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First-Time Cocaine Use in Rats Highlights Individual Susceptibility to Addiction

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Researchers at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) explored how rats react to cocaine paired with an unpleasant stimulus, uncovering new insights into addiction vulnerability. In the experiment, nearly 30 rats self-administered intravenous doses of cocaine hydrochloride combined with quinine—a bitter but safe compound—via a nose-poke mechanism. The quinine hit preceded the cocaine […]

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Drinking Cocoa May Help Shield Your Body From Fatty Foods and Stress

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Stress often drives us to indulge in foods that aren’t healthy, but scientists have found a surprising way to counteract the negative effects: pairing high-fat meals with antioxidant-rich cocoa. Stress, even in short bursts, can temporarily harm arterial function. Eating fatty foods may feel comforting but can worsen cardiovascular stress, delaying recovery. However, there’s good

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Partial Basic Income in France Could Empower Young People

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The introduction of a partial fundamental revenue targeted at young people living in France would give a crucial ‘leg up’ to the nation’s powerless young people, state the new report’s authors. The analysis from the University of Bath’s Institute for Policy Study (IPR) and Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis (CeMPA) at the University of

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The Philosophy: Exactly How it Aided Throughout the Pandemic

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What are we when we are no more ourselves? Just how philosophy has helped Kiran throughout the pandemic: In what looks like an exclusive act in witch hour, I light candlelight and sign up with a Zoom: Ideological background seminar at midnight. I belong to a team of individuals who fulfill fortnightly to brood over

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Australian Politicians Need to Stop Meddling with Basic Research

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In nations like Denmark and Germany, gifts are given on Christmas Eve rather than Christmas morning. Furthermore, on Christmas Eve 2021, 587 groups of researchers at universities around Australia got a festive present from the Australian Research Council (ARC), in the form of information that their 2022 Discovery Projects were to be financed. More brutally,

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The Confessions of Saint Augustin

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Bio of Saint-Augustin Augustine, who was born and raised at Thagaste, in eastern Algeria (then part of the Roman Empire), describes his boyhood surroundings as “wrong.” He portrays college as a questionable site of discovery, focused toward material rather than spiritual aspirations. Augustine leads a libertine life, indulges in sexual experiences, and lives according to

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Meet the Fathers of Philosophy: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle

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To this day, most of the Western way of thinking stems from the philosophical explorations of three men of Ancient Greece. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. No question you have heard of these philosophers.  According to Hannah Fieldings, Award-Winning Romance Novelist, she started to investigate for her latest novel, Aphrodite’s Tears, placed in Greece and inspired

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