links for 2006-10-07 (CNN on marijuana, penny visualizer)

• CNN: Marijuana may stave off Alzheimer’s – 20061005

  There’s been talk of marijuana helping Alzheimer’s patients for over 5 yeras. It’s about time someone did some real research on the matter!

  (tags: CNN articles drugs marijuana Alzheimer’s medical research)

• The MegaPenny Project: visualize huge amounts of pennies

  This is some GOOD eye candy. Ever wonder what quintillion pennies looked like, or how tall a stack of a billion pennies is? Graphics to scale. Start at 1, go to 10, 1000, a million, a billion, a trillion. This was a fun way to spend 3 minutes.

  (tags: pennies currency visualizations numbers large largeNumbers)