Happy Bicycle Day!
April 19th is an anniversary of some unpleasant things, not least of which is the Oklahoma City bombing, and now the naming of a former Hitler Youth to the throne of St. Peter.
But April 19th is also the anniversary of something else, something with the potential to make us all smarter, wiser and more evolved. It's Bicycle Day!
Yes, it was 62 years ago today in Switzerland that Dr. Albert Hoffman realized he had absorbed some of the pharmaceutical compound he was working with, the 25-th derivation of Lysergic Acid through his skin. He started to feel woozy... then got on his bicycle and took the first trip ever on that route.
Read all about it here.
But April 19th is also the anniversary of something else, something with the potential to make us all smarter, wiser and more evolved. It's Bicycle Day!
Yes, it was 62 years ago today in Switzerland that Dr. Albert Hoffman realized he had absorbed some of the pharmaceutical compound he was working with, the 25-th derivation of Lysergic Acid through his skin. He started to feel woozy... then got on his bicycle and took the first trip ever on that route.
Read all about it here.
posted by Brian Shields | 12:23 PM
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