• Jun
  • 12

Building America’s Most Extreme Roller Coaster [w/VID]

Behind-the-scenes video of the new Fahrenheit coaster at Hershey Park and its record-setting 97-degree drop (yes, that’s 7 degrees PAST vertical). Looks like you can win a free ride, too…

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  • May
  • 02

Study finds that paranoid thoughts much more common than previously thought

Until now, researchers were relying on somewhat unreliable questionnaires to study paranoid thoughts which are often triggered by ambiguous events such as someone laughing behind their back. With the use of VR, psychiatrists and psychologists have a new tool which can reliably recreate social interactions. As the lead researcher said. . .

Dr Freeman and colleagues found that the participants interpreted the same computer characters very differently. The most common reaction was to find the virtual reality characters friendly or neutral, but almost 40% of the participants…

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  • May
  • 01

Trip of a lifetime: How LSD rocked the world

It’s the psychedelic drug that inspired Hendrix and The Beatles - and shaped the music, art and literature of a generation. As the world bids farewell to the bicycling Swiss chemist who created LSD, John Walsh explores his mind-altering legacy

The definitive acid movie is The Trip, scripted by none other than Jack Nicholson, directed by Roger Corman and starring Easy Rider duo Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. Because it's wholly in favour of the acid experience (ad-man Fonda…

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  • Apr
  • 28

50 Things You Didn’t Know About Disneyland

weird wild wacky - maybe a little stupid, but some really interesting items.

9. Perhaps inevitably, opening day - July 17, 1955 - was a disaster. Asphalt poured just hours before guests arrived hadnt fully dried, and womens spike heels sank into Main Street. VIP passes were widely counterfeited, and double…

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  • Apr
  • 28

Police say 7 year-old took his grandma’s SUV for a joy ride

A 7-year-old boy from Florida took his grandmother’s Dodge Durango for a ride Friday and left a path of damage in his wake.

As police were responding to the area, the Durango continued through a crowded Costco parking lot fronting Northlake Boulevard - striking two parked cars without stopping. Then, at the corner of Park Avenue West and Congress Avenue, the young…

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  • Apr
  • 11

Free ride [Pic]

a bird gets a free ride

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