Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Genet, who incidentally is not a professional writer but a criminal with a long prison record, can be seen as a profoundly moralistic thinker. His system, however, is an almost complete reversal of what is usually considered as morality. For him, the absolute goal of human existence is not the attainment of good, but of evil. This state cannot be reached by mere effort--it must, like Calvinistic grace, be conferred from without. Thus he represents Green Eyes' crime as not rationally motivated...
...also emphasized the Soviet challenge in education, commenting that "the Soviet Union is not wasting human material. Neither...
Investigators have known since 1947 that a single injection of LSD in human volunteers causes a transient psychosis similar to schizophrenia, but so far they have been unable to discover how LSD affects the human brain...
Welsh has found that both LSD and serotinin, which is also found in the human brain, stimulate the clam heart to beat with larger and faster beats...
...said that the next question to be solved about the "LSD psychosis" in man is whether this temporary insanity results because LSD blocks the normal action of serotinin or because LSD has an even greater serotinin-like effect on the human brain...