Government-sanctioned, drug-fueled raves? Sure, if it makes sense to have elementary school children putting condoms on bananas, it certainly makes sense (this is L.A. we are talking about) to issue fliers to rave participants on how to not off themselves taking the illicit, schedule 1 drugs they are not legally allowed to take.Dennis Romero at the LA Weekly Blog was kind enough to post a copy so all of you responsible parents in less progressive parts of the nation can teach kids how to roll without overdosing.
I like coffee but I love coffee makers. I currently own 14, though only four are allowed on the counter at any one time. They're not all elaborate. One is an electric percolator while one percolator goes on the fire pit outside when I am smoking a cigar. There are two French presses and a small, 4-cup Mr. Coffee. Aside from those, they are all rather distinct and have their own special features which make me cherish them.But there are limits to features I require and costs I will incur. It is a hobby, not a need to be cutting edge.
You might think Romania is famous for vampires (and in the later part of the 20th century, hot female spies) but witches are getting some attention too.Just not the good kind. First, they started getting taxed. Yes, to practice witchcraft they have to pay a fee but now they can be fined if they make predictions that do not come true.
A few months back we highlighted a review which examined the actual neuroscience effects of love, at least what fMRI shows. The study (Neuroimaging Love - Romance Is More Scientific Than You Think) noted there are different cortical networks and cognitive factors than just subcortical dopaminergic reward-related brain systems (dopamine and oxytocin receptors) and instead said different types of love involve distinct cerebral networks.
The last time AOL made big news is when its CEO, Steve Case, managed to use its pretend Internet money to buy a real company, Time-Warner, and pull a fast one on basically the world.Now Huffington Post has learned that game, managing to get a whopping $315 million out of AOL for its blog site. If you're wondering how that valuation happened, it doesn't matter, $300 million of it is in cash.Congratulations, HuffPo. We're going to be on the phone with Prodigy in the next few minutes and see if we can get a little something also.
Julian Assange has never liked having to abide by the same conditions he demands of the rest of the world (read: American government and military, since he long ago stopped leaking documents from anywhere else) - he didn't want his address disclosed in a British court because it put him at risk, he claimed, though the many he put at risk by disclosing them in secret documents had 'no proof' they were in peril, he said, and he certainly did not want any details about his sex changes(errr, charges, as noted in a comment below - anything else is his own business) released without careful editing.
While Americans may be concerned that China or India could take over the high end of science due to sheer numbers of graduates, culturally they are a lot less scientific.Don't think taro cards, astrology, feng shui and reiki are science? Too bad, the High Court in Bombay says they are - and so they are. In India, anyway.
German anaesthesiologist Joachim Boldt was fired last autumn from his job as head of anesthesia at the Klinikum Ludwigshafen after concerns about a 2009 paper surfaced - namely that the study was completely made up. Boldt has published numerous articles about the safety of a type of surgical fluid replacement called hydroxyethyl starch and now concerns about his research may may mean up to 90 retractions.See Retraction Watch.
Based on the 1966 Batman TV series, a very young Bruce Wayne takes on the famous, pint-sized villains of Gotham City.Part 1 of 3 below. Parts 2 and 3 at the links. Hat tip to Internet Fount Of All Cool Stuff, Andrea Kuszewski.
If you're a Steampunk fan, you are not used to seeing hot girls. Oh, and you think it's 1995.Just kidding, there is no better time than going to a local coffee house and seeing a Steampunk club meeting. It's creative stuff. But the girls do need work. So this month at Antarctic Press, Ben Dunn, teaming up with fellow illustrators Fred Perry and David Hutchison, release "Victorian Secret: Girls Of Steampunk" - to maybe teach Steampunk girls how to look. The site is designed for true Steampunk fans, in that the first page is a useless shockwave Enter button that serves no purpose and after that no modern human could actually figure out how to order anything.
