1369-8486/$ see front matter 2013 Published by Elsevier Ltd. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2013.11.004 E-mail address: [email protected] 1 And the hpbio-sphere too. See, in this journal, the substantial collections in this issue and the June 2013 issue. 2 Cf. Adam Rutherford, ‘‘Synthetic biology and the rise of the ‘spider goats’,’’ Observer online edition, 14 January 2012, http://www....

Dreams may serve to justify or motivate decisions. This paper examines two dream incidents in Pakistan which have implications for the study of decision making processes. In the first incident, the centrality of the dream is questionable in the decision making process, while the second incident suggests that dreams may be more than justificatory props that enable people to do what they had alre...

Have come and gone Quintessential Remnants of summer Rambutans and durians Discarded peels Bustles with activity Lives of other kinds Wriggling and swimming Summer dreams Of warm humid nights Fanning away the creatures of nature That annoying bustle of wings Of lives that emerged from the discards Creatures of nature That fly in search of meals Meals of red Within the meal Enveloped In a protec...

BACKGROUND Dreaming during anesthesia is not a well-understood phenomenon. Anticholinergic drugs are used in anesthesia as premedication, but their use to decrease the incidence of dreams and psychological adverse reactions after anesthesia is not well established. The authors therefore studied the efficacy of intramuscular atropine and scopolamine for the prevention of dreams during general an...