X | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 20 2009 | marijuana, policy, news
Interesting statistics from this article:
-The majority in Western America favor legalization of marijuana (53% to 46%)
-Attitudes towards marijuana in highly correlated with age. 50% of those polled 18-49 favor legalization, while only 28% of those over 65 do.
-If public support continues growing 1-2% per year (as it has since 2000), the majority of Americans will favor legalization in as little as four years.Quoted: More than 4 in 10 Americans -- 44% -- believe the use of marijuana should be made legal, while barely half say it should not. Support for legalization is up from 36% in 2005 and now far exceeds the 31% found at the start of the decade.
X | Shared With: Everyone - 30 days ago | brain, science, news
Quoted: It was the most important thing they’d ever seen. They’d shown that a beam of light could control brain activity with great precision. The mouse didn’t lose its memory, have a seizure, or die. It ran in a circle. Specifically, a counterclockwise circle.
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X | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 18 2009 | news, science, funny
I love the title, sounds like a Horror film. Anyways, cocaine activity is the first indications of a reward system in bees.
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X | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 06 2009 | brain, genetics, genes, science, news
Whoa... big find.
Quoted: Rather than sticking to a single DNA script, human brain cells harbor astonishing genomic variability, according to scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. The findings, to be published in the Aug. 5, 2009, advance online edition of Nature, could help explain brain development and individuality, ...
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X | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 16 2009 | news, energy, robot
Quoted: Upcoming Military Robot Could Feed on Dead Bodies, A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find -- grass, wood, old furniture, even dead bodies.
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X | Shared With: Everyone - May 28 2009 | Red Bull, cocaine, news, drugsShareViewed: 17 Times
X | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 19 2008 | brain, national, news, science
I feel like this is really big.
Quoted: Infants perceive color in the right hemisphere of the brain, researchers report, while adults do the job in the brain's left hemisphere.
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X | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 11 2008 | rights, news
X | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 05 2008 | news, politics, gay, rights, california
The exit polls on Prop 8 are very interesting. According to the poll, 69% of African-American voters support prop 8, opposed to under 50% for other races. Furthermore, the 30-64 age range is dead even 50/50, with 18-29 leaning no, and 65+ leaning yes. So the race essentially could be determined by whether more young or old voters get to the ballots. People with less than college degree's tend to lean yes, graduates lean no. The 6% of people who decided who to vote for in the last three days disproportionately leaned yes.
91% of people who's religion is listed as "none" voted no on prop 8. Rock on atheists.
Shows breakdowns based on race, income, age, gender,
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