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Albert Hofmann Died on 29th April

Luca @ April 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Albert Hofmann (January 11, 1906 – April 29, 2008[1][2]) was a Swiss scientist best known for synthesizing lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). He was 102 years.
He hoped LSD could be used to treat mental illness, but it became a popular street drug in the 1960s. ‘Turn on, tune in, drop out’
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Bicycle Day (Forever Hofmann)

Ilari Valbonesi @ April 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Hofmann’s discovery of the effect of LSD in Basel came 5 years after his original synthesis of the molecule in 1938. LSD-25, as it was called then, was synthesized and tried on animals. No interesting effects appeared, and the molecule was consigned to the “useless” heap. If it had stayed there, the state […]

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Google Street View Covers All USA

Luca @ April 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Is it the end of the privacy?
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Viva la Vida

Ilari Valbonesi @ April 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet

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Animator vs. Animation

Luca @ April 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet

AtomFilms.com: Funny Videos | Funny Cartoons | Comedy Central
A simple stick figure created in Flash gets sick and tired of being tortured, so he fights back. Check out this John Woo-style fight scene that takes place entirely within a Flash program (which gets trashed in brilliant fashion).
Directed by Alan Becker.
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Ars Electronica 2008: A New Cultural Economy

Luca @ April 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Ars Electorinica 2008 will be from the 4th to the 9th of September in Linz.
The most important digital art festival focuse this year on the crucial problem of the intellectual property, the capital of the post-industrial society. The problem is that till now this capital is still un-regulated and if it’s the capital has […]

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Damien Hirst - Breath

Ilari Valbonesi @ April 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Damien Hirst - Breath 2000
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Space Junk

Luca @ April 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet

The ESA Space Debris Accumulation represents the junk putted in the space from 1957 through 2000. According to ESA’s resident space debris expert, Walter Flury, the 10,000 pieces of space litter catalogued at the end of 2003 break into the following categories:
* 41% — miscellaneous fragments
* 22% […]

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