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Mind - Standing in Someone Else’s Shoes, Almost for Real - NYTimes.com 
(unknown author) via www.nytimes.com on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
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In previous work, neuroscientists have induced various kinds of out-of-body experiences using similar techniques. The brain is so easily tricked, they say, precisely because it has spent a lifetime in its own body. It builds models of the world instantaneously, based on lived experience and using split-second assumptions — namely, that the ey
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New archaeological discovery rewrites earliest Chinese characters dating_English_Xinhua
(unknown author) via news.xinhuanet.com on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
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So now it goes back about 4,500 years...But an archeologist in Henan found some jades dating some 8000 tears that were inscribed with characters of the bagua...
Inscribed animal bones and jade pieces unearthed in Changle County of eastern Shandong Province are earliest examples of Chinese characters dating back 4,500 years ago, the latest archae
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See physics differently with New Journal of Physics
(unknown author) via www.iop.org on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
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Great pictures!
New Journal of Physics is at the vanguard of supporting visualization and multimedia, we have put together an exclusive focus issue on the topic of Visualization in Physics. Through the series of outstanding contributions below - spanning astrophysics, biophysics, geophy
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Sean Penn: Mountain of Snakes
(unknown author) via www.huffingtonpost.com on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
Mountain of Snakes - The Huffington Post
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ANCIENT GANJA STASHES FOUND IN CHINA
terranova via MetaFilter on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
The Western press is heralding the discovery of the "world's oldest marijuana stash" (789 grams) in the tomb of a 2,700-year-old blond-haired, blue-eyed mummy in the Xinjiang region of China
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Looking for Roong Thisdara
John Michael Greer via The Archdruid Report on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
There have been many times, during the two and a half years I’ve been writing posts for The Archdruid Report, when I’ve found myself staring at a blank computer screen of a Wednesday morning, wondering what on Earth I can say that my readers might find even remotely interesting. Happily, such times have been scarce this November. A passing reference, in m
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Worried about a depression? How about a 100-year bear market - MarketWatch
(unknown author) via www.marketwatch.com on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
today we're asking; "What really happened to America, so fast?" With Bush, Paulson, Bernanke and their Reaganomics ideology? To my 401(k), my CDs, my kid's college fund, my retirement nest egg. To the great American dream? What happened?
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Exorarium
(unknown author) via www.exorarium.com on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
he Exorarium concept has been developed by astronomer and best-selling science fiction author David Brin in tandem with renowned tech-artist Sheldon Brown, whose audio-visual exhibits can be found in locales such as the Seattle Center and the San Diego Science Museum.
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Op-Ed Contributor - Did Britain Just Sell Tibet? - NYTimes.com
(unknown author) via www.nytimes.com on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
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Real-Politics...
As Western powers struggle with the huge scale of the measures needed to revive their economies, they have turned increasingly to China.
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What Buddhists Believe - The Buddhist Concept of Heaven and Hell
(unknown author) via www.budsas.org on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
The Buddhist concept of heaven and hell is entirely different from that in other religions. Buddhists do not accept that these places are eternal. It is unreasonable to condemn a man to eternal hell for his human weakness but quite reasonable to give him every chance to develop himself. From the Buddhist point of view, those who go to hell can work themselves upwa
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Pot joins the fight against Alzheimer's, memory loss: Scientific American Blog
(unknown author) via www.sciam.com on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
A large-scale study released this week showed that the herb gingko biloba has no effect in preventing dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. But alternative medicine aficionados may find hope in a new research touting the bennies of another "herb&quo
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One Shot Left
George via Monbiot.com on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
The latest science suggests that preventing runaway climate change means total decarbonisation.
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A Resilient Suburbia 3: Weighing the Potential for Self-Sufficiency
Jeff Vail via JeffVail.net - Law, Energy, Ge on Mon, 24 Nov. 2008
A backyard garden in OregonOver the past two weeks, I have examined the challenges facing suburbia in a post-peak world. I’ve argued (in Part 1) that financial reality will prevent us from building an alternative to suburbia, and (
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Finance Has Lost Sight of Its Role
Yves Smith via naked capitalism on Mon, 24 Nov. 2008
Why are we in the mess we are in? There are lots of proximate causes: overleverage, global imbalances, bad financial technology that lead to widespread underestimation of risk. Readers can no doubt improve on tha
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Prophesy of economic collapse 'coming true'
stbalbach via MetaFilter on Sun, 23 Nov. 2008
In 1972 the Club of Rome published the famous book Limits to Growth that predicted exponential growth would eventually lead to economic and environmental collapse. It was criticized by economists and largely ignored by politicians. Now Graham Turner at the Commonwealth Scientific an
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The Disappearing Male
rageagainsttherobots via MetaFilter on Sat, 22 Nov. 2008
“The Disappearing Male” is a one-hour documentary about one of the most important, and least publicized, issues facing the human species: the toxic threat to the male reproductive system. The whole documentary is on Google Video.
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The Crisis & What to Do About It - The New York Review of Books
(unknown author) via www.nybooks.com on Sat, 22 Nov. 2008
The salient feature of the current financial crisis is that it was not caused by some external shock like OPEC raising the price of oil or a particular country or financial institution defaulting. The crisis was generated by the financial system itself. This fact???that the defect was inherent in the system ???contradicts the prevailing theory, which holds that financial markets tend toward equili
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Top UBC psychologist uncovers roots of religion - and himself
Douglas Todd via The Search on Sat, 22 Nov. 2008
"It was horrible. When I look back, it was insane."
Renowned University of B.C. social psychologist Ara Norenzayan, 37,
spent his teenage years in bomb-ravaged Lebanon thinking he could
die at any moment in a civil war largely fuelled by religion.
When Norenzayan was young, the kitchen of the Beirut apartment he
lived in
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Societies worse off 'when they have God on their side' - Times Online
(unknown author) via www.timesonline.co.uk on Sat, 22 Nov. 2008
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Too much short-centered. What about the long haul? But more importantly this study does not recognize the yearning for sharing a common worldview with others that characterizes all modern non-religious societies.
RELIGIOUS belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, accor
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