Still, there are doubts that decriminalization was the key factor in solving some of Portugal’s troubling drug use problems
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Drug experiment - Page 5 - Boston.com - 0 views
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Really, earlier they said that they weren't sure...
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Drug experiment - Page 4 - Boston.com - 1 views
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nearly 1 percent of the population was hooked on heroin or some other drug.
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At first I thought, oh, 1% that's not that much but then, think about how many people are in the U.S. so how many that 1% would include. It's mind boggling.
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Many believe that Portugal’s new focus on treatment — and prevention — may have had as much, if not more, to do with its success than its policy of decriminalization.
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Of course more treatment and prevention is going to help with increases of people being treated but this isn't an experiment with controls or anything like that, what you take from it is what you take from it, it isn't scientific.
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Terrorism - Jihad Etiquette - Islam - Militants - Middle East - Iraq - Jordan - Lebanon... - 1 views
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without feeling a lot of guilt.
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What do they mean by "a lot"? So they should feel some guilt but not a lot? What is a lot of guilt versus some guilt? Isn't guilt just guilt?
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but precisely where God draws the line between those who go to heaven or hell is not spelled out.
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With so much grey area how can these be considered rules, people can do pretty watch whatever they want and say it's just how they translated the rule. There need to be actual, solid rules.
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Jay-Z vs the Game: Lessons for the American Primacy Debate | Marc Lynch - 3 views
McAllen, Texas and the high cost of health care : The New Yorker - 4 views
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It was easy to see what had landed them under his knife. They were nearly all obese or diabetic or both. Many had a family history of heart disease. Few were taking preventive measures, such as cholesterol-lowering drugs, which, studies indicate, would have obviated surgery for up to half of them.
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I suppose this a good reason against health care. These people don't take care of themselves, forcing other people's tax dollars to cover their health costs. They are the reason people are against a good idea. Because health care is smart and a good idea if no one is taking advantage of it, such as these people.
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Patternicity: Finding Meaningful Patterns in Meaningless Noise: Scientific American - 0 views
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Escherichia coli cells will swim towards physiologically inert methylated aspartate presumably owing to an adaptation to favour true aspartate.”
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I don't quite get this example, what is it saying?
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Patternicity: Finding Meaningful Patterns in Meaningless Noise: Scientific American - 7 views
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and prior events
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If it's been a predator before you're more likely to think it's a predator. Whenever your right it provides a positive reinforcement.
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Edge: WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN? By Jonathan Haidt - 9 views
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But now that we can map the brains, genes, and unconscious attitudes of conservatives, we have refined our diagnosis: conservatism is a partially heritable personality trait that predisposes some people to be cognitively inflexible, fond of hierarchy, and inordinately afraid of uncertainty, change, and death.
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Is it just me or do they describe voting republican like it's some sort of terrible disease. I sense a little bit of bias here.
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Why are grasshoppers kosher but most locusts are not?
HOW TO CHEAT AT EVERYTHING | More Intelligent Life - 5 views
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interest he takes in others.
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Did he start with a general interest in people and turn that into a con or did he learn to be interested in people to enhance his cons?
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What Makes Us Happy? - Magazine - The Atlantic - 3 views
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” Warm connections are necessary—
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I definitely agree with this and have said so many times, we are social beings and connections are absolutely necessary for us to live properly. Just because your basic needs like food and air are met doesn't mean you're actually living.
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That the only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.”
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were more than twice as likely to eventually get sober
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I think that's because they've always been doers. They joined clubs, and worked and they just are always doing, and working so they're more equipped to work at becoming sober and staying committed to not drinking.
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What Makes Us Happy? - Magazine - The Atlantic - 0 views
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You seemed unable to grow up
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Could this be due to the fact that his early years were so wonderful, he was unable or unwilling to move on from that time in his life.
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if it was to come to life, this cleaver-sharp science project would need the rounding influence of storytelling
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Of course, people's lives are stories, not facts and numbers to be taken down. They started out by measuring all these things about these men but really you can't measure a man and think you know everything about him.
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humor
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I find it interesting that humor is a mature defense mechanism. Aren't there ways that humor can be an immature response?
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What Makes Us Happy? - Magazine - The Atlantic - 0 views
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Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation—for a good life?
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I honestly just don't think there is. Obviously some people do, I mean they did this study, but I don't think there is a formula for happiness. I think everyone is different so what makes them happy is different.
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that combination of sentiments and physiological factors which in toto is commonly interpreted as successful living.”
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These seem very nonspecific.
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The endowment effect: It’s mine, I tell you | The Economist - 11 views
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All in all, the rational conclusion is that humans are irrational animals.
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Really? It took them discovering this endowment effect to see that humans are irrational? Almost everything we have read so far proves this point. We think actually touching someone and killing them is worse than pulling a lever and killing them. That's pretty irrational and that's just one example from our readings so far.
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