Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Chased by demons

An arrest affidavit says Kirk told a friend he was chased by demons.

- The Dallas Morning News (link here)

It is never an easy thing to be chased by demons.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Evangelizing Grittiness

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/us/12tenderloin.html?th&emc=th

Tourists observing pass-out drunks and drug abusers seems like a good idea to me.

Not that I would want to do it myself.

Evangelizing hallucinogens

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/science/12psychedelics.html?th&emc=th

I particularly liked the part where monitors could not distinguish the reactions to psilocybin and Ritalin.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Double-barreled

They documented identifying anatomical characteristics such as the distinctive little horns on the ends of the lizards’ double-barreled male reproductive organs. Which, by the way, are far from unusual in and of themselves: “All snakes and lizards have a paired copulatory organ,” Brown says.

- Science News (link here)