Topic: DRUGS - on May 18, 2012 at 10:03:00 AM CEST
Group argues weed is safer than booze
A Colorado advocacy group is spending thousands of dollars to convince people that smoking pot is safer than drinking alcohol.
It's an attempt by the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol to rally support for a vote in November that would legalize the drug for recreational use. Colorado legalized marijuana for medical use in 2000.
Last Friday, the group aired an advertisement on a local Denver channel during daytime programming encouraging people to "start your conversation about marijuana." The 30-second spot features a young woman typing a message to her mother on her laptop, explaining that after spending her college years drinking heavily, she now prefers marijuana because "it's less harmful ... I don't get hung-over and honestly I feel safer around marijuana users."
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Topic: MUSIK - on May 18, 2012 at 10:00:00 AM CEST
Donna Summer, Queen of Disco, Dead at 63
Donna Summer, the "Queen of Disco" and one of the most successful recording artists of the 1970s and 1980s, died Thursday (May 17) at the age of 63, a representative confirmed to CNN . The singer had cancer and was in Florida at the time of her death.
In a statement released Thursday afternoon, the singer's family said they are "at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continued legacy." No other details have been released, and there are conflicting reports on what kind of cancer she had.
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Topic: Drone - on May 17, 2012 at 12:50:00 PM CEST
Forget the Helicopter, Drones Make Aerial Videos Attainable
The average episode of Top Gear runs around $1 million to produce. But those high-style, high-flying – and incredibly expensive – aerial shots just got slightly more affordable with the introduction of a new quadrocopter specifically developed for shooting automotive action.
Christopher Kippenberger and his Berlin, Germany-based production company, Kippenberger Racing, have been hard at work over the last few months putting the finishing touches on a customized drone capable of shooting high-resolution video. And unlike a helicopter rental, which can easily run tens of thousands of dollars after insurance, fuel, pilot costs and airspace approval, Kippenberger’s quadrocopter will only set you back around $5,000 after the two-man operation builds you a made-to-order drone.
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Topic: WEB - on May 17, 2012 at 12:38:00 PM CEST
Facebook IPO: the data behind our animation
Facebook is about to hit the stock exchange - valued today at anywhere between $93 and $104bn. But just how big is it and how has it grown so massive? This video by our animator Mariana Santos, shows you exactly how the Facebook became the world's biggest social network. This is the script and data behind that animation
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Topic: FUN - on May 17, 2012 at 11:37:00 AM CEST
Do not cross
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on May 17, 2012 at 11:32:00 AM CEST
Basler Fans stahlen Einsatzdispositiv der Zürcher Stadtpolizei
Militante Basler griffen vor dem Spiel FCZ - FCB zivile Polizisten an. Sie raubten einem Beamten Einsatzpläne. Daraus bastelten sie eine Choreografie.
Zum Spiel zwischen dem FC Basel und GC vom letzten Samstag haben Basler Fans im St.-Jakob-Park eine riesige Choreografie gebastelt. Darauf ist die Einkesselungsaktion auf der Duttweilerbrücke eine Woche zuvor anhand eines Einsatzdispositives der Zürcher Stadtpolizei dargestellt. Darunter stand: «Vertraulich – nach Gebrauch vernichten». Schon zwei Tage zuvor hatte die Basler Onlinezeitung «TagesWoche» das Einsatzdispositiv veröffentlicht. Die Zeitung stellte die Einkesselungsaktion auf der Duttweilerbrücke als eine «geplante Aktion» der Stadtpolizei dar. Dies würden die Pläne nahelegen.
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Topic: TESLA - on May 17, 2012 at 11:24:00 AM CEST
Man Turns Nerf Gun into 20,000-Volt Tesla Gun
The year was 1889. The War of the Currents was well underway. At stake: the future of electrical power distribution on planet Earth. With the financial backing of George Westinghouse, Tesla’s AC polyphase system competed for market dominance with Edison’s established (but less efficient) DC system, in one of the ugliest and most epic tales of technological competition of the modern age.
More than a hundred years after the dust settled, Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders published The Five Fists of Science: a rollicking graphical retelling of what really happened at the turn of the last century. (Get yourself a copy and read it immediately, unless you’re allergic to AWESOME). On the right is the cover to this fantastic tale of electrical fury.
See that dapper fellow in front? That’s a young Mr. Tesla. See what he’s packin’?
Yep. Tesla Guns. Akimbo.
As I read this fantastic story, gentle reader, certain irrevocable processes were set in motion. The result is my answer to The Problem of Increasing Human Energy: The Tesla Gun. For reals.
The Tesla Gun is a hand-held, battery powered lightning machine. It is a spark gap Tesla coil powered by an 18V drill battery. You pull the trigger, and lightning comes out the front.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 17, 2012 at 11:22:00 AM CEST
Multiple Sklerose: Marihuana lindert Spastizität
San Diego – Cannabinoide können die Spastizität lindern, unter der viele Patienten mit multipler Sklerose leiden. Dies gilt nicht nur für das im letzten Jahr in Deutschland zugelassene Cannabis-Spray Sativex. Auch das – illegale – Rauchen von Marihuana erzielte in einer randomisierten placebo-kontrollierten Studie im Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ 2012: doi: 10.1503 /cmaj.110837) eine gute Wirkung.
Die 30 Teilnehmer der Studie an der Universität von Kalifornien in San Diego mussten sich vor Studienbeginn einem Drogentest unterziehen. In ihrem Blut durften weder Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol noch Amphetamine, Benzodiazepine, Kokain und/oder sein Metabolit Benzoylecgonin nachweisbar sein. Auch psychiatrische Erkrankungen durften nicht vorliegen. Alle Patienten litten unter einer mittelstarken Spastizität.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 17, 2012 at 11:19:00 AM CEST
The Anti-Science Streak in Federal Marijuana Policy
Dr. Jody Corey-Bloom, director of the Multiple Sclerosis Center at UC San Diego, recently helped run a study that provided multiple sclerosis patients with either a marijuana joint or a placebo that looked, smelled, and tasted like marijuana. After smoking whichever substance they were given, patients were tested to see if it reduced their muscle spasticity -- an affliction, common to MS patients, that causes painful, uncontrollable spasms of the extremities. Spasticity was unaffected among the placebo patients but dropped 30 percent on average among the patients given real marijuana. The side effects? "Smoking caused fatigue and dizziness in some users," says Reuters, "and slowed down people's mental skills soon after they used marijuana."
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 17, 2012 at 11:18:00 AM CEST
Staat außer Kontrolle: In Mexiko ermorden Kartelle ungesühnt JournalistInnen
Seit Mitte März ist zwar ein neues Gesetz zum Schutz von Medienschaffenden in Kraft, beeindruckt ist davon jedoch offensichtlich niemand
Erdosselt, enthauptet, verstümmelt - kaum eine Woche vergeht, in der nicht über Morde in Mexiko berichtet wird. Gewalttaten an JournalistInnen, Massenexekutionen an einfachen Bürgern. Immer stecken die Drogenkartelle dahinter. Selten weiß man, ob die Sicherheitskräfte so frei agieren, wie sie sollten. Ob nicht auch ihnen die Angst im Nacken steckt. Der Staat verliert die Kontrolle.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 17, 2012 at 11:15:00 AM CEST
LSD-Doku "The Substance" - Explosion im Kopf
Von der Psychiatrie über die Geheimdienste bis zur Gegenkultur: Die Entdeckung und Anwendung der Bewusstseinsdroge LSD war so bizarr wie ihre Wirkung. Die Doku "The Substance" will nun "den schrägsten Exportartikel der Schweiz" rehabilitieren.
Wer hat's erfunden? Die Schweizer. Wer genau? Albert Hofmann. Dabei wollte der Basler Chemiker Hofmann nur ein Medikament gegen Kreislaufprobleme entwickeln, als er 1938 mit dem Getreidepilz Mutterkorn experimentierte und dabei das Lysergsäurediethylamid, kurz LSD, synthetisierte. Auf die bewusstseinserweiternde Wirkung der Substanz stieß er nach unbefriedigenden Tiertests aber erst zufällig 1943. Im Protokoll seines LSD-Selbstversuchs "nahmen die vertrauten Gegenstände" seiner Umgebung "groteske, meist bedrohliche Formen an", eine Nachbarin wurde zur "Hexe mit farbiger Fratze", dann genoss er "allmählich das unerhörte Farben- und Formenspiel".
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Topic: WEB - on May 17, 2012 at 11:11:00 AM CEST
Private: some search engines make money by not tracking users
In the United States, two out of every three searches go through Google, which serves up a total of three billion search queries per day. "Googling" has become so ubiquitous that the company has become a verb in English (and in other languages, too).
Given that most of us use Google several times a day and may also use it to send e-mail, to plan our calendar, and to make phone calls, questions commonly arise about how all of that data is used. Google has said that it needs access to such large amounts of data as a way to “make it useful” and to sell personalized ads against it—and to profit substantially in the process.
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