This is a comprehensive account of the history of MDMA (Ecstasy) and its great promise for augmenting the efficacy of psychotherapy.
Read here: http://www.oprah.com/health/PTSD-and-MDMA-Therapy-Medical-Uses-of-Ecstasy/2
Man tatooed himself with the word ‘MINI’ to win a free Mini-Cooper
Andreas Muller, a 39 year old German man, had the word ‘MINI’ tatooed on his penis, broadcast live on radio, in order to win a free Mini Cooper from the radio station.
Pole Dancing for Jesus in Texas
It’s every other Sunday in Old Town Spring, Texas, for women only, and you have to bring a church program to get in. The women in the class are fully-clothed and pole dance to Christian rock music.
The man who predicted Japan’s tsunami
41 year old paleoseismologist Masanobu Shishikura was expecting the recent tsunami in Japan. His studies of ancient earth layers persuaded him that every 450 to 800 years, colliding plates in the Pacific have triggered waves that devastated areas around Sendai, in Miyagi Prefecture, as well as in Fukushima Prefecture. He belives this will occur again in the relatively near future.
Read more here: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748704101604576248722573203608-lMyQjAxMTAxMDEwMTExNDEyWj.html
Thanks to WRP for bringing this to the attention of the It’s Interesting community.
Safes washing up on Japan’s shores
Hundreds of dented metal safes, swept out of homes and businesses by last month’s tsunami, are washing up on the shores in Japan.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110411/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake_lost_money
The No Fly List
Abe Mashal, a 31-year-old dog trainer from St. Charles, says FBI agents told him he ended up on the government’s no-fly list because he exchanged e-mails with a Muslim cleric they were monitoring.
The topic: How to raise his children in an interfaith household. Mashal is Muslim and his wife is Christian.
Mashal said he has never had any links to terror or terrorists and is a “patriotic,” honorably discharged Marine Corps veteran.
He said the agents offered to get him off the list if he would become an undercover informant at mosques.
Thanks to Kebmodee for bringing this to the attention of the It’s Interesting community.
Food Inflation Disguised in Smaller Portions at the Grocery Store
As an expected increase in the cost of raw materials for food looms for late summer 2011, consumers are beginning to encounter shrinking food packages.
Companies in recent months have tried to camouflage price increases by selling their products in smaller packages.
At the grocery store, shoppers are paying the same amount, but getting less.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/business/29shrink.html?_r=2
Thanks to Kebmodee for bringing this to the attention of the It’s Interesting community.
Gay Caveman?
Kamila Remisova Vesinova and her team of researchers from the Czech Archeological Society believe they have unearthed the remains of an early homosexual man. The remains date from around 2900-2500 B.C., on the outskirts of Prague.
That claim stems from the fact the 5,000-year-old skeleton was buried in a manner reserved for women in the Corded Ware culture: its head was pointed east rather than west, and its remains were surrounded by domestic jugs rather than by hammers, flint knives and weapons that typically accompany male remains.
Thanks to Kebmodee for bringing this to the attention of the It’s Interesting community.
Vehicle Pollution Damages Mouse Intelligence
A new study reveals that after short-term exposure to vehicle pollution, mice showed significant brain damage — including signs associated with memory loss and Alzheimer’s disease.
The mind-numbing toxin is not an exhaust gas, but a mix of tiny particles from burning of fossil fuel and weathering of car parts and pavement, according to the study to be published Thursday, April 7 in the leading journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-04/uosc-fab040411.php
More Efficient Solar Energy
Shown here is an artifical leaf that has been engineered to execute photosynthesis 10 times more efficiently than a real leaf. It’s a stable and inexpensive advanced solar cell, no bigger than a playing card, that uses sunlight to split water into oxygen and hydrogen. Oxygen and hydrogen are then stored in a fuel cell to produce electricity. This artifical leaf can operate continuously for 45 hours with no loss of activity, and when floating in a single gallon of water it produces enough electricity to power a small house for an entire day.
Thanks to Kedmobee for bringing this to the attention of the It’s Interesting community.
Read about it at the links below:
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/issues/2009/may/theartificialleaf.asp
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