September 2011
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Magic Mushrooms Can Change Personalities For The... →
Under scientific controlled conditions, researchers gave 51 adults either psilocybin or a placebo in up to five eight-hour sessions. In almost 60 per cent of patients, Of the 51, 30 had a mystical experience, after which their ‘openness’ scores rose. The 21 who did not have a mystical experience showed no change.
“I say this because we think of personality as being cemented in...
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Do men generally grow grumpier with age? →
My impression from following science journalism for a decade or so, and just confirmed by a quick google search, is that: 1. As people grow older, they tend to be happier/more positive. 2. As people grow older, men to be happier than women. See [1] and [2] for references for the first claim, and [2] and [3] for references for the second claim. Of course, for 1 it might be that the unhappy ones...
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Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling In... →
Comment: The following speech was delivered by top of the class student Erica Goldson during the graduation ceremony at Coxsackie-Athens High School on June 25, 2010
“Here I stand
There is a story of a young, but earnest Zen student who approached his teacher, and asked the Master, “If I work very hard and diligently, how long will it take for me to find Zen? The Master thought...
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What are some ways people integrate humor into... →
Humor is extremely individualized, and its implications can be far reaching. You use it to express how you feel, but in a creative way. Feeling + creative expression = the best use of humor in life. So how exactly do you use creative expression, together with humor? Did you watch Borat? There was actually a humor instructor in Borat, and that instructor would teach Borat things like “Say...
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How can you maximize your happiness in life? →
Have positive relationships with supportive people.
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Web Surfing Makes You Work Better, Study Says →
they assigned 96 undergraduate management students into one of three groups—a control group, a “rest-break” group and a Web-surfing group. All subjects spent 20 minutes highlighting as many letter e’s as they could find in a sample text. For the next 10 minutes, the control group was assigned another simple task; members of the rest-break group could do whatever they pleased,...