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Cern Turns The Large Hadron Collider Into A Bill Nye Segment

August 10, 2008

The world is going crazy will paranoia that CERN‘s latest experiment will bring forth the planetary annihilation in a black holesk collision of particles, and what do they do? They make a rap video… Great, I feel much better now. CERN Rap from Will Barras on Vimeo.

Albert Hofman Dies at Age 102

April 30, 2008

Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann, inventor of lysergic acid diethylamide 25, otherwise known as LSD or acid, died yesterday, April 29th 2008, at the age of 102. Hofmann first synthesized the drug in 1938 as a part of an experiment to develop various blood thinners for the Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz. But it wasn’t until April […]