Sip a cup of coffee, buy some swanky clothing and smoke some weed?
Wednesday, December 26, 2018
Marijuana lounge opens in Phoenix
Sunday, October 14, 2018
Cannabition Las Vegas Marijuana Museum Opens
Las Vegas' newest attraction — and Instagram backdrop — is a museum celebrating all things cannabis.
Nobody will be allowed to light up at Cannabition, which opened Sept. 20, because of a Nevada ban on public consumption of marijuana, but visitors can learn about the drug as they snap photos.
Monday, October 1, 2018
Chinese State Bank Issues $1.3 Billion In Mortgage-Backed Securities On Blockchain
The state-owned Bank of Communications (BoCom) in China has successfully started to issue residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBSs) with the help of a blockchain network.
Monday, August 27, 2018
Circadian Rhythms, Thyroid Hormone and Vision Loss
Experts have long known that a person's "circadian clock" can influence their metabolism, sleep patterns and immunity. In ophthalmology, circadian rhythms are known to regulate various aspects of photoreceptor physiology, but their contribution to photoreceptor development and function has been unclear.
Sunday, August 19, 2018
What the world can learn about equality from the Nordics
Rising inequality is one of the biggest social and economic issues of our time. It is linked to poorer economic growth and fosters social discontent and unrest. So, given that the five Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden – are some of the world's most equal on a number of measures, it makes sense to look to them for lessons in how to build a more equal society.
Sunday, July 29, 2018
GSK Turns To Profit In Q2; Signs Deal With 23andMe On New Medicines
(RTTNews.com) - GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK, GSK.L) reported that its profit attributable to shareholders for the second-quarter was 441 million pounds or 8.9 pence per share, compared to a loss of 180 million pounds or 3.7 pence per share in the prior year.
Saturday, July 7, 2018
How our body’s circadian clocks affect our health beyond sleep
"Everything cannot happen at once," says Satchin Panda, a circadian biologist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. This is true when it comes to experiences in the world, and it is also true when it comes to our bodies.
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Feds ran a bitcoin-laundering sting for over a year
More than 40 alleged dark-web drug dealers have been arrested as part of a sweeping federal effort described by the Department of Justice as "the first nationwide undercover operation targeting dark net vendors." The core of the operation was an online money-laundering business seized by agents from Homeland Security Investigations and operated as a sting for over a year. By offering cash for bitcoin, HSI agents were able to identify specific drug dealers, ultimately tracing more than $20 million in drug-linked cryptocurrency transactions.
How New FDA-Approved Pot Medication Could Change Legal Weed
Despite a large body of research documenting cannabis' effectiveness in treating epilepsy, there has yet to be a cannabis-based anti-seizure medication introduced on the U.S. pharmaceutical market – until this week.
Sunday, June 17, 2018
Bitcoin Price To Reach $60,000 in 2018 — Cryptocurrency Expert Remains Resolute On January Prediction
Phillip Nunn, CEO of The Blackmore Group and Wealth Chain Group, piqued the interest of the cryptocurrency and investing communities in January of this year when he made a prediction that the price of Bitcoin, in the year of 2018, would reach a bottom of $6,000 and a high of $60,000. At the time of the prediction, the price of Bitcoin had pulled back a large percentage of its run-up to an all-time high in mid-December of almost $20,000 and was sitting at just over $10,000.
Bike-sharing companies' Phoenix-area growth leads to abandoned bikes
Managers of dockless bike-share services say they've seen exponential growth since two companies arrived in the city late last year, and they're addressing the main complaint: bikes ditched where they shouldn't be.
Sunday, June 10, 2018
What the U.S. can learn about legalized sports betting from the U.K.
LONDON – Imagine it is five years from now, and you're walking across the parking lot at a shopping center, perhaps to collect some dry cleaning or a quart of milk. On your way back to the car – no, it won't be driving itself to collect you at the curbside yet – you're distracted by a sign advertising the weekend's NFL games, and how you can profit from them.
Monday, May 7, 2018
If We’re in a Crypto Bubble Why Are Traders going all In?
The crypto correction of 2018 has been brutal. Bitcoin went from mainstream hype of December 2017, to being banned along with ICOs in Crypto Ads by Facebook, Google, Twitter and Snapchat with plummeting value and consumer search.
Saturday, April 21, 2018
Why Bitcoin Works
The fact that Bitcoin has succeeded is beyond dispute. Bitcoin has lasted 9 years. Bitcoin has a $100B+ market cap. Bitcoin has had better uptime than almost anything else and has spawned a pretty large ecosystem of businesses, open source projects and investors. Perhaps most tellingly, Bitcoin has also spawned a large number of imitators that compete against it.
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
South Korea's Cryptocurrency Regulator Found Dead at Home
Fifty-two-year-old Jung Ki-joon led the regulatory effort to implement tighter controls on cryptocurrency trading. He was found deceased at home on Sunday, according to a South Korean government spokesperson cited in The Wall Street Journal.
Saturday, January 27, 2018
This is the pattern for suppressing bitcoin says a Chinese crypto exchanges CEO
A prominent figure in cryptocurrencies has a prediction for how governments worldwide will crack down on bitcoin: They'll follow the existing pattern.
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