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Promoted ContentScience & MathematicsJanuary 2020
Love is the Drug
The Chemical Future of Our Relationships
by Brian D. Earp, Julian Savulescu
What if there were a pill for love? Or an anti-love drug, designed to help us break up? This controversial and timely new book argues that recent medical advances have brought chemical control of our romantic lives well within our grasp. Substances affecting love and relationships, whether prescribed by doctors or even illicitly administered, are not some far-off speculation - indeed our most intimate connections are already being influenced by pills we take for other purposes, such as antidepressants. Treatments involving certain psychoactive substances, including MDMA-the active ingredient in Ecstasy-might soon exist to encourage feelings of love and help ordinary couples work through relationship difficulties. Others may ease a breakup or soothe feelings of rejection. Such substances could have transformative implications for how we think about and experience love. This brilliant intervention into the debate builds a case for conducting further research into "love drugs" and "anti-love drugs" and explores their ethical implications for individuals and society. Rich in anecdotal evidence and case-studies, the book offers a highly readable insight into a cutting-edge field of medical research that could have profound effects on us all. Will relationships be the same in the future? Will we still marry? It may be up to you to decide whether you want a chemical romance.
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Trusted PartnerScience & MathematicsJanuary 2020
Love is the Drug
The Chemical Future of Our Relationships
by Brian D. Earp, Julian Savulescu
'A fascinating, game-changing scientific argument for the use of unconventional medicines by those struggling with matters of the heart. We all suffer; some even kill or die for love. If "love drugs" can alleviate the pain of rejection, curb domestic abuse, and even enhance feelings of attachment in struggling partnerships, many of the important ideas here could enrich-even save-lives around the world.' Helen Fisher, author of Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
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Science: general issues
Science of Illusion
by Mohamed Yahia
How were people forced to believe in the rotation of planets around the Sun? What if Newton's theory was a mathematical miracle and a physical disaster? Do you know anything about relativity and the texture of spacetime? How did the battle between relativity and quantum take place, and how did attempts to reconcile them take place? Do you consider INTERSTELLAR a pure fantasy? Do you see in the series DARK unreasonable oddities? What if these dramas were based on some theories of modern physics?! This book tells you the story of science from birth, the attempts to depart science from imaginary myths and superstitions in explaining phenomena and the mechanism of action of the universe, and how it ended up authorizing to nature facts stranger than the imagination from which it was fleeing! Time may stop, the past, the present and the future are all present, your outlook is what creates reality around you, gravity may be a means of communication between us and aliens, and you and I may be just a three-dimensional projection of a caricature story with only two dimensions! This is the tale of science, preceded by imagination, preceded by it.
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Science: general issuesJanuary 2019
Science for Heretics
Why so much of science is wrong
by Barrie Condon
WHY SO MUCH OF SCIENCE IS WRONG! Barrie Condon shows that science is broken Science is everywhere, our medicines, our transport, what we eat and drink. Like it or not, we can’t make real progress without it. There’s just one dilemma ... What if there are profound problems with all aspects of scien fi c theory and methods? Could it be that the idea of universal laws underpinning reality is a falsehood and, as a result, we need more and more scien sts, and more and more compu ng power, to produce greater and greater elabora ons of our theories to make them fi t inconvenient experimental data? For the fi rst me, we have a book that dares to summarise these profound concerns in a way that is accessible to the general reader, who lacks a scien fi c background. It also provides a warning to Mankind of the risks we run by not acknowledging the, o en, hollow founda ons on which science is built.