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This year
Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.
by jeanruaud
Why are inert pills suddenly overwhelming promising new drugs and established medicines alike?
The Spiritual Brain: Interview with Denyse O'Leary
by anubis99
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According to the editor, the book “The Spiritual Brain - A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul” (Mario Beauregard and Denyse O’Leary, Harper One, 2007) “offers compelling evidence that religious experiences have a nonmaterial origin”.
To learn more about this book and its claims, I contacted the coauthor Denyse O’Leary to ask her if she could answer a few questions, and she kindly agreed.
2007
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2006
Elevator "close door" buttons
by micah
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A few years ago, Ben told me that they're a placebo. He said the elevator companies put them there just to give impatient riders the sense that things are moving along faster than they actually are.
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