Inside of Your Skull, Out of Your Skull

Courtesy of Ken Pope, a Wired magazine article on hypersonic sound, which “broadcasts audio in a focused beam, so that only a person standing directly in its path hears the message. In this case, the cable channel A&E was using the technology to promote a show…” The article’s title? “Why the Next Civil Rights Battle [...]

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Loss of Sadness

A piece at Business Day (Zimbabwe) makes some nice points about depression. The referrence The Loss of Sadness by two sociologists, Allan Horowitz and Jerome Wakefield. The article is written in the context of recent findings that SSRIs may be no better than placebo, that in some places access to talk therapy is limited, and [...]

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