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Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:03:46 PDT
What happens if you mix an inflatable pig, a massive desert and quotes seemingly taken from a Simpsons episode? Yes, you get, by far and away, the funniest music news of the year thus far.

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Another Super Tuesday -- Pennsylvania Edition

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:19:44 PDT
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Three Ways to Mitigate the Attention Crash, Yet Still Feel Informed

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:44:03 PDT
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Daily Report: Euro Weakness Resumes, US Data Kick off

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:50:41 PDT
Euro’s weakness resumes in early European session as another wave of selling is seen in EUR/USD, EUR/GBP and EUR/JPY. Technically, note that EUR/JPY is finally joining the reversal in Euro crosses by taking out a near term trend line support, arguing the the rise from 151.71 has completed. While the economic calendar is rather light in Eurozone, US

Two worlds collide as the New Yorker tackles "The Hills"

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:12:39 PDT
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'Twilight' Teaser Attached to 'Speed Racer' - Horror News

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:21:44 PDT
Collider are reporting that Summit Entertainment will be pushing out a new teaser for Catherine Hardwicke's new Vampire tale 'Twilight' with 'Speed Racer' that opens on May 9th.

Daily Report: Euro Weakness Resumes, US Data Kick off

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:50:41 PDT
Euro’s weakness resumes in early European session as another wave of selling is seen in EUR/USD, EUR/GBP and EUR/JPY. Technically, note that EUR/JPY is finally joining the reversal in Euro crosses by taking out a near term trend line support, arguing the the rise from 151.71 has completed. While the economic calendar is rather light in Eurozone, US

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Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:43:40 PDT
Slideshow: View Earth's Changes In September 2007 less sea ice covered the Arctic than at any point since the U.S. government began keeping records of its decline. All told, it covered 502,000 square miles (1.3 million square kilometers) less ocean than even the year before--a loss equal to an area the size of California and Montana combined. But what might be bad news for polar bears and ...

Daily Report: Euro Weakness Resumes, US Data Kick off

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:50:41 PDT
Euro’s weakness resumes in early European session as another wave of selling is seen in EUR/USD, EUR/GBP and EUR/JPY. Technically, note that EUR/JPY is finally joining the reversal in Euro crosses by taking out a near term trend line support, arguing the the rise from 151.71 has completed. While the economic calendar is rather light in Eurozone, US


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Discoverer of LSD dead at 102

Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann, who in 1943 accidentally discovered the hallucinogenic effects of Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), has died at the age of 102, Reuters reports.

Hoffman passed away at his home in Basel on 29 April as a result of a heart attack, according to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.

The chemist had in the late 1930s been working on possible medical applications of alkaloid derivatives of the fungus ergot and subsequently synthesised a number of such derivatives, including LSD. It wasn't until 1943, however, when a small amount accidentally leaked onto his hand that the compound's mind-blowing capability was revealed.

Hoffman recounted a "remarkable restlessness, combined with slight dizziness", elaborating: "At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant intoxication-like condition, characterised by an extremely stimulated imagination.

"In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight too unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colours. After some two hours this condition faded away."

The rest is history. While the CIA infamously experimented with the mind-control possibilities of LSD during the 1950s and 60s in its Project MK-ULTRA, it was Timothy Leary and his "turn on, tune in, drop out" mantra who popularised the substance among the hippy movement and brought it to the attention of the wider world.

Hoffman maintained the movement had "hijacked" the drug and insisted he'd produced it "as a medicine and not as a substance to be abused". He continued to defend its possible use "in analysis of how the mind works, hoping it could be used to recognise and treat illnesses like schizophrenia", long after it was banned in the 1960s. �

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