AddictiveWritings
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I’m a young creative writer and artist from Germany who has a fable for anything strange or odd.^^
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Was it me or my implant?
“It becomes a part of you”, is how patient 6 describes the device that changed her life after a 45-year history of severe epilepsy. Implanted brain electrodes send signals to a hand-held device as soon as signs of an impending epileptic seizure appear. A warning tone now reminds the patient to suppress the impending seizure with medication. “You grow into it slowly and get so used to it that at some point it becomes commonplace,” she tells neuroethics Frederic Gilbert from the Australian University of Tasmania, who works with brain-computer interfaces (BCI).
By AddictiveWritings3 years ago in Futurism
There are no fair drugs
T. wants to quit smoking. Not because she is so shocked by the new pictures on the cigarette packets or because she once saw one of these encrusted smoking lungs. She is not pregnant either. “It is simply inconsistent when you live as we do,” she thinks. By that, she means: Eating organic, changing clothes, instead of buying and generally finding exploitation stupid. Hedonism in the form of drugs and tobacco no longer fits in with her political attitude. Smoking promotes exploitation and child labor, coke and other drugs strengthen cartels, prostitution, and life-threatening smuggling. We have known this not only since Netflix and “Narcos”.
By AddictiveWritings3 years ago in The Swamp
How to get through the day without sleep
You sit in the office or the university library, maybe even in your home office due to your corona, stare away and drift into nirvana. The night does not even have to be alcohol-soaked for that. For heavy sleepers like me, the next day’s fatigue is already enough that they didn’t get to bed early enough and have to manage without their vital eight hours of sleep. To be fit for work or university seems almost impossible then. Without knowing it, I have done pretty much everything wrong on such dog days — at least according to sleep experts.
By AddictiveWritings3 years ago in Longevity
Wormholes in the laboratory
One example is a scenario in which two black holes are connected by the laws of quantum mechanics. This means that whatever happens to one of the two collapsed stars immediately affects the other — regardless of how far apart they are. If such a connection exists, it could solve one of the greatest mysteries of cosmology.
By AddictiveWritings3 years ago in Futurism
This is how you actively campaign against racist violence
It’s been over three weeks since police officer Derek Chauvin brutally knelt on the neck of African-American George Floyd for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, killing him. This another sad chapter in the history of racist police violence has sparked a historic wave of protest around the world — not only on the streets but also in social media.
By AddictiveWritings3 years ago in The Swamp
35 extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way
Nottingham (England). Scientists of the University of Nottingham have calculated that there could be 35 intelligent, actively communicating civilizations in our galaxy besides mankind. The study published on the preprint server arXivpubliziert on the Preprint server arXiv is based on statistical data, which the astronomy in the past decades over the Milky Way collected.
By AddictiveWritings3 years ago in Futurism
The Afterhour-so goes the perfect end to a weekend
You know the dilemma: After visiting the club, you don’t feel like going to sleep (and for various reasons you probably couldn’t anyway), so you move on to come down to a buddy’s place with some friends. This can be the relaxed end to a good night’s sleep-or a torturous morning. To make sure it’s not a horrible experience, we’ve put together some useful tips for you. So don’t say you didn’t know better afterward.
By AddictiveWritings3 years ago in Lifehack
Management by deadline
First of all, there is one thing you need to know about the US entrepreneur Elon Musk: He is an optimist by nature. More than that, he does not only base his time planning on the best-case scenario, he systematically underestimates the effort of the individual steps and pieces. Also, Musk expects all those involved to be just as competent and to get as much involved in the tasks as he is.
By AddictiveWritings3 years ago in Journal
Heroin in tampons and morphine for young children
Industrially produced medicines were used for all kinds of complaints from the middle of the 19th century onwards. Heroin was considered a good cough expectorant, morphine as a sleeping pill. Even children were given hard drugs.
By AddictiveWritings3 years ago in FYI
Satanism in popular culture: what is the Church of Satan?
On Twitter, the Church declared in November 2018: “Veganism (a diet) is not Satanism (a religion), but there are some Satanists who are vegans and some vegans who are Satanists. One is not a subset of the other.”
By AddictiveWritings3 years ago in The Swamp