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Duchess is allowed to grow illegal pot plants“The Duchess of Northumberland has been granted permission to grow cannabis plants, magic mushrooms and opium poppies in her garden at Alnwick Castle. The illegal drugs are to be grown alongside more than 50 dangerous plants in the Poison Garden, the first of its kind in Britain, which

mookblog: nextgen flash player demo in tokyo“yesterday kevin lynch, macromedia’s chief software architect, demonstrated the next generation version of the flash player at the macromedia flash conference in tokyo, japan. the packed crowd was the lucky first public audience in the world to witness what’s coming next for flash. only a few features were shown,

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New Scientist: Mothers’ genetic skew linked to gay sons “There has been much debate over “gay genes”. Now an intriguing study raises another possibility: in some cases, variations in the genetic program we inherit from our parents, rather than in the genes themselves, might determine sexual preference.”

US top of supercomputing charts“The US has pushed Japan off the top of the supercomputing chart with IBM’s prototype Blue Gene/L machine. IBM test results show that Blue Gene/L has managed speeds of 70.72 teraflops. The previous top machine, Japan’s NEC Earth Simulator, clocked up 35.86. Once completed in 2005, Blue Gene/L will be more