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December 31, 2015A Field Guide to Psychedelics – The New Yorker
December 30, 2015Posture Affects Standing, and Not Just the Physical Kind – NYTimes.com
December 30, 201515 Essential Chrome Extensions For Google Drive
December 29, 2015It’s Time to End the War on Salt – Scientific American
December 28, 2015How Chris McCandless Died
December 28, 2015How Chris McCandless Died
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/09/how-chris-mccandless-died.html Interesting connection between plant #toxin used at a concentration camp & starved camper
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““I first learned about Vapniarca through a book whose title I’ve long forgotten,” Hamilton told me. “Only the barest account of Vapniarca appeared in one of its chapters …. But after reading ‘Into the Wild,’ I was able to track down a manuscript about Vapniarca that has been published online.” Later, in Romania, he located the son of a man who served as an administrative official at the camp, who sent Hamilton a trove of documents.
In 1942, as a macabre experiment, an officer at Vapniarca started feeding the Jewish inmates bread made from seeds of the grass pea, Lathyrus sativus, a common legume that has been known since the time of Hippocrates to be toxic. “Very quickly,” Hamilton writes in “The Silent Fire,”
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Kodak Gallery closing; billions of images to be transferred to Shutterfly
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There’s no charge for the transfer, but note that once photos are transferred, the only way to obtain full-resolution originals will be to purchase a Shutterfly archive DVD; the company doesn’t currently offer full-sized image downloads. It’s also important to note that gift certificates, credits, etc. from Kodak Gallery will not be transferred to Shutterfly, and so if you don’t use these before the closure of Kodak Gallery, their value will be lost.
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