Canadian scientists invent freeze ray:
Canadian boffins say they have developed a fearsome paralysis ray technology which caused test animals zapped with it to "turn blue and become paralysed". The effect is claimed to be "reversible", but is often fatal.
Chemistry prof Neil Branda and his colleagues achieved their startling effects by drugging their test animals with a fearsome ultraviolet-sensitive concoction, which they refer to as a "Photocontrolled Molecular Switch" - effectively a deadly remotely-activated poison.
Having stuffed their victims with this terrifying compound, the boffins then "irradiated" them with a particular wavelength of ultraviolet rays. This tripped the UV-sensitive "switch" compound, causing instant flaccidity and empurplement.
Branda and his pals then tried out the reversibility part of the kit, zapping the creatures with a different ray intended to turn off the switch and return to them control of their own bodies.
This didn't work nearly as well. "Many [of the test subjects] lived through the paralyze-unparalyze cycle", report the boffins.
Speed makes me grind my teeth. I mean, hypothetically. If I were to do speed.
Still, I have fond memories of a New Years Eve Cramps show in San Francisco....
What are people doing this weekend?
Canadian boffins say they have developed a fearsome paralysis ray technology
What the hell are boffins, and should I be afraid of them?
Boffins = Scientists, in British.
High school (graduated in 88) was mostly about drinking for me, but I also did whip-its (my friend's mom managed a cooking store!), acid a couple of times, and smoked a little pot. In college, my roommate and I did our fair share of E (OMG love- that is a dangerous drug as there was no downside I could see/feel), I tried coke a couple of times (hated it), and accidentally tried meth once (at a party where they said it was coke - I was an emotional wreck the next day).
It has been many many years since I did anything harder than alcohol and I plan to keep it that way. I guess I was a little wild? Here's hoping my baby boy is more like most of you Buffistas and not as interested in experimentation as his Mama was.
A hamster-themed hotel in Nantes, France, offers rooms and layouts inspired by hamster-cages. Rooms have hamster wheels, the food is all grains and seeds, the water comes out of hamster bottles, etc.
Also, the rooms smell like elderberries. Well, that and sawdust.
My school was a much bigger alcohol place than pot. I tend to think that might be true for many high schools (though, naturally not all, as Jesse pointed out above) then and now.
I think in my crowd, it was probably 50/50 -- but I just remember getting liquor as being a production -- you had to know someone, or risk buying at the liquor store, or whatever. To get a dime bag you just had to ask whoever between classes.
