Play “5’s” (from the eBMJ):
“Shall I compare thee to a…..” Imre Loefler sent us his comparison of the “big five” general medical journals with the big five game animals of Africa. Then he compared them
with ships. Read “The Big Five”. Read “Five Ships” . Clearly, the possibilities of this are endless, and we thought that more people might like to join in the game…Remember the
field from which you choose your five examples is wide open:composers, political regimes, trees, psychiatric states, intestinal parasites, cartoon characters, odours…. For the record, the five general medical journals are: Annals of Internal Medicine, BMJ, JAMA, Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine.
Rationalizing the Cannabis Debate:
Rational debate has
often been obstructed because the media present a forced choice between two sets of views. One of these constructed views is that
cannabis is harmless when used recreationally, is therapeutically useful, and hence should be legalised. The other is that recreational use
is harmful to health and that cannabis should continue to be prohibited for recreational or therapeutic purposes.4
This oversimplification of the cannabis debate has prevented a more considered examination of eight conceptually separate issues (box).
We believe that a competent consideration of these issues would contribute to a more informed debate about the appropriate public
policies that could be adopted towards cannabis use for recreational or therapeutic purposes.
The Long Now Foundation: Update “The prototype of the clock began working on Dec 31,1999, just in time to display the transition to the new year. At midnight, the date indicator changed from 01999 to 02000. The chime struck twice, to ring in the second millennium.”
The Long Now Foundation: Update “The prototype of the clock began working on Dec 31,1999, just in time to display the transition to the new year. At midnight, the date indicator changed from 01999 to 02000. The chime struck twice, to ring in the second millennium.”
The Farsight Institute | Welcome page
“Welcome to the home of Scientific Remote Viewing”
Urban Legends Reference Pages of the San Fernando Valley Folklore Society
EVMT Project Home Page
In 1912, Wilfrid M. Voynich (a book collector) bought a medieval manuscript (235 pages) written in an unknown script and what appears to be an
unknown language or a cipher from the Jesuit College at the Villa Mondragone, Frascati, in Italy (near Rome). Apparently, Voynich wanted to
have the mysterious manuscript deciphered and provided photographic copies to a number of experts. However, despite the efforts of many well
known cryptologists and scholars, the book remains unread. There are some claims of decipherment, but to date, none of these can be
substantiated with a complete translation.
Lobster: Journal of parapolitics, intelligence and State Research “…Stalker, Lockerbie, Northern Ireland and Colin Wallace, British trade unions, Shooting the Pope, espionage,
disinformation, Right-wing Terrorists, anti-Labour forgeries, the fifth Man, KAL 007, the Fiji coup, MI5’s
plots to smear British politicians, “Wilson, MI5 and the Rise of Thatcher”, Counter-insurgency, Watergate,
Falklands conspiracy theories, JFK, DEA, Oliver North, SAS, Combat 18, MI5, CIA, DoD, conspiracies, British
nuke deployments, “Cyberspace, Secrecy and Spooks”, British Fascism, the Communist threat’, US Army
Intelligence LSD testing, and much more…”
TASTE – The Archives of Scientists’ Transcendent Experiences “An “online journal devoted to transcendent
experiences that scientists have reported”.
It lets scientists express these experiences in a
safe space, collects and shares them to debunk
the idea stereotype that ‘real’ scientists’ don’t
have ‘spiritual’ or ‘mystical experiences’’. Taste
campaigns against the image of science that
pervades public perception.”
The Farsight Institute | Welcome page
“Welcome to the home of Scientific Remote Viewing”
Urban Legends Reference Pages of the San Fernando Valley Folklore Society
EVMT Project Home Page
In 1912, Wilfrid M. Voynich (a book collector) bought a medieval manuscript (235 pages) written in an unknown script and what appears to be an
unknown language or a cipher from the Jesuit College at the Villa Mondragone, Frascati, in Italy (near Rome). Apparently, Voynich wanted to
have the mysterious manuscript deciphered and provided photographic copies to a number of experts. However, despite the efforts of many well
known cryptologists and scholars, the book remains unread. There are some claims of decipherment, but to date, none of these can be
substantiated with a complete translation.
Lobster: Journal of parapolitics, intelligence and State Research “…Stalker, Lockerbie, Northern Ireland and Colin Wallace, British trade unions, Shooting the Pope, espionage,
disinformation, Right-wing Terrorists, anti-Labour forgeries, the fifth Man, KAL 007, the Fiji coup, MI5’s
plots to smear British politicians, “Wilson, MI5 and the Rise of Thatcher”, Counter-insurgency, Watergate,
Falklands conspiracy theories, JFK, DEA, Oliver North, SAS, Combat 18, MI5, CIA, DoD, conspiracies, British
nuke deployments, “Cyberspace, Secrecy and Spooks”, British Fascism, the Communist threat’, US Army
Intelligence LSD testing, and much more…”
TASTE – The Archives of Scientists’ Transcendent Experiences “An “online journal devoted to transcendent
experiences that scientists have reported”.
It lets scientists express these experiences in a
safe space, collects and shares them to debunk
the idea stereotype that ‘real’ scientists’ don’t
have ‘spiritual’ or ‘mystical experiences’’. Taste
campaigns against the image of science that
pervades public perception.”
Millennial Madness:
Blame it on Dennis the Short:
“Millennial madness is too widespread to halt and an obvious indication of the greater dumbing-down of our society.”
Millennial Madness:
Blame it on Dennis the Short:
“Millennial madness is too widespread to halt and an obvious indication of the greater dumbing-down of our society.”
3 networks to form news cooperative to further homogenize your news consumption. The excluded network cries in its beer about not being invited rather than celebrating diversity…
An Alternative History of the 20th Century, from The Nation magazine.
Forgotten Treasures: A Symposium from the LA Times
“With the turn of the millennial odometer now hard upon us, we asked a number of writers to share with us their neglected classics of the century, books they love but which, for one reason or another, have yet to find the readers they so richly deserve.”
Sony’s PSI Lab – FT115
Patrick Huyghe investigates the truth behind the closure of Sony’s seven-year paranormal research effort.
3 networks to form news cooperative to further homogenize your news consumption. The excluded network cries in its beer about not being invited rather than celebrating diversity…
An Alternative History of the 20th Century, from The Nation magazine.
Forgotten Treasures: A Symposium from the LA Times
“With the turn of the millennial odometer now hard upon us, we asked a number of writers to share with us their neglected classics of the century, books they love but which, for one reason or another, have yet to find the readers they so richly deserve.”
Sony’s PSI Lab – FT115
Patrick Huyghe investigates the truth behind the closure of Sony’s seven-year paranormal research effort.
Apocalypse Pretty Soon: “…a coast-to-coast guide to our favorite millenial and utopian players…” (from author Alex Heard)
Apocalypse Pretty Soon: “…a coast-to-coast guide to our favorite millenial and utopian players…” (from author Alex Heard)
“Magnetic resonance imaging of male and female genitals
during coitus and female sexual arousal” from the electronic edition of the British Medical Journal — Schultz et al. 319 (7225): 1596
“Magnetic resonance imaging of male and female genitals
during coitus and female sexual arousal” from the electronic edition of the British Medical Journal — Schultz et al. 319 (7225): 1596
Telephone Exchange Names
“To help foster the use of exchange names, send this list everywhere.”
Telephone Exchange Names
“To help foster the use of exchange names, send this list everywhere.”
Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang
‘If you’ve ever read a hardboiled detective story, you may have come across a sentence like, “I jammed the roscoe in his button and said, ‘Close your yap, bo, or I squirt metal.'” Something like this isn’t too hard to decipher. But what if you encounter, “The flim-flammer jumped in the flivver and faded.”?’
Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang
‘If you’ve ever read a hardboiled detective story, you may have come across a sentence like, “I jammed the roscoe in his button and said, ‘Close your yap, bo, or I squirt metal.'” Something like this isn’t too hard to decipher. But what if you encounter, “The flim-flammer jumped in the flivver and faded.”?’
FEED: Wiring Baby’s Brain, by Erik Davis “Faced with new findings in neurobiology, not to mention signal saturation in the 3-to-the-grave market, mediatech producers are paying close attention to the cognitive demands of babies and toddlers.”
My Favorite Martians: a UFO Epistemology, by Erik Davis
“In the end, most UFO theories can be seen as different modes of structuring the information that crusts around the slippery edges of a massive enigma.”
DAILY BLEED: Calendar of Eclectic events, Public Secrets:
“A wake-up call better than boiled coffee! A calendar of events your
mom & pop forgot to tell you about…”
Mind Waves: An Interview with Francisco Varela by Erik Davis
FEED: Wiring Baby’s Brain, by Erik Davis “Faced with new findings in neurobiology, not to mention signal saturation in the 3-to-the-grave market, mediatech producers are paying close attention to the cognitive demands of babies and toddlers.”
My Favorite Martians: a UFO Epistemology, by Erik Davis
“In the end, most UFO theories can be seen as different modes of structuring the information that crusts around the slippery edges of a massive enigma.”
DAILY BLEED: Calendar of Eclectic events, Public Secrets:
“A wake-up call better than boiled coffee! A calendar of events your
mom & pop forgot to tell you about…”
Mind Waves: An Interview with Francisco Varela by Erik Davis
Homepage of the Human Genome Project
Homepage of the Human Genome Project
BetaSphere: SignUp to be a Beta Evaluator
BetaSphere: SignUp to be a Beta Evaluator
