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About Stan Flouride

THIS BLOG IS ALWAYS AD-FREE I make stuff and do things.

Neil deGrasse Tyson: don’t trust the laws of science

 

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Bacteria found to eat PET plastics could help do the recycling 

Nature has beaten us to it again. It has taken just 70 years for evolution to throw up a bacterium capable of breaking down and consuming PET, one of the world’s most problematic plastic pollutants. Japanese researchers discovered and named … Continue reading

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Hemp Walls Saved India’s Ancient Ellora Caves

MaryJane, is there anything you can’t make better? “The cannabis fiber appears to have a better quality and durability than other fibers. Moreover, the cannabis’ gum and sticky properties might have helped clay and lime to form a firm binder,” Sardesai told Times … Continue reading

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I May Be Old

But I got buttons for all the cool bands. Cleaning my house I came across all my 70s & 80s buttons. These are just the ones from bands I saw, more decorative ones to follow.

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OZ magazine, London 1967-1973

In The Guardian, Chitra Ramaswamy describes the London magazine as “the icon – and the enfant terrible – of the underground press. Produced in a basement flat off Notting Hill Gate, Oz was soon renowned for psychedelic covers by pop artist Martin Sharp, cartoons by Robert Crumb, radical … Continue reading

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Kids Today Have it SO Easy…

When I was a kid…  we had to take LSD to see stuff like this. It was 5 miles to your dealer’s house… … and 25 miles back. And as I can best recall… most of it… was in circles.

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This Could Be the World’s Largest Passport

U.S. citizens used to have the option to add new visa pages to their passport, but as of January 1 new passports can contain only 28 or 52 pages. The restriction, which the Department of State says “was made to … Continue reading

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J.K. Rowling’s Original Harry Potter Chair For Sale

NEW YORK, NY.- The chair used by author J.K. Rowling while she wrote the first two Harry Potter books — Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets — will cross the auction block in … Continue reading

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Iwo Jima veteran turned away from polls

Last month, Iwo Jima veteran Leo Bradley went to his local Wisconsin polling place to cast his vote in a statewide election. He took the trip with wife and his veterans affairs card in hand, but was told that the … Continue reading

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Prop 25, the 1938 Ham and Eggs Measure 

Most of the text in this photo relates to Proposition 25, an initiative on the November 1938 ballot in California to create a system of “retirement warrants” in place of public assistance for anyone qualified to vote in California and … Continue reading

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