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The mind-blowing science how psychedelic drugs change your brain. David Nutt is a professor of neuropsychopharmacology in Imperial College London.

The mind-blowing science how psychedelic drugs change your brain

In this extract from his book, Drugs without the hot air, he explains how psychedelic drugs can be used for treating a variety of mental health conditions, and can even help with problem-solving. Since the first edition of this book there has been a veritable explosion of research on psychedelics, with brain-imaging studies on psilocybin, ayahuasca and even LSD, and several landmark clinical trials.

10 best free tools for working with audio, video, and images. The Best Dark Web Websites You Won't Find on Google. Intricate Etymology Infographics on the Origins of Common Words. Have you ever wondered where the name “cheddar cheese” comes from?

Intricate Etymology Infographics on the Origins of Common Words

The delicious dairy product is actually named after an English village; the village in turn draws its name from an Old English word, ceodor, meaning a ravine. This fascinating fact is an example of etymology—the study of the origin of words and how the meanings of these words change over time. Luckily, there is a Harvard College linguistics student who is dedicated to making the study of words accessible and understandable for all. Inspired by his own self-described “disturbing interest in word origins,” Adam Aleksic has put his knowledge of world languages to work creating artistic, fun infographics describing where commonplace items and cultural touchstones get their names.

Aleksic began his blog The Etymology Nerd in 2016 as an outlet for his love of language and history. Scroll down to see some of Aleksic's amazing infographics (click to see an enlarged version). Adam Aleksic: Website | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter. 7 Tactics Car Salespeople Hope You Don't Know. The process of buying a vehicle has a lot of moving parts.

7 Tactics Car Salespeople Hope You Don't Know

How to set up your new 4K TV for the best possible picture. Getting a new TV is exciting, especially when you get a screaming deal on Black Friday.

How to set up your new 4K TV for the best possible picture

But, if you want the best out of your new display, you’ll need to make sure you’re setting it up properly. Here are some tips to help you avoid crucial television mistakes. Make sure your media source makes the grade. Love Languages: 5 Types and How to Find Yours. Love may be universal, but it’s hardly the same for everyone — whether it’s the difference between romantic and platonic love or the love you feel for your pup versus the love you feel for your best (human) friend.

Love Languages: 5 Types and How to Find Yours

Always include these 3 words in your resume objective. It’s a well-known secret that bots are sifting through your resumes.

Always include these 3 words in your resume objective

All that effort, all that energy, all that time spent fashioning the perfect application…it was for nothing, all because an Applicant Tracking System failed to identify you as a top priority candidate. Large companies are increasingly reverting to ATS technology to scan thousands of resumes at a time and speed up recruitment efforts. How 10 billion people could live well by 2050 – using as much energy as we did 60 years ago. Forced contraception in exchange for aid is the solution.

How 10 billion people could live well by 2050 – using as much energy as we did 60 years ago

The problem is that there are too many of us. COVID-19 is nature’s way of dealing with the situation. These comments are among the most popular responses recently published in the Sun in response to an article by the broadcaster David Attenborough on the climate crisis. But don’t be fooled into thinking the same scapegoating can’t be found below the line in a more progressive newspaper such as The Guardian – even if the racism is less explicit. A larger population does make it harder to treat the environment in the right way.

Fortunately, in new research we found that using 60% less energy than today, decent living standards could be provided to a global population of 10 billion by 2050. Global north countries like the US and Australia currently consume the most energy per person. 5 Simple Habits That Increase Concentration, Focus, and Productivity. Are you having a hard time staying focused on work, especially in these high-stress days?

5 Simple Habits That Increase Concentration, Focus, and Productivity

Some simple techniques can make a big difference, psychologist Traci Stein, Ph.D. explains in a recent Psychology Today post. 12 Books That Can Make Anyone Smarter, According to Bill Gates. Billionaire Bill Gates has said he reads about a book a week.

12 Books That Can Make Anyone Smarter, According to Bill Gates

5 Things Not to Say When You’re Buying a Car. Many or all of the products featured here are from our partners who compensate us.

5 Things Not to Say When You’re Buying a Car

Watch Brian Wilson Perform Solo 'God Only Knows' on 'Colbert' Brian Wilson delivered solo renditions of the Beach Boys classic “God Only Knows” and his own “Love and Mercy” during a #PlayAtHome performance for Thursday’s Late Show With Stephen Colbert. “I just want you guys to know that we’re all in this together,” Wilson told the audience from his piano. On the late-night show’s broadcast, Wilson performed an unadorned version of Pet Sounds’ “God Only Knows,” with the singer accompanied only by his piano. “I love you all, love and mercy to you all,” he added. As a web exclusive, Wilson next played “Love and Mercy,” a cut from Wilson’s 1988 self-titled solo LP that he later reimagined for the I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times soundtrack; that stripped-down arrangement is the version Wilson brought to The Late Show.

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Study: Our universe may be part of a giant quantum computer. A pair of physicists from Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (IKBFU) in Russia recently proposed an entirely new view of the cosmos. Their research takes the wacky idea that we’re living in a computer simulation and mashes it up with the mind-boggling “many worlds” theory to say that, essentially, our entire universe is part of an immeasurably large quantum system spanning “uncountable” multiverses.

When you think about quantum systems, like IBM and Google’s quantum computers, we usually imagine a device that’s designed to work with subatomic particles – qubits – to perform quantum calculations. The Invention of Thanksgiving. Objective-reality-not-exist-quantum-physicists. Alternative facts are spreading like a virus across society. Now, it seems they have even infected science — at least the quantum realm. This may seem counter intuitive. The scientific method is after all founded on the reliable notions of observation, measurement and repeatability. A fact, as established by a measurement, should be objective, such that all observers can agree with it. But in a paper recently published in Science Advances, we show that, in the micro-world of atoms and particles that is governed by the strange rules of quantum mechanics, two different observers are entitled to their own facts.

Observers are powerful players in the quantum world. Related: The 18 Biggest Unsolved Mysteries in Physics In 1961, physicist Eugene Wigner proposed a provocative thought experiment. Wigner doesn't have access to this fact from the outside, and according to quantum mechanics, must describe the friend and the coin to be in a superposition of all possible outcomes of the experiment. Quantum physics: our study suggests objective reality doesn't exist. Alternative facts are spreading like a virus across society. Now it seems they have even infected science – at least the quantum realm. How to Get Someone to Stop Reclining Their Seat On a Flight. How To Find A Hidden Camera In Your House Or AirBNB Or Anywhere. In late March, a variety of travelers started reported finding hidden cameras in their Airbnb accommodations. The most important document you may ever read.

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