Topic: AUSTRIA - on June 29, 2016 at 1:07:00 PM CEST
Wahlanfechtung: Verfassungsrichter setzen Verhandlung fort - livebericht
Das Verfassungsgericht verhandelt am Mittwoch wieder öffentlich, diesmal kommen Parteienvertreter zu Wort
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 29, 2016 at 11:54:00 AM CEST
After Legalizing Recreational Weed, Colorado Has Lowest Teen Use in the Country
Cannabis prohibitionists have long cautioned that legalizing the plant will inevitably lead to increased use among teens, couching their restrictive beliefs in concern for the youth. While some of these concerns may be genuine, a recent survey from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment demonstrates — for the second year in a row — that youth in Colorado do not use cannabis any more than teens in other parts of the country. In fact, by at least one measure, they use less. The Healthy Kids Colorado survey is a “voluntary survey that collects anonymous, self-reported health information from middle and high school students across Colorado,” according to the initiative’s website. Over 17,000 middle- and high-schoolers throughout the state were randomly selected to participate. The survey is conducted every other year, and the 2015 version, released this week, confirmed the 2013 findings that marijuana use among teens in Colorado had fallen flat.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 29, 2016 at 11:52:00 AM CEST
The fascinating, strange medical potential of psychedelic drugs, explained in 50+ studies
After years of struggling with treatments for his worsening cancer, Roy was miserable — anxious, depressed, hopeless. Traditional cancer treatments had left him debilitated, and it was unclear whether they would save his life. But then Roy secured a spot in a clinical trial to test an exotic drug. The drug was not meant to cure his cancer; it was meant to cure his terror. And it worked. A few hours after taking a little pill, Roy declared to researchers, "Cancer is not important, the important stuff is love." His concerns about his imminent death had suddenly vanished — and the effects lasted for at least months, according to researchers.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 29, 2016 at 11:31:00 AM CEST
Michael Pollan Explains Why Psychedelic Drugs Are the Ultimate Meal for Your Mind
You know Michael Pollan from his blockbuster book The Omnivore's Dilemma, an entertaining exploration of the thorny decisions surrounding what we eat. Or maybe you read his most recent title, Cooked, which was adapted by Netflix as a four-part documentary series. But the celebrity author hasn't always been so obsessed with what people put on their plates. "Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants," Pollan explained on the most recent episode of Bite, Mother Jones' new food politics podcast. "Not only do plants nourish us bodily—they nourish us psychologically."
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Topic: PHOTO - on June 29, 2016 at 11:25:00 AM CEST
GoPro Evolution: A Teardown Through the Ages
Our latest teardown focuses on the popular action camera GoPro. This teardown is actually not a singular adventure, but an odyssey of epic proportions, split into 2 parts. We’ll look at the product’s evolution across three generations and see how the engineering and manufacturing techniques have changed in the last half decade.
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 29, 2016 at 11:19:00 AM CEST
Secure-K is an encryped OS that lives on a USB drive
If you're looking for a encrypted, portable OS that can be securely loaded on any computer, Secure-K may be the answer. Also if you're afraid of hackers wearing hoodies in darkened rooms and find joy in a British man repeatedly saying "privacy" in an excited tone, you'll enjoy this video.
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Topic: WEB - on June 29, 2016 at 11:17:00 AM CEST
Save the Internet
Diesen Sommer wird in Europa über die Zukunft des Internets entschieden. Große Telekomkonzerne wollen darüber entscheiden, was wir online tun können und was nicht. Um die Freiheit des Internets zu erhalten und unsere Rechte zu schützen, müssen wir alle aktiv werden. Hilf mit, werde jetzt aktiv!
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Topic: Terror - on June 29, 2016 at 11:14:00 AM CEST
Terrorism Blacklist: I have a copy. Should it be shared?
I have obtained a copy of the World-Check database from mid-2014. No hacking was involved in my acquisition of this data. I would call it more of a leak than anything, although not directly from Thomson Reuters. The exact details behind that can be shared at a later time. This copy has over 2.2 million heightened-risk individuals and organizations in it. The terrorism category is only a small part of the database. Other categories consist of individuals suspected of being related to money laundering, organized crime, bribery, corruption, and other unsavory activities.
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Topic: WEB - on June 29, 2016 at 11:10:00 AM CEST
Bots for #Brexit
What I want to write about here, though, is the way in which that Leave campaigners (in the broadest sense) leveraged the use of Twitter bots in the campaign. A report now available on Arxiv suggests that bots generated over three times as many pro-Brexit tweets (97,431) than pro-Remain messages (28,075) in a one-week period in June.
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