(io9) Let’s meet 10 of history’s most influential scientific and technological visionaries, along with their drugs of choice. 9. Francis Crick — LSD Francis Crick — of the DNA-structure discovering Watson, Crick, and Franklin — reportedly told numerous friends and colleagues about his LSD experimentation during the time he spent working to determine the...
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Today in Moronia
- Gail Collins: ‘Instantly, like a daffodil in spring, a new committee popped up’
- Extract of Chinese herb kudzu reduces alcohol consumption
- California school food standards change teens eating habits for the better
- New male birth control procedure said to be 100% effective, completely reversible
- Video of police fatally beating homeless man causes spectators to leave courtroom
- Gene Weingarten is alarmed at how cheap he’d sell his moral integrity
- Plants use perfume to attract beneficial bacteria to their roots
- Privatized prison labor competes with regular business at 93 cents a day
- There is no invisible hand
- Does Mitt Romney support paid sick days for working mothers?
Science & Technology
10 scientific and technological visionaries who used drugs
Yep. Very entertaining.
The annals of inappropriate departmentalization…or just the plain truth?
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12 Angry White People: Jury Nullification in a Coal Town
By Walter Brasch The Schuylkill County, Pa., justice system managed to do something that insurance actuaries do with mixed results–it determined not only the penalty for threats to a human life, but also the value of a human life. Norman E. Nickle, 54, who lived in Pottsville, the county seat, was sentenced in April...
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Report: Clean Energy Economy Generates Significant Job Growth
Contact: Brandon MacGillis, 202-88… and Andrew McDonald, 202-55… Washington, DC – 06/10/2009 – The number of jobs in America’s emerging clean energy economy grew nearly two and a half times faster than overall jobs between 1998 and 2007, according to a report (PDF) released today by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Pew developed a clear, data-driven...
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Fox caught faking news on tape
Running out of real negative news about Democrats, Fox News cuts and pastes video clips to invent things to criticize. This amusing compilation of side-by-side takes sets the record straight.
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