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High Stress Drives Up Your Risk Of A Heart Attack. Here's How To Chill Out


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Sci, 2019-04-16, 06:08 PM

High Stress Drives Up Your Risk Of A Heart Attack. Here's How To Chill Out

Allison Aubrey


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Work Stress. Home Str

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One side of your brain might be giving you nightmares


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Sci, 2019-04-16, 04:11 PM

One side of your brain might be giving you nightmares

Nick Carne

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Researchers believe they have identified a pattern of brain activity that predicts anger experienced during dreaming.


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Notre Dame de Paris


General off-topic forum    6 Replies

Chris, 2019-04-16, 09:53 AM

I'm sure everyone here was shocked by the fire which destroyed much of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. If anyone wants to give a donation towards the restoration of the building, they can do so here:
https://don.fondation-patrimoine.org/Sau...e/~mon-don


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Brian Swimme: The Cosmos Watching Itself


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Sci, 2019-04-15, 08:52 PM

Listening to this now, Ep 35 of the New & Ancient Story Podcast

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Brian Swimme is a mathematical cosmologist and philosopher. We went really deep in this conversatio

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"Some Thoughts on the Mathematical Unfolding of Absolute Self-Awareness"


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Sci, 2019-04-15, 06:56 PM

Some Thoughts on the Mathematical Unfolding of Absolute Self-Awareness 

Peter Sas

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In various posts on this blog I have sketched the rough outlines of a contemporary version o

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Ghost in the Excelsior Hotel Jefferson TX


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Hurmanetar, 2019-04-15, 04:34 PM

Jefferson Texas is something like a time capsule from the mid-1800's set in the creepy sweaty swamps and mossy Cypress filled bayous just upriver from Caddo Lake. In the age of steamboats the town was once an important port and Texas' 6th largest city. But the clearing of an ancient log jam lowered

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The Diagnosis Is Alzheimer’s. But That’s Probably Not the Only Problem.


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Sci, 2019-04-15, 03:29 PM

The Diagnosis Is Alzheimer’s. But That’s Probably Not the Only Problem.

Gina Kolata

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But it wasn’t just Alzheimer’s disease, the researchers found. Although Mr. Gallup’s brain

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Cosciousness and paranormal phenomena (Video)


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Brian, 2019-04-15, 11:20 AM

This is a really good video.  My wife and I started watching last night as she has been tested by this guy for telepathy when she was younger.  We will continue watching tonight.




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Debunk my experience


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    78 Replies

Brian, 2019-04-15, 10:56 AM

A thread within which the "skeptics" can attempt to handwave away members personal experiences with some "scientific" rhetoric they have picked up somewhere online.

Post links to your experiences or try to debunk if you think you have a solid argument.  You can start with a couple of mine:

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Does Empathy Have A Dark Side?


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Sci, 2019-04-14, 03:59 PM

Does Empathy Have A Dark Side?

Jonathan Lambert

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But there's a flip side too, right? In your book you talk about something you call "vampiristic empathy." What do you mean by that?

Vampiristic empathy is a for

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