500 Words on Thursday | by Lee Schneider Wearing Vibram fivefingers is a lesson in guidance systems. For those who’ve not seen them, fivefingers create the feel of barefoot running. When I use them, every pebble is an acupressure point. My left heel can’t bang on the ground like it used to. This is running [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Johns Hopkins'
Goldman-Sachs, Animal Welfare and the Broken Compass
May 6th, 2010 · → No Comments
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Compassion for Animals
April 15th, 2010 · → 10 Comments
500 Words on Thursday | Written by Lee Schneider Is there any circumstance when animal experimentation or the use of animals in medical education would be warranted? “No.” That brief, to the point, and definitive answer came from John J. Pippin, MD, a cardiologist and senior medical and research advisor for the Physicians Committee for [...]
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The Spirit Molecule
July 2nd, 2009 · → 12 Comments
When LSD was legal (yes, before 1966 it was legal to do scientific experiments with LSD) the elegant movie actor Cary Grant, of all people, participated in LSD-assisted psychotherapy once a week. Enter DMT, known as the “spirit molecule.” Dr. Rick Strassman believes that this powerful psychedelic is at the root of naturally occurring psychedelic states, including psychosis and mystical experiences.
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