Multimedia Friday - Heroin, Any Questions?
Category: Video
Anti-drug ad parody that's also an anti-drug ad itself. This is Your Brain on Heroin: Any Questions?....
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Klingons VS Furries - The Aftermath (photos!)
Category: Culture Wars
Well... the Klingons and Furries finally got together and had battle... in a bowling alley. Here's some of the exciting (WEIRD) results: If this girl only knew... See the rest of the flickr set here. Via BoingBoing I wonder if any of the Furries went home with the Klingons? What...
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The Big Smoking Bong of Harvard Neuroscientists
Category: Drugs
Mind Hacks has alerted us to some amazing engineering from Harvard University: A team from Harvard Medical School are interested in how smoked marijuana affects the brain, but have come to the inevitable conclusion that it's actually quite hard smoking a joint when you're lying on your back being brain...
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Bums and Conservatives
Category: Drugs
Addiction, homelessness, and science vs. ideology.
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NASA claims pilots never flew drunk.... what Omni Brain has to say
Category: Space
According to the LA Times:NASA said Wednesday that it had found no evidence that any of its astronauts ever flew while inebriated, or even showed up for work impaired, as was recently alleged by an outside investigative panel. Bull Shit. Tang is disgusting without Vodka....
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Drinks men should just not order. What do you think?
Category: Humor
There seem to be certain drinks that as a guy you should just not order at a bar - because if you do... no woman will ever sleep with you again (well unless she likes girly men *with Arnooolldd accent*). I found a link via fark with a list of...
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Coping with a Writing Addiction
Category: Mental Health
1. Decide ahead of time how much money you plan to write with. 2. Write knowing that it is likely that you will lose more often than win - so make sure you are writing with money you can afford to lose. 3. Make informed decisions about your writing...
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Multimedia Friday | 07/27/2007
Category: Video
Your brain on drugs spoof from Robot Chicken.
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Panic! Smoking pot makes you psychotic!!!!
Category: Vice
Stop smoking pot immediately! You WILL go CRAZY!!! Panic! The study by Zammit and colleagues, published in the medical journal the Lancet, reanalyzed data from seven long-term studies on psychotic illnesses and marijuana involving 61,000 participants. The researchers filtered out about 60 factors, such as preexisting mental illness and the...
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Multimedia Friday 06/07/07
Category: Video
Vintage mental health film The Empty Life.
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