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Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Albert Hofmann died yesterday, April 28th at 9am in Basel, Switzerland at 102 years old.
In addition to inventing LSD, Dr. Albert Hofmann identified the active components of Psilocybe mushrooms and Ololiuhqui and devoted his life to the study of plant chemistry and the beneficial uses of plants.  He served on [...]

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Cnet’s Don Reisinger just did something awesome.  Don’s been pissed about getting pushed around by lawmakers and corporations for years and finally decided to use his public influence to make his voice heard.  Here’s a brief excerpt:

How many times must we hear that video games cause violence before we stand up together and stop the [...]

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Yesterday, Congressman Barney Frank from Massachusetts introduced a House bill that would decriminalize up to 3oz. of marijuana at the federal level (though you’d be hard pressed to find a mention of this in any major news outlets). It’s about time somebody grew a pair of balls (Barney apparently had them back in the [...]

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I’ll be attending the Bay Area Yuri’s Night celebration this Saturday.  Some of the highlights include:

Amon Tobin
DJ Toast
Phil Lesh (in Telstar)
A talk by Will Wright (the Spore guy)
A guy who thinks we should communicate with aliens by rearranging stars
Aerial acrobatics accompanied by actual acrobats
Space Fashion
Capacitor
A demo by Tesla Motors
Documentaries, science demos, speakers, and drugs?

Also my [...]

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