Category: Perception
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Cannabis, pain, perception
A study from the University of Oxford suggests that cannabis makes pain more bearable rather than actually reducing it. [1] In particular, volunteers had a cream rubbed into the skin of one leg to induce pain. They where also given either a 15mg tablet of THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol) - the ingredient that is responsible for the high when…
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Walking through walls, QM, Reality...
What exactly is "real"? How do you know that your dreams are "not real"? Because your mother told you so. How do you know that the wall you see in front of you is "real"? Because you see it. And because other people see it too. But not all people see the same. And surely not…
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The Dark Side, reality, "events"...
Ebb and Flow chased each other around the moon for nearly a year, peering into the interior. With dwindling fuel supplies, the twin NASA spacecraft are ready for a dramatic finish. On Monday, they will plunge — seconds apart — into a mountain near the moon's north pole. It's a carefully choreographed ending so that…
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Pigeons win Broadband in data transfer rate. True. Scary.
Everything is a matter of perception. And it is true that the perception of the "fast Internet we cannot live without" is part of our modern culture. However it takes a small pigeon to see more clearly what your blind eyes cannot. It is true. In many occasions have pigeons won the locan Broadband Internet…
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Sophos, viruses, not so "sophos"...
Sophos has admitted that it suffered a false positive incident last night when its own anti-virus software began detecting an update as malware. [1] For most people a computer virus is a "bad" thing. However few people actually understand that usual update programs actually replicate many of the functions of a computer virus, even the…
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