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Virtual reality cure for all
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ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
“People who suffer from paranoia can overcome their fears using virtual reality, new research has found.”
This was the boast of researchers at Oxford University earlier this week and we should be very worried indeed.
The study, funded by the Medical Research Council, combined psychological treatment techniques with state-of-the-art virtual reality created social situations to reduce paranoid fear, we are told.
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