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    Agarwood

    Ballzac's Palo Santo Liqueur post reminded me ov Agarwood , which we came across in Vietnam. The scent is produced by a fungus which infects the tree, & is really heady. It makes a really good natural incense, & i'm sure it wood give a really unique flavour to alcohol. http://www.kacha-stones.com/agarwood_oil.htm Anybody had any experiences w/it?
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    Inception film.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception_%28film%29 watched this yesterday & enjoyed it alot. The direction ov movement within the scenes is excellent, especially when tied to the really good musical score. The plot itself isn't particularly brilliant, but it did play with some ideas that might be ov interest like "what is reality & how can we tell?", the idea ov a dream within a dream within a dream; but i particularly got a kick out ov the central theme: how the seed ov an idea can spread through your mind like a virus, taking over your whole personality...I've had very similar thoughts myself about insanity when tripping...Insanity could be one crazy idea that comes to you in a psychedelic moment (or a dream) & then spreads like a virus infecting your mind changing your whole reality. I especially came to this idea through 5X salvia divinorum.
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    'We have broken speed of light'

    A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light - an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time. According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, it would require an infinite amount of energy to propel an object at more than 186,000 miles per second. However, Dr Gunter Nimtz and Dr Alfons Stahlhofen, of the University of Koblenz, say they may have breached a key tenet of that theory. The pair say they have conducted an experiment in which microwave photons - energetic packets of light - travelled "instantaneously" between a pair of prisms that had been moved up to 3ft apart. Being able to travel faster than the speed of light would lead to a wide variety of bizarre consequences. For instance, an astronaut moving faster than it would theoretically arrive at a destination before leaving. The scientists were investigating a phenomenon called quantum tunnelling, which allows sub-atomic particles to break apparently unbreakable laws. Dr Nimtz told New Scientist magazine: "For the time being, this is the only violation of special relativity that I know of." By Nic Fleming, Science Correspondent Last Updated: 12:01am BST 16/08/2007 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtm...scispeed116.xml
  4. Oct 18, A drug made from a plant known as “thunder god vine,” or lei gong teng, that has been used in traditional Chinese medicine, wiped out pancreatic tumors in mice, researchers said, and may soon be tested in humans. Mice treated with the compound showed no signs of tumors after 40 days or after discontinuing the treatment, according to researchers at the University of Minnesota’s Masonic Cancer Center. The research, funded by the university and the National Institutes of Health. was published today in the journal Science Translational Medicine. Enlarge image Cystic carcinoma pancreas. Photograph: MBq “This drug is just unbelievably potent in killing tumor cells,” said Ashok Saluja, vice chairman of research at the center and the study’s leader, said in a telephone interview. “You could see that every day you looked at those mice, the tumor was decreasing and decreasing, and then just gone.” The plant, also known as Tripterygium wilfordii, contains triptolide, which earlier studies have shown can cause cancer cells to die. In traditional Chinese medicine, the plant is used as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis. While the researchers hope to start human trials in six months, Saluja said it’s still a long leap from mice to people. “Does that mean it will definitely work in humans?” he said. “We can definitely not say that.” The results pave the way for clinical trials in patients with pancreatic cancer, one of the most lethal malignancies, the researchers said in the study. About 44,000 new cases of the disease are diagnosed each year in the U.S., according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Only about 20 percent of patients survive a year after diagnosis, Saluja said. Survival Odds Even for patients diagnosed at the earliest stages of their cancer when the odds are better, only about 14 percent survive five years or longer, according to the American Cancer Society. The current treatment is Eli Lilly & Co.’s Gemzar (LLY), which sold $452 million last year. A generic version of the drug became available in 2011, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. “It adds six weeks -- it’s nothing,” Saluja said. “There’s definitely a need to discover and develop more strategies for pancreatic cancer.” The researchers dubbed the drug Minnelide, a combination of Minnesota and triptolide. They developed a water soluble version that could be injected into mice, and in the future administered to patients intravenously. Saluja and his group have formed a company, Minneamrita Therapeutics, which will attempt to take the drug into the first of three stages of human clinical trials that are generally required before U.S. regulatory approval. Saluja said the company has discussed the trials with the Food and Drug Administration. http://www.bloomberg...rs-in-mice.html
  5. Posted on Tuesday, November 6, 2012 · 4 Comments Possibly one of the more unexpected products at Maker Faire Africa this year in Lagos is a urine powered generator, created by four girls. The girls are Duro-Aina Adebola (14), Akindele Abiola (14), Faleke Oluwatoyin (14) and Bello Eniola (15). 1 Liter of urine gives you 6 hours of electricity. The system works like this: Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which separates out the hydrogen. The hydrogen goes into a water filter for purification, which then gets pushed into the gas cylinder. The gas cylinder pushes hydrogen into a cylinder of liquid borax, which is used to remove the moisture from the hydrogen gas. This purified hydrogen gas is pushed into the generator. Along the whole way there are one-way valves for security, but let’s be honest that this is something of an explosive device… http://makerfaireafrica.com/2012/11/06/a-urine-powered-generator/
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    the reef is under threat

    WATCH THIS VIDEO NOW https://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/mining/gladstone/watch-this-video-now?t=dXNlcmlkPTY2MzkzNyxlbWFpbGlkPTEwNjA= or don't watch it, i really couldn't give a fuck.
  7. 26 September 2012 http://www.livescience.com/23494-cannabis-withdrawal-symptoms.html
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    Post awesome gifs here

  9. http://news.discovery.com/human/do-intelligent-people-drink-more-alcohol.html i knew that was the reason.
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    Post your track of the day

    this woman has the most amazing voice. she hits those top notes effortlessly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36-3z9M8ay8
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    the word "retard"

    it gets used alot on the internet & upsets alot ov people. but the word "idiot" doesn't upset anyone & hardly seems that derogatory. however: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot so "idiot" is actually quite a "bad" thing to call someone & it's still politically correct..YAY! the world seems full ov idiots because there's one born every minute.
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    the word "retard"

    ^ i was looking for that letter to post earlier in the thread but couldn't find it, i'd forgotten it was to that pitiful excuse for a human being Ann-"women shouldn't be allowed to vote"-Coulter thanks for posting.
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    7 Tragic Truths Of Quitting Weed

    i wouldn't say it was "just" the nicotine, but i agree that for those who do use bacci in their mixes it wouldn't make it any easier to give up. and yeah, he does come off as abit ov a tosser.
  14. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71aAmNqaVVw this doesn't really apply to me as i never had any trouble w/MJ while smoking, i gave it up easily & didn't use for about 5 years. now i use it very occasionally & have no problem w/that either. however i would be interested to hear what you guys think.
  15. 10/07/11 The House Judiciary Committee passed a bill yesterday that would make it a federal crime for U.S. residents to discuss or plan activities on foreign soil that, if carried out in the U.S., would violate the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) -- even if the planned activities are legal in the countries where they're carried out. H.R. 313, the "Drug Trafficking Safe Harbor Elimination Act of 2011," is sponsored by Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), and allows prosecutors to bring conspiracy charges against anyone who discusses, plans or advises someone else to engage in any activity that violates the CSA, the massive federal law that prohibits drugs like marijuana and strictly regulates prescription medication. "Under this bill, if a young couple plans a wedding in Amsterdam, and as part of the wedding, they plan to buy the bridal party some marijuana, they would be subject to prosecution," said Bill Piper, director of national affairs for the Drug Policy Alliance, which advocates for reforming the country's drug laws. "The strange thing is that the purchase of and smoking the marijuana while you're there wouldn't be illegal. But this law would make planning the wedding from the U.S. a federal crime." The law could also potentially affect academics and medical professionals. For example, a U.S. doctor who works with overseas doctors or government officials on needle exchange programs could be subject to criminal prosecution. A U.S. resident who advises someone in another country on how to grow marijuana or how to run a medical marijuana dispensary would also be in violation of the new law, even if medical marijuana is legal in the country where the recipient of the advice resides. If interpreted broadly enough, a prosecutor could possibly even charge doctors, academics and policymakers from contributing their expertise to additional experiments like the drug decriminalization project Portugal, which has successfully reduced drug crime, addiction and overdose deaths. The Controlled Substances Act also regulates the distribution of prescription drugs, so something as simple as emailing a friend vacationing in Tijuana some suggestions on where to buy prescription medication over the counter could subject a U.S. resident to criminal prosecution. "It could even be something like advising them where to buy cold medicine overseas that they'd have to show I.D. to get here in the U.S.," Piper says. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/us-drug-policy-war-congress_n_998993.html
  16. i know it's a waste ov time, but i decided to tell the Whitehouse/Obama what i thought ov this stupid law. probably can't do any harm. http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
  17. Using a biologically inspired algorithm, SoftKill demonstrates an exciting new path for large, 3-D printed structures. 1 Comments Behrokh Khoshnevis and Enrico Dini are edging ever closer to developing a 3-D printer large enough to print houses, the technology is still a long way from being widely implementable. That hasn’t stopped architects from designing for it, though--after all, plenty of great architecture is unbuildable.A London design studio called Softkill is leading the way, painting a far-out picture of what 3-D printed architecture could eventually look like. At last week’s 3D Printshow, the team of Architectural Association grads presented a concept called ProtoHome, which imagines a radical new mode of construction based on the strengths of 3-D printing. Their design is in stark contrast to other 3-D printed home schemes, which are either markedly utilitarian or oddly traditional. The spindly, web-like structure is based on an algorithm that mimics the way bones grow in human bodies. It directs extra material to the points of greatest stress within the home, and tells them to form stronger bonds in those spots--hence the rabbit’s warren of micro-columns that form under the home’s long cantilevered deck. ProtoHouse is different from traditional structures in roughly the same way an invertebrate like a spider is different from mammals. It has no exterior facade, meaning that rain and snow would permeate the dense honeycomb shape, and rather than relying on an internal skeleton, its structural components are completely exposed (possible because the building is printed in plastic). The cladding, waterproofing, and insulation are actually embedded inside the structure, in a reversal from typical home detailing practice. Each habitable space is nestled inside a cocoon of flexible waterproofing that’s also 3-D printed, thanks to a new type of laser sintering we’ve written about before. Softkill’s prototypes for the flexible membranes include a fascinating mesh chain mail made up of interlocking 3-D printed rings (similar to those used in a recent 3-D printed iPhone case). The house is divided into 30 discreet sections, defined by the size of the flatbed truck that would transport them to the site. Amazingly, Softkill has modeled each section to interlock with the others--meaning that no additional adhesives would be required during assembly. “The Softkill house moves away from heavy, compression-based 3-D printing of on-site buildings, instead proposing lightweight, high-resolution, optimized structures,” write the designers. In a brief interview over at Dezeen, Softkill partner Aaron Silver had this to say about the emerging technology: One strategy that a lot of people have been experimenting with is constructing a very large 3-D printer on site. The printer is essentially the size of the structure that is being built. But we were interested in working within the constraints of the existing technologies. I think at the moment, as you said, [3-D printing is a specialized, one-off, luxury, rich man’s thing]. But I think there really is an interesting future for architecture and 3-D printing; because you have great cost savings and material efficiency, which architects are really interested in. That’s where 3-D printing is really pushing the discipline. Silver tells Co.Design that plans are in the works for a larger-scale prototype than this (relatively small) 1:33 model. But it’s important to note that ProtoHouse isn’t really a literal design for a "house," so much as a provocation, pointing out that in the face of large-scale 3-D printing, traditional thinking on structures and construction will undergo a transformation on par with the first steel buildings. http://www.fastcodes...ource=twitter#1
  18. i wonder if they'll really start cracking down hard. all those MJ websites w/American members....all ov them potentially breaking federal law....the prison industrial complex would love that longtime.
  19. that's mighty nice ov you. i love this 3d printing malarky, it seems to me to be a total game changer.
  20. November 14, 2012 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2012/1114/1224326575203.html i know Ireland takes it's Catholicism seriously, but this is just homicide w/no rational excuse....
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