Day: February 12, 2016

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She’ll Text Me, She’ll Text Me Not

Fernando Kaskais

ILLUSTRATION BY DANIEL FISHEL The science of waiting in modern courtship. BY AZIZ ANSARI & ERIC KLINENBERG Afew years ago there was a woman in my life—let’s call her Tanya—and we had hooked up one night in Los Angeles. We’d both attended a birthday party, and when things were winding down, she offered to drop me off at home. We had been chatting and flirting a little the whole night, so I asked her to come in for a drink. At the time, I was subletting a pretty nice house up in the Hollywood Hills. It was kind of like … Continue reading She’ll Text Me, She’ll Text Me Not

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How Big Pharma gets away with selling crystal meth to children: By renaming it ‘Adderall’

Fernando Kaskais

by: David Gutierrez, staff writer (NaturalNews) In a recent appearance on All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC, drug abuse and addiction expert Carl Hart of Columbia University made a shocking claim: There isn’t much difference between the demonized street drug methamphetamine (also known as meth or crystal meth) and the prescription drug Adderall. It’s not the first time Hart has raised this idea. In a 2014 report, Hart and co-authors Joanne Csete and Don Habibi, also from Columbia, examined in depth the effects of meth on the brain, concluding that there is no discernible difference in the effects of … Continue reading How Big Pharma gets away with selling crystal meth to children: By renaming it ‘Adderall’

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Big Brother Corporation? BBC to use facial coding cameras to study viewers’ emotions

Fernando Kaskais

Russia Today — Feb 12, 2016 By wmw_admin Facial coding technology will be used by the BBC to examine viewers’ subconscious reactions to their shows and discover any “emotional attachment” they have to the broadcaster, after a series of trials yielded positive results. Using technology from British company CrowdEmotion, cameras will be used to record facial expressions. The movements are then divided up into six different categories: sadness, puzzlement, happiness, fear, rejection and surprise. The company will work with the insight division of BBC Worldwide, the broadcaster’s commercial arm, to establish and research how viewers respond to different types of … Continue reading Big Brother Corporation? BBC to use facial coding cameras to study viewers’ emotions

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Some Scientific Facts About Crop Circles That Nobody Really Knows About

Fernando Kaskais

by Arjun Walia. Crop circles have been appearing around the globe for a very long time, and while some might represent the sloppy and obvious work of a few pranksters, others are so elaborate, so clever, so intricate, and so meaningful that their creation would require the use of highly advanced technology. It’s truly difficult to imagine how some of these designs could be done in the dead of night, with no footprints left behind, in just a few hours of time. “Some of these formations are so immense and complex as to defy reason. And after all these decades, none of the perpetrators have been caught … Continue reading Some Scientific Facts About Crop Circles That Nobody Really Knows About

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Whitley Strieber, The Process Church, & the Secret of “Pain”

Fernando Kaskais

Posted By: Jasun Horsley “Pain” is the story Whitley Strieber was working on in December 1985, when the memories of his alleged alien encounters first began to surface. It was published in 1987 (and was nominated for a World Fantasy best short story award) as part of a horror anthology called Cutting Edge, roughly around the time Communion came out. According to Strieber at his website, “The story contains a great deal of unconscious material about the experience. In fact, my entire unconscious understanding of close encounter [sic] and its connection to the dangerous sacred is contained in the story.” In … Continue reading Whitley Strieber, The Process Church, & the Secret of “Pain”

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‘Depressed? Smoking? It’s the Neanderthal in you,’ scientists say in first study of its kind

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© Deborah Brewington / Vanderbilt University A whole range of health and psychological disorders, including depression and nicotine addiction, have been confirmed as relating the presence of Neanderthal genes in our DNA by US scientists. The rigorous genome comparison is the first study of its kind. It’s been known since 2010 that Eurasian genes may suffer from a series of health problems associated with Neanderthal DNA, after the fact of interbreeding with Homo sapiens was confirmed. But this was the first direct study of the two DNA types, undertaken by scientists at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. “Our main finding is … Continue reading ‘Depressed? Smoking? It’s the Neanderthal in you,’ scientists say in first study of its kind

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Study Proves Electromagnetic Fields from Cell Towers Can Amplify Pain

Fernando Kaskais

by Alex Pietrowski, Staff Waking Times If you’ve ever wondered if the thousands of cell phone towers and electromagnetic signals permeating society nowadays could be potentially harmful to your body, mind and to the natural environment, you’re not alone. A small minority of people are so sensitive to electromagnetic radiation they’ve even been forced to move into cave-like domiciles designed to insulate them from such signals. We are, after all, energetic beings, as are all lifeforms, and although something may lie outside of our ordinary perception does not imply that it is harmless. It turns out that electromagnetic signals from cell phone towers do … Continue reading Study Proves Electromagnetic Fields from Cell Towers Can Amplify Pain