Topic: SCIENCE - on August 13, 2016 at 12:45:00 PM CEST
LHC-style supercolliders are entering a make or break phase
As the Large Hadron Collider's first sign of a superparticle melts away, physicists must contemplate their nightmare scenario.
Particle physics finds itself in testing times. This branch of science aims to describe the universe by pulling it apart into its most fundamental building blocks, or particles, and putting them back together in a way that explains how everything works. Its most robust attempt to do this, the standard model, explains the subatomic world to incredible precision – but it falls short in some big ways, lacking the parts to explain gravity and the mysterious realms of dark matter and dark energy. Theories such as supersymmetry, and on extra dimensions and new forces of nature, seek to provide the missing pieces. Almost all of these predict new particles that mighty accelerator the Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, is powerful enough to discover. The anticipation of finding such a particle probably explains what happened when a small bump showed up in LHC data at the end of 2015. This could have been the first sign of a particle 800 times heavier than a proton that could fit the predictions of supersymmetry. A flood of more than 500 theory papers followed in an attempt to explain it. But after adding the data taken at the LHC so far in 2016, the bump went away. The 2015 signal was just noise after all.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 13, 2016 at 12:27:00 PM CEST
HIKEA: Möbel-Zusammenbau auf LSD und Pilzen
Ich habe heute gelernt, dass es einen Youtube-Kanal namens „Hikea Productions“ gibt, auf dem Videos veröffentlicht werden, in denen Menschen Ikea-Möbel zusammenbauen (naja, oder zusammenzubauen versuchen), die sich davor Drogen reingepfiffen haben.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 13, 2016 at 12:18:00 PM CEST
Dixie-Klo voller Marijuana
Then this happened: Portable toilet discovered full of pot in Rogue River park. (Die Pflanzen sind offensichtlich männliche Cannabis-Pflanzen mit sehr viel weniger THC, da hat wohl jemand seinen unbrauchbaren Ganja im Klo entsorgt.)
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 13, 2016 at 12:15:00 PM CEST
Malia Obama Spotted Inhaling Devil Drugs, Don’t Tell Her Mom And Dad!
Uh oh, there is terrible news to report about the 18-year-old daughter of the president of the United States. Did you hear Malia Obama, upon graduating from Sidwell Friends School in Washington, is taking a GAP YEAR? I know right, how lucky is she, we are so jealous, ugh, we wish OUR DAD was president of America! Just kidding, that was not the bad news, the REAL bad news is that Malia, the 18-year-old who is 18, went to Lollapalooza, and instead of gently swaying side to side and enjoying the musical stylings of the gathered troubadours, she put a reefer in her mouth, lit it on fire, and swallowed it.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 13, 2016 at 12:05:00 PM CEST
Definitive guide to marijuana on the 2016 ballot: Recreational & medical initiatives
Legal cannabis has been a hot topic in the march to Election Night 2016.
Dozens of petitions have circulated across the United States. Some have successfully cleared the necessary regulatory hurdles to secure a spot at the ballot box. Others have fallen short.
Come November, voters in at least nine states will decide on whether to legalize either the recreational use or the medical use of marijuana. As it stands now, those states include: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada and North Dakota.
More states could join that list in the coming months. Several proposals — including an unprecedented one that could strip a state of its medical marijuana program — remain in the wings, awaiting official confirmation.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 13, 2016 at 12:00:00 PM CEST
DEA ends its monopoly on marijuana growing for medical research
The federal government is ending its decades-old monopoly on marijuana production for medical research as the Drug Enforcement Administration announced Thursday that it was bowing to changing times. The agency said it would begin allowing researchers and drug companies to use pot grown in places other than its well-secured facility at the University of Mississippi. But the agency did not make the bigger plunge toward marijuana legalization that many lawmakers have been advocating. It passed on a proposal to remove cannabis from the federal government’s most dangerous category of narcotics. The drug continues to be classified as more dangerous than cocaine.
latimes.com DEA Announces Marijuana Will Stay Schedule 1, ‘No Medical Use Or Purpose’ 'Politics Above Science': Obama Administration Keeps Marijuana Restrictions Why the DEA just said ‘no’ to loosening marijuana restrictions
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Topic: MUSIK - on August 12, 2016 at 5:38:00 PM CEST
Beginner - Es war einmal
Das neue Album "Advanced Chemistry" jetzt vorbestellen Als CD Album, Limited Deluxe Box und Doppel Vinyl:
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Topic: POLITIK - on August 12, 2016 at 5:35:00 PM CEST
Wie Edward Snowden zum russischen Spion gemacht wird
Edward Snowden soll ein russischer Spion sein, behauptet Verfassungsschutzpräsident Maaßen. Doch Beweise gibt es dafür nicht.
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Topic: NASA - on August 11, 2016 at 6:20:00 PM CEST
NASA Publishes a Thousand Photos of Mars
NASA has released a huge number of high-resolution photos of Mars captured from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRise camera, which has been capturing images of the planet since 2005. The latest dump consists of over a thousand images that can familiarize you with the red planet's many craters, impact sites, dunes, mountains, ice caps and other features. You can view every single photo captured on HiRise's official website.
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Topic: LEGO - on August 11, 2016 at 6:01:00 PM CEST
LEGO Architecture Studio
1210 white and transparent pieces make up the LEGO Architecture Studio. This fantastic set is geared towards builders! Summer is here and I'm running out of ways to occupy the kid!
boingboing.net Achtung Canvas-Fingerprinting
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 11, 2016 at 5:54:00 PM CEST
El Chapo and the Secret History of the Heroin Crisis
If you wonder why America is in the grips of a heroin epidemic that kills two hundred people a week, take a hard look at the legalization of pot, which destroyed the profits of the Mexican cartels. How did they respond to a major loss in revenue? Like any company, they created an irresistible new product and flooded the market. The scariest part: this might not have happened with El Chapo in charge.
The phone rang. It was July 2014, and I was in a motel room in Tucumcari, New Mexico, about to step into the shower. My wife and I were two days into a cross-country drive from our home in California, and I wanted to clean up before we went to a sports bar across the parking lot to grab something to eat. Looking at the phone, I recognized the number and felt my heart drop. The woman was a close friend. Her twenty-three-year-old son had struggled with heroin addiction for several years. I knew the young man. He was smart, talented, funny—and charming when he wasn't high or jonesing. He was supposed to have called me that day to discuss getting back into school. I didn't get that call. It was his mother on the phone, sobbing, barely able to stammer out the words that I already knew she was going to say. "He's gone." That afternoon, she told me, he was walking to a treatment center that finally had a bed for him, but he stopped for one last "get well" fix. He died on the sidewalk.
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Topic: WEB - on August 11, 2016 at 5:51:00 PM CEST
Software Library taken down : Amiga
After a beta-testing period, the emulated Amiga programs at the Archive have been taken down for further development. Thanks to everyone for testing the Amiga In-Browser emulation package during the beta period, and especially a thank you to the Scripted Amiga Emulator project, as well as db48x and bai, for all the hard work with this experiment.
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