A no side-effects anti-anxiety drug?

io9 - An Anti-Anxiety Drug That Could Create Super-Soldiers - biology

Soon you may be able to buy a drug that can make you calm by mimicking the body's natural self-soothing process. But you wouldn't feel drugged. What would happen to people who suddenly became fearless without side-effects?

A group of European researchers discovered a ligand, or a chemical that binds with molecules, can soothe even the most anxious of creatures. As they write in an article published today in Science, they induced anxiety attacks in mice and men, administered the ligand XBD173, and found that their fear subsided immediately. The best part is that this treatment isn't addictive, doesn't take weeks to be effective, and doesn't make you feel dopey or drowsy.

A Cashless Japan?

io9 - Japan Could Avoid Deflation By Resorting To "Economic Science Fiction" - mad economics

New Asian Vampire Movies - Thirst and Blood

io9 - Two Asian Vampires Mix School-Girl Uniforms And Troubled Priests - thirst

Stephen Harper: The Completion of Police State

LeDaro: Stephen Harper: The completion of police state



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Authors' (including Ursula LeGuin and Michael Moorcock) top 5 fantasy/real cities

SharedWorlds

Excerpt (Michael Moorcock):
"Old maps of Europe always showed Jerusalem as the centre of the world and symbolically, of course, this is understandable; but for me Marrakesh is the centre, where so many of the old trade routes met and where, still, Mercedes limousines, camels, donkeys and overloaded Peugeot trucks struggle to enter the narrow gates of a walled city which, rather more often than Casablanca, was where world leaders came to argue over the fates of millions. Marrakesh was where the balance of power between France and Morocco was held. It's where the Taureq, swathed in indigo and riding white camels, come in their haughty magnificence to trade with the Rif and the Bedouin, where privileged tourists lounge beside the pool at the Mamounia hotel, hardly aware of the long and bloody history which everywhere surrounds them."

English Cave Dweller off to EU court to save his cave

Eco-warrior evicted from cave dwelling without fire exit - Telegraph

I hope they speak Norwegian in Hell

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