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Kathleen Gerbasi

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Are Blockchains Decentralized? Unintended Centralities in Distributed Ledgers

The report investigates the true decentralization of blockchains, highlighting various forms of centralization, vulnerabilities in consensus protocols, and the implications for security and immutability in networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum.

blog.trailofbits.com

The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge

The document explores the significance of pursuing knowledge for its own sake, emphasizing the value of intellectual freedom and the unexpected benefits that can arise from curiosity-driven research.

ias.edu

Today Madelon is chairperson of the Department of Pediatric Nursing at the Yale School of Medicine.

Martin E.P. Seligman • Learned Optimism

Melanie Boly, a neurologist and neuroscientist at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is painstakingly collecting EEG data from long-term Buddhist meditators during a state known as pure presence, an experience with no self, no discursive thoughts, and no perceptual content except for a luminous expanse, an empty mirror. Att

Christof Koch • Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It

“PBSP psychomotor therapy,”

Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Teaching for People Who Prefer Not to Teach

A collection of unconventional teaching methods and exercises for educators and students, promoting collaborative learning, self-discovery, and the exploration of art, while challenging traditional educational norms.

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Specially trained psychiatrists and psychologists are now administering hallucinogens and other potent psychotropic agents (psilocybin, ketamine, ecstasy) as mental health remedies. Administering limited doses (one to three) of psychedelics interspersed with multiple sessions of talk therapy over many weeks has become the modern equivalent of shama