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Tag: Science
Why Does The Placebo Effect Work?
The placebo effect is a long-recognised phenomenon that has played an important part in the history of medicine — from the healing powers of Stonehenge to administering placebo drugs to modern day patients. But it’s not until recently that science has begun to truly understand how the placebo effect really works.
Professor Nicholas Humphrey asks why placebos work and reveals their central paradox: If we can effectively cure ourselves by taking placebo medicine, why don’t we just heal ourselves straight away?
Exploring this paradox from the perspective of evolution, Professor Humphry looks at the associated costs and benefits of pain or illness. How can placebo medications readdress this balance and is a “dose of contrived optimism” just what the doctor ordered?
Expo
A good short science fiction film by Joe Sill.
Female astro-miner Shona has been mining under dangerous conditions on the moon for the past two years in order to pay for expensive medical treatments in hopes of save her bed-ridden daughter Darla, and now that her tour is completed, a younger astronaut Paige has come to replace her. Shona is reluctant to return to the world she once knew, but in meeting Paige realizes that returning to Earth isn’t where she’ll find peace – she will have to return home.
Measuring Your Dumbness With A Ruler
Even though this video has nothing to do with intelligence, you have to admit we all look stupid doing stuff like this.
David Prager and Mauricio Balvanera of Distort use high-speed cameras to capture super slow motion footage of people testing their reaction times with the ruler test in their latest video, “Measuring Your Dumbness With A Ruler.” Previously, we wrote about Distort’s amazing slow motion footage of Last Rites, an incredibly destructive combat robot.
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