SEPTEMBER: THE WEIRD SCIENCE ISSUE

⌬ A short story by Stanislaw Lem translated into the English for the first time

⌬ Unpublished pages from the laboratory notebook of Alexander Shulgin featuring the details of his first psychedelic synthesis

⌬ A new short Story by David Ohle, author of Motorman

⌬ Unpublished pages from Timothy Leary's lost prison manuscript, The Periodic Table of Energy

⌬ An interview with a clandestine 2C-C chemist

⌬ A laser etched tribute to great medicinal chemists of the 20th century.

MANPANZEE

Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous. Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species––if separate species we be––for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.

SPACE-FILLING MODEL ILLUSTRATIONS

Does anyone know how these hatched, B&W space-filling model illustrations were generated for The chemistry of mind-altering drugs? The book was originally published in 1996 and I'm not aware of any current programs that produce these kinds of representations:

CAN YOU IDENTIFY THIS MUZAK OR SHOWTUNE?

Doing so will aid a murder investigation. The music/muzak is playing in a diner/restaurant in 1983 either from the radio, a record, or television. The diner/restaurant was likely located in San Antonio or Castle Hills, Texas. As the recording currently stands it is not recognized by Shazam but a friend suggested running it though a program called izotope RX, which I do not have access to. Using a demo version of Sound Soap did not make the audio sufficiently clear to be recognized by Shazam. I have submitted it to reddit/r/classicalmusic without it being recognized by any users. Though one user suggested running it through a music search engine that allows you to identify pieces by tapping notes to the melody, but I don't have perfect pitch and was unable to identify the notes in the music fragments. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

2.5 MINUTE AUDIO SAMPLE

6 MINUTE AUDIO SAMPLE

Enjoy my review of Carsten Höller's new book in The Brooklyn Rail: CARSTEN HÖLLER: Artist's Portfolio

CRYPTOCACTI: THE CACTUS OF THE FOUR WINDS

Enjoy my investigation of the Cactus of the Four Winds: CRACKING CRYPTOCACTI

UNANSWERED QUESTION

Bonnie Bassler talks about how drugs that inhibit bacterial quorum sensing could be novel treatments for antibiotic resistant infections but from what I can tell the drugs she describes would not inhibit (or might even induce) mitosis. It seems people taking these inhibitors would harbor high concentrations of pathogenic bacteria while not suffering from their presence i.e. become asymptomatic carriers who would spread the disease to others forcing enormous numbers of people to also take quorum sensing inhibitors to survive, has this been identified as a possible risk or am I confused?