Category Archive: drugs

Feb 16

Smart Pills to Connect to Your Smartphone

"Better living through chemistry."

Drug Companies (the legal kind) are working to create pills that will monitor how your body responds to the medication, report this to your smartphone then relay that information to your doctor. Like he doesn’t already have enough problems. According to a press release from the American Chemical Society: Sanofi, a pharma company, and AgaMatrix, …

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Apr 08

Pills For Your Morals

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Those men in the white coats are attempting to make pills to improve morality. Dr Guy Kahane, deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics and a Wellcome Trust biomedical ethics award winner says: “Science has ignored the question of moral improvement so far, but it is now becoming a big debate. There is already a …

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Nov 30

Coked Up Tart

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It’s hard to invent a new drink. Bartenders have been bored into becoming mad chemists for years. These days, the standard thing to do is to mix some fancy crap with some vodka and call it a “blank-tini.” But that shouldn’t stop one from trying. The other night, bored like many a bartender before, I …

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Nov 16

Greediness Gene Makes You Hungry

Researchers discover that some people really like food.

pic nicked from here It seems that we’ve found a variety of causes of obesity. Viruses, glands, and big bones. Just about everything is to blame except eating too much and not moving enough. You can add the FTO gene (nicknamed the greediness gene) to this ever-growing list of things that cause people surrounded by an …

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Oct 13

Doc Ellis and the LSD No-No

An amazing and hilarious animated short about Doc Ellis and the no hitter he pitched while on LSD.  Narrated by the man himself. Via SHOEMERDE

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Jun 08

Psychedelic Maize

"This study shows that there is still a lot to learn about genes that control carbohydrate distribution in plants," said David Braun, Ph.D, a researcher involved in the work conducted at Penn State's Department of Biology.

Psychedelic Maize is false advertising.  This bio-engineered corn does not get you stoned. It promotes carbohydrate export from leaves, increasing crop yield and the amount of bio-fuel that could be sucked out of each plant. It’s called “Psychedelic Maize” because the process puts yellow and green streaks in the leaves. And why the fuck can’t …

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Apr 12

Weird Whirlwind Weekend

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On my days off I enjoy a pleasant sit, followed by a nice little nap and then, maybe, a jolly lay down.  If I’m feeling particularly active, I might play some video-game baseball.  This past week, however, I had plenty of stuff to do.  And some of it might be of interest to you so …

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Feb 27

Chimp in Rehab

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Many people find it cruel to allow a chimp to smoke and drink.  If someone was shipping Johnny Walker and Marlboros into the wild and selling them to the chimps, I’d agree.  But when a captive ape takes up smoking and drinking, I cheer it on. Sending said ape to rehab is cruel. A caged …

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Dec 16

Marilyn Monroe Smoking Pot

YouTube – Marilyn Monroe smoking pot.  And looking great while doing it.  So listen up kids, smoking might be cool but smoking pot is really cool.  Ask your grandparents.  They’ll tell ya.

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Dec 14

George Barbier 1915

George Barbier 1915 on Flickr – Photo Sharing!. Hallucinogens, taken before bed, may result in tactile dreams.   You may also hear a giant basketball being bounced against your home.

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