Software To Provide Astronaut Counseling

Currently, whenever an astronaut needs to talk to someone, a counselor is only a radio call away. Unfortunately, for voyages further out, this contact time starts to increase quite a bit, so researchers have started to look for alternative methods of counseling. I just hope the new counseling software has the Dr. Sbaitso voice. "Instead of asking astronauts to reflect on their feelings, Mark Hegel of Dartmouth Medical School has them create lists of concrete things that are bothering them and brainstorm about practical ways to solve them. At the end of the exercise, users fill out a form used to diagnose depression. Clinical tests of this approach, which has never been tried in a multimedia self-help format, will start in a few months, using subjects recruited from the biomedical and engineering community in Boston."

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Repeat after me, slowly: "genre convention"

Conventions?? I love conventions! One time I was at a convention and George Lucas came onstage riding some kid dressed as a Taun-Taun... He was all like "And I thought they smelled bad on the outside!" That was awesome...

Then I brought a giant posted of Boba Fett with me and waited in line to see Temuera Morrison - I thought I might have got in line too late but fortunately he stuck around long enough that I could introduce myself, show him my poster (already signed by Jeremy Bulloch), and tell him I wouldn't let him sign it, 'cause he's not the real Boba Fett... That was priceless, I laughed right in his face and everything. There's another con coming up with Daniel Logan, so I'm looking forward to that...