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Philosophy for Children Boosts their Progress at School

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Category: Infinite Mind
Published: Monday, November 9, 2015

Stephen Gorard, Durham University; Beng Huat See, Durham University, and Nadia Siddiqui, Durham University

A programme to teach young children the basics of philosophical thinking in UK schools has been shown to help them progress in maths and reading. A new study evaluated the use of the Philosophy for Children (P4C) programme in which primary school children are guided through discussions of questions such as “Should a healthy heart be donated to a person who has not looked after themselves?” or “Is it acceptable for people to wear their religious symbols at work places?”

The programme is intended to help children become more willing and able to question, reason, construct arguments and collaborate.

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Philosophical Toolkit in tow, Scholar Travels to Conflict Zones

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Category: Infinite Mind
Published: Monday, November 9, 2015

Carlos Fraenkel, McGill University

Over the past few years, I’ve organized philosophy workshops around the world: with students at Palestinian and Indonesian universities, Hasidic Jews in New York, teenagers in Brazil and an Iroquois community in Canada.

I chose the locations deliberately along various lines of conflict: Israel and Palestine, Islam and the West, religious orthodoxy and urban modernity, social and racial divisions in Brazil, and the struggle of Native Americans with the legacy of colonialism.

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Virtual Reality: Explained with Optical illusions

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Category: Technology & Science
Published: Monday, November 9, 2015

Michael Abrash, the chief scientist for Facebook's Oculus, took the stage during day two of the F8 Developer Conference in San Francisco to blow everyone's mind with some trippy optical illusions. During the keynote, Abrash highlighted some interesting illusions to explain how we can trick our eyes into thinking what we're seeing is reality. And according to Abrash, these perceptions, and the assumptions our brain makes about them, are what make virtual reality work.

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Lao Tzu & Eastern Philosophies

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Category: Infinite Mind
Published: Monday, November 9, 2015

Lao Tzu, author of Tao Te Ching, was a philosopher and poet of ancient China. As founder of philosophical Taoism, he's a legendary figure dated back to the 6th Century BCE and supposedly a contemporary of Confucius. Throughout history, Laozi's work has been embraced by various anti-authoritarian movements.

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Hallucinogenic Honey Hunters

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Category: Human Life
Published: Monday, November 9, 2015

Nature's pollinator's can be quite the blessing, especially for a tribe in Nepal which hunts their wild honey laced with natural psychoactive properties. Referred to as "mad honey," the sticky substance is used as a medicine and soft drug, but can even lead to serious complications if abused. Dipak, the translator of this for this short clip takes a valuable lesson when he overdoses on some of the honey.

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Studies Show MDMA Helps People Create More Meaningful Relationships

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Category: Human Life
Published: Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Until recently, research into psychedelic drugs have been strictly forbidden despite their therapeutic potential.  These trends are changing however as more researchers are taking the leap into the reality of MDMA. MAPS, a non-profit organization, is sponsoring FDA-approved clinical research to develop psychedelic-assisted therapies into prescriptions for mental health.  The research focuses on adults on the autism spectrum and whether or not the therapy can enhance functional skills and quality of life with those dealing with social anxiety.

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Living Proof: Boy Remembers Past Life as a 1930s Movie Extra

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Category: Strange Universe
Published: Monday, May 18, 2015

There's no doubt children come equipped with wild imaginations, but what happens there's actual truth behind it all? That's exactly what happened when a young boy named Ryan began experiencing nightmares at the age of four.

It wasn't until he turned five that he decided to finally confront his parents about his past life which centered around being an actor and working on various movies in the 1930s.

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Steve Pierce: Witness to the Travis Walton Alien Abduction Incident

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Category: Strange Universe
Published: Monday, May 18, 2015

Receiving mainstream publicity and as one of the best known cases of alleged alien abduction, the Travis Walton story has generated quite a bit of controversy over-time.  After spending years hiding from the public-view, another witness named Steve Pierce is finally coming forward with his perspective on the incident.

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Fluorescent Proteins Light up Science by Making the Invisible Visible

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Category: Technology & Science
Published: Monday, May 18, 2015

Marc Zimmer, Connecticut College

When you look up at the blue sky, where are the stars that you see at night? They’re there but we can’t see them. A firefly flitting across a field is invisible to us during the day, but at night we can easily spot its flashes. Similarly, proteins, viruses, parasites and bacteria inside living cells can’t be seen by the naked eye under normal conditions. But a technique using a fluorescent protein can light up cells' molecular machinations like a microscopic flashlight.

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Explainer: The Mysterious Dark Energy that Speeds the Universe’s rate of Expansion

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Category: Space & Nature
Published: Monday, May 18, 2015

Robert Scherrer, Vanderbilt University

The nature of dark energy is one of the most important unsolved problems in all of science. But what, exactly, is dark energy, and why do we even believe that it exists?

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What Does it Mean to Preserve Nature in the Age of Humans?

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Category: Space & Nature
Published: Monday, May 18, 2015

Ben A Minteer, Arizona State University and Stephen Pyne, Arizona State University

Is the Earth now spinning through the “Age of Humans?” More than a few scientists think so. They’ve suggested, in fact, that we modify the name of the current geological epoch (the Holocene, which began roughly 12,000 years ago) to the “Anthropocene.” It’s a term first put into wide circulation by Nobel-Prize winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen in an article published in Nature in 2002. And it’s stirring up a good deal of debate, not only among geologists.

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Connecting Animals to the Cloud Could Help Predict Earthquakes

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Category: Technology & Science
Published: Monday, May 18, 2015

Yijun Yu, The Open University and Clara Mancini, The Open University

The recent earthquake in Nepal demonstrated yet again how difficult it is to reliably predict natural disasters. While we have a good knowledge of the various earthquakes zones on the planet, we have no way of knowing exactly when a big quake like the 7.8-magnitude event in Nepal will happen.

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'THE VOID' Allows Users To Experience Realistic Virtual Combat

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Category: Technology & Science
Published: Sunday, May 17, 2015

Pegged as the next-generation of laser tag, this short clip shows off how virtual reality is revolutionizing the future of entertainment. According to it's description, 'THE VOID' you will walk into new dimensions and experience worlds without limits.

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