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Category: Drugs
This will probably never be made into an anti-drug ad campaign, but I can't imagine a stronger deterrent. Angel's Trumpet is a flower that contains scopolamine and other alkaloids. It's known as a "biogenic drug" and presumed by naive recreational drug users to be harmless because it's a plant....
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Category: Video
Anti-drug ad parody that's also an anti-drug ad itself. This is Your Brain on Heroin: Any Questions?....
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Category: Humor
Spoof documentary experiments with ghosts. Happy Halloween.
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Category: Popular Culture
In time for Halloween: Trailer for Central State: Asylum for the Insane. A filmmaker prowls a closed mental institution to "...uncover the mysteries left behind when the facilities closed in 1994." There's lots of shaky handheld camerawork in poorly lit tunnels, and shakier rumours of ghosts, but no exploration into...
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Category: Academia
It's that time of year again when the most exciting set of awards for us here at Omni Brain are announced. If you don't know what the Ig Nobels are you're missing out on a very important part of science! According to some article at MSNBC "The annual no-rules awards...
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Category: Art
Art to train babies in neuroscience.
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Category: Drugs
Addiction, homelessness, and science vs. ideology.
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Category: Chatter
Some of you (well, very few of you) know that I keep another blog, a brain sciences video showcase vlog called Channel N. I'm really into its statistics, and figure you want to know about them too. My Technorati ranking has grown to a dazzling 260,350 of the approximately six...
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Category: Psychology
It's kind of hard to imagine a child lying who barely understands language and is even less able to produce something understandable. And babies certainly don't have a very developed theory of mind! But like all areas of developmental psychology the trend is for people to be able to do...
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Category: Video
Are you a politician or currently considering a run for office? Do you agree with Richard Nixon that drugs are "public enemy number one in the United States"? Are you worried that smoking marijuana makes you insane, turns you into a violent criminal or causes death? Do you worry daily...
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