Articles of interest!

[grysar]

Ezra Klein has an interesting discussion of the American handling of terminal illness:

Stage IV metastatic breast cancer isn't something you recover from. So the question is not how to get better, it is how to live until you die.In other words, the question we're theoretically asking all the time. Reframe to the old cliché: If you were going to die tomorrow, or next year, what would you do? The answer is never go home. Some people say they'd steal a car, or go to Hawaii, or travel to Tibet. Running for president and spending your time advocating for what you believe to be a better world isn't a particularly strange choice.

Andrew Sullivan links to a Lancet study on the lethality of various types of drugs. Not shockingly, alcohol is among the worst and well past many illegal ones. I've skimmed the extended article, interesting stuff. I was rather surprised how low LSD rated.

The first private rocket reached orbit, although it only accomplished a half-orbit before it lost control. Seems like the company still has a ways to go, but good luck to them. (Linked from Slate's Human Nature column.)

Discussion of what stone-aged women were probably like and the major problems in the conventional wisdom. This actually reminds me a lot of discussions I had with bannoubunkacoby and capfox on Angel's question of whether a caveman could take an astronaut. This certainly supports the idea that even without weapon, the astronaut would kick ass. Massive mammoth hunts similarly seem to be a matter of collective imagination rather than historical fact.

Comments

[korgmeister.livejournal.com]

NUTMEG?!

[grysar.livejournal.com]

For when it's not Christmas and you want to get in the "holiday spirit" if you know what I mean.

Actually I had no idea.

I'm guessing this means that it's actually really hard to get buzzed off nutmeg. Hmm... this actually wasn't the Lancet article but another one (he's cited both recently). I'll probably throw that one up sometime soon.

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

They can take my nutmeg when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!

(I need it for spatzel and rice pudding. That's all. Honest!)

[grysar.livejournal.com]

Mmm.. spatzel and rice pudding high.

[grysar.livejournal.com]

It's still the LSD that throws me though. I feel mislead by Dragnet!

[korgmeister.livejournal.com]

Mind you, LSD and Marijuana most definitely fall into the category of "Won't kill you, but can fuck your mind over like a 300 pound prison buddy".

Most people I know who have been using either heavily for a long time, their mind is so screwed up they're unable to function in proper society and only have a roof over their heads thanks to a benevolent family member.