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In Search of New Terrain: Similarities Between Travel and the Psychedelic Experience
In Search of New Terrain: Similarities Between Travel and the Psychedelic Experience
A psychedelic experience is commonly referred to as a ‘trip’ or a ‘journey’, and the analogy with travel is a helpful one; psychedelics take you to new internal territory, whereas travelling takes you to new external territory. But I believe there are several ways in which we can compare tripping to travelling, and these similarities…
·samwoolfe.com·
In Search of New Terrain: Similarities Between Travel and the Psychedelic Experience
A fish can sense another's fear, a study shows
A fish can sense another's fear, a study shows
WASHINGTON (AP) — Our capacity to care about others may have very, very ancient origins, a new study suggests. It might have been deep-rooted in prehistoric animals that lived millions of years ago, before fish and mammals like us diverged on the tree of life, according to researchers who published their study Thursday in the journal Science .
·apnews.com·
A fish can sense another's fear, a study shows
Which Evolves Faster, Culture or Biology?
Which Evolves Faster, Culture or Biology?
(Inside Science) -- Modern human culture seems to evolve at a dizzying rate. Changes in the media we consume and technology we use often far outstrip our ability to keep up. But there have been few attempts to actually measure this phenomenon. “All we have is this sense that culture evolves really quickly, but relative to what?” said Armand Leroi, an evolutionary biologist at Imperial College London.
·insidescience.org·
Which Evolves Faster, Culture or Biology?