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"Founded by Microsoft co-founder paul allen, the project researched where each gene was activated in a mouse's brain because of its many similarities to human brains. They discovered that 80% of the 21,000 genes in a mouse body were activated in the brain, more than anyone expected. This is a possible indication of the mind-body connection and the placebo effect. Medically inactive pills, often called sugar pills, are used to simulate real medications during testing of new medications to determine if they're more effective than the placebo effect." - Alan E. Smith, UnBreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies (Get the book.)

"In 1975, along with paul allen (b. 1953), he founded Microsoft to sell software products for the new PCs. Microsoft came to dominate the computer industry through its ubiquitous operating system, Windows, which ran on an estimated 95 percent of computers worldwide. Microsoft also successfully sold products ranging from computer games to word processing software. Its aggressive sales tactics and size made it a continual target of competitors' lawsuits and antitrust regulators. At the turn of the century Bill Gates was the world's richest man." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "Paul Allen (b. 1953). Their first product was a version of the BASIC programming language that they sold to MITS for use in its Altair computers, but the key to their long-lasting success was their contract with IBM to supply an operating system for the original IBM PC. PC-DOS and MS-DOS The operating system that Microsoft supplied to IBM was called PC-DOS. (A variant of this operating system was sold to clone manufacturers as MS-DOS; PC-DOS and MS-DOS were operationally identical.) Microsoft began work on MS-DOS/PC-DOS in 1980." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "At age 19, Gates and his childhood friend paul allen founded the Microsoft Company. In 1980 they began producing MS-DOS, the operating system for IBM's first personal computer. DOS and subsequent programs, including Windows, made Microsoft the world's largest software producer. Aggressive marketing earned Microsoft billions in profits (and persistent accusations of antitrust violations)." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"Cox, paul allen. 1981. Use of a hallucinogenic mushroom, Copelandia cyanescens, in Samoa. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 4 (1): 115-16. Gerhardt, E. 1987. Panaeolus cyanescens (Berk, et Br.) Sacc. und Panaeolus antillarum (Fr.) Dennis, zwei Adventivarten in Mitteleuropa. Beitrdge zur Kenntnis der Pilze Mitteleuropas 3:223-27. Heim, Roger, Albert Hofmann, and H. Tscherter. 1966. Sur une intoxication collective a syndrome psilocybien causee en France par un Copelandia. Comptes rendus de VAcademic des Sciences (Paris) 262:519-23. Stijve, T. 1987." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.)

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