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There exists an experience you can (probably) have, in a single day, that may lastingly improve your outlook on life, even if you’re in fear because the end of your life is near. Researchers are once again using psilocybin to occasion such experiences in patients facing life-threatening illness. Steve Ross, a psychiatrist at NYU, has [...]
Archive for October, 2011
October 10th, 2011
Category: Agriculture, Technology and Society
FDA is about ready to approve a modified species of Atlantic salmon for land-based fish-farming. Why not?
October 9th, 2011
Category: Health and Medicine
The other day I told a friend who is struggling with a relationship problem about a poker game logic puzzle I used to invoke back when I was treating psychotherapy patients. He found it quite helpful so I am passing it along for whatever it might be worth to others in similar situations. The logic [...]
October 9th, 2011
Category: Uncategorized
The LA Times reports today that Texas cattle owners are shipping cattle away from their dry Texas to verdant Minnesota. How costly is this migration? This is adaptation at work. Cattle and people have some things in common.
October 9th, 2011
Category: Personal moment
All three kindof rock. I like Al Jolson’s the best. But Johnny Mathis is pretty great, too. Plus Mathis has the best acting.