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Psychedelic drugs: AI analyses thousands of drug users’ trip reports

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A pattern recognition algorithm scoured 6850 accounts of people’s experiences with 27 drugs to learn more about how they alter consciousness Health 16 March 2022 By Matthew Sparkes A colour-enhanced scanning electron microscope image of magic mushroom spores Ted Kinsman/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Artificial intelligence has been used to analyse thousands of written reports of personal … Read more

These Ornate 3-Foot-Long Tubes May Be The Oldest Known Straws

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Slender gold and silver tubes crafted during the Bronze Age are the world’s oldest drinking straws, a new study finds.  Archaeologists found the 3-foot-long (1 meter) metal tubes in 1897 while excavating a burial mound known as a kurgan from the ancient Maikop (also spelled Maykop) culture in the northwestern Caucasus, which primarily includes modern-day … Read more