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Laplatia is top 10 in Ultimate Fantasy Book’s best book cover contest!
Dear readers! Laplatia has made it to the top ten in Ultimate Fantasy Books best cover contest! Semi-final!!! Now it’s even more challenging; those of you who are available please click below and cast a vote for number 5! Thanks! http://www.ultimatefantasybooks.com/competitions.php
Why is the number of suicide bombers increasing?
Have you ever heard about the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam? The Tigers were a group that fought for an independent state in Sri Lanka. They were very organized and even had their own air force. Until 2009, when it was terminated, the movement used terrorism as an important war tactic and had killed the most people in the world…
Laplatia on Brazilian Amazon’s best-sellers list
Laplatia hit #1 on Brazilian Amazon’s best-sellers list, category dystopia/science fiction! Thanks to all Brazilian readers!
Truths and lies on the internet: case report of a suicide broadcast over the web
Recently the British Journal of Psychiatry, one of the highest impact journals in psychiatry, published a case report about a young Swedish man who committed suicide and decided to broadcast his death over the Internet. At 11:51 AM on October 11, 2010, the 21-year-old created the thread “hanging” on a Swedish forum called Flashback. This forum is known to be…
Laplatia’s giveaway on Goodreads!
Enter a chance to win 5 paperback units of Laplatia – Or, The City That Could Not Dream on Goodreads! Already 300 participants registered! Goodreads Book Giveaway Laplatia by Alexandre A. Loch Giveaway ends March 23, 2016. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway
Creativity might be related to unethical behavior
Creativity generally consists of two components: mental flexibility (the ability to find different solutions for the same problem) and divergent thinking (thinking “outside the box”—the ability to think beyond what is usually considered). In some situations (such as ethical dilemmas), a person’s creativity can be tested. In these situations, an individual has to weigh the desire to satisfy his or…
Why is Nature’s article about schizophrenia so important
Some time ago, understanding mental illness was more like cheering for a football team: people would wear a team’s T-shirt and cheer the way they pleased. Some cheered for psychotherapy and argued that medicine did no good, while others praised medication and said that psychotherapy was like a placebo. The conception of the psyche was made of multifaceted and disaggregated…
Virginia Woolf and the bipolar disorder
Many wonder if there is any relationship between creativity and mental disorders among writers. For they are often afflicted by such disorder, as was the case of Ernest Hemingway, plagued by depression, and as was also the case of Virginia Woolf. According to Katerina Koutsantoni, Virginia Woolf seemed to have foremost a genetic predisposition to the development of mood disorders:…
The production of literature
The production of literature has always been the matter of scientific interest, usually involving different areas of knowledge. How do authors produce their works of fiction? The best and most obvious answer is that there are no rigid rules. But an American researcher interviewed five writers, and proposed to outline some common denominators of literary writing. Two of them were…