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Synthetic Alcohol

Still feeling the sting of New Year's Eve all these days later? A synthetic alcohol substitute developed from chemicals similar in composition to Valium could give users the pleasant feelings of tipsiness without affecting the parts of the brain that lead to barroom brawls, crippling addiction, and sleeping in your car.
Unlike all those bunk point-of-sale hangover remedies, this headache-eluding synthetic is being developed by some serious brainpower at Imperial College London. Professor David Nutt, one of Britain's top drug experts, was recently relieved of his position as a government advisor for comments about cannabis and MDMA. Now, he's trying to change the way Britons think, and feel, about getting drunk.

By harnessing benzodiazepines like diazepam, the chief ingredient in anti-anxiety med Valium, Nutt sees a future of drinking without becoming addicted, belligerent or -- and here's the kicker -- intoxicated. Using one of thousands of possible benzos, researchers are working to tailor a colorless, tasteless synthetic that could eventually replace the alcohol content in beer, wine and liquor.


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Scientists can now trap rainbows

no joke. now if they can only get that little green irish bastid

Those Care Bears can step off, because now humans have control over rainbows too. Scientists have created a rainbow trap with a lens and a plate of glass, and could apply the technique to information storage in the not-so-distant future.
New Scientist notes that UK scientists at the University of Surrey proposed a rainbow trap in 2007, based on exotic metamaterials that could manipulate light. But a team at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland has managed the feat with a relatively simple setup.
One side of the lens received a 30-nanometer-thick coating of gold film, or about three times the thickness of a bacteria's cell wall. Researchers laid that gold-side of the lens down on a similarly gold-coated glass slide, so that just a thin layer of air existed between the curved lens and flat slide.

The air layer eventually tapered off to zero thickness at the point where the lens and slide touched, and created a waveguide that trapped light components unable to pass through openings smaller than their wavelengths.
Researchers went on to shine a laser beam into the open end of the improvised waveguide device. The trapped rainbow showed up under a microscope as a series of colored rings inside the device.
This could all theoretically lead to better optical information storage, given that current computing devices need to convert signals between light and electrical. But for now, you can tell the kids that they can really catch rainbows, if they have the right equipment.



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Coltrane

internet porn in space now possible

apparently TCP wont be good enough for interplantary internetting...so google invented the DTN (The Delay-Tolerant Networking protocol....was Nasa's idea..
read more about it here

what religion should you be?

James Brown

yep you guessed it

its a cuddly stuffed bear with a plush vagina

here

hell yeah brah!

hope this inspires some peeps

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Bruce Springsteen

New Era LED lights

fux! i need that. im one of the stupid duders who do hardcore bicycling with no helmet thinking my new eras will keep my dome safe. with these here lites i can be a lil safer. fuck asia only release tho!
via hypebeast

Bacon Jam!

everyone knows i fux with the bacon. i love pork. ya'll know. please please someone make me some bacon jam for i cannot cook

the recipe

Please do

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Richard Avedon

fashion ridics

light bulb heels by Chanel. being asian i sometimes like things that light up, flash, and just basically attract attention in weird ways. but even the ridiculous asian in me will say nay to this one.

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Brooks Spring Saddle Seat Stools

dope?
seen at interbike this year taken from selectism

Anthony Napolitan Dew Tour BMX

fresh from his X-Games double front flip sickness Anthony Napolitan takes Dew Tour Bmx best trick - 360 barspin catch barspin to late tail whip

The Complex Sound Boards

motherfucking hilarity. my favorites are the reggae dudes. LORDAMERCY!

California Carnivores

this plant shop is the pretty cool. i wish we had this in nyc. its the largest carnivorous plant shop in the united states.

California Carnivores

The Fun Theory

imagine you can make shit fun by making it fun? yeah. get it? climbing stairs usually sucks ballsacks, but not when you make it a giant piano. now thats funnish.


more fun shit here