Nocebo - Placebo In the strictest sense, a nocebo response is where a drug-trial's subject's symptoms are worsened by the administration of an inert, sham, or dummy (simulator) treatment, called a placebo. In its original application, nocebo had a very specific meaning in the medical domains of pharmacology, and nosology, and aetiology. It was a subject-oriented adjective that was used to label the harmful, injurious, unpleasant or undesirable reactions (or responses) that a subject manifested - thus, nocebo reactions (or nocebo responses) - as a consequence of the administration of an inert, dummy drug, in cases where these responses had not been chemically generated, and were entirely due to the subject's pessimistic belief and expectation that the inert drug in question would produce harmful, injurious, unpleasant or undesirable consequences.
Home This website is a portal to the Institute of Noetic Sciences online double-slit experiment, a study that is part of our research program exploring the role of consciousness in the physical world. During the experiment data from an optical system in our laboratory is streamed live to your web browser. We use a double-slit optical system because, as the Nobel Laureate physicist Richard Feynman famously said, "[The double-slit experiment] has in it the heart of quantum mechanics. In reality, it contains the only mystery." The double-slit experiment is especially useful in the present context because it provides a way to empirically investigate the meaning of "observation" in the measurement of quantum systems. The study design is based on two assumptions: (1) If information is gained about the photon’s path as it travels through two slits by any means – then the interference pattern will collapse in proportion to the certainty of the knowledge gained.
How To Win At Forecasting One thing that became very clear, especially after Gorbachev came to power and confounded the predictions of both liberals and conservatives, was that even though nobody predicted the direction that Gorbachev was taking the Soviet Union, virtually everybody after the fact had a compelling explanation for it. We seemed to be working in what one psychologist called an "outcome irrelevant learning situation." People drew whatever lessons they wanted from history. There is quite a bit of skepticism about political punditry, but there's also a huge appetite for it. The presidential election of 2012, of course, brought about the Nate Silver controversy and a lot of people, mostly Democrats, took great satisfaction out of Silver being more accurate than leading Republican pundits. But it’s not something uniquely closed-minded about conservatives that caused them to dislike Silver. Thirty years ago we started running some very simple forecasting tournaments and they gradually expanded.
Can dogs smell cancer? By Dina Zaphiris Yes, dogs can smell cancer. They can even smell it “in situ”, or at stage zero. Let’s take a closer look at why dogs are even interested in smelling cancer in the first place. Dogs can smell in parts per trillion. Training dogs to smell cancer is done in the same way that bomb and narcotics dogs are trained, pairing the target odor with a high value reward. Sound Healing: The Power of Sound (Binaural Beats Meditation Included!) | Wake Up World - Part 2 Diffusing Your Attention with Music This exercise will let you experience what happens when you diffuse your attention. I hope you will realise that many types of meditation and relaxation techniques are based on simply changing your attention style from focusing to diffusing. Once you know how to do it you can get into the ‘zone’ a lot quicker. Click here to get started. Binaural Beats Meditation Exercise — Shumann Resonance 7.38 Hz This is a meditation exercise that includes a binaural beat at the shumman resonance of 7.38 Hz which will help to get your brain into the alpha frequency. Cymatics links: Related articles by Dr. Previous articles by Peter Paul Parker: About the author: Peter Paul Parker has been a musician for most of his career. Peter wrote and produced the album ‘Wild Child’ by The Spoken X and his own album, ‘Stepping Up’, both released by Metro Publishing. Peter is currently working with Dr. Connect with Peter at www.peterpaulparker.co.uk, www.brightbeings.co.uk
Heartfelt rationality The alternative industry: it doesn’t work and why it does My last major project before leaving Oslo for openDemocracy was a six-part edutainment/documentary series on the ‘alternative industry’, its science and irrationality. It was produced by Teddy TV and broadcast on NRK1 (Norway’s equivalent of BBC1, ie the country’s main television channel). We cheekily named ourselves Folkeopplysningen, “The Public Enlightenment”. The various branches of the alternative industry make a lot of claims, and a lot of money off these claims. We decided it was time for some critical scrutiny of this business, and based on reception and ratings, we are not alone in thinking this. Public Enlightenment. With a physicist, a psychologist and researchers, we asked three main questions: Are the claims made by the various alternative offerings possible from a scientific point of view? And yes, we found it is pretty much all hokum. Only acupuncture has some credible documentation to show for itself. No.
The Science Behind Foldit | Foldit Foldit is a revolutionary new computer game enabling you to contribute to important scientific research. This page describes the science behind Foldit and how your playing can help. What is a protein? Proteins are the workhorses in every cell of every living thing. Your body is made up of trillions of cells, of all different kinds: muscle cells, brain cells, blood cells, and more. Inside those cells, proteins are allowing your body to do what it does: break down food to power your muscles, send signals through your brain that control the body, and transport nutrients through your blood. What are amino acids? What shape will a protein fold into? Why is shape important? What do proteins do? Proteins are present in all living things, even plants, bacteria, and viruses. Photosystem I is a collection of proteins in plants that captures sunlight for photosynthesis.Luciferase catalyzes the chemical reaction that makes fireflies glow.Hemagglutinin helps the influenza virus invade our cells.
5 Unusual Morning Rituals That Will Change Your Life The way you spend your first hour of waking up will make or break the rest of your day. If you find yourself shuffling about in the morning, rushing to get through breakfast and flying out the door to work, you might want to consider changing things up. If you find that you don’t have a lot of time in the morning, try getting up a little earlier and including a healthy morning ritual which can help bring energy, vitality, productivity, and mental and emotional balance to the rest of your day. 1. As soon as you wake up, get out of bed and go to a comfortable chair or couch. If you notice that your aren’t in a good mood, focus on your feeling. This tension “check in” can be as long or as short as you need it to be. 2. A simple Google search will turn up hundreds of studies that illustrate just how positively meditation can affect the body and mind. 3. Sun salutations are a series of super simple yoga poses. 4. 5. I hope these tools have helped you. Last chance to Watch!
malariacontrol.net Sound Healing: The Power of Sound (Binaural Beats Meditation Included!) By Peter Paul Parker Guest Writer for Wake Up World In the beginning was the word and the word was God. The Hebrew translation for word can also been interpreted as sound. Back in the 1960’s Swiss scientist Dr. Jonathan Reid is another Cymatic researcher, who is a musician and a scientist. Pythagoras and Sound Healing Pythagoras has been credited as being the Father of Mathematics, Geometry and Music. The Fibonacci Sequence is evident in nature. The Fibonacci series of numbers can be found everywhere in nature, and are looked upon as the building blocks of life. The Fibonacci series starts at the beginning, which is zero, and then the next number is 1. The Fibonacci series gives perfect balance in growth and movement, so therefore you get a balanced expansion. Tuning Your Chakras Another researcher into Sound healing is Jonathan Goldman. In modern life today we are being detuned from that field and we all need to find ways to tune us back up. Binaural Beats and the Fibonacci Sequence
FiND@Home 2,906,889 tasks After the huge crash of the database, everything is fixed and ready to go. 2,906,889 more WUs! Edit: The transitioner need to catch up 23 Feb 2015, 16:42:17 UTC · Comment Project down this weekend I stopped the BOINC server. I'm currently putting 3 million task into the database. 8,310,176 WUs New batch! I increased the predicted running time for this batch. New WUs I just put 3 192 552 more WU! Have fun :) 13 Jan 2015, 11:23:52 UTC · Comment FightMalaria@Home data now available online Hi all volunteers, We have made a results website for easy access to the data we generated using the FM@H BOINC server. We're still doing the last repeat calculations for the remaining MMV19k and other datasets, the results of which we'll add to this website. I had hoped to get the publication out prior to releasing this 'raw' data, but this is taking longer than I'd hoped. Thanks again for your generous contributions to this project.
Remote Viewing How To One of the burning questions people have when they first discover remote viewing is, How can I try it? Though it takes training, time, and practice to become a highly-skilled operational-level remote viewer, it is fairly easy for even a beginner to do a simple remote viewing experiment successfully. Below are some guidelines for two basic experiments. One easy type of experiment involves merely trying to "see" what is in a picture sealed in an opaque envelope. The photos should not be too complex, but striking enough that they will hold some interest to the remote viewer's subconscious mind (which is heavily involved in the process). When you are ready to do the session, select one of the envelopes, and sit at a table in a quiet or peaceful area with several sheets of paper and a black-ink pen. Some things to remember: Remote viewing impressions must compete with all the mental "noise" that occupies all of our minds all of the time. There are some guidelines, though. Copyright © 2006.
Generic vs Brand Name Medicines Generic name. Each medicine has an approved name called the generic name. A group of medicines that have similar actions often have similar-sounding generic names. For example, phenoxymethylpenicillin, ampicillin, amoxicillin and flucloxacillin are in one group of antibiotics.Brand (trade) name. The brand name is usually written most clearly on any packaging. The colour, size, shape, etc, of brands of the same medicine may vary depending on which company makes it. Some tablets or pills contain a combination of medicines. Doctors are encouraged to prescribe by using the generic name. The generic name is the one doctors are trained to use. A few medicines, however, are always prescribed by the specific brand. In the UK there are strict quality controls before a product licence is granted for brand (trade) named or generic versions of medicines. Check with your pharmacist if in doubt about the use of a medicine.
How To Do What The CIA Already Did – Leave Your Body And ‘Remote View’ Something Remote viewing and other ‘parapsychological’ phenomena has actually been studied in depth by a number of scientists and government intelligence agencies for decades. For a selected list of downloadable peer-reviewed journal articles reporting studies that relate to this type of topic, mostly published in the 21st century, you can click here. Did you know that the CIA, in conjunction with Stanford university, were involved in the scientific study of parapsychological phenomena that lasted more than two decades? Remote viewing is the ability of a person to describe a remote geographical location up to several hundred thousand kilometers from their actual physical location. In these experiments, multiple individuals were able to describe distinct objects that were located in a separate room, and at other remote physical locations from where there body was not. How To Do It Paul H Smith, PhD, is a founder and past-president of the International Remote Viewing Association (IRVA).