Drugs & the Internet: Cyberdellic (R)evolution

This is a transcript of a talk by Charlotte Walsh at Retox Seminar earlier this month: Drugs & the Internet are inextricably and symbiotically entwined. Indeed, the very origins of the Internet are bound up with the exuberant experimentation with psychedelic drugs that took place in Silicon Valley...

February 4th, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More

Could you be a Bin Laden Model too?

Spanish politician to sue FBI over using his face for a hypothetical modern Bin Laden photo The FBI acknowledges having used Gaspar Llamazares as the model in a Bin Laden photo-fit. // Spanish politician Gaspar Llamazares threatens to prosecute the US Federal Bureau of Investigation...

January 22nd, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More

The dark side of the internet

In the ‘deep web’, Freenet software allows users complete anonymity as they share viruses, criminal contacts and child pornography Fourteen years ago, a pasty Irish teenager with a flair for inventions arrived at Edinburgh University to study artificial intelligence and computer science....

January 14th, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More

A particle God doesn’t want us to discover?

Could the Large Hadron Collider be sabotaging itself from the future, as some physicists say? Explosions, scientists arrested for alleged terrorism, mysterious breakdowns — recently Cern’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has begun to look like the world’s most ill-fated experiment. Is it really nothing...

December 23rd, 2009 | Science & Technology | Read More

Has dark matter finally been detected?

Hunt may well be over for a mysterious and invisible substance that accounts for three-quarters of the mass of the universe. This article was written by Ian Sample for The Guardian A computer simulation shows how invisible dark matter coalesces in halos (shown in yellow). Photograph: Science Photo...

December 18th, 2009 | Science & Technology | Read More

Russia and US in secret talks to fight net crime

Forget missiles, nukes and biological weapons. Many of tomorrow’s battles will be fought in the fog of cyberspace, and as Daniel Nasaw’s article from guardian.co.uk shows, the US and Russia are currently holding secret talks to lay down the ground rules for the conflicts of the future. American...

December 14th, 2009 | Creativity, Science & Technology | Read More

Hanging with the BIG DOGS- Meet Petman

Does anyone remember Big Dog? Well meet his new master, Petman… Its developers, Boston Dynamics, without doubt the coolest company in the world, say: “PETMAN is an anthropomorphic robot for testing chemical protection clothing used by the US Army. Unlike previous suit testers, which had...

December 11th, 2009 | Creativity, Science & Technology | Read More

Bye bye Windows?

Google finally made its browser, Chrome, available for Mac earlier this week. So far it’s pretty unremarkable, if anything a little faster than Firefox, but who cares? Well… Microsoft, that’s who. And here’s why. Everyone’s probably familiar with Microsoft’s recently...

December 10th, 2009 | Creativity, Science & Technology | Read More

Wikipedia’s Known Unknowns

Back in August there were reports that Wikipedia, everyone’s favourite knowledge resource, was experiencing a slowdown in the number of new articles posted daily. But in the article which follows Mark Graham suggests that while contribution from the developed world may be at saturation point,...

December 4th, 2009 | Creativity, Science & Technology | Read More

Don’t Be Evil? Google Chrome’s Big Brother Potential

John Naughton’s article (below) originally appeared in the Observer on Sunday 29th November 2009. This is the first article in what I hope to be a long-running technology series on Brainwaving about the power struggle currently taking place between the two most important technology corporations...

December 3rd, 2009 | Creativity, Science & Technology | Read More

Obama says “Fuck It”
March 11, 2010 12:03
Prayer: A Challenge for Science
March 11, 2010 11:03
A Drug Free World Reloaded
March 11, 2010 09:03
A Swansea Love Story
March 8, 2010 15:03
The New Cocaine Mafia
March 8, 2010 15:03

psypressuk: Fascinating article - The lack of evidence of any real connection between the psychedelic experience with Victorian lite...
modartist: I followed up your references Chip and Lucy. thanks for that. I'm an artist and have long been skeptical about these 'se...
pauljdoyle: I hope the scientists maintain an objective view on this research and put equal effort into finding all neuro/chemical a...
psypressuk: MetaBaron - fair shout on the misuse of the term "skunk". As for the article - Great articulation of a point that smo...
sunyatisunya: oops, sorry scroog3 i replied to your question but did not click "reply" here. hopefully by doing it now it sends you a ...

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Heroin's comment about the real motives being money and job creation remind me of the amazing documentary, The American Drug War - http://www.brainwavingtv.com/2009/american-drug-war/ Also what I find so ironic is that while the doctors in Florida are pushing heroine to their patients much too liberally, much of the developing world, especially Africa, is desperate for opiates and can't get hold of them. More ridiculous still is that Afghanistan is producing more heroine than anyone else, but instead of using this resource to supply the medical services that need it so badly, the US upholds its illegal status and alienates most of the Afghani farmers and thereby strengthens their enemy, the Taliban...
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The pharmaceutical companies are selling that amount of heroin?! And pretending they don't know who is buying?! They are not criminal but they are immoral for sure. Why aren't the flaws on the law fixed? What the kind is this society where everybody is playing dumb?

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