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[29 Apr 2008 | One Comment | ]

After a helluva stint here on Earth, Albert Hofmann, the great Swiss chemist who has probably affected my life more than any other Swiss chemist, has now tripped to the great beyond. Interestingly, I heard about it on a comment in Reddit before ANY other press had picked up the story. Score a big one for citizen journos.
t4inted – “This isn’t in the news yet. I’m from Basel and Hoffmann lived close (in Burg). My friends mother helped to look after him, he died last night (of old age probably, …