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Photo Of The Day: The Carina Nebula

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This is one of the most beautiful sights out galaxy has to offer. Observable in the southern sky, the Great Carina Nebula, or NGC 3372, is nearly 300 light years wide, making it one of the galaxy’s largest star-forming clouds. The Carina Nebula can be seen by the unaided eye when seen on very dark, clear nights in the southern sky. It’s wider than the full moon and is home to young, very large stars. One of these stars is Eta Carinae, a star with 100 times the mass of our Sun. Eta Carinae is the brightest star near the middle of this image. The star may be very near supernova, which would be quite the sight to see!

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Really, What Are These Strange Rocks On Mars?

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Spotting weird stuff on Mars has become a spectator sport. I’ve always thought that explaining these things away as hoaxes or the work of aliens to be fairly lazy. So what are these rock really? Time will tell to know for sure. The round rock featured in the image above is about two centimeters across and looks kind of like a blueberry. What causes its roundness is still not clear, though it probably has to do with volcanic activity and may have been eroded by once-flowing water. The secondary image, that kind of resembles a starfish, is seen on mount sharp and is something of a mystery. Maybe through these images, we will truly know whether or not the red planet once harbored life.

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Is That A Turtle In Your Pants Or Are You Just Happy To See Me? Man Caught With 51 Turtles In His Pants.

Animal smuggling isn’t a new phenomenon, unfortunately. But pants smuggling is something a tad more unusual.

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Kai Xu, a Canadian citizen, was caught at the Detroit border attempting to enter Canada with 51 live, and endangered, turtles taped to his legs. Fortunately for the turtles, there was a pretty huge giveaway: his bulging sweatpants. Also, the US Fish and Wildlife Service had been watching him and felt he was acting suspiciously. As The Guardian reports:

On 5 August, two fish and wildlife agents say they watched Xu disappear behind two semi-trailers in a Detroit parking lot for about 10 minutes before reappearing with, “irregularly shaped bulges under Xu’s sweatpants on both legs”.

Xu was later stopped by Canadian border patrol after he drove through the Detroit to Windsor, O...

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The 3 Realms of DMT

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Josh Mur – Live Free, Live Natural | From blasting off through a dark tunnel to intimate encounters with the divine, Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) has been notorious for sending its users into otherworldly places and experiences.

Let’s start with a basic question. What is DMT?

DMT is a naturally produced chemical compound found in an array of mammals and plant life. In humans, it is believed that the Pineal Gland in the brain produces this chemical during REM sleep and death.

While the reason for production of DMT in the brain is a mystery, the effects it has on human consciousness is much more of an enigma. What one has to understand is the intensity and dreamlike nature of the DMT experience convolutes how well it is processed by the user. Therefore, it is hard to give a definitive answer as to whether or not the ...

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New Evidence Shows That Early Man Was All About Hotboxing Their Caves

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Huh. That’s something else. Archaeologists working in the Hindu Kush mountain range have unearthed 120,000 year old evidence that early man used cannabis. The team from Quad-i-Azam University in Pakistan discovered the cave, which contained Indica seeds and various other objects.

They also discovered resin inside of a jar, indicating that these people may not have been too different from us. We like hotboxing cars or small rooms, and they were all about hot boxing their caves apparently.

This is the oldest known instance of humans using cannabis to get high, but hemp has been used for thousands of years. Archaeologists have discover...

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Sweet! This Hospital Is Using Good, Organic Food As Medicine

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It’s something that’s always confused me a little bit. Every time I visit someone in the hospital, it seems like they’re being served the Standard American Diet (SAD) instead of good, healthy food. It was Hippocrates who said “let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food,” and we couldn’t agree more.

We’ve written before about the clear benefits of organic produce and why it’s so important to avoid pesticidesand one hospital in Pennsylvania is on board with helping cure folks with good, organic food.

St. Luke’s University Health Network has launched a farm to hospital program. St. Luke’s has 300 acres of farm land, which historically was used for mon...

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