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10:55 am Wed
Apr 29, 2015
Michael Pollan.
Popular food and nutrition writer Michael Pollan recently wrote about psychedelic mushrooms in the New Yorker.
Some doctors are now using the active ingredient in shrooms to treat anxiety and depression in cancer patients, and to help people recover from addiction. Pollan talks about discovering the healing powers of magic mushrooms in a radio interview.
I’ve mentioned it online before, but here we go: Two years ago, my wife and I decided to leave our rented home behind and move into a 40-foot RV. We spend our spring and summer in Alberta, Canada where she has a job for six months of the year working as an addictions counselor. The […]
Androkavo tests some of the cheap eBay solder against the brand-name stuff; it gets there in the end, but it’s surely not the advertized 60/40 alloy and needs to be close to 400° before it behaves itself.
MIT Tech Review's Antonio Regalado rounds up the year's stupidest, worst moments in tech, from the guy who created his own CRISPR-based gene therapy to beef up his muscles and injected it to Donald Trump's Twitter feed to the FCC's Net Neutrality catastrophe. Of course, Juicero rates a mention.
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