It’s been a while since I started out in the “saving the world business” and began hanging out with all those pesky hipsters, hippies and hackers—and in doing so, became one of their own. Along the way I’ve made my fair share of experiences, and of course, mistakes, and I’ve wasted a whole lot of […]
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During the development of Qualia Resilience, Neurohacker Collective put our newest product to the test to find out how users would respond. Spoiler Alert: Results were really good.†* How the Pilot Study Worked Seventeen adults completed the pilot study. All participants had a moderate-to-high amount of self-rated stress before taking Qualia Resilience. The study was
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A cognitively rich and physically active lifestyle can be very beneficial for brain health and cognitive performance. Underlying these effects is one of the most important properties of the brain: brain plasticity, or neuroplasticity, is the brain’s capacity to adapt based on life experiences and it’s what allows us to learn and become more skilled
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Whenever everyday people start asking themselves the question… Wait a minute, if people of yesteryear did all sorts of things we find barbaric, from keeping slaves to public flogging, what might future civilizations be equally appalled by in our age? … they almost inevitably come up with some version of: “Well, it’s probably something about
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Qualia Resilience is a dietary supplement formulated to provide support in areas including coping with stress, mental toughness, resilience, calmness, and easing stress-related fatigue. It is a blend of 8 vitamins, 4 adaptogen herbs, minerals, and amino acids that support a healthy stress response and cognitive performance, so we can perform at our best even
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What follows is a transcript for the podcast Perception – Beau Lotto, Ph.D. – Neuroscience. Topics within the interview include: Are we seeing the world as it really is? How our assumptions control our perceptions and what we can do to break free from assumptions that don’t serve us. Why our not seeing reality is
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→ If we seek to apply a “metamodern” perspective, and we seek to stimulate a higher probability of Protopia in the world, what kind of green or ecological political thinking (“ecologism”) makes sense? → To respond to this question, we must zoom in on a more practical one: If all of our economy builds on
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This week political philosopher Steve McIntosh joins me to discuss global warming through the lens of cultural evolution. We focus on solving the “political will problem” that is currently stymying our collective response to the climate crisis. Steve argues that the progressive agenda on climate needs an upgrade: “Preserving the health of our natural environment
A letter to my fellow pragmatic dreamers. There is a strong sentiment, almost a movement, across the West and among progressives around the world—even some traditionalists: to reconnect to the ever-present tribal origin; to make life and society come alive again, to make the universe into a more human homestead once again. This is in and of itself
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This week I share our collective outrage and heartbreak over the shooting of the Texas schoolchildren and teachers, and manage to offer some hope that this time it will be different, that this shooting will heighten a social pain-point – unstable young men equipped with weapons of war – sufficiently to transcend political polarities. In
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