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One of the goals of my science cafe and blog is to humanize the science and the scientist. But I often get asked about all these studies I often quote. Who are these people? How do the researchers find these subjects?
It was probably a touch simpler to just interview some past study participants, but where’s the fun in that? So I took part in a meditation/anxiety study in February.
The study focused on emotion processing & anxiety and how these might change with mindfulness based stress reduction or cognitive-behavioral …
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Dear beloved Albert Hoffman passed away on Tuesday at the ripe old age of 102.
Who’s Albert Hoffman? He’s responsible for the little marvel: LSD.
From the NY Times obit:
?hrough my LSD experience and my new picture of reality, I became aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of nature and of the animal and plant kingdom,?Dr. Hofmann told the psychiatrist Stanislav Grof during an interview in 1984. ? became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us.”
Years after his initial accidental ingestion of …