National Geographic Channel visits a rural Brazilian town where "the 80 households in a one-square-mile area have reportedly some 38 pairs of twins. Blond, blue-eyed twins." Nat Geo then attempts to trace rumors connecting that creepy phenomenon to Nazi medical monster Joseph Mengele, who was on the lam in Brazil in the 1950s.
after 40 years some scientists are being permitted to conduct research on this chemical for a variety of medical and psychiatric uses:
http://www.videosift.com/video/National-Geographic-Explorer-Inside-LS
not too far off the mark actually:
full page image here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fugue/3952884928/sizes/o/
I won't be hurrying off to my therapist and making a request but i did find this an interesting article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/oct/23/lsd-ecstacy-health-benefits
Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows' Computer Video from 1984
it's longish but the little white dots on the playline at the bottom of the video shows the best parts by minute mark.
oh the days of floppy disks and black screens with green typeface.
btw - nice nancy reagan dress Jayne.
i found it was tolerable when i played it in the background while i did my other stuff online.
With an Apple II, a Kaypro 2, cheeseball computer animation and a grab-bag of corny jokes, this is classic computing from the VHS era. Keep an eye out for references to Wargames, hackers, Boy George, Ronald Reagan, and more.
the full website has the stories of these and others:
and then there's this one - victim of the most embarrassing DUI ever:
Apparently, being the only tree in that part of the wide-open desert (remember: there wasn’t another tree for 250 miles around), wasn’t enough to stop a drunk Libyan truck driver from driving his truck into it, knocking it down and killing it!
