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Dec 12, 2011, 3:04 pm
In her new book, Knocking on Heaven's Door, Harvard University theorist Lisa Randall explores how physics may transform our understanding of the fundamental nature of the world. She thinks an extra dimension may exist close to our familiar reality, hidden except for a bizarre sapping of ... Comment - Like
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Dec 8, 2011, 4:23 pm
Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single
multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of
Earth.” -Lynn Margulis, What Is Life?
Biologist Lynn Margulis died on November 22nd. She stood out from her colleagues in that she would ha... Comment - Like
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Nov 19, 2011, 7:54 pm
"The past is but the past of a beginning." -H. G. Wells
DEEP in the basement of a dusty university library in Edinburgh lies a small black box, roughly the size of two cigarette packets side by side, that churns out random numbers in an endless stream. At fir... Comment - Like
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Oct 31, 2011, 4:49 pm
“Despair has its own calms.” -Bram Stoker.
“I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things,... Comment - Like
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Jul 13, 2011, 6:16 pm
ANONYMOUS SPEAKS:
"Weaving soldiers come not here." - On Bohemian Grove Logo.
The hackers’ collective Anonymous may have obtained “literally explosive” information concerning Bohemian Grove, an annual gathering of power brokers from the US and Europe set to meet this we... Comment - Like
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Jun 14, 2011, 6:03 am
“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
"The 2053 nuclear tests and explosions that took place between 1945 and 1998 are plotted visually and audibly on a world map. As the video starts out d... Comment - Like
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Jun 12, 2011, 7:30 pm
“Great liars are also great magicians" -Adolf Hitler
"Shortly before his death, Marlon Brando was working on a series of instructional videos about acting, to be called “Lying for a Living”. On the surviving footage, Brando can be seen dispensing gnomic advice on his craft to a group of enthus... Comment - Like
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May 18, 2011, 11:38 pm
We used to think agriculture gave rise to cities and later to writing, art, and religion. Now the world’s oldest temple suggests the urge to worship sparked civilization."
"Dozens of massive stone pillars arranged into a set of rings, one mashed up against the next. Known as (pronounced Guh-be... Comment - Like
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Mar 7, 2011, 11:20 pm
I have walked through the barren remains of Babylon in Iraq and the ancient Roman city of Antioch, the capital of Roman Syria, which now lies buried in silt deposits. I have visited the marble ruins of Leptis Magna, once one of the most important agricultural centers in the Roman Empire, now isolate... Comment - Like
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Dec 13, 2010, 11:46 pm
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." -President Dwight D. Eisenhower
THE SEEDS: ( 1st correspondence between President Eisenhower's assistants).
"The White House
Washington
April 5, 1960
Memorandum To: Mac Moos
As the time for the President’s (Eisenhower) re... Comment - Like
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Nov 29, 2010, 9:22 pm
"Hope knows that unless we physically defy government control we are complicit in the violence of the state. All who resist keep hope alive. All who succumb to fear, despair and apathy become enemies of hope. They become, in their passivity, agents of injustice. If the enemies of hope are finally vi... Comment - Like
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Nov 15, 2010, 9:11 pm
If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future. - Helen Thomas, (Journalist, White House Press Corps, 1943-2010).
VIOLETPLANET SAYS: "Abuse of The 1st Amendment is alive and well... but...no... Comment - Like
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Sep 28, 2010, 11:04 pm
“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.” - H.P Lovecraft.
The “animal spirits” of which Keynes spoke are on the prowl across the United States. Their mood is ugly. The spirits are wary and troubled. Co... Comment - Like
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Sep 18, 2010, 4:05 am
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all. We were living in trees when they met us. The... Comment - Like
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Aug 22, 2010, 5:11 pm
The devices employed in U.S. election cycles and its national politics, in general, are akin to the dramatic conventions of children's theatre. Every two to four years, voters are instructed to clap their hands and believe in Tinker Bell. "Children, you have to believe -- you really, really have to ... Comment - Like
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Aug 5, 2010, 9:17 pm
"The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it." Dr. Josef Mengele (1945 ).
A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that physicians with the CIA's Office of Medical Services (OMS) played an even greater role in facilitating the torture of de... Comment - Like
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Jul 31, 2010, 3:40 am
"The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living." -General Omar Bradley, U.S. Army Field Commander, Battle of Normandy, ... Comment - Like
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Jun 9, 2010, 11:01 pm
"You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun. " -Helen Thomas, Journalist & White House Correspondent, 1960-2010.
By now you’ve heard: pioneering Washington journalist Helen Thomas has, thanks to a viral video interview, been pilloried for offensive comments about Israel and ousted... Comment - Like
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May 31, 2010, 11:45 pm
"A morality practiced without empathy squanders the conscience." -Howard Hall
College students who hit campus after 2000 have empathy levels that are 40% lower than those who came before them, according to a stunning new meta-analysis presented to at the annual meeting of the Association for Psycho... Comment - Like
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May 28, 2010, 1:09 am
THE GOD OF WAR doesn't dine on raw shank bone or bellow orders quite like he used to. When he talks to Congress, it goes more like this:
"And, oh, while you're up, I'm going to be needing, uh. . . $159 billion this go-around, you know, for the troops. Thanks."
It works.
With the war o... Comment - Like
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May 10, 2010, 7:38 pm
"With Faisal Shahzad's failed plot, we got lucky. Again. But sooner or later, our luck is going to run out.
Faisal Shahzad, the 30-year-old Pakistani-American charged with attempting to blow up a carload of explosives in Times Square, is the latest of many 9/11-II hopefuls. He left a trail of ... Comment - Like
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