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LSD Inventor Albert Hofmann Dead at Age 102
Albert Hofmann, the pioneering Swiss chemist and advocate ofpsychedelics who discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD, diedTuesday. He was 102. What? I thought drugs caused you to die early. He...
created by Albert Milliron | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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709 views | 15 recommendations | 3 comments
For good or ill Ireland gains another mammal species
Although there are only about 60 species of mammals living inland or around our coasts, they play an important part in our lives. Ireland has long been separated from mainland Europe, thereby, preventing movement over land. There are a greater number of mammal species in...Stephen Hawking urges new era of space conquest
""In a way, the situation is like Europe before 1492. People might well have argued that it was a waste of money to send Columbus on a wild goose chase," the British scientist was quoted by AFP as saying at Georgetown Washington University."Yet the discovery of the new world..."Deadliest Catch" Strays From Reality
Whether it's ANTM, Survivor, Big Brother, Man vs. Wild, Hell's Kitchen, Flavor of Love, or Deadliest Catch, the catch is that reality television never depicts reality.It is highly edited, produced, fabricated,...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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Sa Dingding...The Chinese Bjork?
I have not struck music notes here in a while.Could Sa Dingding be the Chinese Bjork?From Mongolia to the the world stage, This is another name I could have given to this piece.According to Everything in the mix (David Honigmann, FT, April 12), Sa Dingding went from singing...Da Vinci's mom was a slave?
Proof that talent has little to do with patrician blood:"April 9, 2008 -- Leonardo Da Vinci, regarded by many as the greatest genius of the Renaissance, was the son of a humble slave girl and had at least 21... Rare Seahorses Found in River Thames
When I was younger I used to be so scared of the River Thames becuase my brother told me that people threw dead bodies in there and I had nightmares about it for weeks. Later in life I found out that he wasn't... Animals taken from squalid farm
"Hundreds of animals have been removed from a County Down farm where they were being kept in squalid conditions.It follows the discovery of a "mass grave" of more than 40 animals on the Ballyroney Road near...Aboriginal languages linked to ancient Siberian dialect
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorMany First Nations may disagree with the Land Bridge theory that states all First Nations Aboriginals came from Siberia. First Nations stance on being North...
created by Barry ORegan | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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Peanut-Stars | New Discovery Of Double Star Systems :: Oblate Spheroid
"Peanut-Star System - In a repeating cycle, one star moves to the front and blocks our view of the other. From Earth, the star system brightens and dims, as we see light from two stars, then only one star. The...
created by Edmund Jenks | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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1187 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
Necklace is 'oldest in Americas'
A necklace that is the oldest known gold object made in the Americas has been found near Lake Titicaca in southern Peru. I wonder if you can still wear it..."Radiocarbon dating puts its origin at about 4,000 years... Psst...psh malbec 05...the road from Bordeaux to Mendoza
Once in a while I buy a wine for unorthodox reasons.My decision is not informed by taste, ratings, recommendation from the staff at wine store, food pairing issues or any other rational factor. In the case at hand, I was browsing the shelves last week for something new. Breakthrough energy discovery?
"Calling it “the ultimate recycling” project, a Georgia agricultural researcher says he has found the solution to the world’s energy crisis.
Using a process of genetic modification and cloning of bacterial...
created by nukegingrich | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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4029 views | 4 recommendations | 5 comments
'Man vs. Wild' Admits Show Is Fake
In the grand tradition of "reality" programming like Survivor and Hell's Kitchen, where "the truth is much less exciting" than what appears on the telly, Bear Grylls has finally owned up to the fact that his hit...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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69161 views | 18 recommendations | 2 comments
New Bird Species Discovered
"The announcement of the discovery of a new bird comes with a twist: It’s a white-eye, but its eye isn’t white. Still, what this new bird lacks in literal qualities it makes up for as one of the surprises that...Top Members Today
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