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Radio station controls mood with music

Radio station controls mood with music

20 September 2012 at 17:42 Comments are Disabled

Where’s your head at?  Are you in a mood that you want to be in – or are you in a state of mind that you’d like to get out of? With Brain Shift Radio, created by the Strong Institute, you can choose how you want to feel. The station is based on nearly 30Read More …

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White Russian strain

White Russian strain

19 September 2012 at 17:33 Comments are Disabled

If you were asked to select two cannabis strains to hybridise to create a super-potent, easy to grow strain with a sweet taste and massive buds, you couldn’t do much better than AK47 and White Widow. The result, White Russian cannabis seeds, will give you a plant with an open structure that produces huge snowyRead More …

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‘Oldest window girls’ in Amsterdam to release book

‘Oldest window girls’ in Amsterdam to release book

18 September 2012 at 17:16 Comments are Disabled

The “oldest window girls” in Amsterdam, Louise and Martine Fokkens, are to release a book about their lives in the Red Light District, later this month. The memoirs of the 69-year-old identical twins will be released in English after having sold more than 50,000 copies in Dutch, reaching number one in the county’s non-fiction bestRead More …

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Seed storage: how to store cannabis seeds

Seed storage: how to store cannabis seeds

17 September 2012 at 17:17 Comments are Disabled

A question often asked by new growers is how to store seeds and how long do seeds in storage remain viable. Essentially the rules to follow are to keep your seeds in a cool dark place using an air tight container. Freezer Some people believe that storing seeds in the freezer is the best wayRead More …

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Drug war movies: how Hollywood treats America’s complicated relationship with drugs

Drug war movies: how Hollywood treats America’s complicated relationship with drugs

14 September 2012 at 17:21 Comments are Disabled

Hollywood is known for being a liberal town, where conservatives like Jon Voight and Chuck Norris seem outnumbered by a cadre of Clooneys and Weinsteins. So when it comes to issues like the Drug War, it would logically follow that the thrust of movies touching on America’s relationship with cocaine, marijuana and any other numberRead More …

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New monkey identified in Africa

New monkey identified in Africa

13 September 2012 at 17:29 Comments are Disabled

The species, known locally as the lesula, was discovered after a young female was seen kept captive at the home of a primary school director in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2007. The young animal resembled an owl faced monkey (Cercopithecus hamlyni) but its colouring was different to that of any known species, theRead More …

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Growing in trees

Growing in trees

12 September 2012 at 17:26 Comments are Disabled

It may sound funny, but for smaller (and sometimes even fairly large) outdoor grow operations, growing trees in trees can be a successful method for getting some decent head stash. Humans have been growing plants in trees dot centuries, and for several good reasons. The smartest reason is to prevent the bigger trees from stealingRead More …

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Part garden, part machine: “Landscape Abbreviated” by Nova Jiang

Part garden, part machine: “Landscape Abbreviated” by Nova Jiang

11 September 2012 at 17:40 Comments are Disabled

Artist Nova Jiang scoured the sidewalks of her native New York (Brooklyn, to be precise) to extract moss samples to embed into the moving planters of her Landscape Abbreviated art installation. Jiang describes her creation as a “kinetic maze,” but the intention seems more to have been to delight and inspire than to confuse orRead More …

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New song teaches pot history lesson to President Obama

New song teaches pot history lesson to President Obama

10 September 2012 at 17:33 Comments are Disabled

“Smoking Weed with the President” a new song by Prince Ea, lays down the stoned, cold truth about marijuana. The present-day bane of the marijuana community is President Obama. We expected so much more from the man. He even promised as much, pledging at the beginning of his administration that he would not harass legalRead More …

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Steve Gelb – The artist of the glass

Steve Gelb – The artist of the glass

7 September 2012 at 17:46 Comments are Disabled

After several years in the glass game we’ve seen a lot of names come and go but Steve Gelb has been a constant. Throughout the years his work has constanly evolved, always maintaining a distinctly old school style but with with a new twist in each case. He currently works in the famous “Buttermilk Studios” justRead More …

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