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‘A classic autumn morning in the vines near the Corbières town of Tuchan, France. I took this photo while walking my dog – that’s his back intruding into the bottom corner of the frame.’

Photograph: Robert Heath

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When the electrical currents were activated, several of the patients had seizures. Patient 13 “complained of nervousness, urinary urgency and chills.” Patient 14 “developed a generalized terror, which appeared to be associated with his extreme apprehension and fear and which persisted for several minutes after stimulation.” Patient 16 “became quite agitated,” with her blood pressure spiking to 178/110. Patient 17 developed “marked cardiac arrhythmia,” and “in both stimulations, the patient’s eyes were seen to open widely, and she said she was afraid.” Patient 22 “expressed great fear, and at one point it took four or five people to restrain her”.

Experiments done by Robert Heath

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A poem by Robert Heath

Seeing Her Dancing

Robes loosely flowing, and aspect as free,

A careless carriage, deckt with modestie;

A smiling look, but yet severe;

Such comely Graces 'bout her wove,

As she could hardly be perceiv'd to move;

Whilst her silk sailes displaied, she

Swam like a ship with Majestie

As when with stedfast eyes we view the Sun,

We know it goes though see no motion;

So undiscern'd she mov'd, that we

Perceiv'd she stirr'd, but did not see.

Robert Heath

(1636-1659)

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In 1970, B-19 ended up in the care of Robert Galbraith Heath, chair of the department of psychiatry and neurology at Tulane University, New Orleans. Heath’s prescription was drastic. He and his team implanted stainless steel, Teflon-coated electrodes into nine separate regions of B-19’s brain, with wires leading back out of his skull. Once he had recovered from the operation, a control box was attached which enabled him, under his doctors’ supervision, to provide a one-second jolt to the brain area of his choice. Before being given control of the electrodes, B-19 had been shown a film “displaying heterosexual foreplay and intercourse”. He reacted with anger and revulsion. But then the stimulation sessions started, delivered via the button that felt most pleasurable to him. Over the next few days, he found that it could arouse him, and he would press the button to stimulate himself “to a point that, both behaviorally and introspectively, he was experiencing an almost overwhelming euphoria and elation and had to be disconnected, despite his vigorous protests”. He would hit the button up to 1,500 times over a three-hour session. “He protested each time the unit was taken from him,” said one of the papers, “pleading to self-stimulate just a few more times.”

“The ‘gay cure’ experiments that were written out of scientific history” from Mosaic Science

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An Unexpected Consequence of moving Brussels from Europe to America during the Campaign of 1815

The citizens of Brussels and the various armies occupying the city were intrigued to learn that they were now situated in a far-away country. Unfortunately they were much occupied in preparing for the coming battle (or in the case of the richer and more frivolous part of the population preparing for the Duchess of Richmond’s ball that evening) and hardly any one had leisure just then to go and discover what the country was like or who its inhabitants were. Consequently for a long time it was unclear where precisely Strange had but Brussels on that June afternoon.

In 1830 a trapper named Pearson Denby was travelling through the Plains country. He was approached by a Lakota chief of his acquaintance, Man-afraid-of-the-Water. Man-afraid-of-the-Water asked if Denby could acquire for him some black lightning balls. Man-afraid-of-the-Water explained that he was intending to make war upon his enemies and had urgent need of the balls. He said that at one time he had had about fifty of the balls and he had always used them sparingly, but now they were all gone. Denby did not understand. He asked if Man-afraid-of-the-Water meant ammunition. No, said Man-afraid-of-the-Water. Like ammunition, but much bigger. He took Denby back to his camp and showed him a brass 5 1/2 inch howitzer made by the Carron Company of Falkirk in Scotland. Denby was astonished and asked how Man-afraid-of-the-Water had acquired the gun in the first place. Man-afraid-of-the-Water explained that in some nearby hills lived a tribe called the Half-Finished People. They had been created very suddenly one summer, but their Creator had only given them one of the skills men needed to live: that of fighting. All other skills they lacked; they did not know how to hunt buffalo or antelope, how to tame horses or how to make houses for themselves. They could not even understand each other since their crazy Creator had given them four or five different languages. But they had had this gun, which they had traded to Man-afraid-of-the-Water in exchange for food.

Intrigued, Deby sought out the tribe of Half-Finished People. At first they seemed like any other tribe, but then Denby noticed that the older men had an oddly European look and some of them spoke English. Some of their customs were the same as the Lakota tribes’ but others seemed to be founded upon European military practice. Their language was like Lakota but contained a great many English, Dutch and German words.

A man called Robert Heath (otherwise Little-man-talks-too-much) told Denby that they had all deserted from several different armies and regiments on the afternoon of 15th June 1815 because a great battle was going to be fought the next day and they had all had a strong presentiment that they would die if they remained. Did Denby know if the Duke of Wellington or Napoleon Buonaparte was now King of France? Denby could not say. “Well, sir,” said Heath, philosophically, “Whichever of ‘em it is, I dare say life goes on just the same for the likes of you and me,”

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Google Sued by Job Candidate for Age Discrimination?

“A 64-year-old Florida tech worker filed an age-discrimination lawsuit against Google GOOGL +3.43% on Wednesday, claiming the company passed on him after a job interview because of his age.

Robert Heath says in his complaint filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., that Google unfairly dismissed his application for a software engineering job in 2011 when he was 60 years old, despite his…

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Télécharger Action ou vérité [BDRIP] en Français

De jeunes gens se rendent dans une cabane isolée pour faire la fête. Mais à la place de la folle soirée espérée, ils rencontrent un tueur qui cherche à les éliminer pour venger la mort de son frère… Infos sur le Film Origine du film : Britannique Réalisateur : Robert Heath Acteurs : David Oakes,…

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