Michael Pollan, a professor of journalism and a student of food, presents the history of four plants, each of which found a way to make itself essential to humans, thus ensuring widespread propagation. Apples, for sweetness; tulips, for beauty; marijuana, for pleasure; and, potatoes, for sustenance. Each has a story of discovery and adaptation; each has a symbiotic relationship with human civilization. The film tells these stories and examines these relationships.

The whole documentary is certainly worth watching. I definately recommend you do!

The Part about cannabis starts at approx: 56m58s

Are we controlling nature or is nature controlling us? Michael Pollan reveals his view with four examples: the apple, the tulip, cannabis & the potatoe.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1421383/plotsummary

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Homemade High Altitude Rocket (On-board Video) travelling to 121000 ft. Space is amazing and our atmosphere is beautiful.

Stats:

• 8" diameter
• 167.5" long
• 329 lbs
• Q-18,000
• 143,000 N-sec
• 4,000 lbs of thrust for 8 seconds
• Case-bonded, Fin-O-Cyl Grain
• Welded Aluminum Fin Can
• Graphite Throat in Phenolic Carrier with Aluminum Retainer/Expansion Cone
• 2 Timers
• 4 GPS
• 1 Accelerometer
• 1 Cosmic Ray Detector
• 2 GoPro HeroHD
• 1 FlipHD
• Black Powder Actuated Pneumatic Cylinder Recovery
• Custom Launch Tower
• 121,000' in 92 seconds
• 3,200 ft per second
• 15+ g's

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For once...don't kill it with fire...this spider serves a purpose.

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Everything you need to know about the U.S. Bullion Depository, aka Fort Knox. Except how to break in, of course.

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Racist. Sexist. Gayist. Wait, so the ones on the right are the gayest of them all?! God hates idiots... wait, God loves everybody, history hates prejudice.

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If I started hallucinating Pink Elephants on Parade I would never touch that shat again.

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Needled It. Pretty sure I'm going to have to eat a giant bowl of Frosted Mini Wheats now.

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Yeah solar flares are bigger than biblical. The solar flare captured in the video is absolutely spectacular!



The source video for the flare comes from NASA's SDO :http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/5483193591/

For another perspective on the size of the flare see NASA's related image size comparison: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/5492781335/

For further information about this February 24, 2011 solar flare see this site:http://geeked.gsfc.nasa.gov/?p=5651

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While I do believe in evolution, this was probably the best explanation I have ever been given before. +1 for Evolution!

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