Jung. Jung died 50 years ago today. Freud called...

Their tagline is: “You can’t BRAG if you don’t ride!” The 32nd annual Bicycle Ride Across Georgia (BRAG) began Sunday at Oglethorpe College in Atlanta. It moves on to Oxford, Milledgeville, Dublin, Metter and Hinesville before coming to an end in Savannah on Saturday. Rest stops, set up every 15 miles along the route, are managed by the Special Olympics. This is the fourth year in a row that my partner, Doug Keith, is riding. He tells me the 72 mile ride from Oxford to Milledgeville on Monday...

The Pentagon has decided that computer sabotage from another country can be considered an act of war. And the U.S. can respond with military force: The Pentagon’s first formal cyber strategy, unclassified portions of which are expected to become public next month, represents an early attempt to grapple with a changing world in which a hacker could pose as significant a threat to U.S. nuclear reactors, subways or pipelines as a hostile country’s military. In part, the Pentagon intends...

Not Hangover Part II, poised to win the award for Biggest Comedy Debut of All-Time, raking in an expected $138.1 million this weekend. The movie also broke the record for the Biggest Opening Weekend of Any R-rated Film, over five days. Nope, for me it was Bridesmaids, which comes in fourth, making $16.3 million during its third weekend. NYTimes’ A. O. Scott: The heroine of a standard rom-com is permitted to be sarcastic and maybe, in the obligatory tipsy scene, a little nutty, but the job...

China’s desire to buy up farmland makes Brazil uneasy: China has become Brazil’s biggest trading partner, buying ever increasing volumes of soybeans and iron ore, while investing billions in Brazil’s energy sector. The demand has helped fuel an economic boom here that has lifted more than 20 million Brazilians from extreme poverty and brought economic stability to a country accustomed to periodic crises. Yet some experts say the partnership has devolved into a classic neo-colonial relationship...

5,609,004 views and counting… Frankly, I think it’s overrated. But, hey, the internet is made of cats. And it’s a sweet diversion for a lazy holiday weekend. Let’s turn now to animal behaviorist John Bradshaw, who will give this post some substance: We know they dream because you can measure the brain waves and the movements of the animal (unintelligible) which are very similar to the sorts of things that go on in humans when we dream… So what we don’t know is...

The NYTimes on a new report, “Bait and Switch: How Seafood Fraud Hurts Our Oceans, Our Wallets and Our Health:” Recent studies by researchers in North America and Europe harnessing the new techniques have consistently found that 20 to 25 percent of the seafood products they check are fraudulently identified, fish geneticists say. Labeling regulation means little if the “grouper” is really catfish or if gulf shrimp were spawned on a farm in Thailand. Environmentalists, scientists and foodies...

From a terrific Business Week profile of economist, academic, and blogger Tyler Cowen: The Great Stagnation runs through three centuries’ worth of what Cowen calls the “low-hanging fruit” of economic growth: free land, technological breakthroughs, and smart kids waiting to be educated. For developed economies, he argues, none of these remains to be plucked. Yet America, Europe, and Japan have built political and social institutions on the assumption of endless growth. Cowen summarizes...

Douglas Blackmon: In the first sentences of an opinion issued last week by the state Supreme Court, Chief Justice Carol Hunstein declared without qualification that the Georgia Charter School Commission was illegal because of an “unbroken … constitutional authority” existing since the adoption of the 1877 Constitution giving only “local boards of education” the power to create k-12 public schools. As a result, schools for 15,000 underserved children soon may be forced out of business. But...

Reppler is a service launched last month to help keep your Facebook image clean by monitoring your Facebook profile, making you aware of inappropriate content and highlighting public information that should be private. Jackie Cohen of All Facebook reports that of the 30,000-plus Facebook members’ walls Reppler looked at over the past two months: 47 percent of our users have profanity on their Facebook wall. 80 percent of our users who have profanity on their Facebook all have at least one...

One can only hope. The effective end of “America’s Most Wanted” (Fox reduced it from once a week to once every three months last week) is the jumping off point for a David Carr take-down of Nancy Grace. Carr says that on her show “the presumption of innocence has found a willful and angry enemy.” Grace, a Georgia native and former Atlanta prosecutor, has been reprimanded more than once, was wrong about the Duke lacrosse rape case and wrong about who kidnapped Elizabeth Smart, among...

Historian Elin Whitney-Smith is publishing a book online, chapter by chapter, titled Winning Information Revolutions: From the Ice Age to the Internet. In it she looks at previous periods of disruption to understand what we are going through today. She says there have been six information revolutions in human history, each representing a major change in the organizational paradigm — a change in how we organize into groups. The first was from hunter–gatherers to agriculture; second, counting and...

And implies that Obama is a Muslim: “I know this is a non-denominational prayer in this chamber and it’s not about the Baptists and it’s not about the Catholics alone or the Lutherans or the Wesleyans or the Presbyterians, evangelicals or any other denomination but rather the head of the denomination and his name is Jesus, as every president up until 2008 has acknowledged. And we pray it. In Jesus’ name.” Watch: The Speaker essentially cancelled the prayer and re-started the session...

A report out this week made quite a splash by claiming that Netflix, YouTube and other online video sites create nerly 46 percent of all Internet downloads during peak hours. See, for example, here, here, here and here. But Kevin Fogarty at CoreIT says not so fast. Netflix isn’t swamping the Internet; ISPs are overstating their congestion problems: Netflix doesn’t swamp the ISPs’ backbones or even their high-volume network spokes because its content is distributed and cached ahead...

Gadgetwise reports Facebok is about to announce a new effort to fight the distribution of child pornography using Microsoft technology: Microsoft says it has refined a technology it created called PhotoDNA to identify the worst of these disturbing images — even if they are cropped or otherwise altered — and cull through large amounts of data quickly and accurately enough to police the world’s largest online services. And on Thursday, it will announce that Facebook will be the first service...

The LATimes broke the story overnight: Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, separated after she learned he had fathered a child more than a decade ago — before his first run for office — with a longtime member of their household staff. Shriver moved out of the family’s Brentwood mansion earlier this year, after Schwarzenegger acknowledged the paternity. The staff member worked for the family for 20 years, retiring in January. “After leaving the...

A federal appeals court today declined to review a legal challenge from Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who say that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea. NY Mag, Even Federal-Appeals Courts Are Over the Winklevii’s Facebook Suit. NYTimes Bits, “it is hard for anyone to feel too bad about their failure. The settlement they signed with Facebook in 2008 is now worth around $200 million.” Winklevii’s say they were misled about the value of the stock. Facebook is “pleased...

Defense Secretary Robert Gates – who’s served eight presidents – on “60 Minutes” tonight: “I worked for a lot of these guys. And this is one of the most courageous calls, decisions that I think I’ve ever seen a president make. For all of the concerns that I’ve just been talking about. The uncertainty of the intelligence. The consequences of it going bad. The risk to the lives of the Americans involved. It was a very gutsy call,” Gates said. “You...

The 1947 Roswell Incident, allegedly the crash of an extra-terrestrial spacecraft filled with alien occupants, caused intense controversy and spawned conspiracy theories by the score. Now comes a stranger-than-conspiracy-fiction explanation: Area 51, the new book by Annie Jacobsen…puts forward the theory that Stalin was inspired by Orson Wells’s famous radio adaptation of the HG Wells novel War of the Worlds, which provoked hysteria across America when broadcast in 1938. According to the...

Roll Call: Comedian Stephen Colbert on Wednesday night went straight to the Federal Election Commission to ask for an exemption for his new political action committee he said aims to be “a force in the 2012 election.” “The Colbert Report” sketch, like much of his straight man routine, went after politicians in the news. He highlighted the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision allowing for unlimited corporate donations to a “super PAC.” He also mentioned...