This is amazing. It takes weeks to feel the effect of currently-available antidepressants. The only thing that works faster is good old “electroshock therapy” (which might seem kind of primitive, but actually helps a lot of people who don’t respond to medication). Ketamine is primarily used in veterinary medicine in the US (and recreationally as…
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Chinese 'anger bar' is a big hit
I guess bartenders have always done more psychotherapy than psychologists…. A bar in eastern China has come up with a novel way of attracting clients – they are allowed to beat up the staff. The Rising Sun Anger Release Bar in Nanjing lets customers smash glasses, rant and even hit specially trained workers, state media…
Mix up your reality…one day we'll just download ourselves to an Ipod.
“When reality gets hard to take, there’s an escape to a parallel universe — a virtual world without end where real people create online personas called avatars. Anything is possible.” The TransVision 2006 annual conference of the World Transhumanist Association, Helsinki 17-19 August 2006, organized by the WTA and the Finnish Transhumanist Association, will be…
Tibetan government in exile launches online TV site
Xeni Jardin blogged this over at BoingBoing. I like the stories Xeni posts. Sometimes she scoops me, but sometimes I scoop her too. If she ever wants to blog with us, the door is certainly open. cd http://www.tibetonline.tv/ On August 3, the Central Tibetan Administration — that’s the official name for the Tibetan government in…
Update: Lebanese Photos not faked
I heard from a reader tonight that the photos in a link I provided in an earlier post were proven to be fakes. I can only caution readers that Rush Limbaugh is not a reputable source. He is a known pharmaceutical abuser that has had multiple run ins with police and other law enforcement officers….
Insurgents Speak Out in Iraq
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Face-to-face with female killers – photography exhibit in Russia
I saw this on the BBC website yesterday, but didn’t read it. Did today and wow – what powerful images! Check it out…. “The words ‘No one ever taught you to love yourself’ made Marina cry.” “How sad we look…” A Canadian photographer is confronting Russians with images of women murderers, at an exhibition in…
Pageant at Manoa Valley Theatre
Saturday night, we were fortunate to have some friends give us tickets to Pageant at the Manoa Valley Theatre (http://www.manoavalleytheatre.com/NowPlaying/Pageant.htm) (Thanks Dave and Theresa!!!) It was a fabulous experience. Basicly a spoof of a beauty pageant where all of the contestants (Miss Bible Belt, Miss Deep South, Miss Great Plains, Miss Texas, Miss Industrial Northeast,…
Hawaiian Sunshine Nursery
Yesterday was another fine day on Oahu. Mink and I decided to go visit our friend Conrad who works at Hawaiian Sunshine Nursery in Waimanalo. We’ve been getting into tropical plants lately and I’ve started a small kine garden in our yard, so it was a real treat to have Conrad show us around the…
On This Day – New York Times
On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, that instantly killed an estimated 66,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare.