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Clara Steitz

COVID Noncompliance Now Labeled Top ‘Terror Threat’

- STORY AT-A-GLANCE When you think of potential terror threats, what comes to mind? Did opposing irrational and/or illegal COVID measures make your list? Well, it recently got top billing on the Department of Homeland Securitys list of potential terror threats as we approach the 20th anniversary of 9/

More than 140 Groups Urge White House to End Over-Criminalization of Fentanyl-Related Substances

August 24, 2021 President Joe Biden The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20500 Vice President Kamala Harris The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Biden and Vice President Harris: The 142 undersigned organizations write to urge the Biden administration and Congress to

Russia: Insufficient Home Services for Older People

(Moscow) – The Russian government is not providing adequate resources for home-based services for older people, denying some of them the ability to live independent and dignified lives, Human Rights Watch said today. Despite legislative reform to enhance these services, their funding and delivery appear to be inadequate to meet the

Hackers Steal Almost $100 Million in Cryptocurrency from Japanese Exchange

Hackers have reportedly stolen $97 million worth of Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies from the Japanese exchange Liquid in a major hack.

Etiology of Burst Suppression EEG Patterns

Burst-suppression electroencephalography (EEG) patterns of electrical activity, characterized by intermittent high-power broad-spectrum oscillations alternating with isoelectricity, have long been observed in the human brain during general anesthesia, hypothermia, coma and early infantile encephalopathy. Recently, commonalities between conditions associated with burst-suppression patterns have led to new insights into the origin of

No Detectable Electroencephalographic Activity After Clinical Declaration of Death Among Tibetan Buddhist Meditators in Apparent Tukdam, a Putative Postmortem Meditation State

Recent EEG studies on the early postmortem interval that suggest the persistence of electrophysiological coherence and connectivity in the brain of animals and humans reinforce the need for further investigation of the relationship between the brain’s activity and the dying process. Neuroscience is now in a position to empirically

Giving Up on Consciousness as the Ghost in the Machine

Consciousness as used here, refers to the private, subjective experience of being aware of our perceptions, thoughts, feelings, actions, memories (psychological contents) including the intimate experience of a unified self with the capacity to generate and control actions and psychological contents. This compelling, intuitive consciousness-centric account has, and continues to

A Fresh Look at the Unconscious Thought Effect: Using Mind-Wandering Measures to Investigate Thought Processes in Decision Problems With High Information Load

Unconscious Thought Theory (Dijksterhuis, 2004) states that thinking about a complex problem unconsciously can result in better solutions than conscious deliberation.

RS Staff Picks Gift Guide: The Psychonaut

NOW SERVING Psychedelic Culture Not sure what to purchase your psychonaut friend during this holiday season? This gift guide will certainly help you find the perfect present for your mindfully psychedelic friend. Listed below are some ride-or-die swag our staff at Reality Sandwich cannot live without. Dress the part by

Looking at: The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion With No Name

NOW SERVING Psychedelic Culture We live in strange times. The use of naturally occurring psychoactive substances seems ubiquitous in human cultures throughout space and time.

RS Staff Picks Gift Guide: Stimulate the Psychedelic Experience

NOW SERVING Psychedelic Culture Oh, how wild 2020 has been.While this year has had its unprecedented hardships, the yearly ritual of gift-giving is one thing you can do to keep spirits high.

The BBC Are A Disgrace

Recently the Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio 2 received a call from John in Manchester who Vine and the BBC labelled as an “antivaxxer.” John’s conversation with Vine was revealing. Not necessarily for the content, although John made some good points, but because it exposed the BBC for