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

<< Treating an addiction to a mind-altering substance with another mind-altering substance might seem counterintuitive, but more and more, researchers are finding ways that psychedelic drugs like psilocybin mushrooms and party drugs like ketamine could actually help people get over alcohol and drug addictions. >>

Kevin Loria. Science Doctors are talking about using psychedelic drugs to treat alcoholics. 21 Aug 2016.

http://www.businessinsider.com/doctors-using-ketamine-lsd-and-mushrooms-to-treat-mental-illness-2016-8

Zoe  Cormier. Magic-mushroom  drug  lifts  depression  in  first  human trial. Researchers'  long  fight  to  test  psilocybin's  safety  finally  yields  fruit.  Nature.  17  May  2016. doi:10.1038/nature.2016.19919.

http://www.nature.com/news/magic-mushroom-drug-lifts-depression-in-first-human-trial-1.19919

Dr. Albert (Albert Hofmann) in: Lysergic acid diethylamide. 21 Aug 2016.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide

# gst: the emergence of a phase transition during asynchronous neural activities

<< The activity of a sparse network of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons is carefully revisited with reference to a regime of a bona-fide asynchronous dynamics. (..) The comparison between quenched and annealed (i.e. in setups where the synaptic connections are continuously randomly reshuffled) networks reveals the emergence of substantial differences when the coupling strength is increased, via a scenario somehow reminiscent of a phase transition. >>

Ekkehard Ullner, Antonio Politi, Alessandro Torcini. Quantitative and qualitative analysis of asynchronous neural activity. arXiv:1912.09207v1 [q-bio.NC]. Dec 19, 2019. 

https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.09207

# s-ethno: Bushmen revisited, by @scienmag

<< Change begins at the end of your comfort zone >> @scienmag 8 Gen 2017 18:00

https://mobile.twitter.com/scienmag/status/818276109561331712

# life: nomadism revisited: the lifestyle of the grey nomads

<< They are two of tens of thousands of retired adults travelling independently across the continent at any given time in search of adventure, warmer weather and camaraderie after a lifetime of hard work. These part-time nomadic adventurers, or grey nomads, have recast the image of Australia’s ageing population. Rather than being inert and conservative, or in need of care, these older Australians are champions of a radical type of urbanism: dwellings are mobile, infrastructure is portable or pluggable, social networks are sprawled, and adherents are on the move daily or weekly. >>

Timothy Moore. Grey nomad lifestyle provides a model for living remotely.
Monash University. Dec 9, 2018.

https://theconversation.com/grey-nomad-lifestyle-provides-a-model-for-living-remotely-106074

https://m.phys.org/news/2018-12-grey-nomad-lifestyle-remotely.html