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Two Nobel Prize winners attributed their breakthroughs to their use of LSD. Near his death, Francis Crick let it be known that his inner vision of the double helix of DNA was LSD enhanced. The chemist Kary Mullis reported that LSD helped him develop the polymerase chain reaction to amplify specific DNA sequences, for which he received the prize.
The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide
James Fadiman Ph.D.
Derivatives and bonds are contracts, not part ownership of a business; your legal obligations and protections, if any, are lurking in the fine print. Their issuers are not otherwise duty bound to act in your best interests, unlike the senior executives of corporations you own. But Wall Street invents financial contraptions with features that are too complicated for many buyers to evaluate properly. For those who understand them better than others, these inefficiencies are profitable precisely because they dupe the unwary victims. Customers may know that a fund is leveraged but not realize that this feature makes it a wasting asset.
Big Money Thinks Small
Joel Tillinghast
Dr. Ufimtsev came to teach electromagnetic theory at UCLA in 1990. Until his arrival here he had remained blissfully unaware of his enormous impact on America’s stealth airplane development, but clearly wasn’t surprised by the news. “Senior Soviet designers were absolutely uninterested in my theories,” he wryly observed.
Skunk Works
Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos
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