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gallifreyan99 writes:
The real revolution in drugs isn't Silk Road—it's the open web. Thanks to the net, almost anyone with a basic handle on chemistry can design, manufacture and sell their own narcotics, and in most cases the cops are utterly unable to stop them. This piece is kind of crazy: the writer actually creates a new powerful-but-legal stimulant based on a banned substance, and gets a Chinese lab to manufacture it.
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blastboy writes:
Stem cells could offer all kinds of amazing breakthroughs, but right now commercial treatments are experimental at best—and snake oil at worst. That doesn't stop unregulated clinics in countries like China and India offering expensive therapies and making vast amounts of money off some of the poorest and most desperate.
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gallifreyan99 writes:
Researchers from Duke revealed today that they had discovered nearly 5,900 gas leaks under the streets of Washington DC, including 12 that posed a serious risk of explosion. And it's not just Washington: a gas industry whistleblower who is part of the team showed this was happening in cities all over America. Why is that a big deal? Leaky pipes cause death, destruction —and the data means natural gas could actually be one of the worst fuels around.
