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Let's say you're a buttoned-down organic-chemistry jockey at Merck. One day you tweak a molecule ripped off from a Peruvian native medicine, and you wind up with a powerfully psychoactive compound. Instead of squelching anxiety, instilling a reliable boner, or giving young minds that magic amphetamine edge, the drug helps you touch the hem of God -- or at least something a lot like the hem of God. At times it hurtles you into a blazing hieroglyphic phantasmagoria more sublime and gorgeously bizarre than anything on the demo reels of Hollywood FX shops. On other occasions it leads you to the lip of a fundamental insight into the dance of form and emptiness. And though later attempts to communicate your insight founder on the shoals of coherence, the experience still leaves you centered and convinced that ordinary life is fed by deeper springs.
Originally ran in Feed's Drugs Issue, November 6, 2000
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Black Holes Are The Rhythm At The Heart Of Galaxies
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081118161603.htm#
ScienceDaily (2008-11-19) -- The powerful black holes at the center of massive galaxies and galaxy clusters act as hearts to the systems, pumping energy out at regular intervals to regulate the growth of the black holes themselves, as well as star formation, according to new data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The insight gained by this new research shows that black holes can pump energy in a gentler and rhythmic fashion, rather then violently.
ScienceDaily (2008-11-19) -- The powerful black holes at the center of massive galaxies and galaxy clusters act as hearts to the systems, pumping energy out at regular intervals to regulate the growth of the black holes themselves, as well as star formation, according to new data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The insight gained by this new research shows that black holes can pump energy in a gentler and rhythmic fashion, rather then violently.
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