"AllThingsIfSheWill"
"My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. I’m two, and both keep their distance — Siamese twins that aren’t attached."
Guilty, but not responsible?
Monsters are born, not made: the latest round in the debate about criminal responsibility questions the very existence of intuitive morality.
The US neuroscientist Sam Harris claims in a new bookthat free will is such a misleading illusion that we need to rethink our criminal justice system on the basis of discoveries coming from the neurological wards and MRI scans of the human brain in action.
Neuroscience: Antioxidant Shows Promise as Treatment for Certain Features of Autism
ScienceDaily (May 29, 2012) — A specific antioxidant supplement may be an effective therapy for some features of autism, according to a pilot trial from the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital that involved 31 children with the disorder.
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Thoughts of a New World: Critical Thinking Reading List
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Above Top Secret - Timothy Good
Ages in Chaos - Immanuel Velikovsky
Adam’s Calendar - Johan Heine and Michael Tellinger
Anti-Gravity and the World - David Hatcher Childress
Anunnaki Encyclopedia -…
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Neuroscience: New Effective Treatment for Tinnitus?
ScienceDaily (May 28, 2012) — A team of researchers from Maastricht, Leuven, Bristol and Cambridge demonstrated the effectiveness of a new tinnitus treatment approach in the journal The Lancet. Tinnitus is the perception of a noxious disabling internal sound without an external source. Roughly…
