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[conuly]

School teachers and caregivers could soon have more power to spank children, if a bill makes it out of the Kansas legislature.

http://bit.ly/1gzC1QU

Capital One says it can show up at cardholders' homes, workplaces

http://lat.ms/M7RETI

1% Jokes and Plutocrats in Drag: What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society

I imagine the whole thing running like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZI_aEalijE

http://nym.ag/1nJ2pbf

Obama wants to spend $1 billion on climate adaptation

http://grist.org/news/obama-wants-to-spend-1-billion-on-climate-adaptation/

How Asperger's reignited a passion for art

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-ouch-26193704

North Korean security chiefs and possibly even Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un himself should face international justice for ordering systematic torture, starvation and killings comparable to Nazi-era atrocities, UN investigators said on Monday.

http://bit.ly/1gw6G1m

Alchemy May Not Have Been the Pseudoscience We All Thought It Was

http://bit.ly/KNlnS1

There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written

http://bit.ly/1cUOD0k

U.S. Navy to deploy laser for 1st time

http://on.wtsp.com/1mqLfnq

Researchers grow human lungs in lab for first time

http://fxn.ws/1fviVqZ

Sexual Assault at God's Harvard

Patrick Henry College was supposed to be a safe place. For these young women, it wasn't.

http://bit.ly/1bGJMoC

A mysterious cluster of severe birth defects in rural Washington state is confounding health experts, who say they can find no cause, even as reports of new cases continue to climb.

http://nbcnews.to/1hpKadz

More military families used food stamps to buy milk, cheese, meat and bread at military grocers last year.

http://cnnmon.ie/O3wzvL

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[siderea]

Alchemy May Not Have Been the Pseudoscience We All Thought It Was

Lawrence Principe, a chemist and science historian at Johns Hopkins University, cobbled together obscure texts and scraps of 17th-century laboratory notebooks to reconstruct a recipe to grow a “Philosophers’ Tree” from a seed of gold. Supposedly this tree was a precursor to the more celebrated and elusive Philosopher’s Stone, which would be able to transmute metals into gold. The use of gold to make more gold would have seemed entirely logical to alchemists, Principe explains, like using germs of wheat to grow an entire field of wheat.

Principe mixed specially prepared mercury and gold into a buttery lump at the bottom of a flask. Then he buried the sealed flask in a heated sand bath in his laboratory.

One morning, Principe came into the lab to discover to his “utter disbelief” that the flask was filled with “a glittering and fully formed tree” of gold. The mixture of metals had grown upward into a structure resembling coral or the branching canopy of a tree minus the leaves.

Far freaking out. Thanks for posting this.

[waterfall8484]

This is so cool. :~D

[waterfall8484]

Thank you!

Reading numbers 1, 2, 3, 7, and 12.

Alchemy - it's like science, but with added mysticism!

[matrixmann]

If that will be the case, let's also educate children on how to spank their caregivers if they misbehave.