kirsebaer

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by kirsebaer 1y ago
Tobacco absorbs and concentrates radioactive metals in soil and fertilizers. Cannabis does not do this. https://www.cdc.gov/radiation-health/data-research/facts-sta... The tobacco industry was well-aware of the r
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by kirsebaer 2y ago
Check out the review articles in the “Nature Reviews” journals, like “Nature Reviews Genetics”. These articles are written by experts but designed for a non-specialist audience (with undergraduate science education).
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by kirsebaer 2y ago
On Facebook, if you go to 'Menu' > 'Feeds' > 'Friends' you will see a feed of only your contacts' activity and none of the suggested posts & random pages on the normal Feed
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by kirsebaer 2y ago
Collaborate with other people on your projects. You could do some of the initial work, and then hand it off to others to do the marketing and follow-up. You don’t have to do everything yourself.
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by kirsebaer 2y ago
Exposure therapy for PTSD, phobias, and other anxiety disorders has lots of evidence from clinical trials. It is based on animal studies of “fear extinction”. You often see good results after 10-12 hours of focused therapy sessions.
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by kirsebaer 4y ago
But for papers published recently you can email an author and they will send you a PDF.
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by kirsebaer 4y ago
ChatGPT often makes up facts. It outputs stuff that looks like it could have been written by a human, not stuff that is correct. Don’t use ChatGPT for medical research.
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by kirsebaer 4y ago
Many male authors have relied on their wives as unpaid secretaries, typists, editors, researchers, and writers. #ThanksForTyping https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/ishmaeldaro/thanks-for-...
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by kirsebaer 4y ago
You must be doing this all the time because even if you verbalize some stuff you cannot possibly verbalize everything that is happening in your mind.
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by kirsebaer 4y ago
In 2012 Yasha Levine accused Malcolm Gladwell of taking “$1M per year” in “speaking fees” from “Pharma, Big Tobacco, Wall Street, Health Insurance Industry”: http://shameproject.com/profile/malcolm-gladwell-2/ Ema
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by kirsebaer 4y ago
Check out “childhood emotional neglect” and “complex posttraumatic stress disorder (CPTSD)”. There are lots of books, websites, and forums about this. Your chronic feeling of emptiness and lack of joy indicate that you have turned off your
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by kirsebaer 4y ago
US teacher unions are for teachers in elementary and high schools (teaching children). People teaching at universities typically do not have a union.
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by kirsebaer 4y ago
Lots of people have a high standard of living but still suffer from childhood abuse and neglect.
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by kirsebaer 4y ago
Reducing stigma helps research. It becomes easier to get institutional support, recruit study participants, collaborate with colleagues, obtain funding, etc.
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by kirsebaer 4y ago
There are reports in medical journals of people accidentally taking hundreds of doses of LSD, and they all were sober within 24 hours.
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by kirsebaer 4y ago
Wasson did not "discover" magic mushrooms, he was just the first white person to write about taking them. There were earlier reports on mushroom ceremonies, that is why Wasson went there.
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by kirsebaer 4y ago
The study that Kaczynski participated in did not involve LSD and in interviews Kaczynski has denied ever using LSD.
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by kirsebaer 4y ago
This is DXM, a dissociative like ketamin, found in cough medications like Robotussin. You can get quite high on it.
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by kirsebaer 4y ago
Frequency of cannabis increased 20% after legalization in US states. Not much effect. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2022/08/25/cannabi...
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by kirsebaer 4y ago
Participants were required to bring their own psilocybin mushrooms. Probably because it can be expensive and difficult for researchers to get obtain and administer pharma-grade psilocybin. The dose was 0.5g of dried Cubensis mushrooms. Usua
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by kirsebaer 4y ago
Congress members are probably over-performing because of insider trading.
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by kirsebaer 4y ago
How was your childhood? Sometimes people push themselves to achieve to avoid internal shame. Check out "childhood emotional neglect" and "complex PTSD". Dealing with these core issues can make daily life easier.
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by kirsebaer 4y ago
An El Salvador court just sentenced a woman to 30 years in prison for having a miscarriage. She has been jailed for two years awaiting trial and has a 7 year old daughter. https://m.dw.com/en/el-salvador-jails-woman-acc
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by kirsebaer 4y ago
There is when the employees join together in a union.
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by kirsebaer 4y ago
Like here we are expressing ourselves.
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by kirsebaer 4y ago
As a child in the US in the 1980s we were told over and over by the TV and school to never talk to strangers, to run away from people offering us candy or asking us to help them find their lost puppy. But there was essentially no education
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by kirsebaer 4y ago
Non-paywall sources also covered this speech by Thiel: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/08/peter-thi...
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by kirsebaer 4y ago
Being a solid adult member of your community has lots of value. Think "It's a Wonderful Life".
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by kirsebaer 4y ago
You can experience heroic drama, tragedy, and comedy all at the same time or all within the same day. Just look for them as they happen. Or think back to what you did yesterday and interpret what you did from the perspective of each of thes
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by kirsebaer 4y ago
There are still accidental injuries with LSD, but they are extremely rare, just as they were in the 1960s. What has changed is the media is no longer repeating the same scare stories over and over.

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