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Medical Marijuana Use Sprouting In Israel
Israel has become a world leader in the use of medical marijuana. More than 10,000 patients have received government licenses to consume the drug to treat ailments such as cancer and chronic pain …
One of the reasons it has been so widely accepted in Israel … is that cannabis use is mentioned in the Torah so the religious establishment doesn't object.
4th of July Celebration in Denmark ?
Every year thousands of people gather in the Rebild Hills on July 4 to maintain and continue a beautiful tradition, founded 100 years ago – the celebration of the American Independence Day. This is the biggest 4th of July Celebration outside the US [They say Queen Margrethe & her sister, Princess Benedikte might even show up. Don’t think their close relative, Queen Elizabeth, is going to show though. Still a bit bitter we imagine].
Happy Birthday America
Yankee Doodle Dandy (Trailer, 1942)
Rare copy of Waldseemueller's early America map found in Germany
A copy of a rare 16th century map known as "the birth certificate of America" has been discovered in Germany.
The map, by the famous cartographer Martin Waldseemueller, is credited with being the first to document and name the newly-discovered land of America.
CERN Experiments Observe Particle Consistent With Long-Sought Higgs Boson
Physicists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider said Wednesday that they had discovered a new subatomic particle that looks for all the world like the Higgs boson, a potential key to understanding why elementary particles have mass and indeed to the existence of diversity and life in the universe.
“I think we have it,” said Rolf Heuer, the director general of CERN, in an interview from his office outside of Geneva, calling the discovery “a historic milestone.” His words signaled what is probably the beginning of the end for one of the longest, most expensive searches in the history of science. If scientists are lucky, the discovery could lead to a new understanding of how the universe began.
What is the Higgs Boson?
Earth farthest from sun for 2012 today
Today, our planet Earth reaches its most distant point from the sun for this year. Astronomers call this farthest point aphelion, and, at aphelion we’re about three million miles farther from the sun than we will be six months from now. Looking for Earth’s exact distance from the sun today? It’s at 94,511,923 miles.
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