June 2012
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The relative dangers of drugs: What the science...
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Humans indulge in activities that alter both the content and the experience of their own consciousness. Drugs are a means for achieving a number of particular, often recreational, changes in conscious experience. However, drugs are also a large contributor to, and facilitator of, human suffering and health problems. The best health advice anyone can give to most people most...
October 2011
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Critical Thinking: Why it is Beautiful, Necessary...
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”Critical thinking is a desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and hatred for every kind of imposture.“
~ Francis Bacon (1605)
Information constantly has, and still is, surrounding humans. Whether the information is in the stories and myths told by a respected elder in an...
