October 2011
42 posts
Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants
Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in...
Spread the light!!!
This is what India looks like, from far far away, on Diwali.
President Bill Clinton asked Steve Jobs how to handle the Monica Lewinsky scandal, reveals Walter Isaacson in his Steve Jobs biography. “I don’t know if you did it,” Mr Jobs told the then US president, “but if so, you’ve got to tell the country.”
Four months with Android
(Note: this was written over multiple days, spaced weeks apart.)
I approached this experiment with a lot of questions, the primary of which was quite simple: why do people use Android? I had my own preconceived answers — they dislike Apple or couldn’t get an iPhone for one reason or another — but I dove in with an open mind regardless. After over four months of Android 2.3 on a Nexus S, I’m...
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“Blackberry had a first mover advantage with a great Push messaging system,...”
– Blackberry–RIP.
Ryan Grim: Read the Never-Before-Published Letter... →
Steve Jobs has never been shy about his use of psychedelics, famously calling his LSD experience “one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life.” So, toward the end of his life, LSD inventor Albert Hofmann decided to write to the iPhone creator to see if he’d be interested in putting some money where the tip of his tongue had been.
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