psychedelics in treating anxiety and ptsd
Psilocybin has been shown to invoke powerful spiritual experiences during the four to six hours it affects the brain. A study published in 2008, in fact, found that even 14 months after healthy volunteers had taken a single dose, most said they were still feeling and behaving better because of the experience. They also said the drug had produced one of the five most spiritually significant experiences they’d ever had.
I know this was true for me.
photo out of context
desert kites in the eastern Sinai Desert
British RAF pilots in the early 20th century were the first to spot the strange kite-like lines on the deserts of Israel, Jordan and Egypt from the air and wonder about their origins. The lines are low, stone walls, usually found as angled pairs, that begin far apart and converge at circular pits. In some places in Jordan the lines formed chains up to 40 miles long.
The walls form large funnels to direct gazelle and other large game animals into killing pits. What’s more, the kites are between 2,300 and 2,400-years-old, were abandoned about 2,200 years ago and are just the right size to have worked on local gazelles and other hooved game.
it took me a while to be able to post this photo
growing solar panels
“Instead of the expensive process of making a wafer and slicing it up with a saw, throwing away two thirds of it,” says Atwater, “We grow the material and literally peel it off. The plastic sheet is peeled off like scotch tape off a tape dispenser.”
The material is relatively easy to produce and uses 99 percent less silicon than a regular solar panel. Despite the small amount of material, the silicon wire panels have very high solar-absorption rates, with efficiency levels much higher than current polymer film panels. Theoretically, more panels could be produced for less money using this process, which would bring the cost per watt for solar energy way down.
Always wanting, always waiting.
quote out of context
“I outed him as a straight person,” Josephs said during a fund-raiser at the Black Sheep Pub & Restaurant, as some in the audience gasped or laughed, “and now he goes around telling people, quote, ‘I swing both ways.’
Keggers of Yore
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Reevu MSX1 helmet
A helmet with a rear view camera.
This is an amazing development in motorcycle helmets and it’s obviously an excellent safety feature. But the helmet is also good enough to stand on its own even if it didn’t have the rear view system, because the MSX1 is beautifully finished with exceptional quality.
Side note
The wise ones among you may recall that, not long ago, Christianity was no different than Islam; for millennia, God happily shared Allah’s fear of the devastating, world-swallowing vagina. But we switched to evil gays when we realized women are pretty good for certain tasks, like tea making, chicken plucking, rollerskating, paint matching, shimmying, and having sex with professional golfers.
Students Overheard at the University
You going over to the language building?
No, I flunked that already.
quote out of context
“Goo-bah, Ga-bah, one of us, one of us!” is one of my favorite moments in all of cinema.
from the spam
This may reveal specific patterns, such as an association of the bed with sleeping.
from the spam
poems using metaphors for kids
from the comments
Some people simply do not know how much noise they make. They jiggle their knees up and down like thumper, they move constantly in some small way, they chew with their mouth slightly open, they breathe through their nose audibly. I am so hyper aware of how annoying each of these things are to me that I am absolutely as silent as I can be, always careful to sit absolutely still and make no noise. I wish other people would do the same. How do these people not hear the awful awful noises they’re making?
Y’all
I can’t find photos to support my theory, but I’m pretty sure Natalie Merchant and Mark Wahlberg were separated at birth.
The Universe with Doctors Jimes Tooper and Donna Gust
point, counterpoint
Towns: You’re saying they pay cash? For organ transplants and cancer and heart cases, they pay cash?
Bell: I said they pay cash or work out other arrangements. I know for a fact. I know someone in the medical field who has been paid with vegetables from the Mennonite community.
Between paying for heart transplants with chickens and broccoli or protecting us from Department of Defense implanted vaginal-rectum microchips, I’d say our current political discourse is pretty robust.
Update: The economics of a chicken-based health care system.
Total U.S. health care costs in 2008: $2.3 trillion
US population: About 300 million
Average cost of health care per person: $7,681
Average weight of a chicken: 5.9 lbs
Market price per pound: 85 cents
Average spot price per chicken: $5.02
Average number of chickens per resident needed to cover health care costs: 1,530 chickens
Total number of chickens needed to cover United States health care costs: 459 billion chickens
Estimated worldwide chicken population: 16 billion chickens
Current worldwide chicken shortage to cover U.S. health care: 443 billion cluckers
Do the math.
Dear Clusterflock
You know how when you don’t send back your census form or if you do it wrong they send someone to your house? I’m gonna do that. Training is next week.
be our guest generator
At the Crowne Plaza hotel in Copenhagen:
The bikes are hooked up to generators that require guests of average fitness to pedal for about 15 minutes to create 10 watt-hours of electricity. iPhones attached to the handlebars display the amount of power being generated.
Hitting the 15-minute mark earns lucky exercisers a $36 meal voucher…
under the guise of manhole genes
Francois Robert’s Bones
Francois Robert was at an auction in rural Michigan. It was the mid 1990s. A school was selling off supplies, and Robert was looking to buy some furniture for his studio. “I was interested in buying some lockers, and they had three for $50.” Two of the lockers were empty, but not the third. When Robert opened it up, he found a human skeleton.
Since then, Robert has spent hundreds of hours working with those bones, arranging them painstakingly into striking, iconic shapes, each five or six feet wide, and photographing them with a 4×5 Hasselblad rigged to a boom to provide a bird’s eye view. He calls the resulting images “Stop the Violence.” Each shot takes a full day to set up. “I was on my knees for all of 2008,” Robert remembers.
Wow.
What freeps me out
The sound of someone snoring while awake. It’s like I can see the air entering and exiting a chest cavity.
The way I feel about this is comparable to Cindy’s and Amanda’s fear of toothpicks.
chicken heart
more things I overhead and haven’t used yet
There’s a whole lot of ugly in this world
And then we’ll shake hands and kiss European style and shit
I’m a cheek retriever from way back when
Yeah, I have a teeny tiny belly that I keep in a box at home
Did you do a good job getting clean?
the state of Detroit
Some 40 square miles of property is either vacant or abandoned — roughly the same land mass as the city of Buffalo.
