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Tobacco absorbs and concentrates radioactive metals in soil and fertilizers. Cannabis does not do this. https://www.cdc.gov/radiation-health/data-research/facts-sta...

The tobacco industry was well-aware of the risk from radioactivity since the 1950s. https://www.uclahealth.org/news/release/big-tobacco-knew-rad...

Check out the review articles in the “Nature Reviews” journals, like “Nature Reviews Genetics”. These articles are written by experts but designed for a non-specialist audience (with undergraduate science education).

On Facebook, if you go to 'Menu' > 'Feeds' > 'Friends' you will see a feed of only your contacts' activity and none of the suggested posts & random pages on the normal Feed

Collaborate with other people on your projects. You could do some of the initial work, and then hand it off to others to do the marketing and follow-up. You don’t have to do everything yourself.

Exposure therapy for PTSD, phobias, and other anxiety disorders has lots of evidence from clinical trials. It is based on animal studies of “fear extinction”. You often see good results after 10-12 hours of focused therapy sessions.

But for papers published recently you can email an author and they will send you a PDF.

ChatGPT often makes up facts. It outputs stuff that looks like it could have been written by a human, not stuff that is correct.

Don’t use ChatGPT for medical research.

Many male authors have relied on their wives as unpaid secretaries, typists, editors, researchers, and writers. #ThanksForTyping

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/ishmaeldaro/thanks-for-...

You must be doing this all the time because even if you verbalize some stuff you cannot possibly verbalize everything that is happening in your mind.

In 2012 Yasha Levine accused Malcolm Gladwell of taking “$1M per year” in “speaking fees” from “Pharma, Big Tobacco, Wall Street, Health Insurance Industry”:

http://shameproject.com/profile/malcolm-gladwell-2/

Email exchange between Levine and Gladwell:

http://shameproject.com/report/malcolm-gladwell-emails-shame...

Check out “childhood emotional neglect” and “complex posttraumatic stress disorder (CPTSD)”. There are lots of books, websites, and forums about this.

Your chronic feeling of emptiness and lack of joy indicate that you have turned off your emotions, maybe in early childhood, maybe to block out a traumatic experience or because your family ignored you and so emotions felt useless.

Look for a therapist who specializes in these issues. You will probably need to try out multiple therapists before you find one for you.

Sounds like you have a lot going for you. It is really common with these issues to have low self-esteem, to feel lots of shame, to feel hopelessly broken, etc, but other people probably do not see you like that.

US teacher unions are for teachers in elementary and high schools (teaching children). People teaching at universities typically do not have a union.

Lots of people have a high standard of living but still suffer from childhood abuse and neglect.

Reducing stigma helps research. It becomes easier to get institutional support, recruit study participants, collaborate with colleagues, obtain funding, etc.

There are reports in medical journals of people accidentally taking hundreds of doses of LSD, and they all were sober within 24 hours.

Wasson did not "discover" magic mushrooms, he was just the first white person to write about taking them. There were earlier reports on mushroom ceremonies, that is why Wasson went there.

The study that Kaczynski participated in did not involve LSD and in interviews Kaczynski has denied ever using LSD.

This is DXM, a dissociative like ketamin, found in cough medications like Robotussin. You can get quite high on it.

Frequency of cannabis increased 20% after legalization in US states. Not much effect.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2022/08/25/cannabi...

Participants were required to bring their own psilocybin mushrooms. Probably because it can be expensive and difficult for researchers to get obtain and administer pharma-grade psilocybin.

The dose was 0.5g of dried Cubensis mushrooms. Usually a microdose is 0.1-0.2g.

All the participants were healthy volunteers. There may be more noticable effects in people with depression or anxiety disorders, etc. Consider that antidepressants often have no effect in healthy volunteers.

Congress members are probably over-performing because of insider trading.

How was your childhood? Sometimes people push themselves to achieve to avoid internal shame. Check out "childhood emotional neglect" and "complex PTSD". Dealing with these core issues can make daily life easier.

An El Salvador court just sentenced a woman to 30 years in prison for having a miscarriage. She has been jailed for two years awaiting trial and has a 7 year old daughter. https://m.dw.com/en/el-salvador-jails-woman-accused-of-abort...

There is when the employees join together in a union.

Like here we are expressing ourselves.

As a child in the US in the 1980s we were told over and over by the TV and school to never talk to strangers, to run away from people offering us candy or asking us to help them find their lost puppy. But there was essentially no education about how to avoid abuse by teachers, sports coaches, and family.

Non-paywall sources also covered this speech by Thiel:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/08/peter-thi...

Being a solid adult member of your community has lots of value. Think "It's a Wonderful Life".

You can experience heroic drama, tragedy, and comedy all at the same time or all within the same day. Just look for them as they happen. Or think back to what you did yesterday and interpret what you did from the perspective of each of these stages.

There are still accidental injuries with LSD, but they are extremely rare, just as they were in the 1960s. What has changed is the media is no longer repeating the same scare stories over and over.