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March 21-22

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Pat Robertson Claims Yoga Will Brainwash You Into 'Speaking Hindu' (Hindu Not A Language) 10 Basic New Age Deceptions and How to Correct Them. Waking Times Editor’s Note: This list was gathered and collated by Brendan D.

10 Basic New Age Deceptions and How to Correct Them

Murphy with kudos to Mark Passio, Tim McClew for the distillation, and Juliet J. Google's new AI can determine image location without geotags. Have you ever looked through your photo library and tried to determine where an image was taken without any additional detective work?

Google's new AI can determine image location without geotags

It May Soon Become Possible to Download Dead People’s Personalities into Robots. With all those science fiction movies we have seen, it may seem that nothing can surprise us anymore.

It May Soon Become Possible to Download Dead People’s Personalities into Robots

Zombie apocalypse, alien invasion, AI takeover – we have seen it all on the screen. Scientists discover how to 'upload knowledge to your brain'  Inside Russia’s Psychedelic Salt Mine: Naturally Forming & Mind-Bending Patterns. A few hundred feet below the Russian city of Yekaterinburg is an abandoned salt mine of indescribable, psychedelic beauty.

Inside Russia’s Psychedelic Salt Mine: Naturally Forming & Mind-Bending Patterns

Entire caves and corridors covered with astonishing patterns caused by the natural swirling of carnallite and rock layers. The mineral carnallite, a hydrated potassium magnesium chloride, serves as a powerful aid in plant fertilization. Can Neuroscience Help Us Understand Art? : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture. What is art?

Can Neuroscience Help Us Understand Art? : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture

Why does it matter to us? What does it tell us about ourselves? It's something of the rage these days to turn to neuroscience for answers. Neuroscience, after all, it is widely believed, holds the key to our very nature as conscious beings. Artist Takes 20 Different Drugs And Creates 20 Illustrations To Show Their Effects! INCREDIBLE! Former Surgeon General Endorses Bernie Sanders' Plan to Deschedule Cannabis.

Share Tweet Graham Abbott - Friday, February 19th, 2016 With a proposal in the Senate to remove cannabis from the U.S.

Former Surgeon General Endorses Bernie Sanders' Plan to Deschedule Cannabis

Controlled Substances Act, Sen. Headphones that get you high on dopamine are tipped to go on sale next month. Headphones that stimulate the release of dopamine in your brain and reportedly make you feel high as hell have been invented by Florida-based tech company, Nervana, and are set to go on sale as early as next month.

Headphones that get you high on dopamine are tipped to go on sale next month

The headphones will pump music into your ears as normal, but at the same time, an integrated device will deliver a low-power electrical signal through your ear canal to stimulate the Vagus nerve - a nerve that runs from the brainstem to the abdomen and plays a role in the release of dopamine, a neurotransmitter that helps control the brain’s reward and pleasure centres. Eating chocolate 'improves brain function' - study. "More frequent chocolate consumption was significantly associated with better performance on [tests inluding] Visual-Spatial Memory and Organization, Working Memory, Scanning and Tracking, Abstract Reasoning, and the Mini-Mental State Examination," researchers said.

Eating chocolate 'improves brain function' - study

"With the exception of Working Memory, these relations were not attenuated with statistical control for cardiovascular, lifestyle and dietary factors. " No problems with this guy's cognitive function • How eating chocolate could help improve your maths Researchers suggested that regular chocolate intake could help "protect against normal age-related cognitive decline.

" Painkiller Deaths Drop by 25% in States With Legal Medical Marijuana. Researchers have found that states with legal medical marijuana laws show a drop of 25 percent in opiate painkiller overdoses during 2009-2010, and states that do not allow medical marijuana had actually risen during that same time period.

Painkiller Deaths Drop by 25% in States With Legal Medical Marijuana

The researchers stated that where medical marijuana is approved for treating pain conditions, people have another option in addition to or instead of prescription painkillers. “Most of the discussion on medical marijuana has been about its effect on individuals in terms of reducing pain or other symptoms,” said lead author Dr. Marcus Bachhuber in an email to Reuters Health. “The unique contribution of our study is the finding that medical marijuana laws and policies may have a broader impact on public health.” A 2009 study of 350 pain patients found that nearly three-quarters of them reported using marijuana as a substitute for prescription drugs, with better symptom management and less risk of withdrawal as the primary reasons. Recent Study Proves LSD Improves Mental Health. Since its discovery in the 1938, LSD has generated a colorful fan-base.

Recent Study Proves LSD Improves Mental Health

With influential, frontier-thinkers such as Aldous Huxley, Fancis Crick and Steve Jobs having remarked on inspirational experiences during their LSD experimentation, it is no surprise that many in our society resist the intimidation of federal fear mongering and have daringly ventured into the lysergic realms for themselves. Thanks to increasing public awareness, along with the deluge of testimonies from a wide array of individuals speaking on its behalf, the research of LSD is yet again underway since its uninformed halt in 1967. Mexico's Supreme Court Rules Smoking Marijuana is a Human Right. The Mexican Supreme Court just declared marijuana a fundamental human right. In so doing, the court paved the way for nationwide cannabis legalization. The court voted 4 to 1 against prohibition of marijuana. The court also determined that a person cultivation of marijuana is equally a human right. Specifically, the Mexican Supreme Court ruled that marijuana prohibition “violates the right to free development of one’s personality.”

The Drug Policy Alliance stated on Wednesday, in a press release, that “this vote by Mexico’s Supreme Court is extraordinary for two reasons: it is being argued on human rights grounds and it is taking place in one of the countries that has suffered the most from the war on drugs.”