Case Study: LSD , a PSA produced by Lockheed Aircraft (!) in 1969.
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Case Study: LSD , a PSA produced by Lockheed Aircraft (!) in 1969.
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A couple weeks ago, I posted about a new scientific paper looking at how an increased understanding of psychedelic drugs may lead to new anti-depressants. Over at Science Blogs, neuroscientist Moheb Costandi responds in a fascinating essay on "The Secret History of Psychedelic Psychiatry." From the article:
" The secret history of psychedelic psychiatry "
An article about Cary Grant&...
The publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary say that its unlikely the next edition will ever appear in printed form. The dictionary in question is the full-blown, multi volume edition rather than shorter versions. The second and current edition, published in 1989, runs to 21,500 pages and has just short of 300,000 entries. Work on the third edition has been underway since that time and is cu...
So you might have noticed I’ve got a little thing for the Middle Ages. Be it Arthur or Charlemagne , Margery Kempe or Marie de France , the period incorrectly referred to the Dark Ages has been a lifelong inspiration for me. In fact, I went through graduate school doing little else than perusing old manuscripts in Middle English and contemplating the motives of writers during that period. B...
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The newest technology has revived old habits of reading. Just switch the lights off late at night and turn the virtual pages of a spooky gothic tale for an illuminating experience The experience of reading books on an iPad is disconcertingly beautiful. It has rapidly become the favourite use of this dazzling gadget in our house. We are entering a new age of the book , and it may turn out to be a...
Ja igen! Akarok egy olyan "NOPE Sid Meier is a Firaxist!" posztert!!! (kb. 1:18)
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Prompted by my posts on " Why I Stalk a Sexy Black Woman on Twitter (And Why You Should, Too) " as well as my follow-up piece , CBC Radio's Spark interviewed me and me-if-I-were-10-times-smarter Jonah Lehrer on the benefits of following strangers on Twitter. [ CBC.ca/spark ] More »
1987's Test Drive had five cars. 2009's Need for Speed: Shift had more. And at the other end of the spectrum, we have GT5 and its 200 "premium" cars and its 800 standard cars. As seen on Pixel Counterrr . More »
(This is part 1 of a multi-part series.)
In keeping with my homage to William James, I suppose that this blog post should be subtitled, “A Study in Human Nature.” However, my goals are not quite so lofty as James’s; I am merely an observer, and not a philosopher, of online social activities. Perhaps a better title would be, “A Field Guide to the Social Media Participants of the Online Realm,”...
Simon Doonan at New York Observer says that celebrity swag has become anti-swag in the case of some downmarket sub-lebrities. Using Jersey Shore 's Snooki as an example, Doonan says that luxury houses are allegedly sending out competitors' products to keep their own brands from being associated with people in the news who don't match their brands' carefully-crafted images. Sounds as if M...
Flickr user joey_joey_joey wanted to customize his iPhone 4 in a unique way, so he decided to make it look like a Leica M9. This is one of the neatest looking cell phones I’ve seen.
To make the stickers for the front and back, Joey took a stock photograph of an M9, and modified it in Photoshop to fit the dimensions of the iPhone 4.
It’s pretty neat how the actual camera ...
There's no doubting that he's a master writer – but not of short stories In Paris in the late 1930s, Vladimir Nabokov duped a hostile critic, Ales Adamovich, by publishing a poem under the pseudonym Vasiliy Shishkov. Adamovich proclaimed it a masterpiece, then said when the truth came out that Nabokov was "a sufficiently skilful parodist to mimic genius". This judgment, quoted with relish by it...
...and when I say "Internet" I really mean 4chan, and when I say "4chan" I really mean /b/. But we all knew this would happen, right?
Yesterday, Mark posted a disturbing video of a middle-aged woman petting a cat and then throwing it—alive—into a trash bin. Mark today posted an update that she's now under police protection . What hasn't been talked about yet on Boing Boing is what happened be...