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Happy Birthday big fulla.

Albert Hofmann, the Swiss scientist who discovered the psychedelic drug LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), turns 100 years old on Wednesday.
The drug, famed for its hallucinogenic trips, was popular among the 1960s hippy generation. But it was also once a well-respected treatment for a variety of psychiatric disorders....
[Hofmann] remains convinced of the substance's therapeutic properties for the mind.
Hofmann has researched the use of stimulant drugs in traditional cultures around the world and found evidence of natural LSD being used by Mazatec Indians in Mexico, as well as by the ancient Greeks in fertility rites.

In other news, the Australian press is doing its best to terrify the public about sharks, the amount of shit I've seen in the SMH over the last few days talking to experts about the imminent danger facing swimmers at NSW beaches (after a one-off fatal attack in Queensland) is ridiculous:

Four large sharks, including a five metre great white, have been sighted cruising close to swimmers on the NSW south coast, the manager of an aerial shark patrol company says.
Harry Mitchell, manager of Australian Aerial Patrols, said Tuesday's sightings, near Jervis Bay, were made about the same time lifesavers cleared Sydney's Bronte and Tamarama beaches after a bronze whaler shark was seen by surfers about 2.20pm.

In the same time an Aussie swimmer has also been killed by a jellyfish...I guess it's just harder to scaremonger when the offender looks like this ey...