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by brahmwg 11y ago
My thought was since honey is absorbed quickly perhaps the medicinal effects could be fast acting. As opposed to with edibles which would take longer to produce an effect. Of course, inhaling it via smoke or vaporizer would be instant actio
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by brahmwg 11y ago
In nature, the male cannabis flower's pollen is carried by wind and gets stuck on the female's sticky resin. Cannabis is wind pollinated, so the beekeeper had to have trained these bees to ingest cannabis pollen (couldn't hav
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Long Term Stress Erodes Memory(neurosciencenews.com)
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Chronic Stress Helps Cancer Spread in Mice(nature.com)
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Building Computers within Cells(biotechniques.com)
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Can Kids Learn More When They Exercise During Lessons?(scientificamerican.com)
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Building living, breathing supercomputers(mcgill.ca)
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Engineers achieve Wi-Fi at 10,000 times lower power(m.phys.org)
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by brahmwg 11y ago
Cue the reference to the "time vs money for happiness" thread that was on HN a while ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10860517
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by brahmwg 11y ago
> "Chocolate intake was self-reported, and therefore subject to inherent reporting error. The dietary questionnaire used did not require the respondent to differentiate between dark, milk or white chocolate. ... We can therefore mak
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Chocolate intake is associated with better cognitive function(sciencedirect.com)
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by brahmwg 11y ago
Life is a journey, not a destination.
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by brahmwg 11y ago
Totally agree, especially with the grattitutde aspect for existing. In my experience, getting into 'the zone' while running, hiking or bouldering is what I consider my meditation. Treadmill running doesn't cut it, it's g
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by brahmwg 11y ago
There is a theory that distance running is intimately related to humans evolution and their brain development. The human foot is beautifully engineered to be used for long distance running, to help absorb the impact and transfer the force i
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by brahmwg 11y ago
I think the trick is to have obese/chemo people to run before they become obese/chemo people, for preventative benefits and to engrain the habits early on. In the case of obese people, there is an argument that due to the high imp
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Running helps mice slow cancer growth(cell.com)
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Sweet discovery in leafy greens holds key to gut health(m.phys.org)
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by brahmwg 11y ago
I don't really agree with that. Some students would often vape behind their laptop in class (to be cool/rebelious, they could easily wait to be outside) and it definitely makes an offensive odor. Non-vapers should have the right t
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Adult Neurogenesis May Be Increased by Sustained Aerobic Exercise(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
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by brahmwg 11y ago
+1, please and thank you. brahmwg at gmail dot com
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Neurobiological changes explain how mindfulness meditation improves health(neuroscientistnews.com)
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by brahmwg 11y ago
Agreed, believing these types of articles outright plays into my own confirmation bias (aka I'd really like to believe this stuff), but really my goal in sharing this to HN was to hopefully have an open discussion and hear the variety
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by brahmwg 11y ago
From a referring article[1] which translates into a human-understandable format, "Interestingly, the same kinds of harmonic waves are thought to explain other self-organising phenomena in nature, such as the patterns that sand forms wh
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Human brain networks function in connectome-specific harmonic waves(nature.com)
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Potatoes on Mars(scientificamerican.com)
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Ancient Babylonians calculated Jupiter’s position using forerunner of Calculus(science.sciencemag.org)
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Want to rewire a neuron? You’ve got to take it slow(mcgill.ca)
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Graham Hancock:The Unconsciousness and Insanity of Modern Technological Society(audioburst.com)
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Health and thinking skills linked to same genes, study shows(nature.com)
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Montreal Neurological Institute going ‘open’ to accelerate science(science.sciencemag.org)
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