Greg Hill and Kerry Wendell Thornley, Principia Discordia (via psychogeographicalsomaticism)
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I view people who have hard-ons for science the same way as I view religious people.
Science is the new religion.
NIKOLA TESLA (1856 - 1943)
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Carl Sagan (via ageofreason)(Source: ageofreason)
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Carl Sagan - “Billions and Billions”
Although I agree that industrial civilization has no respect of or “right to life”, but it is erroneous to say that “nor has there been at any former time”, as indigenous non-industrial cultures were able to live on their land bases for thousands of years without destroying local communities of non-humans. I am sure that Carl knew this, I’m just clarifying for those who think that ecological destruction and animal abuse is the only option for humanity. Industrial civilization characterized by the growth of cities, however, is based on expanding an ever-increasing industrial base and ecological exploitation.
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we don’t know that prior cultures have always existed in harmony with their environment. for all we know, there could have been countless civilizations before us that rose and fell, swept away by time.
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Carl Sagan in “Contact” (via ageofreason)(Source: ageofreason)
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Kerri Smith, “Taking aim at free will”
Here’s the important message: ‘The brain scan could predict the decisions with 80% accuracy.’
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Rene Descartes (via zenlikeme)
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Friendly Bacteria Cheer Up Anxious Mice
A happy stomach leads to a happy mood? While some of us may have already experienced the wonders of a full stomach, these neuroscientists have shown why that is.
Most everyone knows that stress can cause a clenched, gurgling, unhappy stomach. What’s less well known is that the relationship goes both ways.
Beneficial gut bacteria, or probiotics, have been shown in the past to alleviate symptoms of stress and anxiety, but it wasn’t clear whether the bugs could have an impact on the brains of healthy animals. Now, John Cryan, a pharmacologist with the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Center at University College Cork, Ireland, and colleagues have found that probiotics have a direct impact on mood neurotransmitters in mice1. The findings further support the idea that one way to heal problems of the mind might be through the stomach.
Cryan’s group fed a strain of Lactobacillus rhamnosus — a species found in some yoghurts — to 16 healthy mice. The dose they used was roughly the same as the amount of probiotic cultures claimed to be in a pot of Actimel yoghurt.
The team then ran the mice, along with 20 mice fed a bacteria-free broth, through a battery of stress tests. In negotiating a maze, the mice that received probiotics ventured out into open spaces more than twice as often as the control mice, suggesting that they were less anxious. And when forced to swim, the bacteria-fed mice were slightly more prone to struggle — rather than give up — than their broth-fed brethren. “These mice were more chilled out,” says Cryan, adding that the effects of the probiotics were similar in magnitude to those seen in mice for antidepressant drugs. Cryan and his colleagues report their results in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week.
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First-time study showing empirical evidence confirming the conventional wisdom that corporations actually do control most of the world’s finances. Left: Interconnecting network of nearly 43,000 corporations (TNCs), with node sizes representing the ‘tier of control’ over others. Right: Zoom in of core. Part of the economic “super-entity” that controls nearly 1/3 of global wealth.
From the scientific paper: In detail, nearly 4/10 of the control over the economic value of TNCs in the world is held, via a complicated web of ownership relations, by a group of 147 TNCs in the core, which has almost full control over itself.
Non-scientific write-up of the paper.
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