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“Summons” by Aurora Levins Morales: Peaceful activism opens arms for grief and mourning in a beautiful poem
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Good News About the Placebo Effect
Placebos work even when patients know the treatment isn't "real"
For decades, scientists have been aware of a phenomenon known as the “placebo effect.” Simply put, the placebo effect occurs when a treatment produces a positive result even when it isn’t “real treatment” at all. For example, researchers routinely test … Continue reading
Pills Can’t Stop the Inevitable: The Candy Art of Felix Gonzalez-Torres
An artist shows his audience the futility of fighting death
The late artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres was no stranger to the issue of mortality. In one of his works, he tackled the subject of death from the perspective of HIV/AIDS patients, depicting scenes of empty beds on billboards. Earlier in his … Continue reading
