Illustration: Jonathan Castro, for The Heretic A wonderful long-read at The Morning News by Tim Doody, on 1966 LSD studies that took place as the US government's position on acid… Read the rest of the article: In mid-'60s LSD research study, dosed scientists achieved creative breakthroughs
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Xeni Jardin NASA has awarded Boeing (not to be confused with "Boing Boing," you guys), SpaceX, and a Colorado-based systems integration firm more than a billion in contracts to develop spacecraft capable… Read the rest of the article: SpaceX, Boeing win $900 million to develop spacecraft for human space flight
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Xeni Jardin Finally: Prosecutors in Japan have launched a criminal investigation into the 2011 nuclear plant accident, after more than 1,300 residents filed a complaint against TEPCO executives. Bloomberg reports that the… Read the rest of the article: Japan launches criminal probe into Fukushima nuclear crisis
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Xeni Jardin Not a new thing for women who game, but it's great to see the New York Times devote more than a thousand words to it. The hate-filled attacks that followed… Read the rest of the article: Sexism in gaming
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Xeni Jardin According to the rough translation I've found here, an elderly woman in China who lived near a pedestrian crossing that drivers often speed through found a clever way to get… Read the rest of the article: Traffic hacks: elderly woman in China ties sex doll to tree to slow motorists
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Xeni Jardin The only US facility for "handling, processing and storing weapons-grade uranium" was closed temporarily after anti-nuke activists, including one 82-year-old nun, breached security fences. Reuters reports that On Wednesday, 3… Read the rest of the article: US nuclear weapons site shut after protesters breach security
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Xeni Jardin Great piece over at Huffington Post in which LGBT employees of Chick-Fil-A are interviewed about what it's like working there right now. They're getting it from both sides: the icky… Read the rest of the article: It sure sucks to work for Chick-fil-A when you're gay
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Xeni Jardin NASA's newest rover Curiosity, is zipping through space, slated to enter the Martian atmosphere early morning eastern time on Monday, August 6. (Image: NASA) At the PBS NewsHour site, space… Read the rest of the article: Are we all Martians? The curious hunt for life on Mars
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Xeni Jardin NASA JPL's nuclear-powered Curiosity rover will try to land at the foot of a 3-mile-high mountain on Mars this Sunday night (technically, early Monday morning) to learn more about the… Read the rest of the article: Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity headed for Mars landing. Are you ready?
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Xeni Jardin The University of Colorado psychiatrist who treated mass shooting suspect James Holmes was so concerned by his behavior, she alerted colleagues in June that he was potentially dangerous. CNN reports… Read the rest of the article: Aurora shooting suspect's psychiatrist alerted colleagues of threat, but officials never contacted police
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Xeni Jardin Japan's Sharp Corporation, best known for its Aquos televisions and solar panel technology, may soon cut 5,000 jobs globally, or "just under 10 percent of its consolidated workforce. (Reuters)
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Xeni Jardin In Vanity Fair, Tom Freston profiles the former Liberian warlord turned evangelical minister whose alias many Americans know only through a character in Matt Stone and Trey Parker's Broadway hit,… Read the rest of the article: Perhaps you thought General Butt Naked in "Book of Mormon" was a fictional character? You thought wrong.
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Xeni Jardin This parody ad skewering the anti-gay in Chick-fil-A is the best thing yet to come out of the whole fast-food-chicken-meets-marriage-equality kerfuffle. "If you want the gayest chicken, you have to… Read the rest of the article: KFC Loves Gays, starring John Goodman as Col. Sanders (video parody)
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Xeni Jardin Perhaps the best description for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ever, from Amy Alkon: "Having ADHD is like trying to think while being attacked by a flock of crows or having 16… Read the rest of the article: What ADHD feels like
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Xeni Jardin [Video Link] This must be seen to be believed. What's with his widdle platform he's standing on, the two discs? And how does he hang on wif him widdle paws?… Read the rest of the article: Cat, wearing chapeau, rides through streets on bicycle (video)
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Xeni Jardin About 10% of the world was without power when a massive blackout hit India this week. Power has mostly been restored, and so has the hubris of the officials responsible.… Read the rest of the article: After worst blackout in global history, India's power minister rates his performance as "Excellent"
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Xeni Jardin "For the past four years, Brooklyn web designer Mark Suppes has been building a nuclear-fusion reactor in the corner of a friend's cluttered warehouse — even though he has no… Read the rest of the article: How to build a nuclear-fusion reactor with parts from eBay
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Xeni Jardin At The Dropp, Mallory Winstead reviews Death Wish Coffee, which claims to contain 200% more caffeine than "typical coffee shop coffee." Mallory writes, "Death Wish Coffee Company's website has a… Read the rest of the article: Review of coffee brand boasting "200% more caffeine"
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Xeni Jardin In The Gambia, an activist is serving life in prison with hard labor for printing and distributing t-shirts that called for an end to the dictatorship in the small West… Read the rest of the article: Gambia: Activist jailed for life over t-shirt treason
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Xeni Jardin A new study published in the Journal of Toxicological Sciences shows that fruit flies on methamphetamine "drastically reduce their food intake and increase their physical activity, just as humans do."… Read the rest of the article: Shocker: Fruit flies on meth become anorexic, agitated