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A Brain emailed me the link to this story several days ago, and now I see that Pete is linking to it, too.
I had heard of this program before, from another story months ago. (The new development is the recent discovery under the Freedom of Information Act, I think.) Bizarre though it is, I'm quite sure it's not the stupidest thing our government has ever spent millions of dollars on.
What I like about this story is the felicitous typo -- I say "typo" for lack of a better word, though the error is something more than typographical -- in this sentence:
There's actually two misspellings in that quote -- so much for copyediting -- but the one I like is the chemicals that are "pleasant" in the human body. Oh, how nice. They're so pleasant!
Are there other chemicals that are pleasant in larger quantities, I wonder? What might explain their pleasance there?
(Tangential trivia for the day: I don't know if "pleasance" is a real word. I do know -- don't ask me why -- that it's the middle name of Lewis Carroll's young friend Alice Liddell, the real-life girl for whom the Wonderland stories were written.)
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