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...carries with it simultaneous focused attention and receptive openness to external suggestions. Kosslyn acknowledges the seeming “paradox” within this definition and cites it as one of the driving forces behind his work. “I want to understand the underlying process of the phenomenon of hypnosis,” he says...
...preparation for future research, Spiegel visited Kosslyn’s Harvard lab last month to demonstrate the phenomenon of hypnosis to several of the researchers. His demo convinced at least one person. “Before the project I was skeptical of hypnosis. I just didn’t believe in it. But after the study I was convinced of its legitimacy,” Thompson says. “You can’t draw sweeping conclusions from one paper, but the body of research that has recently been published certainly suggests that hypnosis is a true physiologic phenomenon...
...Terrorism is not an independent phenomenon. It's a ghastly political tactic used by quite different movements throughout history. Morally, we should make no distinction between Timothy McVeigh and the Passover suicide bomber - both made innocent civilians the target of their rage. But if we're to be effective in stopping such outrages, we have to understand and address the very different circumstances that created each one. And this goes beyond simple police work or military action...
When aspirin is doing its job, it works by thinning the blood and blocking a chemical called thromboxane, which promotes the formation of life-threatening clots in the arteries. In some people, however, aspirin does not adequately block thromboxane, and it is this phenomenon that scientists are calling aspirin resistance...
Popular history is like a polar ice shelf. It encases a certain figure, event or phenomenon in its deep freeze for ages; then, inexplicably, the surface cracks, and the glacier heaves it up: the presidency of John Adams! The invention of longitude! The history...