No longer a pipe dream, new animal research now indicates that marijuana-like compounds can aid a bevy of debilitating conditions, ranging from brain disorders such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Parkinson’s disease, to pain and obesity.
Quoted this week in NewsMax.com, General Tommy Franks issued baldly that the U.S. Constitution will probably need to be scrapped, in favor of some form of military dictatorship. Citing the blanket-spectre of “terrorist threats,” he reasoned that the U.S. would need to come under lockdown and Total Control via the U.S. military…for our own good.
In a recent survey by the University of Maryland, it was found that the majority of Bush supporters are ignorant of the facts surrounding American foreign policy matters, particularly in regards to Iraq and the War on Terror.
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When Google finally gets its gargantuan market capitalization later this year, it will turn its founders into billionaires and make individual investors everywhere swoon. But it will also validate an idea: The most valuable resource on the Internet is the collective intelligence of everyone who uses it.
Once upon a time, on an isolated island of Indonesia, there lived a colony of little people ? very little people.
Not only did anthropologists find the skeletal remains of a hobbit-sized, 30-year-old adult female, in this fairy-tale-like discovery they also uncovered in the same limestone cave the remains of a Komodo dragon, stone tools and a dwarf elephant.
SGI and NASA have just rolled-out the new world number one fastest supercomputer. Its performance test (LINPACK) result of 42.7 teraflops easily outclasses the previous mark set by Japan’s Earth Simulator of 35.86 teraflops AND that set by IBM’s new BlueGene/L experiment of 36.01 teraflops. What’s even more awesome is that each of the 20 512-processor systems run a single Linux image, AND Columbia was installed in only 15 weeks. Imagine having your own 20-machine cluster?
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In the international Nature journal today they report a platypus has five chromosones determining sex, not one – like the rest of the species in the world.
Professor Jennifer Graves says platypus have five X and five Y chromosomes, and when sperm are made it gets even stranger.
ALLERCA Inc. today launched a project to produce the world’s first hypoallergenic cats. The hypoallergenic cats produced by ALLERCA will allow consumers to enjoy the love and companionship of a pet without the cost, inconvenience, risk, and limited effectiveness of current allergy treatments. Clients will take delivery of the first ALLERCA kittens in 2007. The hypoallergenic cat is the first of a planned series of lifestyle pets that ALLERCA will develop over the next few years.
The fall issue of the MAPS Bulletin has been posted on the MAPS website. The issue’s focus is “Rites of Passage: Kids and Psychedelics.” Read it online here or get the PDF version.
Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein
Grimoire of Chaos Magick by Julian Wilde
Sun Tzu on The Art of War
WASHINGTON (CNN)—Non-Iraqi prisoners captured by U.S. forces on the Iraq battlefield are not entitled to the protections afforded by the Geneva Conventions, according to a recent legal opinion from the Justice Department.
British researchers at the University of Newcastle in England found drinking green and black tea every day, actually inhibits the activity of certain enzymes associated with memory in the brain.