Consciousness

Can You Find Consciousness In The Brain?

Can You Find Consciousness In The Brain?

MOST neuroscientists, philosophers of the mind and science journalists feel the time is near when we will be able to explain...
Feb 23, 2010 10:56

Culture

A Swansea Love Story

A Swansea Love Story

In the last 4 years, the small South Wales city of Swansea experienced a rise in heroine addiction of 180%. VBS befriends...
Mar 8, 2010 15:07

Creativity

MUSHROOMS IN WONDERLAND

MUSHROOMS IN WONDERLAND

Was Alice in Wonderland and Victorian fairy art and lore in general inspired by actual experiences with mind-altering...
Mar 1, 2010 11:17

Drug Policy

The New Cocaine Mafia

The New Cocaine Mafia

Vanguard correspondent Christof Putzel travels to southern Italy to investigate how Europe’s growing appetite for cocaine...
Mar 8, 2010 15:05

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A Swansea Love Story

A Swansea Love Story
In the last 4 years, the small South Wales city of Swansea experienced a rise in heroine addiction of 180%. VBS befriends a gang of young addicts caught up in South Wales’ largely ignored heroin epidemic. Our intimate look into their lives shows the unbreakable cycles of economic depression, family...
March 8th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More

The New Cocaine Mafia

The New Cocaine Mafia
Vanguard correspondent Christof Putzel travels to southern Italy to investigate how Europe’s growing appetite for cocaine is funding the growth of West African crime syndicates and fueling a turf war with Italy’s largest mafia organization, the Camorra. VN:F [1.7.8_1020]please wait...Rating:...
March 8th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More

Mexican Drug Policy Reform Movement Takes Shape

Mexican Drug Policy Reform Movement Takes Shape
The Beckley Foundation’s tour of North and South America with the Global Cannabis Commission is having a big effect. Mexico in particular is taking the lead in pushing for a paradigm shift in international drug policy. International Conference in Mexico City Provides Hope, Inspiration to a Budding...
March 1st, 2010 | Health & Happiness | Read More

MUSHROOMS IN WONDERLAND

MUSHROOMS IN WONDERLAND
Was Alice in Wonderland and Victorian fairy art and lore in general inspired by actual experiences with mind-altering fungi? The first well-documented hallucinogenic mushroom experience in Britain took place in London’s Green Park on 3 October 1799. Like many such experiences before and since,...
March 1st, 2010 | Arts | Read More

Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate

Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate
Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate, analyzes cannabis policies around the world and lays out the advantages of a fully regulated legal market and how a country can overcome the international conventions in order to have policies that better suites its individual needs. Below is an excerpt from...
March 1st, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More

Neanderthals bid for Human Status

Neanderthals bid for Human Status
NEANDERTHALS as innovators? That the concept seems amusing goes to show how our sister species has become the butt of our jokes. Yet in the Middle Palaeolithic, some 300,000 years ago, innovation is what the Neanderthals were up to. From NewScientist, by Rowan Hooper This period is usually regarded...
February 25th, 2010 | Evolution | Read More

Confessions of a ten-a-day man

Confessions of a ten-a-day man
William Leith used to take painkillers morning and night – for the headaches he had and the headaches he worried he might get. He’s not alone. As the instant-relief market explodes, he investigates: are too many pills too much of a good thing? From the Guardian. When I was growing up in...
February 25th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More

Can You Find Consciousness In The Brain?

Can You Find Consciousness In The Brain?
MOST neuroscientists, philosophers of the mind and science journalists feel the time is near when we will be able to explain the mystery of human consciousness in terms of the activity of the brain. There is, however, a vocal minority of neurosceptics who contest this orthodoxy. Among them are those...
February 23rd, 2010 | Extended Mind | Read More

Placebos – Is Mind more important than Matter?

Placebos – Is Mind more important than Matter?
In a review of recent research, international experts say there is increasing evidence that fake treatments, or placebos, have an actual biological effect in the body. The doctor-patient relationship, plus the expectation of recovery, may sometimes be enough to change a patient’s brain, body and...
February 19th, 2010 | Health & Happiness | Read More

BREAKPOINT: terrorists vs. transhumanists

BREAKPOINT: terrorists vs. transhumanists
Former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke’s BREAKPOINT novel, set in the year 2012, is based on emerging technologies. “Globegrid,” a high-speed global network, links supercomputers worldwide. Combined with advanced AI software, it promises to reverse-engineer the brain, revolutionize...
February 17th, 2010 | Big Ideas | Read More