2023: The Year of the ChatGPT Scare
2023 was the year that an artificial intelligence (AI) known as ChatGPT-4 spectacularly passed the Turing Test.
Matthew Medinsky
Freedom — One Liberated Apple at a Time
A minor but significant spark of direct action occurred in New York on 15 December.
The Importance of Enzymes for Health, Longevity and Chronic Disease Prevention
Editor's Note: This article is a reprint.
Research on Astaxanthin Demonstrates Significant Whole Body Benefits
Editor's Note: This article is a reprint.
Study Proves COVID Shots Can Cause Off-Target Immune Responses
Yet again, warnings from the earliest days of the COVID jab rollout prove prescient.
Shaman Guide: Keys to Understanding Shamanism
In the past decade Shamanism has jumped out from the depths of the jungle into mainstream society.
Bicycle Day: The Discovery of LSD
Bicycle Day is an annual celebration that commemorates the first-ever intentional ingestion of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann on April 19, 1943.
How Do Constitutional Archetypes Determine the Correct Dose of a Treatment?
While pharmaceutical drugs can sometimes be remarkably helpful, because of how frequently I observe them harm patients, I am inherently hesitant to use them.
The Many Benefits of NAC — One of the Most Important Supplements You’ve Likely Never Heard Of
Editor's Note: This article is a reprint.
10 Questions About Gaza – Part 1
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
W. H. Auden
Here are ten questions everyone should try to answer before adding their unconditional or qualified support to the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, and which UK politicians, journalists
Investigating the protective effects of mindfulness-based attention training on mind wandering in applied settings
Introduction: Mind wandering, a phenomenon in which attention drifts away from the task-at-hand, is associated with deleterious effects on performance and well-being.
Daydreaming While Reading Jonathan Crary’s 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
“Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast.”
Shakespeare, Macbeth
People often laugh when I tell them that I go to sleep at
Tanzania Tour Risks Whitewashing Maasai Forced Evictions
This week American tennis players – brothers John and Patrick McEnroe – are set to host a luxury tennis-themed safari tour in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), where Indigenous Maasai people are protesting the Tanzanian government’s forced eviction of them from their ancestral homes.
The “Epic Tanzania Tour” is organized
EU: Use Trade Leverage to Support Democracy and Rights in Central Asia
(Brussels) – The European Union’s detailed assessments of Central Asian countries benefiting from preferential access to the EU market reveal major gaps in their fulfilment of human rights obligations. Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have been given EU market access under a special incentive arrangement for sustainable development and good governance: the
A Guffaw In Need of Being
The rains of November are cold but the snows of November are colder.
It is said that an entire generation of young men from the Ukraine are gone now.
