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As President Obama seeks $27.6 billion for federal drug control programs in his new budget, we talk to British journalist Johann Hari about the century-old failed drug war and how much of what we know about addiction is wrong. Source: disinfo.com

It was a monumental undertaking. Source: qz.com

Originally posted on dr. p.l. (paul) thomas: A few days after the 2015 Super Bowl XLIX, during the ESPN Radio Mike & Mike sports talk show, Mike Greenberg returned to the debate over Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch, while also mentioning New England Patriots Rob Gronkowski‘s appearance on ABC’s…

We live in a world of illusion. So many of the concerns that occupy the mind and the tasks that fill the calendar arise from planted impulses to become someone or something that we are not. This is no accident. Source: disinfo.com

Climate change is global-scale violence against places and species, as well as against human beings. Source: truth-out.org

The Paradoxes That Threaten To Tear Modern Cosmology Apart – The Physics arXiv Blog – Medium Revolutions in science often come from the study of seemingly unresolvable paradoxes. An intense focus on these paradoxes, and their… Source: medium.com

Cultural beliefs and stereotypes that associate men but not women with “raw intellectual talent” can help explain the differing gender gaps across various academic disciplines, according to a new study by Sarah-Jane Leslie (Princeton), Andrei Cimpian (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Meredith Meyer (Ottterbein), and Edward Freeland (Princeton) published today in Science. A similar account appears to…

Originally posted on Dreams are the poetic expression of the soul.: © Art Tatum. Pure undiluted genius.  Sheer magic. ___________________________ © 2015 Arvin da Braga.  All Rights Reserved.

Originally posted on simonhlilly: UNDOING Sitting without time, Outwith its wild unheard roar. Moments snowmelt vanishing, Undoing forgiven, unknowing acquiesced. Oh, Birds of dawn, the hills are laced with cold. Blue air placid, blanket weighed. A roll of mist is daybreak, A disassembly of constellations. Sky ceiling lifts and breathes…

Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. A few days ago, I came across this statement by the notable biologist Peter Medawar: ‘the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or not.’ What he says is true: we may have a strong, firm belief that P without…

Society, law and economic necessity all conspire to make work a near-essential requirement. Would it be better if this w Source: disinfo.com

At the suggestion of appalled supporters, Bonnie Weinstein finally compiled a selection of choice missives into a book, To the Far Right Christian Hater: You can be a good speller or a hater, but you can’t be both. I was a conservative Evangelical for many years. Over that time, I…