‘Magic Mushrooms’ Return to Psychology Labs
‘Magic Mushrooms’ Return to Psychology Labs – Bloomberg. Cancer survivor Lauri Reamer lived in constant dread that her disease would return, until she took a psychedelic drug in a Johns...
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US road accident casualties: every one mapped across America
US road accident casualties: every one mapped across America | News | guardian.co.uk. There have been a staggering number of deaths on the roads in the United States: 369,629 people died on...
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The E-PARASITE Act
Just a few ways the E-PARASITE Act could disfigure the Internet – Yahoo! News. Over the last few months, the federal government has started to combat online piracy by trying to add additional...
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‘Magic Mushrooms’ Return to Psychology Labs
‘Magic Mushrooms’ Return to Psychology Labs – Bloomberg. Cancer survivor Lauri Reamer lived in constant dread that her disease would return, until she took a psychedelic drug in a Johns Hopkins University study. The 48-year mother of three was given psilocybin, the main ingredient in the “magic mushrooms” of the 1960s, as a remedy to ease anxiety. She spent most of her first “trip” crying, then emerged from the next with less anxiety, better sleep and happier relations with family and friends, she recalled. The experience “really cracked me open,” said Reamer, an anesthesiologist at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore before she was diagnosed with leukemia. “It let me be in life again, instead of this place of fear where I had been living.” Almost...
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US road accident casualties: every one mapped across America
US road accident casualties: every one mapped across America | News | guardian.co.uk. There have been a staggering number of deaths on the roads in the United States: 369,629 people died on America’s roads between 2001 and 2009. Following its analysis of UK casualties last week, transport data mapping experts ITO World have taken the official data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - and produced this powerful map using OpenStreetMap. BryanF- I do not know what to do with this information but I found it to be tragic yet very interesting. I urge everyone to follow the link and take a look at the number of accident deaths in the United States over the last 10 years. Can anyone draw any good conclusions...
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The E-PARASITE Act
Just a few ways the E-PARASITE Act could disfigure the Internet – Yahoo! News. Over the last few months, the federal government has started to combat online piracy by trying to add additional regulation to the DMCA. In the Senate, a bill called the Protect-IP Act has been introduced. The problems with this bill have been extensively reported on. Now, the House has submitted their version of this bill, which has come to be called, E-PARASITE. The House of Representatives introduces it as an act that will “promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation by combating the theft of U.S. property, and for other purposes.” Basically, it’s an attempt to stop online piracy and give a stronger voice to content that’s been infringed upon via the Internet. This bill...
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Mississippi Voters Reject ‘Personhood’ Ballot to Ban Abortion
Mississippi Voters Reject ‘Personhood’ Ballot to Ban Abortion – Businessweek. Mississippi voters rejected a ballot initiative that would have made the state the first in the U.S. to ban abortion by declaring that life begins at conception. The so-called personhood bid lost yesterday by a margin of about 58 percent to 42 percent, with 84 percent of precincts reporting, according to the Associated Press. The amendment to the state constitution would have redefined the term “person” to include “every human being from the...
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Energy Department: World CO2 Emissions Rising Faster Than Ever
Energy Department: World CO2 Emissions Rising Faster Than Ever | Mother Jones. New figures released by the Department of Energy show that the world is emitting carbon dioxide at a rate much faster than scientists had predicted. Global CO2 emissions reached 10 billion tons in 2010, the Oak Ridge National Lab reports, about 564 million tons or 6 percent more than emitted in 2009. It’s the biggest annual jump ever recorded thus far The new figure also means CO2 is now being emitted at a rate higher than the figure the...
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The six natural resources most drained by our 7 billion people
The six natural resources most drained by our 7 billion people With 7 billion people on the planet there will be an inevitable increase in the demand on the world’s natural resources. Here are six already under severe pressure from current rates of consumption: 1. Water Freshwater only makes 2.5% of the total volume of the world’s water, which is about 35 million km3. But considering 70% of that freshwater is in the form of ice and permanent snow cover and that we only have access to 200,000km3 of freshwater overall, it...
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With 7 Billion People, World Has a Poop Problem
With 7 Billion People, World Has a Poop Problem | Population 7 Billion | Sanitation, Sewage & Health | Toilets, Latrines & Outhouses | LiveScience. The 7 billionth person on Earth will draw his or her first breath on Oct. 31, at least according to estimates by the United Nations. It might seem a reasonable question to ask how humanity will deal with this output of feces as the world’s population creeps toward 10 billion by 2100. But that question presumes we have the poop problem under control now. Here’s the bad...
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The Path Not Taken – NYTimes.com
The Path Not Taken Financial markets are cheering the deal that emerged from Brussels early Thursday morning. Indeed, relative to what could have happened — an acrimonious failure to agree on anything — the fact that European leaders agreed on something, however vague the details and however inadequate it may prove, is a positive development. But it’s worth stepping back to look at the larger picture, namely the abject failure of an economic doctrine. The doctrine in question amounts to the assertion that, in the aftermath of a...
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CBO study shows growing income disparity
CBO study shows growing income disparity – Oct. 26, 2011. From 1979 to 2007, average household income for the nation’s top 1% more than tripled, while middle-class incomes grew by less than 40%, according to a new report from a research arm of Congress. “Over the past three decades, the distribution of income in the United States has become increasingly dispersed — in particular, the share of income accruing to high-income households has increased, whereas the share accruing to other households has...
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Greece in talks to repay debts with solar power
Greece in talks to repay debts with solar power EU’s energy commissioner Gunther Oettinger, the director general for energy Philip Lowe, and the head of the EU’s Athens task force Horst Reichenbach have discussed the idea of enabling Greece to repay some of its debts to EU member states, such as Germany, by providing them with solar energy. “Several German companies have expressed interest in the idea but it would clearly be more interesting if several member states were involved,” a senior source told...
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Pork without a pig? Meat from a lab could be the answer
Pork without a pig? Meat from a lab could be the answer. – CSMonitor.com. The most expensive piece of meat in the world – costing about “US $12,000 per kilo” (2.2 pounds) – does not come from a ranch but a laboratory. The meat is grown in vitro, without killing a living animal. Stem cells are important to this process because they can self-divide and multiply their numbers to create a mass of cells where there once was only one. These myosatellite cells are incubated in a petri dish with a substance designed to cause cell...
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Americans Would Swap Electoral College for Popular Vote
Americans Would Swap Electoral College for Popular Vote. Nearly 11 years after the 2000 presidential election brought the idiosyncrasies of the United States’ Electoral College into full view, 62% of Americans say they would amend the U.S. Constitution to replace that system for electing presidents with a popular vote system. Barely a third, 35%, say they would keep the Electoral College. Gallup’s initial measure of support for the Electoral College with this wording was conducted in the first few days after the 2000...
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