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Archive for June, 2007
Friday, June 29th, 2007
Using LED glowsticks, flashlights, even fireworks, combined with time-lapse photography, Light graffiti artists create a unique tagging that wraps around objects dimensionally, allowing them to tag in a way they’d never be able to with spraypaint. Very cool!
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Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Led Zeppelin are in talks to reunite for a memorial concert. The band are apparently in discussions to reform for a one-off gig in London for their late record boss Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun. It is thought singer Robert Plant guitarist Jimmy Page and bass John Paul Jones will re-group alongside late drummer John Bonham’s son Jason.
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Thursday, June 28th, 2007
A recent article in the Journal of Emergency Medicine tells the story of a 20-year-old kid from Portland, Oregon that extracted the active ingredient, dextromethorphan, from some cough syrup and tried to get high with it. Thanks to the doctors that treated him, their patient did not earn a Darwin Award.
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Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Researchers at the MIT reported today that they had successfully reversed mental retardation in mice, just as scientists did in the classic 1966 novel Flowers for Algernon.
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
NEW YORK, June 26 (UPI) — A New York dentist is under investigation for billing Medicaid for filling 52 cavities in a single mouth, a feat he claimed took no more than an hour or two.
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
A new study on the effects of low daily doses of the artificial sweetener aspartame shows a statistically significant increase in leukemia, lymphoma and breast cancer in rats. Consumer advocates are calling for the FDA to take another look at the safety of aspartame in light of the study, but the FDA seems uninterested.
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
Most Firefox users have clicked through Tools | Add-ons | Get Extensions (or visited addons.mozilla.org) to download some from the main repository. But why not make your own? Fortunately, it’s not hard.
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