User Is Content » podcasts http://www.useriscontent.com/blog Culture Is Our Business Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:27:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Nassim Taleb on the Financial Crisis http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2009/04/05/nassim-taleb-on-the-financial-crisis/ http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2009/04/05/nassim-taleb-on-the-financial-crisis/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:26:24 +0000 John http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/?p=346 From EconTalk.org (Includes full transcript).
Direct link to mp3 interview
Nassim Taleb talks about the financial crisis, how we misunderstand rare events, the fragility of the banking system, the moral hazard of government bailouts, the unprecedented nature of really, really bad events, the contribution of human psychology to misinterpreting probability and the dangers of hubris. The conversation closes with a discussion of religion and probability.

Keep tabs on what Nassim Taleb is up to over at BlackSwanReport.com

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]]> http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2009/04/05/nassim-taleb-on-the-financial-crisis/feed/ 0 THC Cancer Cure? http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2009/02/14/thc-cancer-cure/ http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/2009/02/14/thc-cancer-cure/#comments Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:04:22 +0000 John http://www.useriscontent.com/blog/?p=289 Try it as a thought experiment.
What if an extract of Marijuana/Hemp DID cure cancer? Or some cancer. Or even 1% of skin cancers. Wouldn’t you want to try it on yours? Especially if it did no harm? Especially if you’d exhausted whatever treatments your Doctor had advised?
Well, here’s a little science:
Marijuana Cuts Lung Cancer Tumor Growth In Half, Study Shows
Here’s a little history:
What is the history of medical marijuana and the US government?

And here’s the story of how a retired engineer from Nova Scotia is helping friends and neighbors become cancer-free using THC extracted from Hemp:
RUN FROM THE CURE – The Rick Simpson Story (Part 1 of 7)
Rick’s website: PheonixTears.ca

Related… I can recommend a couple of excellent podcasts. Especially the interviews with established and emerging psychedelic researchers. There seems to be a a lot of energy coming back into the psychedelic research area, most of it falling well below the radar. Podcasts are turning out to be an excellent way for me to build a knowledge base of alternative information. Search the iTunes store for whatever you’re interested in. Undoubtedly some Podcasts will show up. Click the See All. Subscribe to a few or download an episode to see if they’re what you’re looking for.

The Entheogenic Evolution
iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=272825477
Web http://entheogenic.podomatic.com/

Gnostic Media
iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=294157083
Web http://gnosticmedia.podomatic.com/

[Update 012610 "The Marijuana Cancer Cure Cult" Lots of great cancer/Mj background and more
on Simpson.]

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