People say that benefits can be reaped from taking medical marijuana but there are still reservations on whether it is actually safe as regards one's cognitive performance, mental stability, and psychological functioning.
Harvard associate professor of psychiatry Staci Gruber shares some insights on what constitutes marijuana and how these components affect our brain. Listen to the podcast here.
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Nine years ago, Patricia Spottedcrow was thrown into jail plus $2,740 in fines after being found guilty of selling $31 worth of marijuana. Since this was her first time being sentenced for this crime, she was let off after two years. However, last week, she was brought back to jail because she wasn't able to pay the fines she owed.
On September 9, the Oklahoma City police arrested her, with the state ordering that Spottedcrow be locked up until she could furnish $1,139.90 of the $3,569.76 she still owed. Meanwhile, she was hit with yet more fines with the new arrest, and they would accrue while she was in jail.
After her case was publicized, some strangers donated enough funds to wipe her slate clean. As she walked out of jail on September 11, she was completely free for the first time in nearly a decade.
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Masks can be anything that you use to cover your face or simply to put something on it. And you can have your way with how you want it to look. These mask designs from the Masters of Disguise collection presented by London gallery Seeds feature some of the weirdest, funkiest, and most outrageous masks you will ever see.
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A peculiar facet of tipping culture is that restaurant servers depend on compensation from customers with no agreed-upon contract, so some diners calculate the worth of the labor on how pretty, friendly, or servile a waitress is. It's no wonder that the overwhelming majority of servers have been sexually harassed on the job. But it was always so. Going back hundreds of years, the combination of low wages and the task of serving a customer's needs led some women to supplement their restaurant income with sexual favors. Those who didn't still suffered from that reputation.
Since the days of colonial taverns, women who serve have often been considered—by government officials, customers, and even courts—sexually available. For some servers, unwanted sexual attention was an unfortunate reality of the workplace. For others, like the waitresses who offered both liquor and sexual services in Gilded Age saloons, sex work was part of the job description. From steamy dance halls to staid lunch counters, sexual harassment and sex work are deeply entrenched in the history of America’s restaurants.
Alice Thomas would have known. A tavern-keeper in colonial Boston, Thomas was convicted of harboring “Lewd Lascivious & notorious persons of both Sexes, giving them opportunity to commit carnal wickedness.” She was one of many female tavern keepers in colonial America whose drink-heavy establishments catered to weary travelers and thirsty locals. As Alison Owens writes in her history of waitressing, their association with drinking sometimes led their communities and the government to label them women of “lascivious” morals.
But a job is a job, and many working class women had no other choice but to serve customers in restaurants or taverns. Read the history of institutional assumptions about servers at Atlas Obscura.
KFC is testing out another wacky idea, putting an extra-crispy chicken fillet between two glazed donuts and calling it a sandwich. It's called, oddly enough, the Chicken and Donuts sandwich.
The sandwich is part of the chain’s testing of new “Chicken and Donuts” menu items, which also include a basket option with either chicken on the bone or tenders with either one ($5.50) or two donuts ($7.50). Chicken fans in those areas can also choose to add a hot donut to any order for $1.
Pardon me, but the math doesn't seem to work out here. Wouldn't someone just order the $5.50 combo and then add another donut for a dollar? Be that as it may, you can't get the donuts just anywhere. The testing is going on at 40 KFC outlets in Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In other news, there are forty KFC outlets in just three cities. It may be worth a road trip if you are the kind who loves the Luther burger. -via Mashable
Journalist Valerie Schremp Hahn reports that her 9-year old daughter has developed a life-changing invention. She took an empty lip balm stick and filled it with cheese so that she can eat it during class.
And with that, the whole human race has taken a step forward. We don't really need flying cars, but we do need this future.
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The neck opening of a garment has always sported signifiers of status, due to its proximity to the face, always visible in a meeting or a portrait. Those signifiers include neckties, frilly lace collars, jewelry, plunging necklines, and more. But nothing says "artsy" like a black turtleneck shirt. It can also say "cool" or "avant-garde" or "pretentious," depending on who is wearing it.
There’s an obvious question here: How did a basic item of clothing come to accumulate such lofty signifiers? The answer lies in its very simplicity. The turtleneck’s appeal rests largely on what it is not: It makes the classic shirt-and-tie combination look priggish and the T-shirt appear formless and slobbish, hitting that otherwise inaccessible sweet spot between formality and insouciance. It is sufficiently smart to be worn under a suit jacket, yet casual and comfortable enough for repeated everyday wear. Developed in the late 19th century as a practical garment for polo players (hence the British name for it: the “polo neck”), it was originally a utilitarian design largely worn by sportsmen, laborers, sailors, and soldiers. But by the dawn of the 20th century, European proto-bohemians were already seeing possibilities in the garment’s elegant functionality, which chimed harmoniously with embryonic modernist design ideals.
Appropriately, the website Artsy has a history of the rise and fall and resurrection of the turtleneck collar, who wore them, and what it means. -via Metafilter
We need energy to live every day. From the cars that we drive to the appliances we use to make our food and do things around the house, energy powers everything we use. But what happens when one source of energy, say oil, suddenly runs out?
Of course, there are other sources of energy, but that's going to leave a big dent on the energy supply which would make it more difficult to meet global energy demand. That means prices will go up and economies will struggle to find ways to meet those needs.
Recently, the oil market had quite a shock when Saudi Arabia's production was affected by attacks on its infrastructure. No matter where we are in the world, we will feel the effects of that shock as many economies depend on oil and other fuels. And the only way to avoid that is to be energy independent. But is that even possible?
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Dorothy Wilding's portraits, especially those of the British Royal Family, are breathtaking. In fact, some of the photos she took of Queen Elizabeth II made their way onto Britain's postage stamps which were circulated between 1953 and 1967.
She also took many gorgeous portraits of other celebrities and famous people. Here is a collection of portraits she took of classic beauties between the 1920s and 1950s.
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Let's face it, in many parts of the world, progress and development will come at a cost, whether it be in economic terms or in health and environmental terms. India's economy has been growing but with that is the increase in pollution as well.
But there are ways, argues Dean Spears, in which progress can happen without being detrimental to the environment and people's health. In his book, Air, he tackles the heart of that very issue.
As Spears shows, pollution is killing Indians, especially babies, and those it doesn’t kill it harms as seen in statistics on stunting and respiratory disease. Spears isn’t naive, however, he knows that manufacturing is also bringing tremendous benefits.
The issue, however, is that a lot of pollution in India comes from relatively low value activities like burning crops. Moreover, solar power in India is cost competitive with coal today, even before taking into account health benefits. Thus, the harms of pollution are tragic because they are unnecessary.
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Egg & Chicken Hat Set for Kitty and Their Human
Halloween is right around the corner. Did you promise your feline overlord that you would dress in themed attire this year? Not to worry! The NeatoShop has you covered. We present to you the Egg & Chicken Hat Set for Kitty and Their Human from the NeatoShop. This claw-ver set features a egg hat for your cat and a chicken hat for you.
The Egg & Chickn Hat Set for Kitty and Their Human is an hen-trancing set and is purr-fect for you and egg-cellant fur-end. This costume set is truly paw-some!
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This Lady is helping @TrooperPesola slow drivers down on Finley Point. She’s running radar with her #SoloCup #FinleyPoint #SlowDown pic.twitter.com/zicvdRpCyc
— Timmy B (@timmyb48) August 18, 2019
Speeding down residential areas is a dangerous thing to do. You might end up crashing, or end up running over someone. This woman helps in preventing it by posting up on the narrow side of a road with her radar gun (which is, in actuality, is just a hair dryer).
Clever woman.
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Synth pop became popular during the 1970s and later on, evolved into other forms like electropop, house music, and EDM. With its ambient beats and somewhat futuristic style, it gives one a chill vibe that kind of makes you want to dance.
One of the bands that focused their music on synth pop was Grauzone but they only lasted two years before they disbanded. In the short span that the they were together, they produced a popular synth pop classic called Eisbaer.
Grauzone are most famous for their amazing 1981 song “Eisbaer” (“Polar Bear”) which is an all time classic example of an early 80s new wave synthpop dancefloor magnet. “Eisbaer” made it to #12 in the German pop charts and #6 in Austria’s.
It’s one of those songs that you fall in love with before it’s halfway over. It’s something every working DJ needs in their repertoire. It is, I promise you, cannot fail dancefloor fodder.
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A team from Science and Global Security put together a scenario of what could happen if a nuclear war broke out between the Russians and the US, starting with an attack on the NATO countries of Europe. The beginning is scary enough, but when the Americans get involved, we find out what a nuclear arsenal really is.
This four-minute audio-visual piece is based on independent assessments of current U.S. and Russian force postures, nuclear war plans, and nuclear weapons targets. It uses extensive data sets of the nuclear weapons currently deployed, weapon yields, and possible targets for particular weapons, as well as the order of battle estimating which weapons go to which targets in which order in which phase of the war to show the evolution of the nuclear conflict from tactical, to strategic to city-targeting phases.
The casualty count, estimated to be 90 million within just a few hours, does not include victims of radioactive fallout or lack of resources after the destruction. Read more about the simulation at the Science and Global Security website. -via Digg
Many people in history have tried to make connections between the climate and humans. Some of them were quite bizarre but then again, they didn't have the equipment or scientific instruments which we use to predict weather and make observations about trends and patterns in the climate. Here are some weird claims people made about the climate.
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