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sethmnookin: According to @universalhub, hit & run that killed MIT visiting scientist this afternoon right outside of Kenmore Sq http://t.co/RW1wsCAFbr
EmilyAnthes: HA! (Also: Sad.) RT @Sci_Phile "Homeopaths Without Borders" should be called "Visitors Without Medicine" http://t.co/kXPg8M76hW
TravisSaunders: Full text of very cool new paper posted to the #SBRN website http://t.co/vsrF3kuDB2
hillaryrosner: @MattLuizza My pleasure. Like the use of the Twitter training. :)
stevesilberman: Bravo to @mutualofomaha for this surprisingly progressive autism PSA, and to @lynnesoraya for this great post. http://t.co/rrHqjOv5EK
daniel_lende: RT @SverreMolland: Human Organ Traffic (via @Pocket) - http://t.co/iJRvktYDDi interviews with Nancy Scheper-Hughes
mfenner: RT @brigittejoerg: Knowledge Exchange report available "Making data count - Research Data and Research Assessment" http://t.co/218sorCXXy
MrEpid: ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Matt Cooke hits Karlsson blatantly in the face with his stick and nothing? Come on NHL. Get your act together #peskysens
BethSkw: RT @BoraZ: RT @sciam: Dear American Consumers: Please don t start eating healthfully. Sincerely, the Food Industry http://t.co/2mdPzFq6En
Jason_Reads: Politicians furious over Bronx bus company's "ride through a real ghetto" tour: http://t.co/2Hbf8CImvs
jeancflanagan: Just watched “The Revisionaries” on Netflix - a look at the people behind the culture wars in the Texas Board of Education.
Category Archives: Drugs
Are Warnings About the Side Effects of Drugs Making Us Sick?
Category: Culture, Drugs, Ethics, Health, Nocebo effect, Placebo effect, Science
Tagged gluten, Hauser, health care, nocebo, pain, placebo
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Inside the Mind of a Synaesthete
Category: Art, Books, Culture, Drugs, Interview, Multimedia, Music, Neuroscience, Personal computing, Photography, Science, Technology
Tagged Ellington, Hockney, Messaien, Nabokov, Perry Hall, Ramachandran, Ravel, Scriabin, Synesthesia
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The Plot to Turn On the World: The Leary/Ginsberg Acid Conspiracy
Category: Art, Books, Drugs, Gay, History, Interview, Multimedia, Poetry, Politics, Psychedelics, War, Writers
Tagged Alan Watts, Allen Ginsberg, Buddhism, Chogyam Trungpa, Gary Snyder, Ken Kesey, LSD, Peter Conners, Ram Dass, Timothy Leary
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Meet the Ethical Placebo: A Story that Heals
Category: Books, Drugs, Ethics, Health, Interview, Placebo effect, Science, Science Writing
Tagged acupuncture, antidepressants, homeopathy, Kaptchuk, Kirsch, mind/body, placebo, PLoS, Raz, Wired, woo
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