Pocket Archive: Science & Consciousness

What might Earth be like crowned with rings? Space and science- fiction illustrator Ron Miller created extraordinary images of how the sky might look if Earth possessed such rings.

We Are Not Against Civilization, Civilization is Against Us

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Researchers discovered traces of a malignant form of cancer in a fossilized bone from an unearthed dinosaur that roamed the Earth over 70 million years ago.

Four Canadians will soon become the first in the country to legally consume psilocybin since it was made illegal in 1974

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The ultimate archery trick. Proving that Hollywood archery is not historical.It is not possible to tell the whole story about archery in a 5 minute video.so ...

Science has much to say about what intuition is (and isn’t), when to trust it, and how to improve it.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The use of substances to alter consciousness seems to be innate. UCLA Professor Ronald Siegel (2005) calls it the “fourth universal drive”, as natural as hunger, thirst and se…

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Almost by accident, scientists uncovered why ketamine causes out-of-body experiences. They also reveal what happens in the brain when you fall into a "k-hole."

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A new paper argues the condition now known as “dissociative identity disorder” might help us understand the fundamental nature of reality

The researcher behind the famed Dunning-Kruger Effect has found expertise can lead us to claim impossible knowledge.

Is there something wrong with the scientific method?

The technology is coming, but contrary to what some people say, there could be health risks

This film is an excerpt from a new course that I am developing about the Mawangdui medical texts, a library of manuscripts discovered in China that date back...

New research from an international team of scientists is suggesting that instantly recognizable earthy smell after rain is released by bacteria trying to attract a particular arthropod as a way to spread its spores.

Qi Dynamics and the Six Phases

The long read: Philosophers and scientists have been at war for decades over the question of what makes human beings more than complex robots

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This module provides a brief overview of the neuroscience of emotion. It integrates findings from human and animal research to describe the brain networks and associated neurotransmitters involved in basic affective systems.

Mind Fixers, by historian Anne Harrington, takes a hard look at the ways the marketing of a new pill to treat a mental disorder can change the way the condition is defined and treated.

A mathematical model normally used to study networks helped reveal the architecture of the brain.

Last year, neuroscientists used a classic branch of maths in a totally new way to peer into the structure of our brains.

Scientists in the UK have even identified four cases of "chronic déjà vu."