LOS ANGELES – It’s been more than 40 years since a fateful New Year’s Eve encounter connected Bob Weir with Jerry Garcia and started a rock band, the Grateful Dead, that would become the eternal poster child for 1960s psychedelic music.
By DENNIS BUECKERT
OTTAWA (CP) – Nearly a third of the patients who got marijuana through Health Canada’s medical access program have returned the product, says an activist who sees that as proof that federal pot isn’t worth smoking.
The White House bends science to its will
By The Editors of Scientific American
Starting in the 1930s, the Soviets spurned genetics in favor of Lysenkoism, a fraudulent theory of heredity inspired by Communist ideology. Doing so crippled agriculture in the U.S.S.R. for decades. You would think that bad precedent would have taught President George W. Bush something. But perhaps he is no better at history than at science.
The Bush administration will today seek to prevent a former FBI translator from providing evidence about 11 September intelligence failures to a group of relatives and survivors who have accused international banks and officials of aiding al-Qa’ida.
A new discovery of microbial activity in 3.5 billion-year-old volcanic rock and one of earth’s earliest signs of geological existence sheds new light on the antiquity of life, says University of Alberta researchers who are part of a team that made the groundbreaking finding.
By Declan McCullagh
COMMENTARY—The FBI is trying to convince the government to mandate that providers of broadband, Internet telephony, and instant-messaging services build in backdoors for easy wiretapping.
ARLINGTON, Va.- Perforated shells found at South Africa’s Blombos Cave appear to have been strung as beads about 75,000 years ago-making them 30,000 years older than any previously identified personal ornaments. Archaeologists excavating the site on the on the coast of the Indian Ocean discovered 41 shells, all with holes and wear marks in similar positions, in a layer of sediment deposited during the Middle Stone Age (MSA).
LONDON, England (AP)—David Bowie has invited fans to bootleg his music—and he’s offering prizes for the most creative theft.
The musician’s Web site urges fans to mix classic Bowie songs with material from his latest album, “Reality,” to create a “mash-up”—a track that uses vocals from one song superimposed over the backing tracks of another.
Can psilocybin reduce death anxiety in end-stage cancer patients? That is
the question a new study at Harbor-UCLA hopes to answer. In a recent story
about this FDA-approved study, Judith Lewis of the LA Weekly Times had this
to say:
“Almost as soon as Dr. Charles Grob secured approval to study the effects
of psilocybin on Stage IV cancer patients, he faced another challenge, one
nearly as formidable: recruiting 12 participants. Unlike so many other
experiments in radical cancer treatment, Grob’s does not offer a cure; he
merely hopes to find that psilocybin, the most potent of the many compounds
in psychedelic mushrooms, ameliorates a dying person’s fear of death. The
study targets patients relegated to ‘palliative’ treatment, people with
metastatic cancer for whom there is no reasonable hope for remission. It is
a segment of the population, says the National Cancer Policy Board of the
Institute of Medicine – which put out a call in 2001 for ‘novel’ approaches
to palliative treatment – largely ignored by medical science.”
DENISE BUFFA
Courtesy of New York Post
April 16, 2004—A former cop had “magic mushrooms” delivered to him by mail and turned his Brooklyn home into a greenhouse for dozens of pot plants, prosecutors in Brooklyn Supreme Court said yesterday.
BOSTON – For years, futurists have dreamed of machines that can read minds, then act on instructions as they are thought. Now, human trials are set to begin on a brain-computer interface involving implants.
NEW YORK CITY-April 13, 2004 ? A new chemical concocted by scientists at the Tyco’s Fire and Security Division looks and acts just like water except for one thing… it doesn’t get things wet.
Right Here – Stolen from this dude
URBANA, Ill. April 13 ? A University of Illinois research team is working on turning pig manure into a form of crude oil that could be refined to heat homes or generate electricity.
Years of research and fine-tuning are ahead before the idea could be commercially viable, but results so far indicate there might be big benefits for farmers and consumers, lead researcher Yanhui Zhang said.
But that time is probably near. Anyways, news is slow these days. Hell, everything seems to have slowed down quite a bit in the last couple weeks. Very odd…. Anyways, here’s a link to a cool site. It just shows you the newest images people post on LiveJournal. Lots of neat stuff, but be forewarned, some of it is NWS.
Also, expect the site to change quite a bit over the next few weeks. As soon as I get some time away from school and work, I’ll put in some additions. Mainly just stuff to make it look better – but also some new sections and functionality. Nerds will rejoice I’m sure…..