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Marijuana Is Associated With ‘Significant’ And ‘Sustained’ Health Improvements, American Medical Association Study Finds - Marijuana Moment

The use of medical marijuana is associated with “significant improvements” in quality of life for people with conditions like chronic pain and insomnia—and those effects are “largely sustained” over time—according to a new study published by the American Medical Association (AMA).

Researchers carried out a retrospective case series analysis that involved 3,148 people in Australia who were prescribed medical cannabis for the treatment of certain eligible conditions.

For all eight wellbeing indicators that were tested, marijuana appeared to help, with adverse side effects that were “rarely serious,” according to the study, published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Health Policy.

Patients were asked to rate their wellness in eight categories on a scale of 0-100 at different stages of treatment. Those categories were general health, bodily pain, physical functioning, physical role limitations, mental health, emotional role limitations, social functioning and vitality.

After administering the survey to the patients about once every 45 days, for a total of 15 follow ups, the study found that participants who were consuming cannabis reported average improvements of 6.6-18.31 points on that 100-point scale, depending on the category.

“These findings suggest that medical cannabis treatment may be associated with improvements in health-related quality of life among patients with a range of health conditions,” the researchers from the Swinburne University of Technology, University of Western Australia and Austin Hospital wrote.  …

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Mysterious white, powdery substance found inside 3,000-year-old ruins in Armenia isn’t what it seems | Live Science

Archaeologists in Armenia have unearthed the remains of a 3,000-year-old bakery that still contains heaps of wheat flour

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James Webb telescope discovers gargantuan geyser on Saturn’s moon, blasting water hundreds of miles into space | Live Science

The James Webb Space Telescope caught Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus spraying a ‘huge plume’ of watery vapor far into space — and that plume may contain chemical ingredients for life

Scientists caught Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus spraying a “huge plume” of watery vapor far into space — and that plume likely contains many of the chemical ingredients for life.

Scientists detailed the eruption — glimpsed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in November 2022 — at a conference at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore on May 17.

“It’s immense,” Sara Faggi, a planetary astronomer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, said at the conference, according to Nature.com. According to Faggi, a full research paper on the massive plume is pending.

This isn’t the first time scientists have seen Enceladus spout water, but the new telescope’s wider perspective and higher sensitivity showed that the jets of vapor shoot much farther into space than previously realized — many times deeper, in fact, than the width of Enceladus itself. (Enceladus has a diameter of about 313 miles, or 504 kilometers.)

Scientists first learned of Enceladus’ watery blasts in 2005, when NASA’s Cassini spacecraft caught icy particles shooting up through large lunar cracks called “tiger stripes.” The blasts are so powerful that their material forms one of Saturn’s rings, according to NASA.

Analysis revealed that the jets contained methane, carbon dioxide and ammonia — organic molecules containing chemical building blocks necessary for the development of life. It’s even possible that some of these gases were produced by life itself, burping out methane deep beneath the surface of Enceladus, an international team of researchers posited in research published last year in The Planetary Science Journal.  …

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Hawaii’s Solar Telescope Captures Extraordinary New Images of the Sun – NBC Bay Area

The photos give a remarkable view of sunspots and plasma on the sun’s surface, with patterns resembling honeycomb and flames

A solar telescope perched on the summit of Haleakalā, the dormant volcano on the Hawaiian island of Maui, captured new granular images of the sun, unlike any seen before.

The solar images were released Thursday by the National Solar Observatory, showing bright orange sunspots on the sun’s surface, known as the photosphere.

“Complex sunspots or groups of sunspots can be the source of explosive events like flares and coronal mass ejections that generate solar storms,” the observatory said.

Sunspots can often be the size of Earth itself, or larger, and are found in areas with strong magnetic fields, the observatory says.

“These energetic and eruptive phenomena influence the outermost atmospheric layer of the Sun, the heliosphere, with the potential to impact Earth and our critical infrastructure,“ the observatory said.

The photos were captured by the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the most powerful ground-based telescope in the world.  …

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Record-breaking Tonga volcano disrupted satellite signals in space | Space

The January 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai eruption continues to astound.

An underwater volcanic eruption last year was powerful enough to generate plasma bubbles that disrupted radio communications in outer space, a new study finds.

The new results could lead to ways to avoid satellite and GPS disruptions on Earth, and to learn more about volcanoes on alien worlds, scientists added.

In January 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai submarine volcano — a large, cone-shaped mountain located near the 169 islands of the Kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific — erupted with a violent explosion. The outburst generated the highest-ever recorded volcanic plume, one reaching 35 miles (57 kilometers) tall, and triggered tsunamis as far away as the Caribbean. All in all, the eruption was the most powerful natural explosion in more than a century…

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Smoking cannabis doesn’t have same risks as smoking tobacco - leafie

It’s astonishing that marijuana studies performed in the 1970s have the same results as the exact same studies performed now!

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horror-aesthete:

Nightbreed, 1990, dir. Clive Barker

horror-aesthete:

Lord of Illusions, 1995, dir. Clive Barker 

horror-aesthete:

Lurking Fear, 1994, dir. C. Courtney Joyner

horror-aesthete:

The Abominable Snowman, 1957, dir. Val Guest