Art, Neurobiology, and Mescaline: The Neuroaesthetics of Semir Zeki
“Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities….” — Plato (The Symposium)
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Three Drug-Delivery Breakthroughs
It’s a common problem in medicine: getting a drug to go just where it’s needed in the body in order to minimize the dosage, maximize the benefit, and avoid side effects as much as possible. Three new developments show promise in making this easier.
When Grandma Beats You at Scrabble
Have you ever been beaten at the classic word game Scrabble by an 85-year-old grandmother? (I have, and I’m usually pretty good at wordsmithing.) Some elderly people with super-sharp memory don’t seem to suffer the memory loss that assails most people as they age. Why?
Feeling Great Forever
I just got back from a short trip to Mexico where I went for the express purpose of having a few grams of placental tissue transplanted beneath the skin of my lower abdomen.
The Psychedelic Transhumanists
Transhumanism in a fortune cookie: the familiar human world is just one point along a continuum of evolution, and we have an unprecedented capacity to participate in that process.
The Neurology of Spiritual Experience
The science of spirituality has become something of a hot topic in the past few decades. Some of this may be because the absolutist rational materialism that dominated much of the twentieth century has given way to something slightly more flexible.
Open Source Medicine as the Next Insanely Great Thing
Part of the reason that many people read h+ and other radical technology publications is to get ideas about how to live longer. People tend to become like those they are around, so it makes sense if you want to live to 150, you want to help your friends live longer.
Tweaking Your Neurons
"Four shots in my Americano, please. I’ve got a presentation due tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. and I haven’t started it yet. I’ll probably be up all night.”
Promise of nanodiamonds for safer gene therapy
Gene therapy holds promise in the treatment of a myriad of diseases, including cancer, heart disease and diabetes, among many others. However, developing a scalable system for delivering genes to cells both efficiently and safely has been challenging.
Take The Shot
Is the so-called Novel Swine Influenza A (H1N1) a fluke? Is it about to disappear from the landscape as another ‘could have been’ red-herring danger like the bird flu that failed to materialize? The answer to these questions is definitely ‘no!’