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‘We handed out raw fish to clubbers’: the mind-bending acid house tour of London | Dance music

‘We handed out raw fish to clubbers’: the mind-bending acid house tour of London | Dance music

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‘I remember this street being covered with hundreds of these all over the floor,” says George Georgiou, handing me an original smiley-face flyer he designed for the acid house club night Shoom. “I wish I’d picked them up because now they sell for up to a grand.” The doorway we’re standing outside in London Bridge is one of many locations we’ll visit today, as Georgiou places acid house heritage plaques outside buildings that were once home to clubs such as Shoom, Raw and Sin. These locations are then tagged on an interactive acid house map on his website. We kick off the day 15 minutes’ walk away on Tooley Street, where the Special Branch club began life in 1984. It was here that resident DJs Nicky Holloway and Pete Tong lured suburban soul boys and Soho trendies to an old pub to get sweaty, while Gilles Peterson kept the footworkers busy by spinning jazz-funk in the other room. At the Natural History Museum, we put strobes under a dinosaur In the 80s and 90s, Georgiou …

5E Advanced Materials reports first boric acid production

5E Advanced Materials reports first boric acid production

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5E Advanced Materials announced today that the team successfully achieved its first production of boric acid. The first production of boric acid allows the company to commence a customer qualification process to potentially become an approved supplier to targeted customers. 5E Advanced Materials has also announced that it has amended its outstanding senior secured convertible notes to extend the waiver of the notes’ cash covenant. The future of boric acid production With the first production batch of boric acid now achieved, 5E will continue to refine operating parameters to meet and exceed customer specifications. 5E anticipates beginning the customer qualification process with a variety of customer prospects. The customer qualification process will include 5E providing samples of boric acid for customers to validate their customer-established qualification criteria. Upon successful feedback from customers that the product meets their specifications, 5E will then deliver larger volumes of boric acid from the SSF to the customer production facilities for product validation. Susan Brennan, Chief Executive Officer at 5E Advanced Materials, stated: “I am pleased that we have achieved …

‘Five-year-old on acid’: Liz Truss’s Ten Years to Save the West, digested by John Crace | Liz Truss

‘Five-year-old on acid’: Liz Truss’s Ten Years to Save the West, digested by John Crace | Liz Truss

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I was impatient to get going. Plans had been made. I picked up my phone. “ChatGPT. Write me a memoir in the style of an excitable five-year-old on acid.” “We’ve only got 10 years to save the west,” I declared solemnly. “We’d have had a lot longer than that if you hadn’t become prime minister,” replied my husband, Hugh. My rock, as always. I was on the way to my audience with the queen, deeply aware of the huge honour I was doing her. There was fog over Aberdeen. Taking no chances, I parachuted into the grounds of Balmoral. “Good morning, Your Majesty. The Trusster is at your service,” I said. “We really are scraping the barrel now,” the queen replied. “My first prime minister was Winston. Now it’s come to this.” I felt overwhelmed by the solemnity of the occasion and will never forget her parting words to me; the last words she ever spoke to a British prime minister. “Don’t forget to close the door behind you.” So typical of her lifetime of …

RuPaul Recalls His Drug Use at 10 and Dropping Acid Every Weekend in His 20s

RuPaul Recalls His Drug Use at 10 and Dropping Acid Every Weekend in His 20s

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RuPaul is opening up about his past drug use. The 63-year-old TV personality appeared on the latest episode of Spotify’s Call Her Daddy podcast, and told host Alex Cooper that he was a drug user for 30 years. “I started using when I was 10 years old. I started smoking weed when I was 10 years old,” he said. “It was a different time… It was a different thing. It’s not like people think of it today.” His first experience with hard drugs came when he was 13 in the form of a pill called a red devil. While RuPaul said he doesn’t remember the effects of that particular drug, he noted, “I wasn’t afraid of drugs.” RuPaul said that in all the years he was a drug user, he “never shot up.” However, in his 20s, RuPaul “dropped acid every weekend.” “Every weekend. Four hits of acid every weekend,” he said, before describing the experience of the drug. “It was the proof I had that this world is an illusion. That everything you think you know about …

Oscars 2024: Cillian Murphy’s 1990s acid jazz band, and how the Cork music scene helped make him a star

Oscars 2024: Cillian Murphy’s 1990s acid jazz band, and how the Cork music scene helped make him a star

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Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free If you were young and carefree and lived in Cork in the early Nineties, at some point you’d have come across an up-and-coming new band led by a skinny frontman with an earnest gaze and a sensible haircut. The group was Sons of Mr Green Genes – freewheeling funk ragamuffins who took their name from a wacky Frank Zappa song. Their singer was a shy teenager named Cillian Murphy. He was musically talented and not uncharismatic. But nobody who piled in to see Mr Green Genes in one of Cork city’s many pokey indie venues could have had an inkling they were watching a future Hollywood star. It would have blown their minds to know Murphy, 47, would arrive at the 2024 Oscars as hot favourite to win Best Actor for portraying the father of the atomic bomb, Robert Oppenheimer, in a lavish biopic. “I remember going to …

Cracking Rhapsody can call tune while Constitution Hill faces ‘acid test’ | Horse racing

Cracking Rhapsody can call tune while Constitution Hill faces ‘acid test’ | Horse racing

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A boost to the prize fund, a big bonus linked to Cheltenham and the switch to a handicap has transformed the Morebattle Handicap at Kelso, and the 18-strong field for the latest renewal on Saturday is two more than lined up for the past four runnings as a non-handicap put together. Nicky Henderson has yet to add to his three winners of the race – at 4-11, 2-7 and 1-4 – since the conditions changed in 2021, but has an obvious chance this time around with the mare Under Control, the likely favourite and one of six horses in the field with an entry at Cheltenham in a fortnight’s time. The five-year-old put up a career-best in a Grade Two at Doncaster last time but Saturday’s race is a very different test, off 10lb more than her last winning mark. Following Constitution Hill’s lacklustre gallop earlier in the week, meanwhile, it is also hard to overlook the fact that six of Henderson’s past nine runners have been pulled up. Black Hawk Eagle, still in the …

Benefits of hyaluronic acid in skincare products have been oversold

Benefits of hyaluronic acid in skincare products have been oversold

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Hyaluronic acid is often added to facial oils and serums with the promise of reducing the appearance of wrinkles Layla Bird/Getty Hyaluronic acid, a popular skincare ingredient, doesn’t hold 1000 times its weight in water, despite frequent marketing claims. The ingredient is a humectant, a substance that attracts moisture. Applied topically, it can improve skin hydration, enhance elasticity and reduce wrinkle depth. But chemists have long suspected that the idea it can hold 1000 times its weight in water is too much of a stretch. The claim has been cited for decades,… Source link

5E Advanced Materials nears boric acid and lithium production

5E Advanced Materials nears boric acid and lithium production

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5E Advanced Materials has announced it has made significant progress towards commercial boric acid and lithium production at its 5E Boron Americas Complex. A prominent player in the boron and lithium sector and holder of US government Critical Infrastructure designation for its 5E Boron Americas Complex, 5E Advanced Materials has recently provided an update on its mining operations and related endeavours, making significant strides towards achieving initial production. Susan Brennan, Chief Executive Officer of 5E Advanced Materials, emphasised the significance of the Company’s recent progress: “This is an exciting time for all stakeholders of the Company as we finalise a number of initiatives that will see us commence initial production next quarter. “Our operations team is working diligently to transition our facility to operational status, and we are concurrently ramping up our commercial and marketing activities in order to leverage the value of our boron and lithium with potential customers. “I cannot emphasise enough the importance 5E will represent in the US in the coming months as a new and secure producer of critical materials …

Man Threatens to Destroy Priceless Rembrandt and Picasso Paintings With Acid If Julian Assange Dies

Man Threatens to Destroy Priceless Rembrandt and Picasso Paintings With Acid If Julian Assange Dies

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It’s called “The Dead Man’s Switch.” Acid Trip In an art stunt, a Russian artist is planning to lock away a treasure trove of art pieces that includes a Picasso and a Rembrandt into a large vault that’s rigged to destroy its contents if Wikileaks founder Julian Assange dies in prison, The Guardian reports. The artist is Andrei Molodkin, and he’s reportedly put together $45 million worth of art work for this project, meant to highlight the plight of Assange, who’s imprisoned in London and fighting extradition back to America due to his site Wikileaks publishing classified government information. “When we have so much violence and war, like in Ukraine, Gaza, and everywhere, we need freedom of speech and freedom of expression for people to understand what’s happening,” Molodkin told the Guardian, explaining his rationale behind the project. “One of the most important examples is Julian Assange. He’s in prison just for the [material he published]. He changed the history of journalism and information. He changed the world. Personally for me, it was a world before …