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  A Victim Treats His Mugger Right : NPR

  A Victim Treats His Mugger Right A A March 28, 2008 Julio Diaz has a daily routine. Every night, the 31-year-old social worker ends his hour-long subway commute to the Bronx one stop early, just so he can eat at his favorite diner. But one night last month, as Diaz stepped off the No. 6 ...

  Kim Sequoia added 11 days ago

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  Burning Incense Is Psychoactive: New Class Of Antidepressants Might Be Right Under Our Noses

  Burning Incense Is Psychoactive: New Class Of Antidepressants Might Be Right Under Our Noses ScienceDaily (May 20, 2008) — Religious leaders have contended for millennia that burning incense is good for the soul. Now, biologists have learned that it is good for our brains too. An ...

  Kim Sequoia added 2 weeks ago

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  Bill Maher: Vaccination: A Conversation Worth Having

  Bill Maher Vaccination: A Conversation Worth Having What's Your Reaction? While America is still in the grips of swine flu mania, let me use this opportunity to clear up a few things about my beliefs concerning the flu shot, vaccines, and health in general. I do this because there is ...

  Kim Sequoia added 3 weeks ago

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  BBC NEWS | Health | Hypnosis has 'real' brain effect

  Hypnosis has a "very real" effect that can be picked up on brain scans, say Hull University researchers. An imaging study of hypnotised participants showed decreased activity in the parts of the brain linked with daydreaming or letting the mind wander. The same brain patterns were absent in ...

  Kim Sequoia added 3 weeks ago

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  By My Red Hand: The Ride of Your Life?

  There has been talk building for quite awhile now (heck there’s even a movie coming out, 2012 ) about yet another ‘end of the world.’ Seems culturally we go through cycles of obsessing about this (remember Y2K? Er, yeah...). The Age of Aquarius isn’t over for over another hundred years, but ...

  Kim Sequoia added 4 weeks ago

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