​While looking to confirm the existence of Planck units--the smallest things in the universe--physicist Craig Hogan stumbled upon a 'fuzziness' at the quantum level that could suggest the universe might be "projected from a two-dimensional shell at its edge." In other words, we'd be living in a hologram emanating from the outermost reaches of the universe. Wired reports that researchers conducted tests with an advanced European satellite that debunked this theory. They did not detect the aforementioned fuzziness and instead only found contradictory evidence to Hogan's findings. Don't get too complacent; we could totally be, like, just in some guy's dream and when he wakes up--POOF--we'll all disappear. [Wired]

Back before LSD became associated with '60s counterculture, it was an experimental therapeutic drug used on people like this genteel housewife. "I can feel the air, I can see it," she says. "I can see all the molecules. I'm part of it. Can't you see it?"

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​Eight people -- including five Columbia University undergrads, one of whom was the student council vice president -- were arrested this morning in a police raid, prosecutors have announced. The students are accused of peddling drugs (including cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, and pot) at campus dorms and frat houses, and one of their suppliers is charged with "plotting to kidnap a pair of rival cocaine traffickers."

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​Last weekend, we noted the slowly budding LSD renaissance, when even the New York Times paid tribute to the drug through the accomplishments of druggie acid legend Dock Ellis. But as with every powerful chemical, it's not all rosy kaleidoscope visuals and stamping out depression -- some people aren't cut out for mind-alteration. This was on full display last night at a Los Angeles screening of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey at the Egyptian Theater, where one man, showing all the signs of a "bad trip," had to be escorted out of the theater by a group of men. The video, "uploaded to YouTube before the movie was even over," comes to us courtesy of Deadspin founder and New York contributing editor Will Leitch and Tim Grierson:

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​Sometimes we are a little bit hard on our favorite newspaper, the New York Times, because it is a little bit for old people, sometimes stodgy or sexless or scared to say words like "shit." It is fun -- and necessary! -- to tease them, we think. But also! It is the best and sometimes someone there will write about LSD and baseball and make us fall in love all over again. Thanks, New York Times. Thanks, Dock Ellis. Thanks, drugs.

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