An Army Air Corps Door Gunner onboard a Lynx Mk9A helicopter with 672 Squadron in Afghanistan, is pictured looking through the sights of a Heavy Machine Gun (HMG).

:: National Geographic on the Best Way To Deal with the Everest Problem ::

Speaking of which, I would really like to have sex in an antechoic chamber

Ex-African Dictator Mobuto Sese Seku has a smart and engaging piece on the things internet people are saying about Angelina Jolie’s breasts. Best of all, it’s smug, hilarious and makes fun of people who don’t “get it.” (via Sidney)

I think it’s interesting that a guy who is trying to throw parties (PARTIES!) is going to jail for a decade when a lot of the sketchy wall st people responsible for a massive recession haven’t even seen a trial. (via Alex)

This is a very well written, reasoned and supported article on the resurgence of Ketamine to treat depression. This is not directly relevant to me as I have zero interest in ketamine as a recreational drug and don’t have anything near depression but I still think it’s worth knowing about. Ketamine is schedule III and off label drug usage in the service of saving your life is generally accepted as ethical. If you’re in that place you should know this is an option. (via Josh)

This is a picture of wedding rings pulled off of people at Auschwitz that has been kind of making me a sick to my stomach all day.

Switching gears, this Werner Herzog clip on the Obscenity of the Jungle is still one of the funniest goddamn things on the entire internet.

Finally, a very cute sloth. (via Chloe)

It’s too bad that everyone who has a solution for everything is at home commenting on the internet.

— kelly oxford (@kellyoxford) September 6, 2011

As an American, this is particularly comforting.

:: Wired covers the MAPS Conference ::

BONUS QUOTE

“Psychedelic scientists still face obstacles at every step of the process, from getting research funding, to getting the compounds themselves, to publishing the findings, says psychiatrist David Nutt of Imperial College London. Nutt recently won a large grant from the British government to conduct a clinical trial of psilocybin for depression. But red tape is holding it up.

To comply with the law, Nutt has to find a manufacturer who’s capable of making medical-grade psilocybin and has all the proper permits to make controlled substances. So far, he hasn’t found one. The study is on hold.

“The illegality of these drugs has profoundly distorted research and continues to do so,” Nutt said at the conference. “It’s one of the greatest scandals in modern research.”

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I’d say that not publishing negative data is a substantially bigger scandal but this is certainly something that should be of concern to people with depression.

“Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will not hear his Miranda rights before the FBI questions him Friday night. He will have to remember on his own that he has a right to a lawyer, and that anything he says can be used against him in court, because the government won’t tell him. This is an extension of a rule the Justice Department wrote for the FBI—without the oversight of any court—called the “public safety exception.”