Ibogaine : Welcome to The Jungle -=/[ Ibogaine ]/=- The Whole Entire Everything (in its complete totality... partially) Copyright © 2005-2008, Patrick K. "Everything is Poison. –Paracelsus "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix ... angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night." –Allen Ginsberg (Howl) === Click Here to Join the Oldest and Largest Ibogaine Community in The World === Introduction Ibogaine is a fascinating molecule. Ibogaine is a nexus between two worlds that for the most part are mutually exclusive to one another, and located at antipodean regions within the United States of Altered Consciousness. One group is ingesting sacrament; psychonauts expanding their headspace by taking forays into the heart of inner space, in an attempt to understand, and redefine ... everything. And then there was ibogaine. "... History
Nacho Diaz Homemade Soft Pretzel Bites | Two Peas & Their Pod - StumbleUpon Homemade Soft Pretzel Bites On Fridays, I teach cooking classes to two kids in our neighborhood. They are pretty knowledgeable-so my job is easy:) I think it is fantastic that they want to learn how to cook at such a young age-they are in the 3rd and 4th grade. Since we don’t have any kiddos yet, I am glad I get to work with these kids. We have a great time in the kitchen. On Friday we made homemade soft pretzels,the traditional salty ones and cinnamon and sugar pretzels. For fun, we also made pretzel bites. everyone loved these. Is everyone ready for the big game? Buffalo Hot Wings-these are Josh’s all time favorite. My good friend Gaby, from What’s Gaby Cooking, made Pulled Pork Sliders for the big game. Homemade Soft Pretzel Bites Yield: A lot!
Once Upon a Crime Mystery Bookstore: Uptown's cozy little corner of murder, lies, and espionage November 23, 2011 If you’re a fan of thrillers, mysteries, and crime novels and aren’t sure where you can find a group of friendly people with whom to share your love, look no farther than this paragraph, because I’m about to reveal a plot point that is going to chane the story of your life forever. On the second Wednesday of each month (September-May), a crowd of fiction sleuths gathers together at Once Upon a Crime, one of the two independent bookstores in Minneapolis dedicated to crime and mystery fiction (the other being Uncle Edgar's ), to discuss plot-twist novels, exploring the books' dark pathways and red herrings and deciding which member of the group was the first to figure out whodunit. The book club, founded about eight years ago by a band of authors who call themselves “The Minnesota Crime Wave,” has since been inherited by a rotating group of three new moderators: Michael Allan Mallory, Marilyn Victor, and Lois Greiman—all local authors. Photo courtesy Once Upon a Crime
The secret history of psychedelic psychiatry : Neurophilosophy This post is part of a Nature Blog Focus on hallucinogenic drugs in medicine and mental health, inspired by a recent Nature Reviews Neuroscience paper, The neurobiology of psychedelic drugs: implications for the treatment of mood disorders, by Franz Vollenweider & Michael Kometer. This article will be freely available, with registration, until September 23. See the Table of Contents for more information on this Blog Focus, and read the other blog posts: Update: I summarize all four posts in this article for The Guardian, and there’s more coverage of the Blog Focus at 3 Quarks Daily, The Atlantic (Alexis Madrigal and Andrew Sullivan), Boing Boing and The Great Beyond. ON August 15th, 1951, an outbreak of hallucinations, panic attacks and psychotic episodes swept through the town of Pont-Saint-Esprit in southern France, hospitalizing dozens of its inhabitants and leaving five people dead. The pair hit upon the idea of using LSD to treat alcoholism in 1953, at a conference in Ottawa.
Inspired by Garbage Bag Last week, we profiled Trojan's condom developer and chief principal scientist. But Trojan, big as it may be, doesn't have the market cornered on condom creativity. Startup Sensis Condoms claims that its products are simple enough to be put on blindfolded--and according to founder Beau Thompson, the inspiration for Sensis' QuikStrips-equipped condoms is pretty trashy. Thompson didn't always want to be a condom entrepreneur. But after "one rough night" where he couldn't get a condom on correctly, the architect decided he could do better. Thompson's pull-tab revelation came in the late 1990s, and since then, he has been working to grow the Sensis brand. It's hard to say whether Sensis has a chance against its larger competitors, but Thompson is game for the challenge.
Calzone! Uh-oh…this calzone shouldn’t be a calzone. Nope. It totally should be a picture of a pizza…topped with layers of ricotta, melted mozzarella, cubes of roasted butternut squash and broccoli rabe. That was the plan. This pizza was supposed to convince me that broccoli rabe isn’t this gross, bitter leaf situation…well that failed. I was gonna post it anyway, thinking some of you lunatics actually might like it…but I dunno…looking at the pictures of the pizza bummed me out, so I decided to turn the leftover ingredients (from the pizza) into something more awesome!! Meet this calzone… Have you ever noticed that Taco Bell works with, like, 10 ingredients. And then they just re-invent different burrito crunches, XXL chalupas, etc. with those same ingredients–it’s pretty genius. Their chefs kinda remind me of those people that you can hire to come over and look in your closet and pair your already existing clothes together, creating brand-new outfits. Calzones remind me of those taco bell inventions.
Artificial pancreas could be holy grail for Type 1 diabetics A trial patient for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's Artificial Pancreas Project tests the device. With Type 1 diabetics, the pancreas makes very little or no insulinArtificial pancreas mimics the glucose regulating function of a healthy pancreasDevice has not yet been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (CNN) -- Kerry Morgan was just 3 years old when she participated in her first clinical trial for type 1 diabetes prevention. She didn't have the disease, but her 7-year old sister did and there was concern that she might develop it, too. "I remember a lot of things changed." School, she says was difficult. At 14 she entered a second trial, this one at the University of Virginia, for a continuous glucose monitoring system called The Navigator. "It was awesome. In type 1 diabetics, the pancreas makes very little or no insulin, a hormone that controls glucose levels, or the amount of sugar in your blood. The device has not yet been approved by the U.S. Dr. Dr.
Brief History As prehistoric men and women foraged for food they must have eaten the psychedelic plants which grow in nearly all regions of the world. Ingesting these plants would have produced awe inspiring experiences, and it is quite likely that the origin of ideas about gods, heavens and hells, life after death, etc. began with the ingestion of psychedelic plants. Try to imagine yourself as a neolithic human, most of your attention given to day-by-day survival, the more complex areas of your brain just beginning to develop. Now ingest say, a handful of psilocybin mushrooms, or the psychedelic root of the African Iboga plant. Imagine what wealth of images and information would now be flowing through your mind! In his recent book, Food of the Gods, Terence McKenna presents a plausible hypothesis that homosapiens descended from psychedelic-using hominids. Worship involving psychedelic plants and their use in spiritual pursuits can be traced to the beginnings of recorded history. 1.
DIY Solar Lamp: Make Your Own Eco-Friendly Sun Jars | Designs &Ideas on... - StumbleUpon The principle is simple and seductively clever: solar lights that store energy during the day and release light at night. These can be purchased ready-made in a variety of colors (yellow, blue and red) but they can also be built at home. A simple, less-technical approach involves buying a conventional solar-powered yard lamp and then essentially harvesting it for key pieces to put in a jar. This is simply a way of taking an existing solar lamp design and appropriating its parts to make something more attractive for display around a house or home. A more electronically-savvy individual can take the more complex route and built a solar lamp from the ground up using small solar panels – though the aesthetic result may not be as impressive. Whatever route you choose to go, these are fun and sustainable gadgets that make it easy to go green, automate the process of turning on lights at night and can add some color to your porch, patio, garden or windowsill.
New Study: Smart People More Likely to Use Drugs I have a feeling they won’t be mentioning this in DARE class. A new British study finds children with high IQs are more likely to use drugs as adults than people who score low on IQ tests as children. The data come from the 1970 British Cohort Study, which has been following thousands of people over decades. The kids' IQs were tested at the ages of 5, 10 and 16. The study also asked about drug use and looked at education and other socioeconomic factors. Then when participants turned 30, they were asked whether they had used drugs such as marijuana, cocaine and heroin in the past year.Researchers discovered men with high childhood IQs were up to two times more likely to use illegal drugs than their lower-scoring counterparts. So much of what we’ve been told about drugs and drug users turns out to be the opposite of the truth, it’s amazing that the anti-drug fanatics are able to find any audience at all anymore.