New (Glowing) Shrooms Found in Brazil

Like a black light poster come to life, a group of bioluminescent fungi collected from Ribeira Valley Tourist State Park near São Paulo, Brazil, emanates a soft green glow when the lights go out.

The mushrooms are part of the genus Mycena, a group that includes about 500 species worldwide. Of these only 33 are known to be bioluminescent—capable of producing light through a chemical reaction.

Since 2002 Cassius Stevani, professor of chemistry at the University of São Paulo; Dennis Desjardin, professor of mycology at San Francisco State University in California; and Marina Capelari of Brazil's Institute of Botany have discovered ten more bioluminescent fungi species—four of which are new to science—in Brazil's tropical forests.

A species of bioluminescent fungi looks unassuming as it pokes its capped head above the mossy wood from which it grows in the tropical forests of Brazil. But at night a chemical reaction causes the fungus to emit an eerie green glow sometimes called foxfire.

The 33 Mycena species known to glow in the dark are separated into 16 lineages, San Francisco State's Desjardin says.

"Obviously the big question then arises: Did luminescence evolve 16 different times in the genus Mycena, or did it evolve only a few times and was lost hundreds of times during the course of evolution?" he said in an email to National Geographic News.

To help answer this question, Desjardin's research team has been extracting and sequencing DNA from the glowing mushrooms. They will use the data to develop a mushroom "family tree" that includes glowers and related nonglowers, a first step to determining when bioluminescence emerged in fungi.

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Hispanic: 2% 7% 5% 14.8%
African-American: 37% 26% 28% 12.8%
Asian: 1% 5% 4% 4.4%
American Indian: .4% .3% .3% 1.0%
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Imagine a guy who travels the world with the motivation of visiting every starbucks on the planet earth

His mission? To drink a cup of joe at every Starbucks in the land. Here, the story of one man, over 12,000 coffee shops, and what happens when you down 29 Talls in a single day
Radaronline has a great Q&A.Probably the most detailed you will get. Yes even from the internet.
interview with Winter himself

The Energy Drink that has many folk politicking in the round table room. "Cocaine" is its name!?

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(((Coca-Cola was named back in 1885 for its two "medicinal" ingredients: extract of coca leaves and kola nuts.)))

Most people know what cocaine is, and now Redux Beverages in Las Vegas is offering what it calls a "legal alternative" to the illegal drug in form of an energy drink.

Jamey Kirby, the drink's inventor, says the name for the drink — Cocaine — came to him during a brainstorming session at 1 o'clock in the morning.

"It's an energy drink, and it's a fun name," says Kirby. "As soon as people look at the can, they smile."


Kirby says Redux wanted to make a beverage that would send a sensation to the mouth. He describes Cocaine, the new beverage, as a "fruity, atomic fireball" drink.

Real Cocaine?

The 8.4 fluid ounce energy booster has no actual cocaine in it, but it does contain 280 milligrams of caffeine. According to the company's Web site, the only way to get more caffeine per ounce is with an espresso.

"It's just a bad idea and has all the same downsides of too much caffeine plus a very bad name," says Dr. Charles O'Brien a professor and vice chairman of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.

The beverage is marketed to give a person a "high" coupled with a tingly euphoric feeling within five minutes of drinking it. That initial boost is followed 15 minutes later by an energy buzz that will last five to six hours, according to the company.

Kirby claims Cocaine is "350 percent stronger than Red Bull" but that people do not experience the "sugar crash" or jitters that he says some of the other energy drinks can produce.

The Secret Formula?

Kirby confesses that a "throat-numbing" ingredient is added to the drink to emulate its namesake, but he won't divulge the identity of that add-in, saying it's confidential.

"We're getting a phenomenal response," says Kirby, crediting the can's simple design and product promotion for the drink's early success among consumers from high school kids to 30-year-olds.

The company isn't hiding from mixing Cocaine with alcohol. On the drink's Web site, www.DrinkCocaine.com, it posts a variety of alcohol and Cocaine combinations.

Kirby, who says the world is ready for a beverage named after an illegal drug, has been surprised by the lack of controversy over the name of the drink.

good skateboarding video

just ike the post says. This dude not only "loves skatebording". He proforms board tricks iv never seen done. If anyone has information, I would like to have a Bio on this dude. Is he a Pro. my guess would say ummmmmmmmmm HELL YESS

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Interesting twin 14 year old white pride musicians making hella BUZZ in the news and the internet

www.prussianblue.net If you have never heard of the 2 under age adolescent chics here it is in a nutshell. whether or not this would be the original goverment names, dunno. Lamb and Lynx Gaede 13 year old twin sisters who make it known through the music that they are very much white pride motivated. The band made up of the 2 girls, Lamb who plays guitar. The other half Lynx plays a violin. Both chics had there 1st musical instramet lesson only 3 years ago (2003) at the age of 11. The 2 make up the band "Prussian Blue" focused to their German heritage and bright blue eyes.

The mother April Gaede who teaches the kids to be tru to their roots and freedom of spech has NO limits.
"They need to have the background to understand why certain things are happening," said April who says Bakersfield California was at NO means white enough for the family. So they are looking to move to a more white environment. Like the song goes "IT NEVER RAINS IN SOUTHREN CALIFORNIA" I guess its not raining all whitey's in California.


Have a debat and this is what you will get,
LYNX:
"We're proud of being white, we want to keep being white," "We want our people to stay white … we don't want to just be, you know, a big muddle. We just want to preserve our race."

Ted Shaw ; civil rights advocate and president of the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund can be quoted saying:
"It really breaks my heart to see those two girls spewing out that kind of garbage,"


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2 pac is still alive. he was seen...........

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