Federal Government Rules Marijuana Has No Accepted Medical Purpose

Federal Government Rules Marijuana Has No Accepted Medical Purpose: The federal government ruled on Friday that marijuana has no accepted medical use and should remain in the same class of drugs as heroin.

The decision comes nearly nine years after marijuana supporters asked the government to reclassify the drug to take into account the growing body of research conducted across the globe that proves it's effective in treating certain diseases, reports The Los Angeles Times.

The paper spoke to advocates who criticized the ruling but are pleased that the government has finally responded, which allows them to appeal to the federal courts.

Researchers reprogram brain cells into heart cells

Researchers reprogram brain cells into heart cells: Penn researchers are the first to directly convert a non-heart cell type into a heart cell via RNA transfer, managing to change both a brain cell and a skin cell into a heart cell.

Inmates at San Quentin State Prison learn integrity through tennis - Tennis - SI.com

Inmates at San Quentin State Prison learn integrity through tennis - Tennis - SI.com: I've played tennis in countless venues and in what I thought was every imaginable setting. The dusty red clay courts in Paris, immaculate grass outside of London, Ivan Lendl's backyard U.S. Open replica court, numerous stuffy clubs and decrepit public courts with weeds growing through the cracks in the surface. But until recently I had never associated the sport with concertina wire, constant loud alarms and tower guards with rifles.

Ironically, it was a group of convicted felons who were perhaps the best-behaved and most ethical group of competitors I have ever witnessed.

Alt Text: Lazy Fingers Good, Lazy Minds Bad | Underwire | Wired.com

Alt Text: Lazy Fingers Good, Lazy Minds Bad | Underwire | Wired.com: The former group includes some of our prehistoric ancestors who said, “Why should I have to get up close to a bison to kill it?” and invented the atlatl. The latter group includes a bunch of jerks who decided to let everyone else kill the bison rather than learn this newfangled atlatl device, and then chowed down on bison haunch while calling everyone else a lazy sod.

July 7, 1936: Get a Grip &#151 Phillips Screws Up the Toolbox | This Day In Tech | Wired.com

July 7, 1936: Get a Grip — Phillips Screws Up the Toolbox | This Day In Tech | Wired.com: Phillips was a Portland, Oregon, businessman who invented something to solve a problem that few home-repair folk or do-it-yourselfers even knew existed. In those days, if you wanted to drive a screw into a hole, you just grabbed the right-size slotted screwdriver and did the deed.

"Batman: Year One" Trailer Debuts

"Batman: Year One" Trailer Debuts: Warner Bros. has released the official trailer for "Batman: Year One," the animated adaptation of the acclaimed 1987 storyline by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli.

Rupert Murdoch's international house of bad journalism

Rupert Murdoch's international house of bad journalism: News of the World is a British Sunday tabloid newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch since 1969. It, along with the daily Sun, is where Murdoch perfected the salacious tabloid format he'd eventually import to America, where it found much more success as a television station. The basic formula hasn't changed: rabid right-wing politics, sexy girls, constant bellowing outrage, celebrity scandal and a general disregard for journalistic ethics. That News Corp culture -- prizing scoops above all else, from basic human decency to, sometimes, truth itself -- is what has led to the "phone hacking" scandal that now consumes the U.K. The News of the World, it turns out, had a long-standing practice of breaking into the voicemails of newsworthy figures, from celebrities to the victims of horrific crimes.

Analyst: Apple iPhone to launch on Sprint in U.S. by Christmas – MacDailyNews - Welcome Home

Analyst: Apple iPhone to launch on Sprint in U.S. by Christmas – MacDailyNews - Welcome Home: “Add Sprint-Nextel to the growing list of U.S. carriers that will offer the iPhone,” Ed Sutherland reports for Cult of Mac.

“The carrier is likely to gain the Apple handset by Christmas and it could be a big-seller, one analyst tells investors Wednesday,” Sutherland reports. “The key is Sprint will be the last remaining U.S. carrier with an unlimited data plan after Verizon is expected to go to metered pricing Thursday.”

Get your Mac ready for Lion | Operating Systems | MacUser | Macworld

Get your Mac ready for Lion | Operating Systems | MacUser | Macworld: To install Lion, you need a Mac with a minimum of 2GB of RAM and one of the following Intel processors: Intel Core 2 Duo, i3, i5, i7, or Xeon—early Intel-based Macs with Core Solo or Core Duo processors aren’t eligible. You can determine your Mac's processor and the amount of installed RAM by choosing About This Mac from the Apple menu and looking at the Processor and Memory lines, respectively.

Facebook unveils video chatting, thanks to Skype | The Digital Home - CNET News

Facebook unveils video chatting, thanks to Skype | The Digital Home - CNET News: Facebook and Skype have inked a deal that will bring video chatting to the world's largest social network.

The final nail in the supply side coffin - How the World Works - Salon.com

The final nail in the supply side coffin - How the World Works - Salon.com: Ever since Ronald Reagan first attempted to make supply-side economics a reality and proceeded to inaugurate an era of persistent government deficits and growing income inequality, it has become harder and harder to make the trickle-down argument with a straight face. But we've never seen anything quite like the disaster that's playing out right now.

Wages are moribund, unemployment is stuck at 9 percent, and the corporate bottom line is doing just fine. You could be excused for thinking that if ever there was time to put the stake through supply-side economics, it would be now. Wall Street and big corporations are doing just fine, but absolutely nothing is trickling down. And yet Republicans are still pushing the same old song and dance, passionately holding the entire creditworthiness of the United States hostage in return for even lower taxes on corporations, adamantly refusing to countenance even the slightest revenue increase to help cushion the hard times for the Americans who are getting a raw deal out of the current recovery.

Apple’s revolutionary iPad creates the paperless cockpit

Apple’s revolutionary iPad creates the paperless cockpit: Apple's iPad allows pilots to quickly and nimbly access information...

‘The iPad allows pilots to quickly and nimbly access information,’ said Jim Freeman, a pilot and director of flight standards at Alaska Airlines, which has given iPads to all its pilots. ‘When you need to a make a decision in the cockpit, three to four minutes fumbling with paper is an eternity.’

Report: Google to rebrand Blogger, Picasa

Report: Google to rebrand Blogger, Picasa: Google wants to respectively rename the services Google Blogs and Google Photos, according to a Mashable report.

Wimbledon leaving NBC, may head to ESPN (AP)

Wimbledon leaving NBC, may head to ESPN (AP): Wimbledon is leaving NBC after 43 years and appears headed to ESPN. NBC said in a statement Sunday that "while we would have liked to have continued our relationship, we were simply outbid." A person with knowledge of the negotiations confirmed that ESPN was working on a contract with the All England Club to televise all of the Grand Slam tournament.

To fight iPad, HP reaches for Russell Brand | Technically Incorrect - CNET News

To fight iPad, HP reaches for Russell Brand | Technically Incorrect - CNET News: If that doesn't quite work, you could release a good product, call it the TouchPad, and tell people that the iPad isn't your competition at all because you're really after the enterprise customer.
Just in case that doesn't convince everyone, reach for one more resort: make them laugh.
I am grateful to the Silicon Alley Insider for revealing that HP has, indeed, gone for the laughs. HP, which has managed to create one or two very good ads in its time, has reached for Russell Brand to make a series of short videos, each one about a different aspect of its new, non-iPad-competing tablet.

IBM's Phase Change Memory 100 times faster than flash

IBM's Phase Change Memory 100 times faster than flash: Phase Change Memory (PCM) technology--one of the new forms of faster, smaller, and denser memory chips destined to replace flash--has been on the table for a...

Elixir of life discovered on Easter Island - Telegraph

Elixir of life discovered on Easter Island - Telegraph: Rapamycin, which has been nicknamed the “forever young” drug, was created from a chemical found in the soil on Easter Island, one of the most remote places on Earth and 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile.
It was used in experiments on children suffering from Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS), a rare genetic condition in which ageing is hyper-accelerated and sufferers die of “old age” at around 12 years.
HGPS causes a dangerous process whereby a protein called progerin builds up in every cell of the body, causing them to age prematurely.
Rapamycin cleaned the cells of progerin, which swept away the defects and left healthy cells.

Exclusive: Stream Brian Eno's New Album, <cite>Drums Between the Bells<cite>

Exclusive: Stream Brian Eno's New Album, Drums Between the Bells: Through an exclusive arrangement between Wired.com and Warp Records, you can stream Brian Eno's new album in its entirety right now. Drums Between the Bells goes on sale July 5.

He's Hot, He's Sexy, He's Dead: Rolling Stone's 1981 Jim Morrison Cover Story | Rolling Stone Music

He's Hot, He's Sexy, He's Dead: Rolling Stone's 1981 Jim Morrison Cover Story | Rolling Stone Music: When Kelly arrived at her Long Island home that afternoon, her mother confronted her with the picture, "Is this the animal you're going out with?" she asked.

Kelly glanced at the picture and laughed. "Mom, that's Jim Morrison. From the Doors. A band," she said, tripping upstairs to her room. "And he's dead anyway," Kelly continued as her mother stood in the door-way, still waving the picture.

Mick Jagger's New Group SuperHeavy Unveils Music | Billboard.com

Mick Jagger's New Group SuperHeavy Unveils Music | Billboard.com: Details about the Mick Jagger-Dave Stewart supergroup SuperHeavy have been released slowly and the first public introduction of the music was almost as cagey. Jagger, Stewart, soul singer Joss Stone, reggae artist Damian Marley and film composer A.R. Rahman gathered to speak about the making of the album after about half of it was played -- no song titles provided --  Thursday (June 30) afternoon at the Jim Henson Studios in Los Angeles. Their chat emphasized the unique nature of the project and the random way in which the music, a multi-cultural free-for-all at the start, came together.