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Schizophrenia patients calmed by video game - BBC News
By Jon Dron 15 February 2018 @ 10:17amwww.bbc.com - A small pilot study, so no firm conclusions can be drawn, but this is an interesting and novel use of video games to help schizophrenic patients to control their hallucinations without drugs. The technique actually has almost nothing to do with the... -
Facebook’s days may be numbered as UK youth abandon the platform
By Jon Dron 14 February 2018 @ 9:10pm Comments (1)www.alphr.com - The end of Facebook couldn't come soon enough, but we've been reading headlines not unlike this for around a decade, yet still its malignant tumour in the lungs of the Web grows, sucking the air out of all good things. Despite losses in the youth... -
F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
By Jon Dron 22 January 2018 @ 4:28pmPosted to group: Open Source Softwarehttps://f-droid.org/en/ - I don't know about you, but I am getting increasingly bothered about the vast numbers of dubious permissions, unwanted tracking ads, and risky bits of software available via Google's App Store. F-Droid is a fully open source replacement for the... -
Turns out the STEM ‘gender gap’ isn’t a gap at all
By Jon Dron 3 January 2018 @ 11:46pm Comments (1)windsorstar.com - At least in Ontario, it seems that there are about as many women as men taking STEM programs at undergraduate level. This represents a smaller percentage of women taking STEM subjects overall because there are way more women entering university in... -
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terra0 - a forest that will one day buy itself
By Jon Dron 19 December 2017 @ 10:58ampaulkolling.de - I love this art project - a forest that owns itself and that makes money on its own behalf, eventually with no human control or ownership. From the blurb... "The Project emerged from research in the fields of crypto governance, smart contracts,... -
Oh, shit, git!
By Jon Dron 18 December 2017 @ 8:40pm Comments (1)Posted to group: Programming & Problem Solvinghttp://ohshitgit.com/ - One for programmers and others, such as writers and scholars, using Git, which is (arguably, but IMHO) the best distributed and collaborative version control system available right now. This is a brief (nb. very brief) set of common (nb. very... -
DADA - social networking through drawing
By Jon Dron 2 December 2017 @ 1:52pm Comments (1)https://dada.nyc/ - DADA is a social network where communication occurs through drawings. Conversations turn into collaborative artworks. It's wonderful. -
Black holes are simpler than forests and science has its limits
By Jon Dron 2 December 2017 @ 12:54pmaeon.co - Martin Rees (UK Astronomer Royal) takes on complexity and emergence. This is essentially a primer on why complex systems - as he says, accounting for 99% of what's interesting about the world - are not susceptible to reductionist science despite... -
A Universe Explodes: A Blockchain Book, from Editions At Play
By Jon Dron 1 December 2017 @ 7:42pm Comments (2)medium.com - A really nice project from the Editions at Play team at Google, in which blockchain is used both to limit supply to a digital book (only 100 copies made) and, as the book is passed on, to make it 'age,' in the sense that each reader must remove two...
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This is a really interesting article! A relevant book was recently published by Michael Pollan, an American author, activist, journalist, and professor of journalism at UC Berkley, called "How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence." This book discusses his and others' research on the effects of LSD and psilocybin on suffering related to depression, addiction, and anxiety. He includes a section outlining the neuroscientific research that is being conducted in this department. If you are interested in this topic, I would highly recommend this book.
Melissa Reid June 17, 2018 - 7:36pm
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Thanks for the heads up Melissa. have added it to my purchase list.
Mike Sosteric June 17, 2018 - 8:23pm