Hot-mic moment at the Beijing parade.
Xi: “People rarely lived past 70 before. Now at 70 you’re still a child.”
Putin: “With biotech, organs can be replaced endlessly… people could even reach immortality.”
Xi: “Some predict people might live to 150 this century.”
Each of the 7 deadly sins has more subtle, more obfuscated forms that help entrench the original sin by making them more socially acceptable and/or blocking true corrective directions.
It's hard to truly understand how radical some of @DavidDeutschOxf theories are compared to much of modern scientific consensus.
One of Davids most controversial but valuable contributions to society is the rejection of probability (with the exception ex. card games) as an…
Saw a talk this week on the trippiest thing: bacterial cultures on skin induce immune responses. At Michael Fischbach's lab, they demonstrated immunizing mice against tetanus by just dabbing an engineered version of a harmless staph culture on its head. Unlike intramuscular…
Patients with schizophrenia who don't meet eligibility criteria for clinical trials (~80% of patients) respond much worse to antipsychotics than those who do.
How much worse is "much worse"?
Let's find out🧵
1/ “The goals in therapy are a collaborative effort in which therapist and patient together identify what is distressing to the patient, what the patient would like to change, and what is realistically possible to change in the course of psychotherapy.”
—Glen Gabbard
Internal reference points for upper bounds of happiness are limited by previous peak experiences, or secondhand accounts of peak life experiences – neither of which prepare you for the scale itself being broken, challenging what you even believe happiness to be.
It turns out…
Our NEW study in @bmj_latest found the experience of either physical or verbal abuse in childhood increased the likelihood of low adult mental well-being by more than 50%, with trends for verbal abuse showing an increase: doi.org/10.1136/bmjope…@BangorUni@markabellis@keh444
Interesting to see the ancient Chinese punishment “9 level family extermination” lives on as “coworkers you ate lunch with also get fired” https://t.co/R7epIpLRKM
The essence of expert psychotherapy is a real-time feedback loop. The psychotherapist continually adapts what they say and do based on the patient’s responses.
In this way, each patient teaches the therapist how to do psychotherapy *for them*
This is why real psychotherapy is…
“Practitioners, unlike those who consider mental health issues from a greater distance, have no choice but to deal with affect: A client’s pain or hostility or excitement can flood the space between two people in ways that go far beyond words.” - Nancy McWilliams
“Negative” emotions become superpowers once fully felt in the presence of god
Anger becomes clarity and momentum
Fear becomes thrill and responsiveness
Disgust becomes discernment and appreciation of interpenetration
Sadness becomes reverence and compassion
Very silly to hate Jordan Peterson, even if there are some ways in which he didn’t really handle the fame all that well, even if he said some things lately that you disagree with. What he brought to the discourse when he first hit the scene was invaluable and filled a gap that…
Very silly to hate Jordan Peterson, even if there are some ways in which he didn’t really handle the fame all that well, even if he said some things lately that you disagree with. What he brought to the discourse when he first hit the scene was invaluable and filled a gap that…
Men who are physically stronger and women who are more physically attractive tend to be more likely to get angry.
Social emotions such an anger and gratitude evolved to help people navigate the adaptive problems posed by social interactions. Sell et al found evidence that…
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