All Placebos are not created equal
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All Placebos are not created equal
Have you ever heard of a Perkins Tractor? If you lived in London in the 18th Century, you could buy a pair of Perkins Tractors (shown above) for the steep price of five guineas, and wave them over an aching part of your body for about twenty minutes as a…
The Sea People: Alexander the Great Tread in the Footsteps of Forgotten Greeks
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The Sea People
Alexander the Great tread in the footsteps of forgotten Greeks
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Reasons Revealed for the Brain’s Elastic Sense of Time
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Reasons Revealed for the Brain’s Elastic Sense of Time
New research finds that the subjective experience of time is linked to learning, thwarted expectations and neural fatigue.
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Bioluminescent jellyfish.
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14 wolves transformed
YellowStone, National Park. 🇺🇸
The Wild Life, the course of the river, and the entire forest. An amazing story of Interconnectedness ...
YellowStone, National Park. 🇺🇸
The Wild Life, the course of the river, and the entire forest. An amazing story of Interconnectedness ...
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The wolf has returned to Italy (and with it also many other native wildlife and related forests) thanks to the enormous depopulation of the Italian mountain and rural areas
in the last decades.
in the last decades.
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When Listening to the radio in December, it's unlikely to hear holiday songs singing the praises of Krampus: a half-goat, half-demon, horrific beast who literally beats people into being nice and not naughty.
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Krampus isn’t exactly the stuff of dreams :
Bearing horns, dark hair, fangs, and a long tongue, the anti-St. Nicholas comes with a chain and bells that he lashes about, along with a bundle of birch sticks meant to swat naughty children. He then hauls the bad kids down to the underworld.
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Bearing horns, dark hair, fangs, and a long tongue, the anti-St. Nicholas comes with a chain and bells that he lashes about, along with a bundle of birch sticks meant to swat naughty children. He then hauls the bad kids down to the underworld.
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You better watch out . . .
In Catholicism, St Nicholas
is the patron saint of children. His saints day falls in early December, which helped strengthen his association with the Yuletide season.
Many European cultures not only welcomed the kindly man as a figure of generosity and benevolence to reward the good, but they also feared his menacing counterparts who punished the bad. Parts of Germany and Austria dread the beastly Krampus, while other Germanic regions have Belsnickle
and Knecht Ruprecht in Switzerland he is called Schmutzli
A black-bearded men who carry switches to beat children.
France has Hans Trapp and Père Fouettard
In The Netherlands he is called Zwarte Piet
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In Catholicism, St Nicholas
is the patron saint of children. His saints day falls in early December, which helped strengthen his association with the Yuletide season.
Many European cultures not only welcomed the kindly man as a figure of generosity and benevolence to reward the good, but they also feared his menacing counterparts who punished the bad. Parts of Germany and Austria dread the beastly Krampus, while other Germanic regions have Belsnickle
and Knecht Ruprecht in Switzerland he is called Schmutzli
A black-bearded men who carry switches to beat children.
France has Hans Trapp and Père Fouettard
In The Netherlands he is called Zwarte Piet
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