Scientists: “Psilocybin is great, but don’t take it”
Psychadelic mushrooms recently caused “long lasting mystical experiences” in a recent study at Johns Hopkins University. Volunteers were given mushrooms, and seemed happier to people after their “spiritual” experiences. Apart from the ones that got paranoid. Griffiths stated “these drugs should not be used recreationally”. Obviously, getting wasted on mushrooms should be restricted to the […]
So do you eat fish?
Im veggie. Mostly. If I want meat, I eat it. I can hear all the hardcore veggies take a sharp intake of breath. Well guess what? It doesnt matter. Absolutes rarely exist. Why? Partly health, partly weight loss (which worked a treat), partly because meat makes me feel like crap, and partly because the idea […]
The Middle Way
Something that crops up a lot in Buddhism is the “middle way”. I have been pondering this with regards to emotions. One extreme is to be at the mercy of one’s emotions, and as a consequence, act very irrationally. Another extreme is to “control” your emotions, blocking them out and not feeling them at all, […]
Authority and Credibility
As I approach the end of my Psychology degree, I am in a bit of a philosophical pickle. We are encouraged to reference everything we say in an essay or report. Understandably, we are still new to psych, so probably haven’t got enought knowledge to come up with our own ideas. Sprinkling references to published […]
Linguistic Relativity, what a mess….
Had to write a very short essay on “arguments for and against the strong Whorfian view with respect to the way we think” over the last few weeks. Read a shitload of papers and book chapters on the subject of language influencing thought. Findings: Nobody agrees on the terms “linguistic relativity” and “linguistic determinism” Nearly […]
jQuery
It’s another layer of ready made javascript functions, that all work together and don’t take up a horrific amount of space like “prototype” and “scriptaculous” do. Almost everything that we wish a website could do can be done with this, and it’s made life a lot easier 😎 I have been contemplating multilevel documents lately, […]