LSD microdoses make people feel sharper, and scientists want to know how - The Verge May didn’t notice much with the first dose of LSD. She felt good, and she got a lot accomplished, and that was all. It was the day after that things really clicked. She felt even better, and she got a lot more accomplished. She repeated this pattern for a month — one 10-microgram dose of LSD every fourth day — as per the regimen recommended by psychologist and microdosing research pioneer James Fadiman’s protocol, made mainstream-famous by Ayelet Waldman’s monthlong LSD self-study chronicled in last year’s A Really Good Day. “I did a little experiment,” says May, a 64-year-old psychotherapist in Marin County requesting anonymity. This wasn’t May’s first time doing acid. Microdosing provided that sharpness for May, as advertised. “For me, it's just clarity. Microdosing is trendy. So what’s happening physiologically to someone on a low dose of LSD? All reporting on microdosing’s purported benefits has been anecdotal, speculative. LSD is mostly known as the mascot for 1960s counterculture.
Travel - The island with £100 million hidden According to legend, pirate treasure reportedly worth £100 million is buried on an Indian Ocean island. Although the region is thought to be littered with hidden treasure, this one is said to be the Holy Grail, the world’s biggest booty haul. The story, which reads like a Hollywood script, has been passed down through generations on the islands of the Seychelles and La Réunion. Although many have tried – and failed – to locate the bounty, two men have devoted their lives to the quest. Reginald Herbert Cruise-Wilkins, known locally on the Seychelles island of Mahé as the ‘Treasure Man’, hunted the fortune for 27 years until his death in 1977. When I first met John, he immediately barked that I was half an hour late. This one is said to be the Holy Grail, the world’s biggest booty haul. But as he showed me around what he believes is the treasure site, and talked about the clues and what he had left to do, the gruff man melted into one you couldn’t help but root for. Levasseur kept the rest.
Origins and Techniques of Monarch Mind Control - The Vigilant Citizen Monarch Programming is a method of mind control used by numerous organizations for covert purposes. It is a continuation of project MK-ULTRA, a mind-control program developed by the CIA, and tested on the military and civilians. The methods are astonishingly sadistic (its entire purpose is to traumatize the victim) and the expected results are horrifying: The creation of a mind-controlled slave who can be triggered at anytime to perform any action required by the handler. While mass media ignores this issue, over 2 million Americans have gone through the horrors of this program. This article looks at the origins of Monarch programming and some of its methods and symbolism. NOTE: This article contains disturbing elements and might trigger Monarch survivors. Monarch programming is a mind-control technique comprising elements of Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) and Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). Origins “DR. “Dr. However, the scope of MK-ULTRA does not however stop. Monarch Programming Method
Is the Internet Ruining Tattoos? Ever since I was a teenager, I wanted to get a tattoo. An obscure line of poetry in high school, a big art-deco design in college... over the years, the ideas changed, but never the basic desire. Then, in July 2016, after almost two decades of talking about it, I walked into a local tattoo parlor on the Jersey Shore with a sense of resolve: I wanted a simple black line, representing the crest of a wave, inside my wrist. The appointment took less than an hour, and the tattoo was done in a matter of minutes. Did I just get a Pinterest tattoo? Ask an experienced tattoo artist and he or she will tell you that the internet is changing the business. The result, artists say, is that clients, particularly walk-ins, are generally less interested in the styles of specific artists and less open to input — they have rigid ideas about how they think their ink should look. When talking to a tattoo artist, the phrase “Pinterest tattoo” has few different connotations.
How to Deal With a Job You Don't Like | The Huffington Post Positivity May Be the Key to Mental Resilience | The Huffington Post Pirate Bay Founder: ‘I Have Given Up’ - Motherboard "The internet is shit today. It's broken. It was probably always broken, but it's worse than ever." My conversation with Peter Sunde, one of the founders and spokespersons of The Pirate Bay, did not start out optimistically. Last month we saw Demonii disappear. While it might look like torrenters are are still fighting this battle, Sunde claims that the reality is more definitive: "We have already lost." Back in 2003 Peter Sunde, together with Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm, started The Pirate Bay, a website that would become the biggest and most famous file-sharing website in the world. "Stop treating internet like it's a different thing and start focusing on what you actually want your society to look like." Sunde was incarcerated in 2014 and released a year later. The following interview has been edited for clarity and length. Take the net neutrality law in Europe. Finland actually made internet access a human right a while back. So, how bad is the state of the open internet?
Making War Make Sense, Mathematically Conflict seems incomprehensible, war a hellish mess. That is, unless you’re Sean Gourley. The San Francisco-based physicist has applied numbers to conflict zones and several other unlikely places. In 2009, he presented an idea at TED: that the apparent chaos of war contains in it some mathematical logic. Certain patterns, he and his team found, repeated themselves across a number of conflicts, each with its own unhappy mess of factions, problems and economic tensions: Iraq, Colombia, Afghanistan, Senegal, Peru, Indonesia. Armed with his analysis, they could actually “generate an equation that could predict the likelihood of an attack,” as Gourley explains in the accompanying TED Talk. Could anyone have predicted his own trajectory? Thank goodness he got B’s in the law classes — math and physics came a-calling. Fast-forward to roughly 2004, when Gourley was at Oxford. Remember the interdisciplinary thing? And then, for six months — nothing. As for Gourley himself?
Google's AutoDraw lets you draw like a pro Drawing isn’t for everyone. I, for one, am definitely not very good at it. But with AutoDraw, Google is launching a new experiment today that uses machine learning algorithms to match your doodles with professional drawings to make you look like you know what you’re doing. You can use AutoDraw on your phone or desktop and the experience is pretty straightforward. You simply start drawing your best version of a pizza, or house, or dog, or birthday cake and the algorithms try to figure out what it is that you’re trying to draw. It then tries to match your squiggles with drawings in its database, and if it finds any possible matches, it’ll show them in a list at the top of your virtual canvas. Artists who want to donate their drawings to the project can do that here, by the way. This project actually uses the same technology as Google’s QuickDraw experiment.
What to Do in a Job Interview When the Salary Question Comes Up | The Huffington Post The Filthy Moralist - The Atlantic Try this, Hollywood. A middle-class American man, a husband, a father—you know, that guy—is addicted to Internet pornography. Night after night, while the house sleeps, he’s out there, browsing the cyber-fleshpots, trolling the tides of electronic lust. His vice deepens; his kinks get connoisseurial. Louis—I’ll call him Louis, because I can’t keep typing C.K. All of which suggests that Louis—born Louis Szekely on September 12, 1967—has struck a nerve. If masturbation is the great sacrament of his comedy, its religion is dualism. This, 2012, is Louis’ moment. So he’s dark and dualistic and violent and sentimental and very American—because it is very American to be continually straddling a post-Puritan either/or, wherein either you’re a virtuous citizen, walking around wearing clean clothes and an expression of polite curiosity, or you’re in your hotel room with the curtains drawn, snarling and bingeing on self-abuse. But we’re not there yet. And then there’s Eddie.
Are Restrictions Post Discectomy Necessary? - Shim Spine After lumbar disk surgery, there is a common misconception that all future activities must be restricted. More and more evidence indicates that the vast majority of post lumbar discectomy patients can and should be able to return back to all activities. Medical Science is a constant evolution of thoughts and processes. Thirty years ago, patients were admitted to hospitals for procedures such as carpal tunnel surgery. They stayed admitted until the wound was healed. Now, select patients are getting knees replaced on an outpatient basis. Likewise, there is a change in post surgical management, and post surgical activity recommendations. Traditionally, post lumbar discectomy patients were placed under protective restrictions. Meta analysis of various papers regarding post lumbar discectomy activities restrictions, and post lumbar discectomy rehabilitation has been essentially inconclusive about the necessity of either process. 1. Activity restrictions after posterior lumbar discectomy. 2. 3.