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Why DARPA should pay attention to psychonaut, mycologist Stamets on JRE: video

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DARPA wants the healing benefits of psychedelics, but without the hallucinations. Psychonaut Paul Stamets told Joe Rogan about an anxiety-reducing...

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Science

DARPA wants benefits of psychedelics but without hallucinations

Tim Hinchliffe3 months ago

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Since the Pentagon doesn't want its soldiers tripping in their tents, DARPA wants to develop a drug that has similar...

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Microsoft Predicts Terence McKenna’s Cyberdelic Vision of Virtual Reality

Tim Hinchliffe3 years ago

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A researcher from Microsoft predicts that Virtual Reality will become psychedelic in the next 10 years causing hallucinogenic experiences just as...

Science

Researching ‘shrooms’: The magic tripping dose, mystical experiences and the tech community

Tim Hinchliffe4 years ago

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Johns Hopkins reveals the most beneficial dose for the active ingredient in magic mushrooms for treating depression while best-selling author Tim...

Technology

Terence Mckenna’s ‘cyberdelic’ predictions for Virtual Reality 25 years on

Tim Hinchliffe4 years ago

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Famed psychonaut Terence Mckenna envisioned a very radical approach of bridging psychedelics with virtual reality to create a supercharged version...

Brains Byte Back

(Previously The Sociable Podcast) The weekly podcast looking at how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. Every Monday we bring you the best stories and guests from around the world relating to technology, psychology, and society.

According to 99 firms, 293.6 billion emails are sent every day. That figure probably doesn’t surprise you given the number of emails sitting in your inbox, hundreds if not thousands… Right? But among these emails are numerous malicious emails, designed to trick, scam and hack.

These emails are known as phishing emails, which in its simplest form can be described as a fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by disguising oneself as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

But there is good news, as we now have a guardian angel ready to look out for us. My guest today is the president and founder of Pixm, a company that provides real-time anti-phishing on log-in pages and shuts down an attack at the point of click, Arun Buduri.

And for our Neuron to Something piece, where we discuss a story relating to psychology and technology, we will look at a recent Pew Research Center survey, analyzing Americans’ feelings and perceptions relating to data collection.

Video from Buduri: Amazing mind reader reveals his ‘gift’