Lite Brite

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Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.

"Behind the scenes, however, MK-869 was starting to unravel. True, many test subjects treated with the medication felt their hopelessness and anxiety lift. But so did nearly the same number who took a placebo, a look-alike pill made of milk sugar or another inert substance given to groups of volunteers in clinical trials to gauge how much more effective the real drug is by comparison. The fact that taking a faux drug can powerfully improve some people's health—the so-called placebo effect—has long been considered an embarrassment to the serious practice of pharmacology."

http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect

"The roots of the placebo problem can be traced to a lie told by an Army nurse during World War II as Allied forces stormed the beaches of southern Italy. The nurse was assisting an anesthetist named Henry Beecher, who was tending to US troops under heavy German bombardment. When the morphine supply ran low, the nurse assured a wounded soldier that he was getting a shot of potent painkiller, though her syringe contained only salt water. Amazingly, the bogus injection relieved the soldier's agony and prevented the onset of shock."

Sign outside the strange town of Zion, Illinois, ca. 1915

"TOBACCO

The use of tobacco in any form is a dirty, filthy, disgusting, degrading habit. No gentleman will use tobacco in this city.

You have no more right to pollute with tobacco smoke, the atmosphere which clean people have to breathe, than you have to spit in the water they drink.

CUT IT OUT YOU FOOL before you reap smoker's cancer paralysis, or one of the many other diseases caused by the use of the filthy, nasty, stinking stuff!

Get Zion literature at the administration building 3 blocks north.

W. G. Voliva"

http://pixdaus.com/single.php?id=34219

http://gloone.se/post/132594104/sign-outside-the-strange-town-of-zion-illinois


http://www.forensicgenealogy.info/contest_121_results.html


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion,_Illinois


http://ismaels.wordpress.com/2008/03/

Topsy - A search engine powered by tweets

"Topsy is a new kind of search engine, with a new way of looking at the Internet. Topsy doesn’t think the Internet is a collection of documents. Or even a web of documents. Topsy sees the Internet as a stream of conversations. Topsy treats people differently from the webpages they create and the things they say. And Topsy sees that people in every community are connected in a web of relationships, where each person influences other people to read, talk and think about things."

http://topsy.com/