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And they gave them a series of painful electric shocks.

So it was a series of five painful shocks.

Half of them are told that they're being given the shocks by somebody in another room, but the person in the other room doesn't know they're giving them shocks.

So if you have an animal in a cage, it might be candy and electric shocks.

So what would happen here if, while the animal is recalling the memory of the blue box, we gave it a couple of mild foot shocks?

So here we're trying to artificially make an association between the memory of the blue box and the foot shocks themselves.

Again, we had just reactivated the memory of the blue box while the animal got a couple of mild foot shocks, and now the animal suddenly freezes.

We've mapped the afterglow with spectacular precision, and one of the shocks about it is that it's almost completely uniform.

Now, the second fact is more about wealth inequality, and here the central fact is that wealth inequality is always a lot higher than income inequality, and also that wealth inequality, although it has also increased in recent decades, is still less extreme today than what it was a century ago, although the total quantity of wealth relative to income has now recovered from the very large shocks caused by World War I, the Great Depression, World War II.

Now, in a large class of dynamic models of wealth accumulation with such dynastic motive for accumulating wealth, you will have all sorts of random, multiplicative shocks.

You also have shocks to rates of return.

The important point is that, in any such model, for a given variance of such shocks, the equilibrium level of wealth inequality will be a steeply rising function of r minus g.

First, a very low rate of return due to the 1914 and 1945 war shocks, destruction of wealth, inflation, bankruptcy during the Great Depression, and all of this reduced the private rate of return to wealth to unusually low levels between 1914 and 1945.

And the result is that neither the internal resistance to the dominant ways of working nor the external shocks have managed to convince international actors that they should reevaluate their understanding of violence and intervention.

The story goes that participants were prepared to give what they believed to be fatal electric shocks to a fellow participant when they got a question wrong, just because someone in a white coat told them to.

Secondly, the participants were told before the study and reminded any time they raised a concern, that although the shocks were painful, they were not fatal and indeed caused no permanent damage whatsoever.

And thirdly, participants didn't give the shocks just because someone in the coat told them to.

Well, it turns out that if you give a crayfish a lot of little tiny electric shocks every time it tries to come out of its burrow, it will develop anxiety.

How long would it take if you received constant electric shocks to your hands?

Police and prison guards in Cambodia, for example, have been documented subjecting sex workers to what can only be described as torture: threats at gunpoint, beatings, electric shocks, rape and denial of food.

Rather than recognizable monsters, graphic violence, or startling shocks, the terror of “Lovecraftian” horror lies in what’s not directly portrayed– but left instead to the dark depths of our imagination.

It's time-consuming and expensive, negotiating all these deals, but it's robust because it makes their whole economy better defended against shocks.

The most obvious causes are shocks like natural disaster, war, and geopolitical factors.

But as a result, there were climate shocks, from hot to cold and back again, which ended up turning the Earth into a snowball covered with glaciers.

And look at this whole range of cycle-based innovations: cycle that's a sprayer, cycle that generates energy from the shocks on the road.

We have to invest in persistence, in the ability of social systems and ecological systems to withstand shocks and still remain in that desired cup.

There is just poorly set-up shocks (that are not shocking) that we've seen before, and more accomplished as well.

And in terms of action, it's really nothing more than a series of brutal attacks and oh-no-they-didn't shocks.

For the record, the burly, bald-headed guard who uses Jody Nolan as a punching bag is played by Bill Fishback, and the young, fair-haired guard who administers electric shocks to Tommy Lee Thomas is played by Marc Chenail.)

Done well, they can be a lot of fun, and worth an hour or two of solid shocks and scares.

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