Category: Whatever
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NASA – Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn
Pasadena, Calif. — An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA’s Cassini mission. NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft imaged the feature over two decades ago. The fact that it has appeared in Cassini images indicates that it…
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Let Us Now Sing About the Warmed Earth
On July 25 the journal Nature published an article about the “Economic time bomb” that is slowly being detonated by Arctic warming. Gail Whiteman of Erasmus University in the Netherlands, and Chris Hope and Peter Wadhams of the University of Cambridge suggest—based on economic modeling that the “release of methane from thawing permafrost…
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The Night of Fori Imperiali in Rome – La Notte dei Fori
Originally posted on valeriu dg barbu: Saturday, August 3, from 21.30, the night lights of Rome to inaugurate the pedestrianization of the Imperial Forums and deliver to the Romans, the Romans and tourists the most beautiful walk in the world. The first night of the holes between art, culture and…
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Scientists Discover Additional Causes of Bee Deaths
Originally posted on Illuminate: Photo courtesy of http://www.my-walls.org From treehugger.com: So what is with all the dying bees? Scientists have been trying to discover this for years. Meanwhile, bees keep dropping like… well, you know. Is it mites? Pesticides? Cell phone towers? What is really at the root? Turns…
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MELANCHOLY ( oil on canvas) 41 x 29 inches…
Originally posted on yavishtha: My style and kind of surrealism is a style using subconscious mental activity related with my past experiences as its subject matter, characterised by dream like hallucinatory imagery to produce fantastic incongruous imagery through unnatural juxtaposition, distortion and symbolism with hidden forms and concealed images. it is free from conscious…
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Unified Theory Redux
d|gI+Al hEGeM0n …d|g|Z|nE The only force that equals the seemingly infinite pull of a black hole is the nothingness of space. 0=∞ At least that’s my theory. Super perfundo on the early eve of your day. View original post
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The Myth of Complementary Protein
Big thanks to my good brother Dušan B. who posted this piece to his FB wall. Recently, I was teaching a nutrition class and describing the adequacy of plant-based diets to meet human nutritional needs. A woman raised her hand and stated, “I’ve read that because plant foods don’t contain all…
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Madness and (American) Civilization
In “The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?” (New York Review of Books, 2011), Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, discusses over-diagnosis of psychiatric disorders, pathologizing of normal behaviors, Big Pharma corruption of psychiatry, and the adverse effects of psychiatric medications. While diagnostic expansionism and Big Pharma certainly…
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How Many Teeth Does a Snail Have?
Turns out, they have 2,640 teeth! I also could have titled this post, “What is the sound of one snail eating?” Really cool to listen to the Soundcloud of snail chomping its grass. She was 34, on a trip to Europe, got sick from a flu or maybe it was…
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35 Random Corners Of The Internet You Should Visit When You Need A Break
I have used a few of these. They definitely come in handy when trying to break free of what has gotten your head in a tight grip… Bookmark this for when you’re having a bad day or when you just need a distraction and want to play. There’s something so…
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Crop circles demystified: how the patterns are created – Telegraph
Numbers of the destructive crop designs have fallen dramatically this year, with just 15 being counted in July compared to 50 the previous year. In the past, the most ambitious crop circles have attracted tourists from around the world, sparked rumours of aliens and theories of fiendishly difficult mathematical formulas…
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Buddhist Response To Terror
Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Related articles Daodejing 38 Redux (keithwaynebrown.com) Becoming a Buddhist (prixiescrib.wordpress.com) The Face of Buddhist Terror (freedomnewsgroup.com) Wirathu: The Face Of Buddhist Terror – OpEd (eurasiareview.com)
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Looking for “Adams” and “Eves”
Hundreds of thousands of years ago—when people still lived in small hunter-gatherer bands, when it’s not even clear they were totally anatomically modern (though they probably were)—something happened in the human genome. Somewhere in Africa, a man carried a Y chromosome that would turn out to be the only surviving…
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