“The next activity we will do in today’s session is called the fantasy death exercise.” I look at the expectant faces in front of me. I always get a kick out of doing this exercise with medical students as it is a great immersion learning tool and fun to do. “The fantasy death exercise is sort of like guided imagery experience. Please close your eyes and keep them closed until I tell you to ope...

In this essay, the author shares his personal reflections gleaned from a lifetime of research with ayahuasca, and speculates on the societal, political, planetary, and evolutionary implications of humanity's aeons-old symbiosis with this shamanic plant. The thesis is developed that at this critical historical juncture, ayahuasca has developed a strategy to broadcast its message to a wider world...

To enable the design of large sized caches, novel memory technologies (such as non-volatile memory) and novel fabrication approaches (e.g. 3D stacking) have been explored. The existing modeling tools, however, cover only few memory technologies, CMOS technology nodes and fabrication approaches. We present DESTINY, a tool for modeling 3D (and 2D) cache designs using SRAM, embedded DRAM (eDRAM), ...

In the reinscribing of white supremacy in United States, contemporary university as a place exclusion presents problem religion. Approaching religion “the search for depth” and addressing “techno-myths” betterment, longevity, rituals enacting these myths that capture today’s social imaginaries, this paper proposes an alternative to religious faith “rising” rhetoric American technocratic-meritro...