Mallika Sherawat seduces Kamal Hassan with her pole dance

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:12:05 PDT
Mallika Sherawat is in news again, this time for her work though. The girl who is doing ‘Dasavatharam’ with Kamal Hassan will be doing a sexy pole dance in the film. Mallika

U.S. Breast Feeding Said To Be At 20-Year High

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:44:45 PDT
U.S. Breast Feeding Said To Be At 20-Year High According to the a report issued Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it has been reported that more than three-quarters of new mothers (77 percent) are breast-feeding their infants. Very tellingly, experts cited by the Associated Press connected the rise to public education campaigns as they stressed that breast milk better protects infants against disease and childhood obesity than formula. The wire service stated that

Eyes in the Sky Track Earth's Changes Slideshow] News] (Scientific American)

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:43:40 PDT
Slideshow: View Earth's Changes In September 2007 less sea ice covered the Arctic than at any point since the U.S. government began keeping records of its decline. All told, it covered 502,000 square miles (1.3 million square kilometers) less ocean than even the year before--a loss equal to an area the size of California and Montana combined. But what might be bad news for polar bears and ...

Google News and Search: Rev. Wright Tops Every Major Issue?

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:30:40 PDT
In his press conference today, Obama said he was "distressed that this has caused such a distraction from what this campaign should be about, which is the American people. Their situation is getting worse." Google trends show that News volume and Search volume on Rev. Wright now exceeds Iraq, Health Care, and The Economy; 24/7 Wright news continues

Google Trends: People care less about databases at year end

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:42:17 PDT
What is it about databases that account for a significant drop in Google queries right before the New Year? "Screw the inner-joins, Joe. Tomorrow night we're gonna get wasted."

I went down to the crossroads…

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:37:44 PDT
There is a lot of rumination on “wine quality” as an absolute measure in this country. I have used the idea of a measurable quality level myself often in conjunction with price to confer value (quality quality) status on a particular bottle. Over time I have come to realize that this system of determining a wine’s quality vis-a-vis its price to determine a value proposition is a fun concept, mostly academic and one that bears little resemblance to how we enjoy


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Discoverer of LSD dead at 102

Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann, who in 1943 accidentally discovered the hallucinogenic effects of Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), has died at the age of 102, Reuters reports.

Hoffman passed away at his home in Basel on 29 April as a result of a heart attack, according to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.

The chemist had in the late 1930s been working on possible medical applications of alkaloid derivatives of the fungus ergot and subsequently synthesised a number of such derivatives, including LSD. It wasn't until 1943, however, when a small amount accidentally leaked onto his hand that the compound's mind-blowing capability was revealed.

Hoffman recounted a "remarkable restlessness, combined with slight dizziness", elaborating: "At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant intoxication-like condition, characterised by an extremely stimulated imagination.

"In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight too unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colours. After some two hours this condition faded away."

The rest is history. While the CIA infamously experimented with the mind-control possibilities of LSD during the 1950s and 60s in its Project MK-ULTRA, it was Timothy Leary and his "turn on, tune in, drop out" mantra who popularised the substance among the hippy movement and brought it to the attention of the wider world.

Hoffman maintained the movement had "hijacked" the drug and insisted he'd produced it "as a medicine and not as a substance to be abused". He continued to defend its possible use "in analysis of how the mind works, hoping it could be used to recognise and treat illnesses like schizophrenia", long after it was banned in the 1960s. �

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