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Michael Pollan goes into the mind, not gut, this time.
Michael Pollan, best known for his books about food, nutrition, and the human's relationship with food, has written a meaty article for The New Yorker about recent experiments with psychedelics to help calm us the fuck down in regard to life and death. See http ( Read more... ) -
Is Live Journal censored for political reasons in Russia?
Are Live Journal posts censored for political reasons in Russia? Because Live Journal has been owned by a Russian company for the past several years, and because there have been been many stories in the news about violent oppression of journalists in that country, I am wondering how free people in Russia are to post in Live Journal about their ( Read more... ) -
R.I.P., Rocco of Pittsburgh
Yesterday afternoon, a police dog named Rocco died here in Pittsburgh after being stabbed earlier in the week, in the line of duty. Expressing sympathy, many local dog owners are now posting photos of their own pooches at the website for WPXI:
