Farmers are leaving Facebook in droves. Every time they put down a post. Somebody takes a fence. I couldn’t sleep last night so I read a dictionary By 03:00 I was past caring. My wife claims I’m the cheapest person she’s ever met. I’m not buying it. I once dated a girl who had aContinue reading “Jokes of the day.”
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A paragraph on fear.
Fear is irrational and inappropriate. Let’s try to rationalise it. Firstly let’s recognise what fear is – a chemical reaction. The word fear stands for fantasies envisaged as real. And that’s just what they are. For in primitive times people lived by their fears and their biological instincts when faced with a threat was toContinue reading “A paragraph on fear.”
The placebo and nocebo effect.
The placebo effect is a somewhat well known phenomenon. Imagine you take a group of people with a headache, you give them a mint pill but you tell them that it was an aspirin with mint flavour. What would happen? A few people will start feeling better; some may even stop having their headache. ThatContinue reading “The placebo and nocebo effect.”
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