Topic: NEWS english - on May 21, 2016 at 4:39:00 PM CEST
Startup To Create Man-Made Meteor Shower For 2020 Olympics
For some countries, a massive pyrotechnic display would do, but not Japan. Japanese startup company Star-ALE wants to create a man-made meteor shower for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. The artificial meteor shower called Sky Canvas light show will allow viewers to enjoy it from an area of more than 120 miles. And for that to happen, the pyrotechnics will not be set up on the ground. Star-ALE is taking it to space.
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Topic: History - on May 21, 2016 at 2:23:00 PM CEST
That wasn't a Mayan lost city, just another example of the culture of hype
I t was a good story while it lasted: A 15-year-old boy discovered a lost city by theorizing that a modern star map would correlate with ancient Mayan settlements. It seemed to fit the common understanding of the Maya as peaceful stargazers, centuries ahead of their time in astronomical observation and deeply mystical. It only makes sense they’d plan their cities to align with constellations. The teenage scientist, William Gadoury, of Saint-Jean-de-Matha, Quebec, overlaid constellations and known Maya cities. When he found a gap where it seemed a settlement ought to have been, he consulted satellite imagery and found shapes the looked man-made. Suddenly, the lost city story went viral.
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Topic: FUN - on May 20, 2016 at 4:27:00 PM CEST
Die neuen Schockbilder auf Zigarettenschachteln
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 20, 2016 at 4:23:00 PM CEST
Harald Lesch über den Unsinn des Cannabis-Verbots
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Topic: logisch - on May 20, 2016 at 1:00:00 PM CEST
ps aux | grep food
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 20, 2016 at 12:57:00 PM CEST
Police and Prison Guard Groups Fight Marijuana Legalization in California
Opposition to the marijuana legalization initiative, slated to go before voters in November, has been organized by John Lovell, a longtime Sacramento lobbyist for police chiefs and prison guard supervisors. Lovell’s Coalition for Responsible Drug Policies, a committee he created to defeat the pot initiative, raised $60,000 during the first three months of the year, according to a disclosure filed earlier this month.
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 18, 2016 at 6:14:00 PM CEST
A Bluetooth-connected tampon. Hoo boy
The vagina, or nature's pocket as Broad City calls it, can do all sorts of mystical things. It's a life canal. Babies come out of it! Before babies traverse that path, there's a recurring visitor: the period. The monthly blood bath is about as natural as it gets, and let's be real, it's a pain to have. Constantly changing tampons, fearing toxic shock syndrome, and keeping track of when it last showed up isn't great. There's also the added paranoia that blood will leak and create a potentially embarrassing public situation. Well fear no more, ladies, because a Chinese company has heard your concerns and thinks it can help. Turn your vagina into a connected device by wearing a Bluetooth tampon. Why didn't you think of that?
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 18, 2016 at 10:44:00 AM CEST
Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test
Jackie Calmes writes in the NYT that all over the country, employers say they see a disturbing downside of tighter labor markets as they try to rebuild from the worst recession since the Depression: the struggle to find workers who can pass a pre-employment drug test. The hurdle partly stems from the growing ubiquity of drug testing, at corporations with big human resources departments, in industries like trucking where testing is mandated by federal law for safety reasons, and increasingly at smaller companies. But data suggests employers' difficulties also reflect an increase in the use of drugs, especially marijuana -- employers' main gripe -- and also heroin and other opioid drugs much in the news. Data on the scope of the problem is sketchy because figures on job applicants who test positive for drugs miss the many people who simply skip tests they cannot pass. But Quest Diagnostics, which has compiled employer-testing data since 1988, documented a 10% increase in one year in the percentage of American workers who tested positive for illicit drugs -- up to 4.7 percent in 2014 from 4.3 percent in 2013.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 18, 2016 at 10:41:00 AM CEST
Drugs and the Meaning of Life
Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person’s thoughts. Every waking moment—and even in our dreams—we struggle to direct the flow of sensation, emotion, and cognition toward states of consciousness that we value.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 17, 2016 at 4:17:00 PM CEST
Magic-mushroom drug lifts depression in first human trial
A hallucinogenic drug derived from magic mushrooms could be useful in treating depression, the first safety study of this approach has concluded. Researchers from Imperial College London gave 12 people psilocybin, the active component in magic mushrooms. All had been clinically depressed for a significant amount of time — on average 17.8 years. None of the patients had responded to standard medications, such as selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs), or had electroconvulsive therapy.
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Topic: War and Peace - on May 15, 2016 at 11:12:00 AM CEST
CIA admits: We sent Mandela to jail
A former CIA spy has revealed his key role in the arrest of Nelson Mandela, which led to the future South African president’s trial and imprisonment for almost 28 years.
The bombshell disclosure led yesterday to a demand for the CIA to come clean about putting behind bars a figure who became one of the world’s most revered statesmen.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on May 15, 2016 at 10:08:00 AM CEST
for sale: Majestic Imperator Train de Luxe, Vienna Austria € 8,900,000
Majestic Train de Luxe GmbH (commercial register Austria FN 302000v) is the owner and operator of one of the world’s most luxurious trains. The “Majestic Imperator” revives the original k.u.k. Imperial Train of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I. and his wife Elisabeth from the year 1891. Built according to original plans the seven carriages with a total of 239 seats (197 dining seats, 42 salon seats) offer a unique experience to the enthusiastic and sophisticated traveler. Each of these carriages with its exclusive original design offers the highest comfort, safety and the most luxurious flair of any operating train in the world.
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