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What pop culture gets wrong about aliens and life in
This sermon is a critique of the youtube video titled “Immortality, Religion, & the Search for Life | Dr. David Kipping | EP 463” With which we will compare the beliefs of neoBuddhism, with the beliefs in pop culture, which are often associated with the astronomical perspective of our place in the universe. In contrast to the perspectives offered by Dr. Kipping, we (neoBuddhists) will…
Not really explaining Quantum Chromo Dynamics
This critique is in response to the video: Original Description: Jun 22, 2024Or maybe why I can’t? QuantumQuantumQuantumChromodynamics Link to Patreon — one exclusive video per month: / acollierastro I have merch: https://store.dftba.com/collections/angela-collier Speakers:Angela Collier= [AC] 0:00 so there’s this quote from Einstein that says that if you can’t explain something to a six-year-old then you don’t really 0:06 understand it yourself and I I just think that’s really silly 🖖 because…
Intro to neoBuddhist Epistemology
The Michael Shermer Show # 439We often assume that religious beliefs are no different in kind from ordinary conventional beliefs―that believing in the existence of God is akin to believing that May comes before June. Neuroscientist Neil Van Leeuwen shows that, in fact, these two forms of belief are strikingly different. Van Leeuwen argues that religious belief is best understood as a form of imagination…
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The Heart of Man
and Its Genius for Good and Evil by ERICH FROMM This is one of the first in depth analysis on malignant narcissism…
A Generation of Sociopaths How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
I wonder what the children they raise would be like. The following are excerpts from the book “A Generation of Sociopaths…
The Mosaic Effect
Forewordby Finn Lau Some observers nickname the United Front “Xi’s secret weapon.” In this foreword, I hope to provide readers with…
Lexical Priming A new theory of words and language
1 Collocation and lexical priming Introduction In this book I want to argue for a new theory of the lexicon, which amounts…
Lexical Priming Applications and advances
Ideas are like people. They have direct ancestors and share genes with their sib‑ lings. Sometimes they are lucky enough…
Political Violence in Ancient India
POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN ANCIENT INDIA CONTENTS PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION CHRONOLOGY OF DYNASTIES CHRONOLOGY OF TEXTS Introduction CHAPTER ONE ▪ Foundation…
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The digital euro for the digital economy.
Dear esteemed members and distinguished attendees, It is both a unique honor and a testament to the democratic vibrancy of the…
The democratization of technology.
AI is possibly the “last invention” mankind would need to make, and the rewards are incalculable, which is also true…
The current state of climate change 2022
Today I would like to take some time to lay out the current levels of green house gasses with historical…
History
Wellness
neoBuddhist concepts of love, in romantic relationships.
The Philosophy of Love by Karen Existential love, a quest for meaning,A path to self, a soul’s redeeming,Love as virtue, a…
Cannabis policy models
Create a strict legal framework for controlling the production, distribution, sale and possession of cannabis. This aims to accomplish 3…
Medical Cannabis in Parkinson Disease: Real-Life Patients’ Experience
This originally appeared at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29059132/ Authors Yacov Balash 1 , Lihi Bar-Lev Schleider, Amos D Korczyn, Herzel Shabtai, Judith Knaani, Alina Rosenberg, Yehuda Baruch, Ruth Djaldetti, Nir Giladi, Tanya Gurevich PMID:…
The Spillover Effect of Recreational Marijuana Legalization on Crime: Evidence
This originally appeared at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022042620921359 Guangzhen Wu https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5767-0986 [email protected], Francis D. Boateng, and Xiaodong LangView all authors and affiliations https://doi.org/10.1177/0022042620921359 Abstract An ongoing debate…
IS RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA A GATEWAY TO HARDER DRUG USE AND
This was originally at https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29038/w29038.pdf Recreational marijuana laws (RMLs), which legalize the possession of small quantities of marijuana for recreational use,…
Effects of Drug Policy Liberalization on Public Safety: A Review
This originally appeared at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4294150 Maria M. OrsiniOhio State University (OSU) – Department of Sociology December 5, 2022AbstractAfter decades of criminalization,…
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The digital euro for the digital economy.
Dear esteemed members and distinguished attendees, It is both a unique honor and a testament to the democratic vibrancy of the…
What are dendrites and what do they do ?
An interesting video on dendrites and the history of neural networks….
The democratization of technology.
AI is possibly the “last invention” mankind would need to make, and the rewards are incalculable, which is also true…
