Monday Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

The word "entheogen" means "entertaining the divine within" which many in the field are mow using instead of "psychedelic" because of the negative connotation of the latter word as a party drug... When NYC needed to lower the crime rate they turned to Rudy Giuliani and the Republicans to lower them. Massachusetts also turned to the Republicans for governors to keep their taxes and State budgets in line. People forget this. Why this never happened in deep Blue cities or States I'll never understand...  Little known fact but before Oxford educated Tim Berners-Lee started working on the Internet in 1980 he was working on nuclear physics  for what was to become CERN in Switzerland... Type II diabetes used to be known as "sugar diabetes" but the name was changed for a reason. Think about that... Even though there may not be a dose large enough to be lethal to humans - mushrooms are still listed as a Schedule 1 drug which needs a LD-50 (lethal dose for 50% of the population). We need to change this. Science should be following the science... Phil Knight used to work fulltime at Price-Waterhouse Coo[er as a CPA. He did that for 4-years while he worked on his side project Nike making athletic shoes. Keep that in mind if you're dream start-up is similarly struggling... US trade ties with China are declining. More evidence that the US and other countries are decoupling with China... Before he risked it all to start Amazon - Jeff Bezos was a highly paid 29-year old hedge fund worker with a degree in Computer Science from Princeton. Not exactly a starving artist... At CERN Tim Berners-Lee not only created the world wide web (www.) that we still use today but also the protocols "http" (hypertext transfer protocol), HTML (hypertext markup language), and the URL (uniform resource locator) all of which CERN made open source and available free to the world. Silicon Valley ate up this free R&D and gave the world back the technology and products we know today... Athletic shoes were never a big deal in the US prior to the jogging craze of the mid-70's. Before the craze just 1 in 12 pairs of shoes were sneakers. After the craze it was 1 in 4 - talk about a big change... 

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