Links for 10-11-2007
LSD reconsidered, SL not all about sex and gambling, myth-making and the music industry …
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1 – The acid test
“Contemporary advocates, who include scientists and medical practitioners, believe LSD has therapeutic potential in the treatment of severe pain and as an adjunct to psychotherapy; especially for PTS disorder and substance addiction.”
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2 – Study finds sex, gambling not major Second Life draws
“If there’s no “goal†to Second Life, no monsters to kill or experience points to collect, why do so many people log on and spend so much time there?”
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“The decline of the music industry has been bad for big-scale myth-making, yet all of us– artists and fans– have become more mythical in our daily lives.”
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4 – Getting the measure of a kilogram
“The bottom line is that the cylinders have now passed their useful shelf life as the ultimate reference for the kilogram and as a result, scientists around the world have been working on new ways to define the kilogram.”
