Analog Nation

Doctors are basically the modern equivalent of shamans. They poke us, they prod us, they look inside us with weird, uncomfortable flashlights, and then they give us an incomprehensible ten minute monologue. For all their medical advancements and calculated science, the instant they open their mouths they might as well be talking about rooster entrails [...]

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The Florian Haarschnitt Center for Advanced Thought presents
Futurismology: What Will Life Be Like In Fifty Years?
We assembled some of the most progressive thinkers of our time at a retreat in the Swiss Alps. Sequestered far from interruption, our “tank of thinkers” spent two weeks debating the likely course of events over the next half-century. Pausing [...]

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At first there were just a few in southern California. Within a few days they were appearing in New York and Texas. By the beginning of last week, it was nationwide, rapidly spreading to other countries. Now, less than a fortnight since the initial outbreak, it has spread to every corner of the Earth, except [...]

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During the 16th century, Europeans were leeched an average of 78.4 times over the course of their lives. Bloodletting was a key component of medicine at that time, as physicians perpetuated the thousand-year belief that modulating a patient’s blood could treat the entire spectrum of human disease. People generally required leeching two or three times [...]

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Drymouth, dizzy spells, periodic tunnel vision, wandering elbow, reddening of the hair, sudden urge to leave the room, nostalgia, waxy build-up, sprocketing of the clavicle, and muscle cramps. A sudden fear of pancakes may occur, rarely resulting in fainting. Symptoms of grapheme-color synaesthesia occure about the same as with a placebo. Women [...]

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