How Morphine Made My Pandora a Baffled, Incoherent Mess

Earlier today, I revealed how music suggesting algorithms have never, ever worked for me. Believe me, I tried. But when I saw how Pandora fumbled with this song, I gave up on streaming music algorithms entirely.

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Snake Venom Might Actually Be a Better Painkiller Than Morphine [Science]

Morphine—glorious, glorious morphine—is among the world’s most potent painkillers, able to make you forget about that broken leg or split open skull. But what if something that generally causes death could be transformed into something that aided the body in recovery? Scientists believe they’ve discovered the element in Black Mamba venom that does just that. More »