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Sorry, Absinthe Trippers: Scientists Say You’re Just Really Drunk. Wormwood is not the hallucinogenic it’s made out to be.
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9 Greatest Nerds on Film: “I’m a nerd, and uh, I’m pretty proud of it.” And they made us all proud to be nerds!
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The Trouble with Rocket Packs. They’re crowd-pleasers, but they’ll never live up to the expectation Buck Rogers set in the 1920s.
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How to start a fire without matches. These nine methods might save your life someday, or more likely may impress your friends.
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Staying healthy and happy is a struggle for about half of Americans, according to a survey of 100,000 people. 49% say they are thriving, while 83% of people in Denmark are.
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The Art Of Creating Creatures. Theo Jansen discusses his beach-walking “animals” and the marvelous engineering that makes them possible.
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Happy May Day! …Whatever that means to you.
For the Absinthe article, it comes to no surprise that the whole “Green Fairy” thing was BS. Up here in Massachusetts there was a huge scare piece on the local Fox News about how this now legal “opiate drug” is going to poison our youth. Woo go media.
posted by Brian M on 5-1-2008 at 10:15 am