My Mental Snapshot

Not very librarian-y today; sorry about that.

1. Once two competing cognitions are held simultaneously, the individual can be said to be in a state of "cognitive dissonance"...Instantly, this conflicting cognition creates an imbalance between itself and the original cognition. This conflicted state of mind will, necessarily, seek to attain psychological consonance, i.e. a balance between competing cognitions.

2. CHICAGO (Reuters) - Fatter rear ends are causing many drug injections to miss their mark, requiring longer needles to reach buttock muscle, researchers said on Monday. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051129/od_nm/buttocks_dc).

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