December 2009
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Carl Sagan on Marijuana
By Carl Sagan
This account was written in 1969 for publication in Marihuana Reconsidered (1971). Sagan was in his mid-thirties at that time. He continued to use cannabis for the rest of his life.
It all began about ten years ago. I had reached a considerably more relaxed period in my life - a time when I had come to feel that there was more to living than science, a time of awakening of my...
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Scientists with the Robot Engineering Technology Research Center of east China’s Shandong University of Science and Technology say they implanted micro electrodes in the brain of a pigeon so they can command it to fly right or left or up or down.
The implants stimulated different areas of the pigeon’s brain according to signals sent by the scientists via computer, and forced the bird to comply...
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“If nature truly did not want us to discover the Higgs, a cosmic ray would have zapped the embryo that became Peter, preventing its development into a physicist.” http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1937370,00.html
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The Melancholy Of Keita Takahashi →
Great Interview
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The Melancholy Of Keita Takahashi →
Great interview.
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Last night, after I thought all of the trick-or-treaters were gone, a boy of...
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