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Psychedelic trips aid anxiety treatments in study
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“The world was made up of jewels and I was in a dome,” she recalled. Surrounded by brilliant, kaleidoscopic colors, she saw the dome open up to admit “this most incredible luminescence that made everything even more beautiful.”
Tears trickled down her face as she saw “how beautiful the world could actually be.”
That’s how Nicky Edlich, 67, began her first-ever trip on a psychedelic drug last year.She says it has greatly helped her psychotherapeutic treatment for anxiety from her advanced ovarian cancer.
xkcd may be baffled, but the way TV has evolved was never along the lines of that of computing devices. He may as well have made the same cartoon the other way around some decades ago, when the TV signal was in full-color and computers had a monochrome low res display, when displaying a digitized PAL/NTSC signal using a homecomputer was science fiction. We then marvelled at what the computer did, in monochrome, low res and a few frames per second at the most.
The other guy should have been asking what the point is of having a 1080p TV, when most shows are still broadcast in SD resolution, even on channels now offering a HD signal and simply upscaling the SD recordings to fit the signal. Or how he will hook up his HDMI1.4 3D phone/BDplayer to this, albeit new, outdated HDMI1.3 TV. No wait, it’s about the hardware decoder with CI-slot, which unfortunately has become useless as the industry is shifting to the new CI+ tech; you’ll need a separate decoder to actually display anything. Don’t expect the kind of -works out of the box- quality you would get for a simpel CRT-TV in the old days, this is High Tech!