https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/23/study-hallucinogenic-mushrooms-safest-recreational-drug-lsd
Of the more than 12,000 people who reported taking psilocybin hallucinogenic mushrooms in 2016, just 0.2% of them said they needed emergency medical treatment – a rate at least five times...
It's nice to check the latest update and see the UK is not covered entirely in clouds (mostly)!
https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Satellite distance to Earth: 885,344 miles
Satellite distance to Sun: 93,856,399 miles
North Korea has test-fired a ballistic missile, the South Korean military quoted by Yonhap news agency says.
It was not clear how far the missile travelled, but a US government source told Reuters the test failed.
The missile was fired from a site in South Pyeongan province north of Pyongyang in...
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Shanghai gigapixel image - http://gigapan.com/gigapans/66626
Barack Obama's Inaugural Address gigapixel image - http://gigapan.com/gigapans/15374
They have studied a world known as GJ 1132b, which is 1.4-times the size of our planet and lies 39 light years away.
Their observations suggest that the "super-Earth" is cloaked in a thick layer of gasses that are either water or methane or a mixture of both.
Discovering an atmosphere, and...
Airbus has told its staff that a vote to leave the EU could choke off future investment in the UK.
Airbus, which employs 15,000 people in the UK to design and manufacture aircraft wings, said it was committed to its British operations regardless of the referendum result. But it said a vote to...
At one stage it was down as much as 2.4% at $1.4058, its lowest level since March 2009, before later recovering.
The move follows London Mayor Boris Johnson joining the campaign to leave the EU after Prime Minister David Cameron set a June referendum date.
The steep fall adds to losses made by...
“We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers." – Alan Watts