# s-brain: Dr. Albert revisited (2): Psychedelic Science 2017

<< At Psychedelic Science 2017, the international scientific community came together at the Oakland Marriott City Center in Oakland, Calif., to explore new research into the benefits and risks of MDMA, LSD, psilocybin, ayahuasca, ketamine, ibogaine, medical marijuana, and more >>

Apr. 19-24, 2017. Oakland, California, USA.

http://psychedelicscience.org/

Maurizio  Martucci. Dagli  Usa  arriva  la  conferma:  le sostanze  psichedeliche  sono  curative.  3  Mag.  2017.

http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2017/05/03/dagli-usa-arriva-la-conferma-le-sostanze-psichedeliche-sono-curative/3559875/

also:

# s-brain: 70-years after; Dr. Albert revisited. 22 Ago. 2016.

http://flashontrack.blogspot.it/2016/08/s-brain-70-years-after-dr-albert.html

# s-phys: a fuzzy matter: dancing with fuzzy multistate haloes, a hypothesis.

<< the fuzzy dark matter model may be a viable alternative to cold dark matter >>

Is dark matter 'fuzzy'? April 28, 2017.

https://m.phys.org/news/2017-04-dark-fuzzy.html

<< One alternative to the cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm is the scalar field dark matter (SFDM) model >>

<< If the dark matter is indeed an ultra-light boson, our results imply that the DM [dark matter] haloes of galaxies and galaxy clusters may not be fully BEC [Bose-Einstein condensates ] systems. In contrast, agreement with observations at different mass scales is achievable for multistate SFDM configurations >>

Tula Bernal, Victor H. Robles and Tonatiuh Matos. Scalar field dark matter in clusters of galaxies. arXiv:1609.08644v3  [astro-ph.CO]  30 Apr 2017. Preprint 2nd May 2017.

arxiv.org/abs/1609.08644

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.08644

# s-gst: looking like overcooked spaghetti

<< and — voilà! pretty soon your laces are flopping around, looking like overcooked spaghetti >>

<< It’s catastrophic.  Every day >>

Christopher  Mele. Do  Your  Shoelaces  Keep  Coming  Undone? Engineers  Explain  Why.  Apr. 13,  2017.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/science/why-shoelaces-undone-untied.html

# n-soc: a fading dream

<< the probability for children to attain a higher income than their parents has dropped dramatically -- from more than 90 percent for children born in 1940 to 50 percent for children born in the 1980s >>

Upward mobility has fallen sharply in US: study. Apr.  24,  2017

https://m.phys.org/news/2017-04-upward-mobility-fallen-sharply.html

Raj Chetty, David Grusky, et al. The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940. Science  28 Apr. 2017:
Vol. 356, Issue 6336, pp. 398-406
DOI: 10.1126/science.aal4617.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6336/398.full

# n-soc: what differentiates human from machine (at least for now)

<< Growth in the first industrial revolution was driven by engineering, the second through electricity and production lines, and the third by technology and information >>

<< As robots increasingly take on manual labor, we will need to foster what differentiates human from machine (at least for now): creativity >>

Itai Palti. Creativity will be the source of our next industrial revolution, not machines. Apr 11, 2017.

https://qz.com/954338/creativity-will-be-the-source-of-our-next-industrial-revolution-not-machines/

# s-percept: dark perceptions inspired by (quasi-stochastic) clouds

<< "The Scream" is globally famous but there are several different hypotheses as to its inspiration >>

<< The first version of "The Scream" was released in 1893. It depicts a dark humanlike figure clutching its head in apparent horror against the backdrop of a swirling, red-orange sky >>

<< In 2004, American astronomers theorised that Munch had painted a sky brightly coloured by particle pollution from the 1883 Krakatoa volcanic eruption >>

<< But the new paper, presented at a meeting of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna, [Helene Muri, a researcher at the University of Oslo] said he more likely depicted a rare sighting of "mother-of-pearl" clouds over Oslo >>

Mariette  Le  Roux. Weird clouds may have inspired 'The Scream':  scientists. Apr. 24,  2017.

https://m.phys.org/news/2017-04-weird-clouds-haveinspired-scientists.html

also:

quasi-stochastic poetry

http://inkpi.blogspot.it/

# s-ecol: living in hypoxic conditions (among Heterocephalus glaber)

<< Naked mole-rats live in large colonies deep underground in hypoxic conditions >>

AA << found that these animals fuel anaerobic glycolysis with fructose by a rewired pathway that avoids tissue damage >>

Thomas J. Park, Jane Reznick, et al. Fructose-driven glycolysis supports anoxia resistance in the naked mole-rat. Science.  21 Apr. 2017 Vol. 356  Issue 6335 pp.307-311 DOI: 10.1126/science.aab3896

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6335/307

<< Ignore the whiskers and teeth - these are plants >>

Thomas Park. Naked mole-rats 'turn into plants' when oxygen is low. Apr. 20, 2017

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170420141844.htm