Father of Schizophrenia Victim asks: “Our house is on fire,and you are talking about the chemistry of the pain?”


Today's New York Times featured an article (link, excerpts below) about Dr. Thomas P. Insel, who for 13 years ran the National Institute of Mental Health. He presided of the sharp shift in focus of the National Institute of Mental Health away from behavioral research and toward neuroscience and genetics. In an interview for the article, he conceded that little...

I am looking for a place to post this thread "Tricks With Small Change" that would go:
Over the years I have both heard about and participated in various harmless mischief involving small change.

1. Back in the day when toll lanes were manned from time to time I would pay with pennies. Once I paid a $2.00 toll on the Tappan Zee Bridge n/k/a Mario Cuomo Bridge with four penny rolls. I chose that location since there was no collector-operated gate, unlike most other tolls.
2. When

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